Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1326, for Cornelius Suidam, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
or Suidam, Cornelius or Suijdam, or Suijdam, Margaret
W. 1326 B.L. # 6297-160-55.
CONTENTS

31228  New Jersey  Corporal William of Middlesex Co in the State of New Jersey who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Ray of the 20 th commanded by Col Taylor in the Continental line for 24 months service
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey the rate of 70 Dollars — Cents per annum. commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Oct 1831 and Dec 1831 Jan 1832
Arrears to the 4th of Nov 1831 $422.40 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1st 35.44  $457.84
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by David Clerk, Book 82 Vol. 3 Page 161

1855. Not used for April 1855 Margaret Lyden Grant Clara Lyden 1/5 Grant
Pamona City No. 2872 N. J. N. J. as Feb 8/53.
Ad: 16000 Sept 13 1855, Brighton
Mt No. 2872 Feb 53 - no 2872
Brighton
1855
Jan L Sheet Southborough N. J.
Vol 82. page 143.

2872 New Jersey Trenton Margaret Snedam widow of Cornelius Snedam who served in the Revolutionary
1872
war, as a private N J Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 70. Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of November 1853. and sent to James L. Street New Brunswick N.J.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 98. Vol. 6
(32)

Leonious Lucian
(Please spell his name thus) (See his signature)
Supplemental Statement
J. H. Randolph W. Burns

Supplemental declaration of Cornelius Swidam of Middlesex County, New Jersey, for a pension under the law of June 7, 1832.
State of New Jersey } Middlesex County } On this 28 th day of June 1837, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex, personally appeared Cornelius Swidam of said County, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that having made a declaration for a Pension under the law of 7 th June 1832, which he is informed is in some respects defective & not in conformity with the rules of the War Department, he now proceeds to supply such defects, & to conform to such rules as far as he is capable of doing it, or can comprehend them. As he has stated before, he commenced active ser- vice in the militia of Middlesex in the early Spring of 1777, in the company of Capt John Day, in the regi- ment commanded by Lieut Col Taylor & Col. John Nicholson. His first tour of service was at Gravelly in Middlesex County, about 15 miles from New Brunswick, where the enemy lay. This lasted one month, and was performed under Capt Day & Col. Nicholson. Their duty was to watch the enemy's plundering & roving parties, to keep them in check, or drive them back, and occasion- ally to make a sally out from Head Quarters to inter- cept or cut off & capture these parties. Soon afterwards in the same year, he performed another tour of a month in South Amboy, along the shore, for the same purpose of preventing & punishing the plundering excursions of the enemy then on the opposite shore of Staten Island, about 2 miles distant. This tour was also under Capt Day & Col. Nicholson. In the same year he performed another tour of a month under Capt.

Lieut. Col. Taylor
Morgan, on the same shore, marching & countermarching for a distance of twenty to twenty five miles to Sandy Hook, for the same purpose of keeping the enemy in check & protecting the lives and property of his fellow citizens. In the same year he did another tour of a month on the same portion of South Amboy, under Capt. John Waghorn 1st Col. Taylor, as he believes, engaged as usual in preventing & harassing the operations of the enemy, and in which duty a large district of country was traversed. In 1778 he performed a tour of a month under Capt. Dey 1st Col. Taylor, on the same portion, and as usual in protecting the lives & property of the inhabitants. In the same year he did another tour of a month under Capt. Genl. Shelton Dey 1st Col. Taylor, on the South Amboy station, in defending it from the incursions of the enemy. In the same he performed another tour of a month under Capt. Dey 1st Col. Taylor, previous to & at the battle of Monmouth in which he was engaged. Same year he performed another tour of a month under Capt. Waghorn 1st Col. Taylor in South Amboy, on the shore, in defence of the lives & property of the inhabitants, marching & countermarching around to the distance of 15 to 20 miles on the bay shore, which is the boundary of this township. In the same year he performed another tour of a month under Capt. Dey 1st Col. Taylor on the same station in the same service. In 1779 he performed a tour of a month under Capt. Dey 1st Col. Taylor at Elizabeth Town in defence of that portion of the frontier lying opposite to Staten Island where the enemy were sta-

