Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2486, for John Swaim, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Swaim, John Sarah
No 2486
CONTENTS

Hunterdon County
State of New Jersey
personally appeared before me David Stout one of the judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in & for said County John Stout Esqr of the township of Montgomery in the County of Somerset aged seventy two years on the thirtyeth day of June last who being duly sworn according to law upon his oath doth depose & say that he is well acquainted with John Swain the above applicant for the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 day of June 1832 for the benefit of the Militia who served in the Revolutionary war and to his personal knowledge that he the said John Swain listed in the five Months Service in the year 1776 - and believes he served his full tour out and in the last of January or February 1777 was out with him at Schenck Mills on the Millstone one month. also at Old Millstone served with him one month where he was engaged with the enemy & defeated them & took a number of Waggons & Horses & in June same year on the Millstone when the enemys army came out to drive off the stock of the inhabitants and on their retreat the said Swain proceeded with the army under Col Henry Banclike & marched to Springfield & staid out on this tour about three weeks in the fall of 1777 saw the said Swain at Elizabethtown & marched with him to the township of Hopewell in Hunterdon County where this deponent was taken sick & left at Doctor Gideon D Camps & said Swain marched on with the army for Pennsylvania and in the last of the year 1777 or the beginning of 1778 was out with the said Swain one months tour at Elizabethtown.

v in the year 1778 was out with him one months tour at Hackensack also served with him one months tour at Woodbridge in December the year 1779 was out with him one months tour at Eliz- beth town under the command of William Jones as Captain & Col John Bolson & went with said officers over to Staten Island where I saw said Swain shoot down a Refugee & took off his knapsack & blan- ket & brought them into camp in 1781 was out with said Swain who was then promoted to a Lieutenant Commission about two weeks or more at the time of the Revolt of the Pennsylvania line ss Recollects perfectly well that the said Swain was at the Battle of Monmouth on the 28 day of June 1778 and was out on this tour about three weeks
John Stout
I do hereby certify that John Stout the witness was un- able through the infirmities of age and his making application to his own County Court of General Quarters session at Somerville in the County of Som- -set the same time of the sitting of the the said County Court of General Sessions to attend said Court of the said the said Subscribed & sworn to this 16 day of June 1832 before me David Stout Judge

State of New Jersey Huntingdon County } ss
I Isaac G. Farnu clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and as for said County of Huntingdon Do hereby certify that David Stout Esquire before whom the fore- going affidavits were taken, then was an as now is one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credence due to all his official acts, as such, and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of said David Stout, and that the signature is in his own proper hand writing
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said office at Flemington this four- teenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Isaac G. Farnu C.H.K.

John Scraim No 24490
Ent.
certificate to be sent to G Bartles Flemington N.J.
Admitted Lieutenant 7 months Sergeant 17 " 2 years
Hon Joseph F. Randolph House Reps NY

John Swain
State of New Jersey Hunterdon county ss: on this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & thirty two personally appeared in open court, before the Judges of the Superior court of common pleas of the county of Hunterdon, now sitting John Swain, now a resident of the township of Hopewell, in the county of Hunterdon & State of New Jersey, aged seventy seven years, eleven months, & twenty five days, who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath manifest the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. - That he entered was Born in Kingston in the county of Middlesex State of New Jersey, on the 20 th day of August AD 1754: has no record of his age: but recollects frequently of seeing it recorded in his father's old family bible - don't know where that now is. lived at Rocky Hill in the county of Somerset State of New Jersey when he entered the service of the United States, volunteered he thinks in the month of June 1776, as a private in the five months service under Capt. Joseph Badcock. Lieutenant William Pyatt, & Second Lieut. Wychoff. Ensign Gabriel Forman - thinks, Peter Green Major 5 th Col. Johnson was afterwards killed at the battle of Long Island. Joseph Phillips Lieut Colonel - marched from Rocky Hill - to Newles Hook from thence to New York from thence to Long Island - was at the battle of Long Island in August 1776. in which our Colonel Johnson was killed and in a piece of wood, the night before the battle, between Flatbush, & Brooklyn. - General Sullivan the command of our division - about.

daylight of the morning of the 27 th of August 1776 the battle commenced. But the British was about a mile from our Entrenchments. But were forced back behind them - on the night after the battle recollects there came a heavy rain - which filled our Entrenchments with water - laid behind our entrenchments. on the day of the 28 th of August - our Division marched over to Brooklyn about sun down crossed over to New York on the night of the 28 th of August. laid there a short time - marched to Fort Washington where from there to White Plains - was in the battle of White Plains - Phillips was our Colonel after the death of Colonel Johnson. - recollects General Putnam at the battle of White Plains. - after the battle of the White Plains marched about four or five miles off & encamped - & from there we marched to Kings Ferry. & crossed over into Jersey. & came to Hackensack. & about sun down of the day they came to Hackensack. got word that the British were about attacking Fort Washington & we were ordered there. got there about the day light of the next morning - to the river opposite the fort & got word that it was given up. - from there we marched back to Hackensack. from there we marched to Newark. we were pursued by the British. built fires on the hills back of Newark at night. Had orders to be on the grand parade by Daybreak. went to Woodbridge & from there to Brunswick - from there to Princeton from there to Trenton. & crossed the Delaware into Pennsylvania - marched up the Delaware to Mitchells Ferry. was there a short time. & was discharged til further orders & came home. I think this was in the month of December & short time before the battle of

sw. of Trenton - after my discharge from the five months service I was elected by my company as Sargent. after the battle of Trenton I as Sargent. warned our company to meet at Lowland meeting house. to catch the scattering Hessian & British - of them Prisoners we met we took several, don't forget how many. we took them to Princeton - was out there about one week - after. I am unable from the failure of my memory to state the different tours I after took after my discharge from the five months service - I volunteered as a minute man after my first discharge & went out on monthly tours. our regiment was divided in two parts. & we relieved one another at the expiration of a months tour - I always went out when my term came we mostly marched from Rocky hill. I had several differ- tours at Elizabethtown also one tour of a month at Amboy - at the Blazing Star. one tour at Pompton at Parameus - also recollects of marching to Plainfield, Middlebrook. & also lying at Morristown - I was also at the battle of Millstone and was stationed at Van Nest mills. I saw the old court house of Somerset county burnt. we were under the command of Colonel Leach I was at Millstone several different times but don't recollect how often I was also there different times at Schencks mills - I was also at the battle of Monmouth. I don't recollect my Captain there. I recollect seeing a British Colonel Munkton who was killed at the battle of Monmouth after his death. I served a tour of one month at that time. - I was also in the battle at Staten Island with the Tories. this took place at one of my tours at Elizabethtown Col.

John Swain
John Nelson had the command of us there. I was also at the battle of Germantown. I think Col Peter Brown was our Colonel. I recollect that General Forman accused Col Brown of retreating at the head of his troops & calling him a coward. - I was elected by my company as first Lieutenant in Col Henry Vandyke's regiment & received my commission which I still have. It bears date 6th day of December 1779. I served several different tours as Lieutenant under this commission but am unable to recollect them distinctly - I have no doubt but that I served in all during the war of the revolution upwards three years. I think nearly four years. I never received any written discharge nor was not discharged till the close of the war. I am known to William Wantelburgh who can testify as to some of my services & also to John Stout Esq. and also Peter Snook who can also testify as to some of my services.
I do hereby relinquish every claim to a pension or gratuity except the present one. I do declare that my name is not on the pension roll or agency of any state.
Sworn to subscribed in open court this 14th day of August AD 1832.
John Swain
Benj. Egbert

W. 1. Jacob Kirkpatrick a clergyman residing in the township of Anville in the county of Hunterdon. of said & David Stout of the township of Hopewell in the county of Hunterdon do hereby certify that we are acquainted with John Swain who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be aged seventy seven years & eleven months that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed in open court. this 14 th day of August 1832
Rev. J. E. Ely
J. Kirkpatrick David Stout
Hunterdon county ss: Peter Snook being duly sworn according to law on his oath: that he is almost seventy four years old knows John Swain the within named applicant. I recollect seeing him at the Battle of Germantown during the war of the Revolution. He has always borne the name of having been a soldier of the revolution.
Sworn & subscribed this 18 th day of August 1832. in open court
J. Thompson
Peter Snook

And the said court 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 application was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the court further certify that it appears to them that Jacob Kirkpatrick who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Township of Amwell and that David Stout who has also signed the same is a resident of the Township of Hopewell & that their statement is entitled to credit. Done in open court. August Term 1832.
J. Thompson Pres. Ex. Ct. George Rea
John Swain - to be sent to B. Brattle, Flemington, N.J.
24496
I, Isaac G. Farlee Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Hunterdon aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Swain for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court this fifteenth day of August A.D. 1832.
Isaac G. Farlee Clk.

