Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 554, for Samuel Leonard, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Continental
Leonard, Samuel
S. 554.
New Jersey
Carded.
CONTENTS

Date of death not as Q.B.
He was a son of John and Sarah (nee ...) and died at ...
653
New Jersey Roll
Samuel Leonard
Private 11
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Lewis Condict, Morristown, N. J.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept r 1818 5 months 1/30 $40.26 Col d J. C. Baldwin 75 - 1 year { Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
He was a son of John and Sarah (nee ...) and died at ...

153
New Jersey Roll
Samuel Leonard Private
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Lewis Condiet, Morristown, N. J.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept r 1818
5 months 1/30
$40.26
Col d J. C. Balcom ex. 76-1 year Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818,
Date of death not on list.
Application sent September 16. 1820 to Lewis Condiet, Morristown, N. Jersey
not enrolled in this list

Samuel Leonards -
4 Apr.
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State of New Jersey County of Morris ss.
Personally came before me Lewis Condict, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Morris, Samuel Leonard, who being duly sworn deposed and saith, that he was in the service of the United States in the revolutionary war, on the Continental establishment; That he enlisted on or about the seventeenth day of March seventeen hundred and seventy six at Morristown in the County and State aforesaid, as an Artificer under Captain Joseph Lindsley, under Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin Chief Engineer of the Northern Department, and continued in the same until the fourteenth day of March, or thereabouts, seventeen hundred and seventy seven at which time the said Company of Artificers was disbanded at Morristown aforesaid. This Deponent further saith that he reenlisted in the Continental service at Morristown aforesaid some time in the month of May seventeen hundred and seventy eight in Captain Thomas Patterson's Company of Infantry  Artillery of the Third Regiment of the Jersey line. Commanded by Col. Elias Dayton that he joined the said Regiment at Mount Holly in Burlington County, West Jersey on the first of June following; that he was in the battle at Monmouth, and received a severe wound in that battle the twenty eighth of June; that on account of the said wound he was confined to the hospital for about Eight months, that on the fifth day of March seventeen hundred and seventy nine he was honorably discharged from the army by a regular discharge, which discharge is now lost.
This Deponent further saith that in consequence of the wound he received at the Battle of Monmouth aforesaid, he on or about the ninth day of March Eighteen hundred and eleven, petitioned Congress to grant him a pension; that by an act of Congress sometime afterward, he was placed on the Invalid pension List of the United States, that from the said

ninth day of March 1811 until about March 1814 he received a pension of two Dollars fifty cents per month; that then the said pension was increased to the sum of four Dollars per month which has been regularly paid him up to the fifth day of September Eighteen hundred and seventeen, about four months pay yet remaining unpaid due to him. That he now Relinquishes to the said The United States the said pension heretofore allowed him, and prays that his name may be placed on the pension list under the act of Congress passed the 18 March 1818 Entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war".
This Deponent further saith, that he resides at Morristown, in the County of Morris and State of New Jersey; That from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his Country for support.
Sworn & subscribed before me at Morristown the 4 th day of April. A 1818.
The word "Infantry" in the 17 th line of the first page, was substituted for Artillery, the latter being struck out, before signing.
Levis Condict.
Samuel Leonard
I, Levis Condict, a Judge of the Inferior Courts of Common Pleas for the County of Morris, in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Samuel Leonard did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the foregoing deposition against the common enemy; - and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony had and taken before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the act of Congress, of the 18 th March, A.D. 1818.
Morris Town N. Jersey Apr 4 th 1818
Levis Condict

State of New Jersey County of Morris
I Robert H. M c Carter Clerk of the said County of Morris, do Certify, that Lewis Condick Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition is made, is and was at the doing thereof duly enrolled One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris, and that full faith & credit is due & ought to be given to his official acts as such. )
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County the Second day of May A d Eighteen hundred and eighteen. )
Robert H. M c Carter

State of New Jersey County of Morris
I Robert H. M c Carte Clerk of the said County of Morris, do Certify, that Lewis Condick Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition is made, is and was at the doing thereof duly enrolled One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris, and that full faith & credit is due & ought to be given to his official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County the second day of May A d Eighteen hundred and eighteen.
Robert H. M c Carte