tuned. Same year he did another tour of a month in South Amboy, under Capt Morgan, 1st Col Taylor, in defence of that important Station the Key to the whole of Monmouth as well as a considerable part of Middlesex County. In the same year he did another tour of a month under Capt Great Col Taylor at New Brunswick, above Stone & other places on the Raritan river, at the time of the invasion into that district of country by Col. Simcoe. In the same year he was again on the South Amboy Station, & did another tour of a month under Capt. Waples & Col. Tay- lor, in protecting that district of country. In 1780 he did a tour of a month in South Amboy & on the shore to the Highlands under Capt. Waples 1st Col Taylor in the usual service of protec- tion. The enemy was not to be followed, or reach- ed in their encampments, but simply beaten off when attempting incursions. Same year he did another tour of a month under Capt. Day & Col. Taylor, during which they went into Monmouth County, & had a fight with a body of British, Hessians & Neutrals. In the same year he did another tour of a month under Capt. Morgan & Col. Neilson, during which he was marched to Springfield, & was in the battle there. In the same year he did another tour in the South Amboy Station under Capt. Waples & Col. Taylor. This was for a month and in the usual service of protecting that district of country. In 1781. he performed a tour of a month under Capt. Day & Col. Neilson at Elizabeth Town in defence of that position. In the same year he did ano- ther tour of a month on the same Station, under

19 Capt William Hol Wilson, in the same service of protecting that position from the depredations of the enemy. In the same year he did an other tour of a month under Capt Lloyd & Maj Ebert, in the same general station, but engaged in marching to different points along that frontier, to meet & repel the enemy. In the same year he did an other tour of a month at South Amboy, an other point on the same frontier, un- der Capt Maslach & Col Taylor in defence of the lives & property of the inhabitants. The enemy was always within cannon shot of this point on the opposite shore, sometimes within gun shot, & frequently came down to the water to amuse themselves by firing across the Sound. In 1782 he did a tour of a month at Elizabeth town under Capt Day & Col Millar, in protecting that fron- tier post. In the same year he did an other tour of a month at Chengowakee, on the South shore of Staten, under Capt Morgan & Col Taylor in the usual service of guarding that shore. In the same year he did an other tour of a month under Capt Walling & Col. Morgan in Monmouth county, in watching the Tories who were constantly in correspondence with the enemy. Some years he did an other tour of a month under Capt Day & Col Taylor in the same service of holding the Tories in terror. In 1783 he did an other tour of a month in Monmouth under Capt Mas- lach & Col Taylor in pursuit of the Tories & to punish their villainies. He has thus gone over 26 all his services, in the order in which he now related them herewith, with such additions as

he has been able to make were & deemed necessary to comply with the requisitions of the War Dept. In all his services, in South America and elsewhere, he went out in obedience to the regular calls of the States duly appointed to command him, and was always acting in embodied corps of from fifty one hundred to two or three hundred men, as the occasion required. Their subsistence was drawn from the public stores provided for them by the Subsistence department, and dealt out to them in the same way that the enlisted & commissioned officers drew theirs. The militia with which the department acted was in all his respects, so far as he understood, subject to the same discipline & to the same rules, regulations that were observed in the regular service. In not one of the times he has mounted did he serve in an irregular or un-official corps, fighting upon their own responsibility, & defending their own firesides. Subscribed to the dep't three officers before me
Cornelius Suidam
Peter P. Dennyson
Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey, Middlesex County. I, Nicholas Boorman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the said county, do hereby certify that P. P. Dennyson before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is a Justice of the Peace in the said county, and that his signature thereto is in his own hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto fixed my hand & seal of office, this twenty eighth day of June one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven.
N Boorman Clerk

