Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 5902, for Nicholas Kiser, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
Nisser, Nicholas Neyser or
NUMBER _____
HP 5902
CONTENTS

33857
Nicholas Kissen Nicholas Kapsu

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
State of New Jersey Warren County ss.
On this 25 th day of August 1830 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas now sitting at Belvidere in the said County Nicholas Hiser a resident of said County aged ninety years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein indicated. He was drafted in the service of the United States as a private in the militia at the Township of Oxford in the County of Sussex now Warren in the State of New Jersey in the company of Militia commanded by Captain Brown & Lieutenant William Branner marched to Amboy where was the flying camp remained there on duty four weeks & was discharged. he does not recollect the names of any other officers he does not recollect the month or year he then resided in Oxford aforesaid. Some time after that, does not recollect the month or year he was drafted from his class as a private in the company of Militia commanded by Captain Joseph Mackey & Lieutenant Samuel Van Natta in one part of the township & in another.
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Marched to Somerset where there was a number of militia commanded by Colonel Mark Thompson who had an engagement on that town with a party of British near Millstone creek. The company to which the applicant belonged got to the ground at the con- clusion of the skirmish & assisted in securing a number of baggage wagons taken from the enemy. He remained in the service in that town one month & was discharged. Applicant was drafted in his class from his residence afore- said as a private in the company of Mi- litia commanded by Captain William Ayres Lieutenant Hays marched to Eliz- abeth Town where he was stationed a number of militia commanded by Colonel Shively remained there in the service four weeks & was discharged. does not recollect the month or year. Ap- plicant volunteered from his residence aforesaid as a minute man in the com- pany of militia commanded by Cap- tain Joseph Mackey in the Battalion commanded by Major John Vleit re- mained on duty as a private in the Town- ship of Oxford aforesaid in said company for two years. said company was formed to act against the Tories in said County of Sussex & during the whole of the said two years was on duty in the County & subject to be called to any part of the state. He volunteered in said company

about two years before the close of the revolutionary war & was discharg- ed having been in the service alto- gether two years & three months Applicant was born in the year seventeen hundred & forty six on the fourteenth day of October in the Coun- ty of Bucks in the State of Pennsylvania removed to the Township of Green- wich in the County of Warren (then Sussex) when very young & removed to the Township of Oxford aforesaid when he arrived at the age of twenty one years & has resided there ever since he does not recollect the names of any of the regular officers He has no written dis- charge from the service. He has never re- ceived any commission. He is known to Christian Cole & Christian Lomason of his neighbourhood who can testify as to his character for veracity & their be- lief of his services as a soldier of the rev- olution. He has no record of his age. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State - his Sworn to before me this day & year aforesaid Nicholas V. Kiser mark P. M. Blair
J. D. Darrison
in one part of the township & in another.

We Christian Cole & Christian Lomason residing in the Township of Oxford in the County of Warren & State of New Jersey here certify that we are well acquainted with William Kice who has subscribed to the above declaration that we believe him to be much near of age that he was united & believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the revolu- tion & that we concur in that opinion Second & subscribed this fourth  thirteenth day of Jan y 1837 } Christian Lomason in open court John Moore
And the said board do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after finding the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the said board further certifies that Christian Cole & Chris- tian Lomason who have signed the successive certificates are residents in the Township of Oxford in the said County of Warren & are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit & further that the names of Christopher Cole & Christopher Lomason were altered to Christian Cole & Christian Lomason the latter being the true & correct name John Moore J. Harrison Jr.

State of New Jersey Warren County ss. I Philip Lurch residing in the Township of Oxford in the said County of Warren hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Nicholas Riser who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that I believe him to be as much as ninety one years of age having known him personally be- tween sixty & seventy years & being sever- al years older than myself who am now in my eighty fifth year. That he is re- puted & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier the revolution & that I concur in that opinion not only from the general reputations of the neighbourhood but also from the fact that we served to- gether in the revolutionary war. That the said Nicholas Riser, the present applicant & myself in the second year of the war went down to Anboy together under Captain Brown & Lieutenant White & served to- gether there one month. That we served together one month under Captain Mackey the year I do not now recollect. That the said applicant was out several times when I was not as we lived in different districts in one part of the Township & in another.

That the last time we were out together we were in the skirmish at Millstone. I was in company under Colonel Mark Thompson which lasted about two hours & in which several baggage wagons were captured. Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 28th thirtieth day of Nov. A.D. 1836. L John Moore
And he said court do hereby certify that Philip Quick who hath sworn to & subscribed the above affidavit is a resident in the township of Oxford in the said County that he is a credible person & that his statement is entitled to credit
John Moore

State of New Jersey Warren County ss. Before me Christian Cole one of the Justices of the Peace in for the said County of Warren on this thir- tieth day of November A D eighteen hundred & thirty six personally appeared Philip Morrey residing in the Town- ship of Oxford in the said County who by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to appear in Court & being first duly sworn according to law on his oaths saith that he is acquainted with Nich- olas Riser a resident of the Township of Oxford in said County & has known him for seventy years or more that he lived in the said Township of Oxford in the time of the Revolutionary War & has lived there ever since, that he & this de- ponent were out together in the revolution- ary war at Amboy & that Riser served under the command of Captain Brown. That he & this deponent were together at Mil- stone at the taking of some baggage wag- ons from the British, & that he & this de- ponent belonged to the same regiment of minute men & that they served to- gether in that regiment two years. And further said not
Sworn to subscribed — the day & year aforesaid before me Christian Cole Justice of the Peace
Philip Morrey mark
State of New Jersey Warren County ss. I Oliver Titus Col o of the Justices of the Peace in for said County do hereby certify that I am

well acquainted with Philip Moun- the above named deponent & I believe him to be a man of the strictest ve- racity & is so reputed in the neighbour- hood & that he is entitled to full faith & credit when under oath dated this 20 th day of Decr. A.D. 1836 Washington D.C.
State of New Jersey
Warren County } Before me Christopher hole one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County on this twenty-sixth day of January A.D. eighteen hundred & thirty seven personally appeared Nich- olas Kiser the above named appli- cant who by reason of the infirmity of the season his extreme age & bodily infirmity is unable to attend in open court who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he employed Charles H. Kiser Esq. to draw & prepare his application forwarded for him more than two years ago that he supposed & believed that it had been attended to but has lately ascertained that it had not that until the time of his making applic- cation he had lived with his son in law Samuel Wilson Esq. & while he lived with him he had no need of a per- son to that the said Samuel Wilson by reason of misfortune has been deprived of all his property & with his family has left the country & that this deponent

is now deprived of his support & by reason of his great age is unable to maintain himself from his own personal labour.  Given & subscribed before me this day a year ago.  March 1837 January the 4th  Christian Goldquester of the Peace  Nicholas N. Bider mark
I the undersigned, Thomas Smith, Clerk of the Superior Court of Canada at Belvidere, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nicholas Bider for a pension. And further I do certify that Christian Goldquester, before whom the affidavits of Nicholas Bider, the said application & Philip Brown were taken is a justice of the peace of said County duly qualified and sworn into office as such, and that his commission to said office is now in force.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Belvidere this 18th of February A.D. 1837.
T. Smith Clerk

New Jersey
Nicholas Keyser
Suspended
Let to H. G. D. Wall
March 6. 1837
5902

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1878.
5902 J. J.
P. O. _____
Nicholas Keyser
Service: _____
RECEIVED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18