State of New Jersey, Hunterdon County, ss:
Personally appeared before me George Henry one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of Hunterdon County, aforesaid John Swain who has made the foregoing declaration who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades. For at least one year as a Lieutenant. 2 years as a sergeant and five months as a private in the militia. I was actively engaged as a volunteer. My duty was such as appertained to the militia in general. For this service I claim a Pension. —
Sworn & subscribed this 8 th of June A.D. 1833. — Geo Henry
John Swain

State of New Jersey Hunterdon county ss: I John Barton one of the Judges of the Superior court of common pleas of the said county of Hunterdon do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Stout & Peter Snook two of the witnesses who signed the preceding affidavits and that I believe them to be men of truth and veracity and that their state- ments are entitled to full faith & credit given under my hand this 10 th day of June AD 1833.
John Barton
State of New Jersey Hunterdon county ss: I David Stout one of the Judges of the Superior court of common pleas of the said county of Hunterdon do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with William Vanclief and John Stout two of the witnesses who have sworn to signed the foregoing affidavits and that I believe them to be men of truth and veracity & that their statements are entitled to full faith & credit given under my hand this 16 th day of July AD 1833.
David Stout

State of New Jersey Hunterdon county ss: Isaac G. Farlee clerk of the Superior court of common pleas of the county of Hunterdon do hereby certify that George Henry before whom the foregoing affidavit of John Swain was taken & that John Barton & David Stout who have signed the preceding certificates were respectively at the time of signing said affidavit making said certificates Judges of the said court of common pleas of the said county of Hunterdon and that their signatures to the same are genuine. - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court this first day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & thirty three 1833
Isaac G. Farlee clerk

John Swain 24 1190.
Certificate to be sent to the Bartles. Fleming Hundred Co N.J.

State of New Jersey
Witnesseth, that I, the undersigned, before me, George Smith, one of the justices of the Peace, in and for said county, Joseph B. B. aged seventy-five, who being duly sworn, deposes and athletes, that he is well acquainted with the said Joseph B. B. and that he knows the said Joseph B. B. to be a person of good character and credit, and that he is well acquainted with the said Joseph B. B. and that the said Joseph B. B. is well acquainted with the said Joseph B. B. and that the said Joseph B. B. and further saith not.
Subscribed and sworn to this 17th day of February 1834 before me
George Smith Justice of the Peace
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Joseph B. B. the above named witness, and that he is entitled to full faith and credit given under my hand this 17th day of February AD 1834
George S. Smith 9th

State of New Jersey. Hunterdon County } p.
Personally appeared before me Levi Evans one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County John Van Kirk of the Township of Hopewell in the County and State aforesaid who being sworn according to law deposeth and saith - That he is personally acquainted with John Irwin of the Township County and State aforesaid - That he knows that said John Irwin was ten months in the service Militia service of the war of the Revolution that is to say in the year seventeen hundred seventy six and seven under the command of Colonel Joseph Phillips
Sworn and subscribed before John Vanderveer me in the Township of Hopewell this eleventh day of February A D 1834
Levi Evans justice of the peace
The above deponent represents his age to be eight ty two years the 20 th day of April last past. Levi Evans p.p.

State of New Jersey Hunterdon county ss. Be it remembered that before me George W Smith one of the Justices of the peace in & for the county of Hunterdon appeared personally appeared John Swain the person who has sworn to subscribed the foregoing declaration who being duly sworn according to law or his oath that on account of debility & old age his memory has in a great measure failed him that he is unable to give a detailed account of his services that he repeats that he entered the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution at its commencement & continued therein till its close that he first entered the service in June 1776 in the five months service in the capacity of a private & then remained in the service on that tour in the capacity of a private till some time in November of December 1776 - after that time I was elected Sergeant of my company & served in that capacity until I was elected Lieutenant & received my commission - I after the receipt of my commission as Lieutenant I served in that capacity till the close of the war - I cannot state in detail the different places at which I served and the particular in which I served my tour in their regular order because I stood several different tours at one place & several different tours at another particular place & so on that times & places have become so blended & confused in my mind that it is impossible for me to state in detail the different times & places of my duty as a militia man I recollect distinctly of lying at Elizabethtown different monthly tours each year during the whole of the war of the revolution & also at Newark several different

times of one month each. I recollect being one tour of one month at Springfield, in the winter of 1776. 77. from the time of my discharge from the five months service. I was out pretty much all the time, till the Spring of 1777, we laid at Millston & Boundbrook, moving from one place to the other pretty much all the time, guarding the country against the depredations of the English. At this time I acted as Sergeant. After the British left New Brunswick, I stood alternate monthly tours, till the close of the war. A part of the time when I was not out on my monthly tours, I was called out, very frequently on alarms, which lasted from three days to two weeks. My first tour after I received my commission as Lieutenant was to Morris town in the year 1780. I think it was in January 1780. I was out that tour one month and three weeks. Of the time I from thence marched to Pompton laid out the residue of my tour. I was stationed during the war, at the following places I stood each of which I laid several different & full monthly tours, some during the whole of the war of the Revolution to wit at Elizabeth town at Newark, (at Varnum's Mills, & Hancott's mill at Boundbrook). I was at Raritan one month at the Pompton & Morris town one month - at Springfield one month. At the time of the battle of Monmouth I was out one month - at the time of the battle of Germantown, I was one month. At the time of the Revolt of the Pennsylvania line I was out one month, as Lieutenant, I was stationed near New Brunswick - at the Blazing Star I was out one month. I was also at Hackensack, one time of one month. I was also at Woodbridge one month. I am safe in saying that I served one year as a Lieutenant, two years as Sergeant

John Swacins 3
24/4/90
Confidential letter sent to C. Bartles Flemington
Ans o C. Bartles, May
28 th 1834

five months as a private. I do not know of any other person living by whom I can prove my services more in detail. I cannot state more than I have already stated & do not know that I can furnish any additional proof than is herewith transmitted.
John Swan
Subscribed before me this 17 day of February AD 1834.
George W Smith J.P.
State of New Jersey Hunterdon county ss. I Isaac G Parker Clerk of the Superior Court of Common Pleas of the said county of Hunterdon do hereby certify that George W Smith Esq. a Justice of Peace before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken were at the time of the taking thereof the Justices of the peace of the said county of Hunterdon & that their signatures to the attestation of the said affidavits & certificates are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court this day of March.
AD 1834 thirty four.
Isaac G Parker CLK

State of New Jersey, Hunterdon county ss: Be it remembered that on this 29 th day of July A.D. 1834 before me Samuel Hill one of the Justices of the peace in & for the said county of Hunterdon personally appeared John Swain who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing declaration who having been first duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that his service as a private is detailed in his declaration as particularly as he can rec it - and that he will state to the best of his recollection the times & places of his other services & the officers under whom he served -
5. After my discharge from the five months service as a private in the month of December 1776. I was elected by the company to which I belonged to be their Sergeant and in that capacity I served until until I was promoted to the office of First Lieutenant - my first service as Sergeant was immediately after the battle of Trenton on the 26 th of December 1776 - I was then ordered by my then Captain Henry Berrien to collect the Militia to catch the scattered British & Tories which I did we met at Scudders meeting house and marched from thence through the country through which the British retreated from Trenton to New Brunswick and captured a number of prisoners we staid out this trip as near as two weeks preventing depredations of foraging parties & catching the scattered British & Hessian very shortly say within one week after my return from that alarm trip - I was ordered out to Millstone under Capt. Henry Berrien I staid out that tour from the middle of January 1777 til the first of April following our head quarters was at the old court house of Somerset county & we laid part of the time at