I know all men by these present that I Rachel R. Sutfin one of the children and heir at law of Cornelius Sutfin a Revolutionary soldier late of the County of Somerset New Jersey deceased for myself and by one authority of the remainder of the heirs do hereby constitute and appoint Charles G. McElroy of the County of Mercer State of New Jersey my true and lawfull attorney to prosecute my claim for any of Revolutionary pension in right of my Mother the said Ann Sutfin dec d Widow of Cornelius Sutfin and I hereby authorize my said agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the depart at Washington city or elsewhere to file additional evidence or arguments and to receive the certificate which may be issued for said claim
To appoint one or more substitutes for the purposes herein expressed and to do all things that I might or could do where I personally present and ratifying and confirming the same. Witness my hand and seal this Twenty Eighth day of October A.D. 1852 Signed and sealed in the presence of Rachel R. Sutfin Jacob Loosy —
State of New Jersey. Somerset County, ss On this twenty eighth day of October A.D. 1852 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Personally appeared Rachel R. Sutfin the grantor of the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be her voluntary act and deed for the use and purpose

Therein mentioned with full knowledge of the terms and import of the same. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid
Jacob Losey Justice Peace
State of New-Jersey.
I, THOMAS S. ALLISON, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that
Jacob Losey Esquire, before whom the within affidavit was taken,
was, at the time of the doing thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Somerset in said state, duly commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attesta- tions, and that the signature thereto is in the proper handwriting of the said
Jacob Losey Esq.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said state, this fourth day of November A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty two .
Thos. S. Allison Secretary of State.

Declaration of Mrs Margaret Snyder, widow of Corneilus Snyder for pension, Act. of Feb. 8 th 1863.
James L. Street, Atty. New Brunswick, New Jersey.

State of New Jersey County of Middlesex ss.
On this first day of November, A.D. 1853, personally appeared before the undersigned Judge, of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, of the County and State aforesaid, Mrs. Mar- garet Snyder, a resident of the Township of South Amboy, in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, aged fifty one years, who be- ing first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in or- der to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3 rd of February, 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; That she is the widow of Cornelius Snyder, who was, (as she believes) a private of the New Jersey Militia, in the war of the Revolution, but of whose service she has neither written evidence nor personal knowledge; and who was a pen- sioner of the Township of South Amboy, in the County of Middlesex, and State of New Jer- sey, many years before his death; that he drew his pension at the Agency at Trenton New Jersey, and that she believes he was the on- ly pensioner of the name Cornelius Snyder in the State, certainly the only one in the County of Middlesex; for proof therefore of his services, she respectfully refers to his declara- tion, and papers on file in the department, on which he obtained his pension, which was as she believes under the act of June 7 th 1832; at the rate of seventy dollars per annum, (as she now knows from his original Certificate, (enclosed) which she has obtained since the forego- ing was written.)

She further declares, that she was married to the said Cornelius Snyder, on the 18 th day of September A.D. 1822, at Cranbury, in the County of Middlesex, New Jersey, by one John Woodhull, a Presbyterian Minister; — that her maiden name was Margaret Perrine; that she has always lived in Middlesex County since her marriage; that her said husband died, where she now lives, on the 17 th day of March A.D. 1851; that she has no family record of her marriage, and never received any marriage certificate, and does not know whether there is any public record thereof; — nor has she any family record of her said husband's death; She further declares, that she was not married to her said husband prior to the second of January, eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. She further declares, that she has not intermarried, since the death of her said husband, and that she is now his widow. For proofs of identity and her husband's death, &c. she refers to the evidence annexed.
Attest, P.
Margaret Snyder
Sarah Tindall Ann Tindall
Sworn and Subscribed in Open Court, in presence of.
Peter B. Runyon D. Fitz Randolph A. M. P. P. Smith
Judge W. S.

State of New Jersey County of Middlesex ? S c .
Be it known, That on this first day of November, A.D. 1853, before the un- dersigned, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally came Aa- ron Tindall, aged sixty five years, and Ann Tindall aged fifty nine years, who first being duly sworn according to law, on their oaths declare; that they were present in open court, and saw Mrs. Margaret Snyder, sign her name to her declaration as above, and signed their names, as witnesses thereof; that they live near to the residence of Mrs. Snyder; that they have been personally acquainted with her for the last forty years; that they were present, when she and Cornelius Snyder who was afterwards a United States pensioner were married, as she states in her declaration; that they have been personally well acquainted with her ever since; that they know, that her said husband died as she states in her declaration as above, having been pres- ent at the time of his death and burial; That the above declarant, Mrs. Margaret Snyder, has not intermarried since the decease of her said husband, and that she is now his widow; and that they have no interest in her claim to a pension.
Aaron Tindall Ann Tindall
Sworn and subscribed before me this day