Samuel Leonard
653 (Novel)
8741-50
Not entitled
very W
Sept 1815
82

District of New-Jersey, } ss. Morris County, }
On this eleventh day of July, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris-Town, in and for the County of Morris, in the term of July, in the year aforesaid. [The said court being a court of record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping records of its proceedings, and its Judgments being removeable by writ of error only]
Samuel Leonard aged sixty three years, resident in the township of Morris in said county, who being sworn, according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the year 1776 in Col. Jonathan Baldwin's Corps of Engineers in Captain Joseph Lindsley's company in June 1778 he entered in Col. Patterson's company in Col. Dayton's Regiment and was wounded at the battle of Red Bank and received an honorable discharge at the end of 9 Months on account of disability that he made his original declaration on the 4 th of April 1818 under the law of Congress passed the 18 th March 1818 that he had received a pension certificate which is numbered 659-
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18 th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18 th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. That I am sixty three years of age by occupation a carpenter, but am entirely unable to pursue my occupation by reason of the infirmities of age and a wound received in my right foot at the battle of Red Bank. That for nine years last past my wound has been so troublesome as to prevent me doing any labor to support myself - and it has suppurated and discharged a number of small bones of the foot - that I have no wife living - I have seven children three of whom reside in my family and whose names are Nancy aged 28 years Mary aged 26 years and Lemimah aged 18 years - and are able to support themselves - that I was an Invalid pensioner since the year 1811 to the date of my original declaration for a pension under the law of the 18 th March 1818
Sworn and declared to the 01 st July 1820 - before
Gab. A. Ford
Samuel Leonard

SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing deposition of
Samuel Leonard Forty eight Acres of Land partly improved 2 Shoats 9 chairs 1 pair Shovel and tongs 1 wheel barrow 2 tables 1 iron Kettle 2 Hoes 2 axes 1 grind stone 1 crow bar & mattock —
I have no debts Notes bonds bills or any other property except my beds and bedding and wearing apparel
I am indebted to Samuel Tallibay . . . . . $ 75.50 to Adam Guerin — — — — — 25.00 to Lewis Mills — — — — — 10.00 to John B. Schmit — — — — — 12.00 to Vance & Mary Leonard for money advanced in building a small house — { 145.75 For their services in my family since the death wife being 10 years — { 200.00 472.25
Sworn and subscribed the 11 th day of July A.D. 1820 before Col. A. Ford
Samuel Leonard

State of New Jersey, } ss. County of Morris. }
I, Robert H. M c Carter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Morris, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; And I do hereby further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited on the aforesaid Schedule is seven hundred and forty one dollars and fifty cents — $741.50
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty.
Robert H. M c Carter Clerk of the Court for the County of Morris

Rev. War Section.
March 3, 1916.
Mr. Chester N. Jones, 756 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.
Sir:-
In response to your letter dated the 24 th ultimo, you are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War Pension claim of Samuel Leonard, S. F. No. 554 that he enlisted at Morristown, N. J. March 17, 1776, as an Artificer in Captain Joseph Lindsay's Company, under Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin, Chief Engineer of the Northern Department, and served until March 17, 1777.
Reenlisted in May or June 1778, in Captain Thomas Patterson's Company, Colonel Elias Dayton's Third New Jersey Regiment, and was discharged March 5, 1779. During this last service he was in the battle of Monmouth where he was wounded in the right foot, for which he was pensioned from March 9, 1811.
His wife died about the year 1810, her name is not stated. In 1820 he was a resident of Morris Township, Morris County N. J. aged 68 years. There were seven children, Nancy aged 38 years, Mary 26 years, Jeremiah 18 years are the only ones whose names are stated.
Very respectfully
Acting Commissioner.

1916 Mch. 3 List to Charles A. Jones. V. L. M. Sister in James Garaloman. Dis. claim.
INVALID.
Rev. Wm.
File No.
554
Samuel Leonard, Pro. New Jersey.
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[Arrangement of 1870.]
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New Jersey. (800) R
Samuel Leonard, Private.
Stricken from the Roll as a Rev y pensioner, on ap l of his property, and re-instated as an Invalid, at $4. pr. mo: under the law of May 1. 1820 — com g March 4. 1820
amt d . fm 4. March 1820 to 4 th Sept 1821 $72-
Certificate issued June 25 th 1821 and sent to Lewis Condict Esq r Morristown, N. Jersey

Sam l Leonard's Warrant.
Certificates issued between the 4th March and the 4th Sep- tember, are not payable un- til the 4th September. Those issued between the 4th Sep- tember and 4th March, are not payable before the 4th March. The stipend due to the within named Pensioner will be paid at in Trenton, N. Jersey, by First Trenton Banking Co. —

WAR DEPARTMENT.
INVALID PENSION.
Reinstated under the Act of May 1 st 1820.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of May 1 st 1820,
Samuel Leonard, late a Private of the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New Jersey Agency, at the rate of four dollars per month, to com- mence on the fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this  twenty fifth  day of  June  one thousand eight hundred and  twenty one.
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War.

Sept. 18. 1821. To Sept. 4. 1821 Oct 1 1822. To 1. March 1822
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