8. 111 Schenck mills near by drove patrolling between these places. I found brook on this trip I was out 2. at least two or a half months. - After the British 2. 15 retreats from New Brunswick to New York we 1 were stationed principally at Elizabethtown about the first of May 1777 I marched to Elizabethtown under Capt Simon Duryea I laid there one month & was discharged. I think Frederick Frelinghuysen was our Colonel. - I returned home & staid there one month & marched again about the first of July 1777. under I think Capt John Berrien we 1 marched from Rocky Hill to Elizabethtown I think Henry Vandyke was Colonel laid there this tour one month & was discharged returned home remained one month then about the first of September 1777. marched again from Rocky Hill to 1 Elizabethtown staid there one month Philomen Dickinson was general. Frelinghuysen was Colonel & I believe William Baird was Captain. Returned home the first of October 1777. & was ordered to 3/4 there at the time of the battle of Germantown Captain Badcock was our Captain & Peter Broom our Colonel. - Former was General I was out 21 this tour at the time of the battle of Germantown 3/4 three weeks & fired seventeen rounds in the battle after I was discharged returned home I remained here a few days and in the month of November 1777 marched again from 1 Rocky Hill to Elizabethtown laid there one month under Captain Simon Duryea Frederick Frelinghuysen was Colonel & Philomen Dickinson was general at the expiration of this months service I was discharged & returned home & remained there til January 1778. & again marched under

in the beginning of January 1778 I think under 1. Capt John Baird - my impression is we land this trip at Newark. part of the time spent of the time at Elizabethtown - Seely was our Colonel after the expiration of this tour of one month I returned home remained there a month. remained till the beginning of 1. March 1778. marched again to Elizabethtown and laid there one month. I believe under Capt John Baird - Seely was Colonel land there til the first of April & was discharged - my next trip was the first 1. of May 1778. marched from Rocky Hill & joined Capt John Schenck's company. we laid this trip I think at Newark. I do not recollect the Colonel certainly but believe it was Frelinghuysen laid there one month & was discharged remained home a few weeks - I was again called out. about the 20th of June 1778. 1. marched to Monmouth. my impression is that John or William Baird was my captain Henry Vandeke was Colonel - & John Heard Brigadier General. I was in the battle at Monmouth on the 28th of June 1778. I recollect seeing the British Col: Munkton laying dead in the field. the Militia. were stationed to guard the baggage of the American Army - I remained out this tour one month & was discharged and returned home - I remained home until about the first of September 1778. and again was called out I believe under Capt Simon 1. Duryea. out this trip. one month. we laid at Hackensack. I do not recollect our Colonel at the expiration of this tour - I was discharged 1770 and returned home - In the month of November

1778. I stood another tour of one month at Woodbridge. - Joseph Badwick was my captain. I think Lt. Heard was our Brigadier General. don't recollect the colonel after my discharge on this tour at Woodbridge. I returned home remained until January 1779. - I then went out in the month 1. of January 1779. to Elizabethtown William Jones was our Captain - John Nelson was Colonel while there on this trip we went over to Staten Island - to attack some Refugees - I shot one down. I got off his knapsack & blanket. I was out on this trip one month. I returned home after I was discharged remained there til March 1779. - I then 1. marched again from Rockykill went either to Newark or Elizabethtown. I think Simon Duryea was captain. & Frelinghuysen was Colonel. I was out this tour one month & was discharged - I remained home after my discharge on this last tour til some time in the month of May 1779. & then went out again 1. under Captain Jacob Schenck. went to Elizabethtown & was there a month & was discharged my impression is that Frelinghuysen was Colonel I returned home I think about the middle of June 1779. remained there one month & then went out again - about the middle of July 1779. under Capt 1 John Baird. went again to Elizabethtown I think Henry Vandyke was our Colonel there til the middle of August 1779. one month & was discharged returned home remained there a month and was again

Lieut.
called out about the first of October 1779. I went out again I think to the Blazing Star. Joseph Badcock was my captain. I do not recollect any Colonel at his place after my return from this trip. I was promoted to be first Lieutenant my commission which is hereunto annexed bears date the 6 th of December 1779. and I am the Identical John Swain named in that commission - after receiving my commission all the services that I performed in the war of the Revolution was as first Lieutenant. My first trip under said commission was in the month of January 1780. to Merriestown we had there part of the time I went from there to Pompton & staid out the residue of the month. Berton was my captain this tour do not recollect my Colonel - do not recollect we had any Colonel there - after serving out that tour I returned home in February 1780 remained there one month then went out again in March following - went I think to Elizabethtown and laid there one month. I think James Moore was my captain - Frederickson acted as Colonel there - staid out my month & was discharged in April 1780 my next tour was in May 1780. was I think either at Newark or Elizabethtown not certain which. laid there one month this tour. I think William Jones was my captain this tour & Vanderveer was Colonel. I returned home after this trip remained there until some time in the month of July 1780. and was again called out. went to Springfield under my own Captain Simon Duryea and remained out on that tour one month I think Seely was Colonel. - I did not discharged in August 1780. remained

at home till some time in the month  1. of September of that year & then marched again with a detachment of my company & acted in the place of my Captain at Elizabethtown and laid there one tour of one month. and was discharged. in October 1780. returned home - I did not go out again I think December  1. 1780. & then went stood another monthly tour at Elizabethtown under John Baird (I believe) - my impression is General Dickinson was there at that time - J. Peter Broom was Colonel. - out this tour one month and was discharged - returned home in January 1781. & remained there till some in the  1. month of February 1781. & then went out again to Elizabethtown. I think under Simon Duryea as Captain - I think Broom was Colonel I remained out this tour one month - and was discharged - returned home & remained there till some time in the month of April  1. 1781. - and then was called out again marched from Rocky Hill to Elizabethtown. Laid there part of the time partly at Stewart under Capt William Jones - Fletchers was Colonel. & Colonel Dickinson General. out this trip one month & was discharged in May 1781. - I did not go out again  1. till June 1781. - I was again ordered out & marched from Rockhill to Elizabethtown & laid there a month. I think under Capt Jacob Schenck. - and Colonel Peter Broom. - while there this trip went over to Berger point. and fired with a cannon at a British frigate lying in Bay our cannon balls did not reach the vessel - we were out this tour one month & were discharged I returned home & remained there till 

August 1781. & then went out again the 1. latter part of that month. and went to Elizabethtown & staid there another tour of one month. I believe John Baird was Captain but am not positive that is the best of my recollection - I do not recollect my colonel. - P. Dickinson I think was general. at the the expiration of this tour of one month 1. I was discharged - returned home. I then went out one trip of one month more at Elizabethtown in the fall of the year 1781. but don't recollect the month I stood a tour of one month under William Jones, captain - and Peter Vroom as Colonel. 1. I did not go out again until in the winter of 1782. under Capt Duryea. Marched to New Brunswick & laid there. some time not less than four weeks. I think Peter Vroom was our Colonel. I was out on this tour one month During the time of the revolt of N. Pennsylvania near here I laid at New Brunswick. part of the time & part of the time at a place called the Landing bridge about two miles above New Brunswick - our duty while there was to prevent the Pennsylvania men that had revolted. passing over to the British - in the year 1782. I was out more than three tours of one month. one of which I laid at New Brunswick & the other at Elizabethtown under the last named officers - during our tours at Elizabethtown above mentioned our duty was to guard the country & prevent the depredations of the British & Refugees foraging parties. from robbing the country. etc. and

during all the years of his  their lives in doing actual military duty in the service of the United States, and was called into the service by competent authority - while so doing duty I was not engaged in any civil pursuit sworn & subscribed before me the day & Joseph S. S. S. year just above written
Samuel Hill Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey Hunterdon county ss: I Isaac G. Farlee clerk of the Inferior court of common Pleas of the said county of Hunterdon do hereby certify that Samuel Hill Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time of the taking thereof sworn in one of the Justices of the peace of the said county of Hunterdon & that his signature & attestation to said affidavit is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of this said court this 30th day of July A.D. 1854.
Isaac G. Farlee clerk