and year above written, and I hereby certify, that from an extensive acquaintance with the Pensioners of Middlesex County, New Jersey, I believe there was never but one of the name of Cornelius Snyder, in said County, who was the hus- band of the Decedent. And I further certify that I have no interest in the claim.
Be it known all Men by these presents, That I, Margaret Snyder, of the Township of North Amboy, in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, do hereby constitute and appoint James L. Street, my true and law- ful attorney, for me, and in my name to procure from the United States, a pen- sion to which I am entitled under the act of February 2 nd , 1853, as the widow of Cornelius Snyder, a United States Pen- sioner, late of the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey.
Given under my hand and seal this first day of November 1853.
Attest: Peter P. Wumyou John P. P. P. P.
Margaret Snyder
State of New Jersey } County of Middlesex } ss.
Be it known, That on this first day of November, A.D. 1853, before the subscriber a justice of the Peace, in and for said County, personally came Margaret Snyder above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year last above mentioned.
Peter P. Wumyou

State of New Jersey County of Middlesex ss I Nicholas Voorhies Clerk of the inferior Court of Common Pleas of this County and State do hereby certify that Peter P. Ruyven D. Ritz Hendrick & Abraham P. Voorhies whom General Synod of America are and were at the time of signing the same Delegates of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in the said County duly constituted and sworn, and that the said Peter P. Ruyven and were at the time of signing also a Delegates of the present in the said County duly constituted and sworn and that the said County Court is a Court of record having General Jurisdiction and that I have no interest in the matter of the General Synod under my hand & seal this 2 nd day of December AD 1853 at New Brunswick N. Voorhies Clerk

Application of Mrs. Margaret Cuydam, of Middlesex County New Jersey, for Bounty land, under act of March 3 rd 1855. Revolutionary claim.
49959
James S. Street Atty. Mrs. Brumick New Jersey

State of New Jersey County of Middlesex ss.
On this second day of April, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Mrs. Margaret Suydam, aged fifty two years, a resident of the township of South Amboy, in the County of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey, who being duly sworn according to law, on her oath, declares, that she is the widow of Cornelius Suydam, who was a Soldier of the Revolutionary war, and a pensioner of the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey, of the Trenton, New Jersey Agency, at 70 $ per annum, under the act of June 7 th 1832; and that she is the identical Margaret Suydam who is now, as the widow of the said Cornelius Suydam, deceased, drawing a pension of 70 $ per annum, on Certificate No. 2872, of the date of November 12 th A.D. 1850, under the act of February 3 rd 1850.
She further states that she was married to the said Cornelius Suydam, in Rahway New Jersey, by Rev. John Woodhull a Minister of the Gospel, on the eighteenth day of September A.D. 1821, and that her name before her said Marriage was Margaret Perring; that her said husband died, where she now resides, on the seventeenth day of March, A.D. 1851; all of which is of proof, in the pension office at Washington, in the papers, on which her pension Certificate was issued, to which proof she respectfully refers, and makes a part of this declaration.
She further declares, that she is now

a widow, and makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3, 1855." And further declares, that she has not heretofore made application or received bounty land under any act of Congress.
Margaret Snyder
We, John W. Snyder and Eliza Hoffman Residents of the County of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey, upon our oaths declare, that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mrs. Margaret Snyder, in our presence; and that, from many years of personal acquaintance with her we know, that she is the person she represents herself to be; and that we have no interest in her claim to bounty land, and that she is now a widow.
John W. Snyder Eliza Hoffman
The foregoing declaration and affidavit, were sworn to, and subscribed before me, on the day and year first above written; and I certify, that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the Claimant is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this Claim; and further, that the Claimant is now a widow.
Thomas Ruffner J.P.

State of New Jersey, I Nicholas Borrum Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in + County of Middlesex P for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas Huffman whose genuine signature appears above is now and at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes + that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts I further certify that said Court is a court of record having general Jurisdiction + a Clerk + a seal + that I have no interest in this claim In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand + seal of office at New Brunswick this 5 th day of April A D 1855 N. Borrum Clk

New Jersey Cornelius S. Siedam Law 1 st June '32 No 34,077
Admitted Prior to 24 months
In California No 1066-Lo 15.0
Lehigh Randolph June 10.
Rev Joseph F. Randolph Home Dept St. Lawrence College St. Lawrence N.Y.

New Jersey.
Declaration of Cornelius Suydam, of Middlesex County, New Jersey, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
State of New Jersey Middlesex County, ss. }
On this fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court now sitting, Cornelius Suydam, a resident of the township of South Amboy in said county, in the 77th year of his age, who being sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed on the 7th of June, 1832: - That he was born in said township in April 1761, and has resided there from the day of his birth to the present time - That he was of an age to do military duty in April 1777, and that accordingly at that time he was duly enrolled in the company of Militia commanded by Capt. Day, in the regiment of Col. Neilson and Lt. Col. Taylor - That at the time of his enrollment the Militia were by the laws of the state not classed, but subject to military duty one half at a time regularly, (and the whole in an emergency) in tours of a month each; but that frequently it happened that the men were detained over the month, or held even two or three months, by force of circumstances. This was the case in the neighborhood of New Brunswick, where the enemy had his quarters for six months, from January to June 1777. That during this period, a large body of militia were stationed at a place called Cranberry, within the county of Middlesex, and about fifteen miles from New Brunswick, for the purpose of operating as a check upon the enemy in his plundering excursions, and cutting off detachments out on scouts. That he entered the service in April or May 1777, and immediately joined the body of militia at Cranberry, and performed a tour of a month in the service mentioned, under Capt. Day & Col. Neilson. In the same year, immediately after the retreat of the enemy from New Brunswick, he served another tour of a month in South Amboy, a frontier township, in watching the enemy upon the Island opposite, where he lay in force. This was also under Capt. Day. In the same year he performed another tour of a month on the same shore extending down to the Highlands at Sandy Hook, in the

3- same kind of service, under Capt. Morgan, the father of Ensign Morgan. In the same year he did another tour of a month on the same frontier under 1 Capt. Waglun, in the same service, not remarkable for any battle or im- portant skirmish during the whole year. In the year 1778, his first tour was 12 of a month's duration, the militia having been called in 1777, and was as usual on the frontiers in South Amboy and a part of Monmouth county, in the service of preventing and punishing the depredations of the enemy, and was performed under Capt. Dey & Lt. Col. Taylor. In the same year, soon after, he performed another tour of a month under Capt. Morgan in South Amboy, in the service of protecting the lives and property of the inhabitants. Soon afterwards, X in the same year, he was called into New Jersey to meet the enemy then on his march from Philadelphia, thro' the middle of New Jersey, to form a junction with the troops at New York. He did a tour of a month & more, as he thinks, at this time, under 1 Capt. Dey & Maj. Egbert, during which the battle of Monmouth was fought, which he was in, co-operating with the Continental forces under Washington, Lee and others there engaged. In the same year he did another tour of a month in South X Amboy under Capt. Waglun in defending the lines. Same year he performed another tour of a month under Capt. Dey, in the same service, on the shore X from South Amboy to Sandy Hook. In 1779, he performed a tour of a month 1 at Elizabeth Town, under Capt. Dey, in defending that portion of the extensive frontier from the depredations of the enemy. Same year he did another tour X of a month at South Amboy, under Capt. Morgan, in guarding the lines. Same 1 year he did another tour of a month, at New Brunswick, Millstone and in that vicinity, when the famous partisan warrior Simcoe made a dash into the state, and burnt the Somersett Court House, and committed other outrages. This was under Capt. GUEST. In the same year, towards the close of it, he did another tour of a month under Capt. Waglun in South Amboy in de- X fence of that position. In 1780, he was engaged principally, he believes, in all, but one of his regular tours, in South Amboy and Monmouth County, for in addition to the enemy from without, there was a large number of Tories in Monmouth County, sometimes acting in a body, and always aiding the enemy in provisions and money, and in conducting them thro' the country. He did a great deal of service. His first tour was in South Amboy under Capt. X Waglun, in defending it from the incursions and depredations of the enemy. This lasted for one month. His second tour was for a month, under 1 Capt. Dey, and was principally in Monmouth County. That county was invaded