New Jersey 31,217
John Swaim
of Middlesex Co in the State of N. Jersey who was a Sgt. Vols. in the company commanded by Captain Babcock of the Regt. commanded by Col. Phillips in the N. Jersey line for 17 months Sergeant 85.00 7 " Lieutenants 93.33
$178.33
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of 178 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3. day of Oct. 1837 and sent to Hon. Jos. F. Randolph, H. R.
Arrears to the 14th of Sep. '37 1159.16 Semest. allowance ending 4. Mar. '38. 89.16 $1238.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E. 2, Vol. 3 - Page 161
Paid at the Treasury under the Acts of the 6. April 1838 from 4 Sept. 1838 to 26. Sept. 1838, the day of his death. Age notified 14 Nov 1839

New Jersey - .2998
Sarah Swain, widow of John Swain,
who died on the 26 th September 1838 of Abscon in the State of N Jersey who was a Sgt & Lt in the County commanded by Captain Balesack of the Regt commanded by Phillips in the N Jersey line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of N Jersey at the rate of 178 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1838. 27 th Sept 1838
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Augt 39, and seal of Chas. G. McCleary, Hightstown, N.J.
Arrears to the 4 th of Mar. - $79.16 Semi-annual allowance ending 89.16 $168.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the }
Recorded by R Burdine Clerk. Book A Vol. 2 Page 132.

New Jersey. Supplemental papers in the case of John Swain, of Hunterdon Co. N.J.
J. S. Schenck H. R.
James H. Randolph Agent, New Brunswick N.J.

Supplemental Declaration of John Sivain, of the County of Hunterdon New Jersey, for a Pension under the law of June 1832.
State of New Jersey Middlesex County, On this thirty first day of January 1855. Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John Sivain, who being duly sworn, on his oath, saith, that having some time since made application for a Pension under the law of June 7 1832, and being informed that the Chief or principal objection to the allow- ance of his claim, is a suspicion unfortunately implied by the pension officers, that the Commission as Lieutenant forwarded with his papers, is a forged altered, or false document, and did not originally belong to him, he can only say that he is totally innocent of any alteration or fraud in said document, and wholly unaware that it has undergone any alteration - that he was com- missioned a Lieutenant at the time that commission operas, and that that is the identical Commission received from Gov. Livingston - he solemnly declares - how it came to wear the appearance of being altered, or to fall under suspicion in any respect he cannot tell, except that the wearing of it about his person, which he constantly did whilst in service, as a protection against ill-usage, and to vouch for his rank, in case of capture, produced it he never particularly noticed any deface- ment about it - but it might easily have happened that whilst the commission was yet green, and the ink not well fixed upon the paper, that the perspi- ration from his body, he having the commission in his bosom, next to his body, defaced it, and gave it the

appearance which has excited suspicion. He is exceedingly concerned to find himself and his claim in so embarrassing a predicament, for such a cause. He can only repeat his perfect innocence of all fraud, attempts thereto, or knowledge of it in any person whomsoever, and must refer to such testimony as he can gather to do him justice on the subject.
Subscribed there to the day of 18th 18th year aforesaid, before me
Peter P. Dennyson Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey
Middlesex County 311 On this 30 th day of January 1857, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Elizabeth Swain and Joseph Swain, known to me as credible persons, whose testimony may be implicitly relied upon, who being duly sworn, do upon their oaths, respectively say - the said Elizabeth for herself says, that she is in the 46 th year of her age, and a daughter of John Swain of the County of Hunterdon, an applicant for a Pension - That at the time her father, the said John Swain, was about to make his application before the Hunterdon Pleas. She the said deponent was directed to get his commission as Lieutenant, granted to him by Gov Livingston in 1779 - That the deponent knew of the existence of such a commission so long as she had any recollection of particular events - That it had been about the house all the time - That when she got it according to the directions of her father, she found it partly torn or worn to pieces - and that fearing it might be lost, or destroyed, she herself pasted it upon a piece of paper - she did nothing else to it, and in this situation it passed

out of her hands. And the said Joseph for himself says that he is the 39 th year of his age - when I was doing so that he was present at the time the commission above mentioned was brought out by his sister Elizabeth Francis - that he saw her paste it together, or upon a piece of paper, in the way she has mentioned - that he recollects the said commission about the house, as long as he can re- collect any thing in particular, and always under- stood from his father, and believed, and from fully & unhesitatingly believes, that he was a Lieutenant in the War of the Revolution. The Commission was kept in his father's desk.
Elizabeth Francis Joseph Francis
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid, before me
Peter P. Pennypack Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey
Middlesex County ss. On the 31 st day of January 1837, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Isaac Dunn, known to me as a credible person, whose testimony is fully to be relied upon, who being duly sworn, in his oath saith, that he is in the 77 th year of his age, a veteran of the Revolution, and in the receipt of a Pension as such - that although he was not personally acquainted with John Francis, spoken of in the foregoing affidavit, during the War of the Revolution, yet that he frequently heard of him, in con- nexion with his uncommonly brave and daring exploits as a soldier & officer - that said Francis was, as this deponent understands at that time, a commissioned officer, but whether an Ensign or a Lieuten- ant, he is unable to say - he was an officer, however, and as such was spoken of in the highest terms for his skill, gallantry, daring & activity, and was pretty well known, too, and feared by the enemy. The deponent will further add that from a long personal acquaintance with said Francis since the

Revolution up to this time, he is fully persuaded that he is wholly incapable of any fraud in the presentation or promotion of his claim for a Pension, and that in regard to his Commission, which deponent understands is called in question, deponent does not for a moment believe that he need make use of a forged or altered one, or that there was the least necessity for such a step in order to insure the allowance of his claim. Said Francis is of the highest respectability, and a truly conscientious man, in the belief of the deponent, and his whole family maintain the same elevated character.
Isaac Dunn
Subscribed Mon to the day } as above said before me } Peter P. Munson } Justice of the Peace }

State of New Jersey Middlesex County } On this thirtieth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex personally appeared William Green of the County of Somerset, known to me as a highly respectable person, whose testimony may be implicitly relied upon, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is in the seventy fifth year of his age, a soldier of the Revolution, and now receiving a Pension as such - that during the War of the Revolution he belonged to the company of militia of which Simon Duryea was captain, John Swain, Lieutenant and John Voorhees, Ensign, in the second battalion of Somerset Militia - that this company was commanded, at the beginning of the War by George Duryea Colonel , subsequently, for a short time by Capt Balbach, & finally by Simon Duryea, son of George - his department was himself afterwards com- mander of the same company for about eleven years from the year 1787 upwards - that an election for officers of this company took place late in the fall or in Decem- ber 1779 - that department he being then a member of the company and present at the election and voting - that at such elec- tion Simon Duryea was elected Captain in the place of Balbach, that Simon Duryea promoted John Swain pro- moted to a Lieutenancy from being a Sergeant, in place of Wm Piatt, and & John Voorhees elected Ensign. This department has a distinct and perfect a recollection of their election, as if it had taken place only a year ago - the election was held at the Tavern on Rocky Hill kept by Henry Kaurman - the house is still standing & in the occupancy of John Simonton, Esq - that the John Swain who was elected a Lieutenant at the at time, is, to the department's certain knowledge, now living,

a poor but highly respectable and conscientious man - (that he is the identical John Luvain who has applied for a Pension under the Law of June 1832, and whose application has been refused, as he is informed, upon the allegation that the Commission as Lieutenant, forwarded with his paper, is a forged, altered or false document; that he, this deponent has no knowledge of the particular document in question, nor of its appearance or situation in any respect; but he cannot for a moment suppose that it is not what it purports to be, or that it has undergone any alteration in the hands of said Luvain, or by her privity or consent; that he could have no possible motive for the mutilation of a paper of so much importance to her, and which was and need not, he presumes, have produced any Commission at all, since the fact of her holding one could be proved by one or more witnesses; that the said John Luvain was elected a Lieutenant in the time and manner stated, in the company mentioned, and that he was commissioned and served as such, are truths within the personal knowledge of this deponent, he having aided in his election and seen him in service as a Lieutenant. It is also within the personal knowledge of this deponent that said Luvain was, at the time of his election as Lieutenant, a Sergeant in the company and acting as such; but how long he had been a Sergeant this deponent cannot say. With respect to the services of said Luvain in the war of the Revolution, this deponent cannot sufficiently recall his recollection to specify them. He remembers one town of a month in 1780 that the said Luvain performed as Lieutenant at Elizabethtown, in