by a large body of British, Hessians and Negroes, to the number, it was supposed of fifteen hundred, for the purpose of protecting some Tories who were threatened with vengeance, and carrying off some Whigs who were obnoxious. They succeeded in capturing a Whig by the name of Barnes Smock; but they were resolutely and gallantly met by the militia, and failed in the main object of their expedition, and driven off with the loss of some lives on both sides. There was a severe skirmish. The negroes had their distinctive leader, as well as the other portions of the enemy. His third tour was a month, under Capt. Morgan, during which he went to Springfield, and was at the battle there. Continental troops in large numbers were engaged there at that time, and Washington, he believes, was in the neighborhood. His fourth tour in 1780, was in South Amboy, under Capt. Waghorn, and lasted a month, in the usual service of guarding the lines. In 1781, he performed a tour of a month in the opening of the campaign at Elizabeth Town, under Capt. Day, in protecting that part of the country. Same year, he performed another tour of a month, on the same station, under Capt. Wilkinson, in guarding the lines. Same year he did another tour of a month, under Capt. Longstreet, in guarding the lines. Same year he did a fourth tour of a month at North Amboy, under Capt. Waghorn in watching the enemy and punishing his depredations. In 1782, he did a tour of a month at Elizabeth Town, under Capt. Day, in the service of protecting that frontier. Same year he did another tour of a month at Cheesquakes, under Capt. Morgan in guarding that shore. Same year he did another tour of a month under Capt. Walling in Monmouth county, in watching the Tories, and preventing the communications going on between them and the enemy. Same year he did another tour of a month, same service, there being great commotion in the county in consequence of the operations of the Tories. This was under Capt. Day. In the year 1783, the early part of it, he went once more into Monmouth county, and did a tour of a month, under Capt. Waghorn, to quell the Tories, and prevent aid and assistance to the enemy. This was the last service he recollects. All his service was in the capacity of a private, and all of it was rendered with corps of embodied troops, regularly called out, agreeably to law, officered and commanded by duly commissioned officers, and subject to all the rules and regulations of the Continental service. He never received any written discharge. He was engaged in no battles except those of Monmouth and Springfield, and

the one at Kanawha with the fifteen hundred of the enemy in 1780; and the only times he recollects to have acted in conjunction with continental troops, were at Monmouth and Springfield. He cannot recollect all the incidents of his services, but he has given such a brief and plain but circumstantial account of them, as he trusts will be considered to comply with the requisitions of the War Department. He has no documentary evidence, and he has produced all the living witnesses within his knowledge and power. For testimony as to his character for veracity, and as to their belief in his Revolutionary services, he refers to the Rev. John C. Van Lieu a clergyman in his vicinity, and to Jacob Van Cleef one of his old and intimate neighbors.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or Annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any state. He makes this application at this period remote from the passage of the law, because heretofore he has not felt the want of any aid from the Government, and a change of circumstances has rendered it very desirable.
He omitted to mention in its proper place that he has a record of his age in his possession in a family Bible.
Subscribed sworn in open Court The day year aforesaid Cornelius Lydam Peter P. Runyon Judge
We John C. Van Lieu a clergyman, and Jacob Van Cleef residing in the neighborhood of Cornelius Lydam the foregoing applicant for a Pension, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with him; that we believe him to be in the seventy-seventh year of his age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution; and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me. Peter P. Runyon Judge of the Court
J. C. Van Lieu Jacob Van Cleef

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 Cornelius Suydam, the above named applicant, was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the Rev. John C Van Liew who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the township of South Amboy, Middlesex County; and that Jacob Van Cleef who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place, and a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Nicholas Brown Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Cornelius Suydam for a pension. I also certify that Peter P. Ruyvan before whom the affidavits annexed of James Abraham and Lewis Schuyler were taken, is and was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereunto is his own hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fourth day of May One thousand eight hundred thirty eight.
N. Brown Clerk