as Capt Baird - another the year following on the same station under Capt Baird. The said Swain was, I mean, always out, so far as his department known and believes in the performance of her regular tour of duty; and there were from three to four officers, sometimes six months in a year. Said Swain was an undoubted whig, and a zealous, active intelligent officer. He is now, in the vale of life, in poverty stricken, & dependent upon the bounty of others, for a support; but his character is irreproachable.
Subscribed upon the days I mean aforesaid, before me
William Lloyd
Peter P. Armstrong Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey
Middlesex County 3 d . On this 30 th day of January 1837, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared William Van Tilburgh, known to me as a credible & very intelligent person, of perfectly sound mind, and having a remarkably clear and far-reaching recollection, whose testimony is wholly to be relied upon, and being duly sworn, on his oath saith that he is in the 76 th year of his age, a soldier of the Revolution, & now in the receipt of a Pension as such - that he is well acquainted with John Swain, formerly of the County of Somerset now of the County of Hunterdon, has known him familiarly intimately from youth up - that although not residing in the same County at that time, yet they lived near the lines of the Counties of Somerset & Middlesex during the war of the Revolution - that they very often saw each other, either on duty in the camp or field, or at home - that circumstances have put it in the power of this deponent with absolute

certainly to speak of some of the services of said Swain during the Revolution, and of the ranks he held in the company to which belonged: that he well and distinctly recollects that said Swain held the office of Sergeant in said company at an early period of the war - he thinks as early as 1777 - and that he continued to hold that office, and to discharge its duties until 1779, when, to their deponent's personal knowledge, he was commissioned as Lieut- enant. He knows this, not only from the common talk of the day, & the congratulations that passed upon the subject, but he knows it from Gov. Livingston himself, who was at the time it was issued, an inmate or boarder in his father's house at King- ston, & has intimate with him - he was a very plain gentleman - and he, his deponent, heard it from the Governor's own lips that he had commissioned John Swain, as Lieutenant, and was glad to have the opportunity to do so, as he would make an excel- lent officer. Gov. Livingston boarded with his father for several months together at that time, and his de- ponent had therefore the very best opportunity of knowing who was commissioned at that time. But, deponent does not depend upon his recollection alone to this fact alone. He himself saw the said commis- sion after it was issued, in the presence of the said John Swain, to whom it was issued. He therefore cannot be mistaken about it; nor can he be mistaken as to the person, as the said Swain was like one of his own family to him. He knows, also, from having seen it in disposed of, that the said Swain had a string attached to it for the purpose of suspending it around his neck, and wore it thus in his bosom.

to the Commission which the said which agent Swain sent to the Pension Office, and which he understands is suspected of being forged or altered, he knows nothing not having seen it at the time. He only speaks of the fact of the said Swain holding a commission as Lieutenant - and that he knows as well as he knows his own name; but he will further add, that he believes the said Swain to be utterly in- capable of making or using a false or fraudulent document for the purpose in question, or for any other purpose - that, in fact, he is not, & was not at the time the commission was produced, physi- cally capable of altering, interlining or overwriting the document suspected - if any such fraud has been attempted. The deponent is entirely unable to under- stand what motive could have prompted such a fraud, since the production of the Commission was not, as he understands, indispensable, but its existence might have been amply proved, if it was lost or destroyed. With respect to the services of said Swain, this deponent has heretofore testified generally, & to the time & place in par- ticular. Although not in service at the time himself, this deponent recollects well, that said Swain en- tered in 1776 in the five months service under Capt Babcock & Lieut Piatt, & served out his term. Soon after his return from this term, he believes almost imme- diately, the said Swain was elected Sergeant of his company. He recollects to have seen the said Swain out in June 1777, at the time the militia were mustered in Souland Mountains, etc. He believes said Swain then served two weeks, and was under Capt. in service Berrien. Said Swain was also previously, in the winter of 1777, as indeed all the militia in the neighborhood were, who

had not taken protection, & lived within the British lines, near Brunsuick. The deponent, however, is unable to say, how long said Swaim served at that time, but it could not have been short of two or three months. His captain, he believes, Beniam knows that said Swaim was out again during the same year, but he cannot recall any parti- cular tour. Remember the said Swaim the year following, in 1778, frequently throughout the year, and particularly at the battle of Monmouth. He, the said Swaim, then formed a tour of a month, under, he understood at the time, Capt Baird. The said Swaim, to this deponent's knowledge was out again, in 1779, several tours of a month each. He remembers him distinctly in this year in a descent which was made by a few spirited officers & men upon Staten Island, to capture a picket guard. Swaim was one of the number, and the service was gallantly & successfully performed. He, this deponent, was along, and on rising a hill, was just behind Swaim, and hollered to him, "we will catch every devil of them," and they were as good as their word. They did so. Swaim was at this time on a monthly tour, he believes under Sgt Jones. He also remembers him on two other tours of a month each, in this year, on the lines, from Elizabeth Town to New- ark - one of them, he believes, under Capt. Schenck, & the other under Capt Baird. In the next year, the deponent knows that Swaim was out as usual, but he cannot specify but two tours of a month each - one at Morris Town, under Capt Baird, & another at Elizabeth Town under Capt Schenck, he thinks. Said Swaim was then a Lieutenant under Capt Duryea.

He remembers him again in 1781, on a tour of a month at New Brunswick and that neighborhood, under Capt Dewey, at the time of the revolt of the Pennsylvania line. Same year said Levain was out one month on the lines under Capt Jones, he believes. And also another tour of a month on the same station, guarding the lines, under, he thinks, Capt Baird. And to the said Levain continued to serve to the end of the war as long as the militia were called into service at all. He was first a private for at least five months in actual service - then a Sergeant from 1777 to 1778 and finally a Lieutenant, serving faithfully in each grade, and fulfilling all the duties of a good soldier, a good citizen, and a pure patriot. He cannot but hope that sufficient testimony may be adduced to remove all scruple as to the allowance of his claim, and that his path to the grave may be smoothed by the long delayed justice of his country. William VanDilburgh Subscribed & sworn to the day of year aforesaid before me Peter P. Rutgers Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey On this 31 st day of January 1837. Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John Galen, known to me to be a credible person, whose testimony is to be wholly relied upon, who being sworn, in his oath said, that he is the 86th year of his age, a soldier of the Revolution, and in the receipt of a pension as such. That he lived in Somerset County, N.J. during a part of the war of the Revolution, and that during that

time he belonged to the company commanded by Capt. Babcock and afterwards by Capt. Simon Durzyea; that at the time he was a member of that company, in the year 1777, Simon Dur- zyea was elected captain of said company, and at the same time John Swain was pro- moted in said company from a sergeant to a lieutenant - that he was present at said election & voted for both of these officers. He has a perfectly distinct recollection of that election and knows that these officers were then & there duly chosen, & that they were commissioned, both of them, and acted in the discharge of their respective duties. He knows that the said John Swain, who now lives in the County of Hun- tedon & is an applicant for a pension, was a ser- geant previous to his election as lieutenant, & had acted as such for a long time. The depo- nent afterwards served under both Capt. Dur- zyea & the said Lieutenant Swain. He knows that the said Swain served several times of a month each in 1780, and also in 1781, as lieut. chiefly, he believes, on the lines, in the eastern part of the State. He also recollects the said Swain distinctly at the battle of Mon- mouth in 1778, when said Swain was a sergeant. Gen. Washington ordered the militia to a different position from the one they occupied, and that said Swain stepped out & requested to be permitted to remain there & fight, & permission was given accordingly. Deponent re- garded said Swain as one of the bravest and best officers in the militia service, & considers him as fully entitled to a pension as any man in the land. He is absolutely convinced that he is not a liar, as many his accusers & makes the qualified statement that he is a liar if he is elsewhere. He was a very good friend to a lieutenant. Said Swain has not a more unspotted name than himself.
before said before me
John G. Mundy Notary Public
John G. Mundy

State of New Jersey Middlesex County 38. On this first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared James H. Randolph. Known to me as a credible person, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith - that having been solicited to endeavor to obtain a Pension under the law of 1832 for John Swain, of Hunterdon County, and understanding at the same time that he had made application, and that his claim had fallen under strong suspicious of fraud in relation at least to a part of it, he determined, as a first step, in pursuance of his uniform rule never to undertake in any case which he was not persuaded was well founded, to satisfy himself not only as to the character of the claim, but also and in particular as to the character of all the parties in sup- port of it - that, for this purpose, he saw and conferred with Mr Swain himself, examined him in relation to his Commission & Dis- charge services, and compared his account with his previous declara- tions, & found them exactly and minutely to correspond. He then questioned the son & daughter - Elizabeth & John - of said Swain as to their knowledge of the Commission in question, and they unhe- sitatingly & clearly gave the account which is now rendered under oath. His next enquiry was as to the character of the family, and of each in particular, which was most satisfactorily an- swered. They are beyond suspicion of fraud, or forgery, much more of perjury. Their minds, he thinks, might be taken without scruple. Deponent then proceeded to question witnesses, and he found all of them clear, distinct & unequivocal as to the fact of said Swain being a Lieutenant, and equally decisive as to his patriotism skill and gallantry. With two of the witnesses - Green & H. M. Tol. burgh, he had a previous acquaintance, which justified him in the belief that they were wholly incapable of untruth & corrupt perjury, or of making any statement, under oath, which they did

not know, or conscientiously believe, to be true. He is equally satisfied upon enquiry, that John Gulick is entirely worthy of belief in the statement that he makes. He seemed to be astonished that any one could question Swaim's integrity, or his having been a client as he claimed. None of the witnesses know any thing about what particular appearances in the Commission forwarded with Swaim's paper had excited suspicion, except Mr. Tilbury, who had learned, it is believed, what the objection was. Upon the whole, the deponent is fully satisfied, & declares unequivocally, that the parties are all entitled to entire credence; and that he has not a doubt on his mind that the claim of John Swaim for services as a private, a sergeant and a lieutenant as well founded and just. He has not now in his recollection a single case that he has ever had any thing to do with, in his opinion which had a stronger and better claim to allowance. He deems this statement, very unequal course with him, due to Mr. Swaim and to his claim, and to the ends of justice and good conscience.
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid, before me.
Peter P. Remy Justice of the Peace
J. M. Rudolph
State of New Jersey County of Middlesex } Nicholas Boren Clerk of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Peter P. Remy on before whom the foregoing affidavits of John Swaim, Elizabeth Swaim, Joseph Swaim, Isaac Dunn, William Green, William Van Tilbury, John Gulick & Isaac Rudolph were made, is a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned & sworn, & that his signatures thereto are in his own hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the first day of February one
thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.
N. Boren

4574 Marah Strum of Chas. J. Sweeney Act. July 4 - 1836 m 79. a 38. admd. 17 mo. length. 7 - Lieut. $17.8.33.
Charles G. K. Cheaney Right Hon. J.
Died 26 Sept 38 pen: Com. 27. Sept. 38.

Declaration of Sarah Irwin widow of Sergeant and Lieut John Irwin See a Act of Congress, "July 4 1836"
State of New Jersey Mercer County
On this second day of March One Thousand Eight 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 Mercer (formerly part of the County Hunterdon) Sarah Irwin a resident in the Township of Hopewell in the County and State aforesaid, aged Seventy nine years the fourth of July next Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed, "July 4 1836"
That she is the widow of John Irwin Who was a Sergeant and Lieutenant in the War of the Revolution and that her said husband the aforesaid John Irwin was in the Receipt of a Pension from the general Government as Sergeant and Lieut. at the time of his death, certificate No 31,217 for One Hundred and Twenty Eight dollars and 41 3/4 Cents per annum, which said certificate accompanies this Declaration. and that during said Revolutionary War this declarant well remembers often putting up Fine days provision for her said husband when about to start on a tour of duty in the Service of the United States after their said marriage and that he performed much duty after her said

marriage. whose declaration will be found in the department together with his commission.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Irwin on the _____ day of February Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine - by the Reverend Benjamin Cole who has been - deceased many years - and that upon diligent search it appears that he has left no record of marriages - nor has this declarant any record of - their said marriage - except the record of the births of her said children - which accompanies this declaration - and which is in the hand writing of her said husband - being part of a day Sermon Book that has always been in the family and which is the only record of the family and that the first child William Irwin was born as is recorded the next month after our said marriage viz. on the 21 st day of March 1779. Declarant also refers to the testimony of - Rachel Skillman a resident in said County who was present at the said marriage.
That her husband the aforesaid John Irwin died on the 26 th day of September Eighteen hundred and Thirty eight and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto - annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed on the } day and year above written Before - David Stout }
Sarah Irwin

I hereby certify that Sarah Swain the widow of John Swain and the subscriber to the above declaration is personally known to me as a person of credibility and truth and that she has always been a member of the Baptist Church and I further certify that from bodily infirmity she is unable to appear in open court and that her statement is true
David Stout judge
Mercer } New Jersey
County } personally appeared before me David
Stout one of the judges of the pleas in and for said County Christopher Suydam and Jacob L. Vandike who being duly sworn up- on his oath saith that he was personally pre- sent at the decease of John Swain (who was a Sergeant & lieutenant in the war of the Revo- lution) on the twenty sixth day of Septem- ber Eighteen hundred & thirty Eight Subscribed & sworn to this Christopher Suydam Second day of March 1839 before me David Stout

State of New Jersey Mercer County. Be Be it known that on the fourth day of March A.D. 1889 Personally appeared Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Joseph Swain aged Forty one years in February last a Resident of the County of Mercer and State of New Jersey a Person of credibility and truth who being duly sworn according to law on his oath deposeth and saith That he is son of Ensign and Lieut. John Swain deceased and that the said John Swain departed this life on the 26 th day of September last 1888; this deponent has always lived with his father and still continues on the homestead of the late Ensign & Lieut. John Swain deceased and that this deponent's Mother Sarah Swain - widow of Lieut. John Swain - is now an applicant for a pension - and that the said Certificate of Ensign and Lieut. John Swain accompanies these papers.
3 rd line, interlined the words "Personally appeared" before authentication. In witness whereof
this 4 th day of March 1889
Before me
SAM L EVANS!
Justice of the Peace.
Joseph Swain

State of New Jersey Mercer County
Be it known that on the 30 th day of April 1839. Before the subscribers a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Personally appeared Rachel Skillman a resident of the Borough of Princeton in the County and State aforesaid in her seventy third year of age a Person of good utility and truth who being duly sworn according to law upon her oath deposeth and saith that Sarah Vrain the widow of Lieut John Vrain is a sister to the deponent and well recollects the marriage of the said man and John Vrain by the Rev d Benjamin Coder in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine in the month of February of that year and this deponent distinctly recollects that the said Sarah Vrain was confined in the back room of the deponent's father's house about a month after her said marriage when she gave birth to a son afterwards named William who left a wife and two children in New Jersey more than twenty years and who has never returned and that the record of the births of the children of John and Sarah Vrain attached to the testimony of their son Joseph is true and is the hand writing of John Vrain. all the children are now living except Mary and William she knows not whether he is living or not
Sworn to and subscribed — } Rachel Skillman on the day and year above mentioned } Before Me } John Lawrence, J.P.