State of New Jersey, Cumberland County, ss. On this second day of May Eighteen hundred and thirty seven, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared James Abraham Known to me as a credible person, in whose testimony my implicit confidence may be placed, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is a sol- dier of the Revolution, and has been in the receipt of a Pension as such until recently, that he is now 84 was during the whole of the revolutionary war well acquainted with Cornelius Deydam, who is now ap- plying for a Pension - lived a near neighbor to him, and served with him occasionally; Knows that said Deydam belonged to the company commanded by Capt Dey, that he was a tear collector, and served from the time he was old enough to be liable to military duty, to the end of the war, with perfect fidelity; Knows that he commenced service in 1777, that he served in that year se- veral times of a month each; that he was also out in service in 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, and he thinks also in 1783, as duty was done to a considerable extent in that year in Mon- mouth County, in consequence of the disaffection of our own people. He cannot undertake to specify times exactly in the order in which they were per- formed, because he was not always present, he himself being a whole year in a special ser- vice; but that service was performed in the same neighborhood in which the other militia operated, and he therefore had the best opportunity to know from personal observation of the extent of the ser- vice of said Deydam. For the statement, is therefore

safe in saying, that the said Lydum did at least four times of duty - for a month each, in each and every year from 1777 to 1782, both years inclusive. In some years he certainly did more.
Sworn and Subscribed the day before me
Peter P. Duryee Justice of the Peace
James Abraham
State of New Jersey
Middlesex County 31 At the 2 d day of May 1837, be- fore me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Lewis Johnston, known to me as a credible person, whose testimony may be relied upon, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is a soldier of the Revolution, and in the receipt of a pension as such, that he has been acquainted with Bone- line Lydum, of said county, & now appearing for a pension ever since they were boys together - lived in the same neighborhood with him during the war of the revolution, but not belong to the same company with him - knowing however, that said Lydum & his father also were true & loyal, and active, efficient soldiers, never flinching from duty, & able to do their full share of it. Knows that said Bone-line began service at an early period of the war, and continued to serve to its close, that he was out in each and every year from 1777 to 1782 or 1783, several times in each year. The military service required very hard duty in New Jersey the whole

War, that State being peculiarly exposed to the enemy, and the deponent thinks that he was, no risk in saying that every able bodied man, who was a friend to his country, and at an age to go into the service at the commencement of the war, must have done from two to three years actual service.
From subscribed the day of year aforesaid before me } Lewis Johnston Peter P. Pennypacker Notary of the Penn }
State of New Jersey Middlesex County ss. On this 5th day of February 1835, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Henry West, known to me to be a credible person, whose testimony may be relied upon, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is a revolutionary soldier, & now in the receipt of a pension as such; that he was well acquainted, during the war of the Revolution, with Cornelius Heydaan, now applying for a pension, lived within a mile or two of him, but belonged to a different company of militia - Knows that said Heydaan was a private in the company commanded by Capt. Dey. That he began the service at an early period of the war, and continued to serve faithfully to the end of the war; knows that he performed several tours a year, in each of the years from 1777 to 1783, according to the calls upon him of the peculiar and arduous service in which the New Jersey militia were engaged. Cannot at this time specify all his tours, nor does he deem it necessary, as said Heydaan has himself

from a circumstantial account of his services. He is certain as to the fidelity of said very soon, & to the general nature and extent of his services, and has no doubt that he is entitled to all the pension will allow for two years of actual service. from the date of the day, I year after and before me, Henry  his  Obat. mark
Jonathan Boorman one of Justices of the peace in and for Essex County
State of New Jersey Middlesex County ss. I, Nicholas Boorman Clerk of the County aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that Peter & Burrough & Jonathan Boorman before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken, are Justices of the peace duly commis- sioned & sworn, and that their signatures there- are in their own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I have here- unto set my hand & seal of office the fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty eight.
N Boorman Clerk

Payment to be made at Trenton by Dr. Geo. Milton Manning to Agent for paying Pension- ers in the Agency of New Jersey
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book 6- Vol. 3 Page 101 by John Boyd Clerk.
Suidam, Cornelius NJ W 1326

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Abraham Smith of the State of New Jersey who was a private in the army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Seventy dollars and cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Twelfth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty- Seven
J. R. Poinsett Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.
J. B. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.