William Ingrim Was Born March the 22 nd in the year of our Lord 1779
Mary Ingrim Was Born March the 9 th in the year of our Lord 1781
Amy Ingrim Was Born July the 18 th in the year of our Lord 1786
Elizabeth Ingrim Was Born June the 27 th in the year
of our Lord 1790 Sarah Ingrim Was Born January the 2 nd in the year of our Lord 1794
Joseph Ingrim was February the 14 th in the year of our Lord 1798

IN the Interpretation , we are to read put off as concerning — Kempton . Page 7, Line 24.  ασιτητι read οσιωτητι ; p. 9, l. 1 θιντα read κτιδιοντα ; for p. 12, in the Margin, for αλιτιζον read ελπιζοντα ; p. 17, for  Pf. xii , read Pf. xcii ; p. 22, l. 9, for sojourneth read dwelleth ; p. 44, l. 1, dele 6; p. 45, l. 17 & 37, read Hypocrisy ; p. 63, l. 19, for us read us ; p. 74, l. 31, for P. lix read xlix ; p. 75, l. 22, for  bated read hatched ; p. 77, l. 17, for Equity read Equity ; p. 82, l. 23, for whole read white ; p. 81, l. 10, after have add not only ; p. 85, dele * at Lydia and add it at Thyatira ; p. 86, l. 18, for forgiving read foregoing ; l. 37, for of all read at ; p. 95, l. 3, for Pf. lxxxvi , read Rev. ii. 20 ; p. 96, l. 11, for Samaria read Samaria ; p. 97, l. 7, for Band read Band ; l. 11, for 2 Cor. x, 15 , read Jer. xxiii. 28, 29; p. 102, l. 28, for we read he ; p. 103, l. 18, put in which ; p. 109, l. 21, for putarem read putaram ; p. 118, l. 34, for where-  as read where, as ; p. 122, near the End, Rere-ward for reward ; p. 125, l. 28, for excusable read inexcusable ; p. 132, in the Margin, for Tinolus read Timolus ; p. 133, l. 29, after Claims , add in ; p. 134, l. 19, dele true ; p. 138, l. 31, read even the Holy One ; p. 140, l. 12, for formerly read formally ; p. 152, l. 3, after whereas add if ; p. 155, l. 25, for when thou read when thou ; p. 176, l. 4, read I  present thee O Father ; 185, l. 26, εγιντο read εγιντο , and a for  u in three Words more; for Δαμιν read Δαβιδ ; p. 187, l. 5, & 36, the same Mistake again; p. 188, & 189, for s put a ; read αγιοι ,  αληθιν  αμιν , ανθρωποι ; for Jeus read Ιευς , and rectify the Accents; p. 191, l. 26, read οσα το αληθινον ; p. 202, l. 23, read is not only holy ; p. 203, l. 13, read we are given ; p. 212, l. 29, dele our ; p. 227, after quid habeat , add ? p. 228, in the Notes, read  Hæc , inquit , sene ad finem ; again, quia plurima sunt , and for hæc read hæc ; p. 230, l. 13, put in if ; p. 232, in the Notes, after  Mr. Perkins add is ; p. 236, l. 13, for ipse read ipsæ , and est l. 32, after Prospect add that ; p. 251, l. 3, for less read Loss ; p. 253, l. 3, read That we are made ; p. 257, αληθιν twice for αλη-  θιν ; p. 259, in the Notes, for Αμτιν read Αμυν a great  P to Pareus ; p. 260, near the Bottom of the Page, after abused dele the ; p. 261, for Novetus read Novatus , for υντι read  αντι , for αμυν read αμυν , for dicendu erat read dicendum ; p. 263, l. 23, for Faculties read Faculty ; p. 265, l. 21, for strain read restrain ; p. 266, l. 15, many Greek Accents wanting; p. 269, for insignere read insignire , for υδωρορον read αδιαφορον , for tempo-  rem read teporem ; p. 270, l. 17, for is Rainbow read the Rainbow ; for suerty twice read surety ; p. 275, in the Margin, for κασοχλω read κατ' εχοχλω , for primur read primus , for perbibuerunt read  per habuerint , for insignitur read insigniter ; p. 276, l. 19, for be so read also be ; p. 279, l. 5, for too many read but two may , l. 29, dele  to have  εχεν ; after abrenuncia add teipsum ; p. 292, l. 11, for μοσ read υδ ; for δυναιμεις read δυναιμεις , for της read την ; p. 249, l. 14, for unliuened read liuened , l. 25, for Spiria read Spiritus , and l. ult. for discubutes read discumbentes ; p. 295, l. 27, for Saviours , read our own ; p. 296, for yes read υς , for principiam read prin-  cipatum ; p. 297, for λογους read λογους ; p. 298, l. 24, add  as true ; p. 355, l. 9, add, that but dwelt in him ; p. 358, l.  erity presents ,

State of New Jersey Sussex County } ss
Be it known that on the 4 th day of March 1839. Before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Personally appeared Joseph Swain of the Township of Hopewell in the County of Sussex and State aforesaid - aged Forty one years past a Person of credibility and Truth who being duly sworn according to law on his oath deposeth and saith That the Record attached to this deposition containing the Births of the Children of John and Sarah Swain is the only record that has been in the family to his knowledge and that there is no record of their marriage of the said John and Sarah Swain. this deponent is the sixth and youngest child of the said John and Sarah and is the only Executor of the Will of the said John Swain. the leaf containing the said Births is in the handwriting of this deponents Father and part in the handwriting of this deponents mother - this deponent further decl- ares that he took the leaf from the said Book as mentioned in Sarah Swain's Declaration, which said leaf was pinned fast in the said Book - having been loose a number of years - but was always kept in the Book
Sworn and subscribed the day & and year above mentioned }
Joseph Swain
Before me, Sam d Evans, Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey Mercer County p 3
I Ralph St Lawrence Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Mercer do hereby certify that Maria Stout Esqr before whom the declarations of Sarah Swain and deposition of Christopher Suydam were taken was at the time of the taking thereof a Judge duly commissioned and sworn and I further certify that Samuel Evans before whom the depositions of Joseph Swain was taken and John Lowrey before whom the deposition of Rachel Skillman was taken were at the time of the taking thereof each Justices of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn and that I am well acquainted with their signatures and that those thereunto attached are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Trenton this ninth day of May A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty nine
Ralph St Lawrence

Swaim, John NJ W2486
Swaim, John NJ W2486

Hunterdon Co. State of New Jersey personally appeared before David Stout one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas publico iudicio this eleventh day of June AD 1832 William Van Libburgh aged Seventy years eleven months and nineteen days who being Infirm and unable to attend at the Court of Leavitt Sessions of said County who being first duly sworn upon his oath saith that he is well acquainted with John Swain applicant for pension in the annexed petition (to which he subscribed his name is made oath to the truth of the same) & says that the said John Swain enlisted into the United States Service in the Revolutionary war in June 1776 as a volunteer in the five months Service as a militia man under Captain Joseph Babcock of Manly Mary Township in Somerset County and Rendova at Rocky Hill and Marched directly to Paul's Hook and placed under the command of Col Johnson & Col Joseph Phillips & that the said Swain served out the full time of the five months service and the deponent further states that the said Swain after the expiration of his volunteering here expired he continued to serve in the Militia & went with Genl Washington over the Delaware into Penn- sylvania & that the said Swain returned back to Jersey he returned back to Somerset County the Militia here all closed and the said Swain did do at all times the duty required of the Militia of the County of Som- set and deponent saw him on Staten Island and seen him engaged in said Battle with the British army in the Division of that part of the army com- manded by Col John Wilson of Col Green's Bricks and this deponent further states that he saw the said Swain at the Battle of Monmouth on the 28 day of June 1778 this deponent further states that he then had believes from what he knows and the General be- liefs of the Neighborhood where the said Swain then lived that he was in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary war more than two years & that the said Swain always supported a good Mar- al character for truth & veracity & further saith not subscribed & sworn to June 11 1832 before me David Stout Judge William Van Libburgh

THE STATE OF NEW-JERSEY,
TO John Swain Esquire
GREETING:
WHEREAS it hath been certified to His Excellency WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief of this State, that you have been duly chosen by the sixth  sixth  provincial  provincial Company of Militia in the second  second  Battalion in the County of Somerset (being the sixth Company in the said  said  Battalion of the said County, whereof Henry Van Dike Esquire, is Colonel) to be first  first  Lieutenant of the said Company; you are therefore to take the said Company of Militia into your Charge and Care as first  first  Lieutenant thereof, and duly to exercise both Officers and Soldiers of the said Company in Arms: And as they are hereby directed to obey you as their first  first  Lieutenant you are likewise to obey and follow such Orders and Directions, from Time to Time, as you shall receive from your Colonel or other your superior Officer or Officers; and for your so doing this shall be your Commission. IN TESTIMONY whereof the Great Seal of the said State is hereunto affixed: Witness WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, Esquire, Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey , and Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the same, at Princeton the Sixth Day of December in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy nine  1779
By His Excellency's Command,
Swain, John MS W2486

Aff y of Mr. Van Tilburgh in case of Mr. Severin
Mr. Severin
accept
Hon. J. F. Randolph H.R.

Supplemental Affidavit in the case of John Swain.
State of New Jersey Middlesex County 38. On this twenty sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, before me a Justice of the peace, and also a Judge of the Pleas, of said county, personally appeared William Van Silbrough , well known to me as a credible person, whose testimony is implicitly to be relied upon, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he has heretofore, once or twice been called upon to give testimony in the case of John Swain, of Somerset County, New Jersey, an applicant for a Pension under the law of 1832; that he has done so in relation to the services of said Swain, and to the rank he held in the militia, at the time those services were rendered; that he knows, of his own personal knowledge, that said Swain was a Lieutenant, and held a commission and did service as a Lieutenant, from 1779, to the end of the War; that he saw the commission soon after it was granted by Gov. Livingston, and heard the Go- vernor speak upon the subject; that the Governor at the time the commission aforesaid was granted, boarded at his father's house, and that therefor he, the deponent, has every opportunity of knowing what he states, and the deponent now further, on his oath saith, that the said John Swain being a relation of his, and poor, old and infirm, he was induced to give him his personal aid in prose- cuting his claim for a Pension, and has from time to time, aided in looking up witnesses & carrying them before magistrates for examination; that he was at the house of the said John Swain on the morning that he was about to attend the Court at Flemington, Hunterdon County, in August 1832, for the purpose of making application for a Pension, and then and there saw and had in his hands,

And read a Commission to the said John Swain, as Lieutenant, dated in 1779, and signed by William Livingston; that said Commission was then perfect, so far as he could see, in name and date, thereby no appearance of any erasure, alter- ation, obliteration, or substitution in either the name or the date, visible to him, and he really believes there was none such; that the said Commission as he understood at the time, had been lying in the house of the said Swain from the time of the Revolution until that day, when it was taken out to be used in aid of his application as aforesaid; that the deponent has not seen the Commission aforesaid since the date of 1832 mentioned, nor until recently did he know that any question had been raised as to the genuineness of the Commission transmitted to the Pension Office; that with respect to that Commission he can say nothing to identify it with the one he saw, because he knows nothing to enable him to do so, not having had the opportunity to examine the Commission in said Office; that all he means to say, or wishes to be understood as saying is, that said Swain was a Lieutenant as he claims, and that his Commission as Lieutenant, unaltered and unobliterated, in name and date, and without any- thing in its appearance to excite the least sus- picion as to its authenticity, was in August 1832, taken to the Hunted on Court, and there and there- used in aid of his application for a Pension. Then the deponent, on his oath, further saith, that of any alteration has ever been made in the Commission of said Swain, he, the deponent, truly believes, that said Swain was not privy or con- senting to it, and had no knowledge of it, he being in the deponent's estimation, utterly incapable

of such fraud in the premises, or of an attempt to commit fraud; and there being, in this respondent's opinion, no conceivable motive in the case for any such fraud or alteration as is alleged to have been made.
William VanDilburgh
Subscribed to me this day & year aforesaid, before me Peter P. Ruyon Justice of the Peace
W. VanDilburgh
State of New Jersey, Middlesex County, I. Nicholas Porrass, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that Peter P. Ruyon, before whom the forego- ing affidavit of William VanDilburgh was made, is a Justice of the Peace, and a Judge of the Peace, in and for said County, and that his signature in said affidavit is in his own hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office, this Twenty Sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred thirty seven 1837. N. Porrass Clerk

Perkins
WIDOW, &c.
File No.
2486
Sarah Swain
Widow
John Swain
Singl & Lib. Rev. Mass.
Act:
July 4, 1836.
Index:—Vol.
M.
Page
257.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
✓

May 16
N.J.
July 1836

2 Nights Lane N.Y. May 11 th 1839
Dear Sir The Declaration of Seal Train master of Capt and Lieut John Train is forwarded to the War Dept in accordance with instructions - under the act of July 4 1836
Very respectfully J. M. [?] Miles C. [?] 3
San Antonio Genl F. Austin Washington City

N o 24,490
New Jersey John Swain
Suspended. see letter 13
August 1835 to C. Baughman.
Let to J. S. Schenck, N. J. 16 Dec 1835
do. 5 th Ap l 1836 to same — same,
Jan 12. 1837. copies of papers
Sent to same, Jan 17. 1837 — do.
see letter Feb. 14. 1837 to H. A. F.
S. Schenck H. R. — do. to D. F.
Randolph, May 25. 1837.

Shamir Coau

New Brunswick, April 13 1837.
Sir, I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of the marginal references left at the office by my brother. Before despatching these to the Treasurer's office, I have taken the opportunity to examine the Somerset file, for the purpose of establishing, in my own mind or, presumptively, regarding the claims of John Swain, as Lieutenant . To my great satisfaction, I find his name in two instances, in both of which he is recognized in terms as Lieutenant ; and in one instance as Lieutenant in Capt. Simon Duncans company - in precise agreement with Swains own statement.
In a letter from the Pardon office to C. Bartles of the 13 th of Aug 1834, you refer Mr Bartles to the office of Secretary of State for New Jersey, for record evidence of Swain's grade, and for the date of his Commission. That office, as is known to you, and as has been shown in repeated instances, contains no records at all of the Commissions issued, and but very little evidence of any description as to the times in commission. The testimony, however, of these marginal notes, is conclusive as to his grade, though no date is supplied. The fact of his grade being clearly ascertained, it is hoped that the positive testimony of several highly respectable witnesses as to the date, may be received as satisfactory.
But there is another difficulty to be obviated. The impression is strong upon your mind, that there have been alterations, in the commission sent on in Swains case. Upon this point explanation is properly required. Never having seen the paper in question, nor any of the original papers in the case, I can only say, that so far as it is possible for me to judge, from as severe a scrutiny as I was capable of making, I have not the least suspicion, that either Swain himself, or any one of his family, had any agency in making any alteration, or has any knowledge of such alteration, if it has been made. With respect to Mr Swain, he is, in my opinion, phy-

really incapable of making any alteration which might not at once be detected by the hand writing. That is so tedious as to be almost illegible. If he were therefore so devoid of honesty as to attempt such an act, which the concurrent testimony of every body acquainted with him disposes, he could not, in my opinion, do it without exposing the forgery. He is besides too ignorant of what is necessary to support his claim, to think of even producing his commission. That, I have no doubt, was a supposition of others. His family at home - a son and a daughter - are equally beyond suspicion in moral integrity, and are too uninformed and unskilled, to think of such a resort.
When, by whom, and for what purpose, then, this commission has been altered, if altered at all, must be left, so far as I can see, an enigma. Mr. Bartle is a gentleman of the Bar, of unblemished reputation. To him I wrote on the subject, requesting the communication confidential so as to elicit the whole truth. His answer, which he did not know was to be used at all, is enclosed; and is frank, full and explicit.
Is it not possible that the alterations perceivable may have been made at the time the commission was given? Is the hand writing the same, apparently, throughout, and is it the same employed on other commissions bearing contemporaneous date? I must confess, that I cannot bring my mind to suppose it possible, that any one of the parties to this application, or a part in it, has been guilty of any dishonorable act. Fraudulent it could not well be, in its effects, since it is now established by record evidence, that Swain was a Lieutenant.
Saying, therefore, that the claim is well sustained - that the grade is placed beyond dispute - and that the applicant himself is necessarily exempt from the imputation of wrongdoing - would it be inconsistent with justice or

propriety to allow the claim, though some one else may possibly, have exposed himself to legal animadversion. That is a point which may be reserved, and which I shall consider my duty to aid the department in investigating, if it shall decide to pursue the subject.
Very respectfully,
Your most obed servt.
James H. Randolph.
J. L. Edwards. 9. 3 Com. Penna. 3

Nov 11 Mr Evans

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Nov. 9 th , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6 th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of John Swain, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the New Jersey Agency, at the rate of One hundred & 78 Dollars and thirty three Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1838, to the 26 th Sept. 1838, the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
J. B. Carr Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.