Paid to 4 Sep 1837 Paid to 4 Mar 1838 Paid to 4 Sep 1838 Paid to 4 Mar 1839 Paid to 4 Sep 1839 Paid to 4 Mar 1840 Paid to 4 Sep 1840 Paid to 4 Mar 1841 Paid to 4 Sep 1841 Paid to 4 Mar 1842 Paid to 4 Sep 1842 Paid to 4 Oct 1843 Paid to 4 Sep 1843 Paid to 4 Oct 1844 Paid to 4 Sep 1844 Paid to 4 Oct 1845
31.228
Paid to 4 Sep 1845 Paid to 4 Mar 1846 Paid to 4 Sep 1846 Paid to 4 Oct 1847 Paid to 4 Sep 1847 Paid to 4 Mar 1848 Paid to 4 Oct 1849 Paid to 4 Sep 1849 Paid to 4 Oct 1850 Paid to 4 Sep 1850 Paid to 4 Oct 1851

Rev. 3 d Feb: 1858. N.Y.
Boystown.

Nov. 7. 1855. Appel by Marga. at Ingham, widow of Col. Adams,
Missouri co., et al.
Rev. John H. Henson
100 & 102 Street, Barnesville, Ohio.
Official business
Rev. John H. Henson

Perrine Margaret Leydam, wid of Cornelius South Amboy Middlesex, N.J. aged 57
Dec 71 { Married 18 th Sept. 1822, at Cranberry Died 17 March 1857
No record evidence of marriage.
Aaron Tindall { acquainted with about 40 years Ann Tindall { were present at the marriage
Good case if dates agree

Gilbert Land 1775 1+1 Before harvest interest Voluntary Enl July 8 to Jan Supp 1776 2+2 No 4 pay — £ 3, 12 10 Jan 10 77 3+3 " 6 — 4 mos 11, 12 10 Feb 17 — " 3-4 " 7 — 19 do Jan 14 *78 8 6 13 — 23 time stated Drum (27) — Sep 25 78 9 — 7 14 — 8 days " " Jan 7 — 80 10 8 — 19 — " " Nov 6 — 81 11 — 9 26 9 " — —  At Washburn Nov 17 — 77 1/2 1 3 — no time Aug 20 " 8 2 — 5 — " " Feb 10 " 4 3 — 6 — " " Jan 29 *78 — 5 — 15 After Jan's Jan 19 — 77 5 2 32 — 20 days Supp Waukesha Huntersteen (Jan), rose foot Huntersteen Rorloff Huntersteen 1832 " " Joseph Stultz — " " extended Table of Life & Family etc "

6. Sam
Sep 18 - 1927 Went to Pan City 24 th
Roll back - no train
Yellow Lane Cousin's in law Capt. Stanley

Resignation of 2 pairs fully to support him with head and King Canute Wimpus — as to eat the seas
They tell him of the subject of seeing orders to Garrison at at Shrewsbury militia & wife — Paper has not destroyed.
D. Nuttall a Brooks and Vane of Street Lucy

Cornelius Suydam
  1 First Enlisted June 23 d 1775 Capt S. V. Col Hunt   2 Served before hunt - 1776 Pay 1, 7, 9   3 " no date " " 0, 11, 8   4 Enlistment Ind to Nov 1776 4 mos " 11, 13, 8   5 Corpsal - Jan 17 - Feb 7 1777 - 22 days   6 No time June 19 - 1778 No time   7 Senior June 7 - 14 1780 7 day   8 In R d " Nov - 1780 2, 0, 5   9 No 32. Roll lost June 15 - 1777 15 days 2, 13, 4   10 " 33 Roll Sept 18 - " 6 day   11 " 2 Capt Oct 20 - " - - at Newark   12 " 3 " Oct 17 - " - -   13 " 4 " Jan 1 - 1778 -   14 " 5 " Sept 20 - 1777 -   15 " 6 " Feb 10 - 1777 -   16 7 class Roll Nov 11 - 1777 - 16 day (1837)   17 11 Roll Nov 11 - 1777 - 30 day   18 16 Roll Dec 6 1776 cap d a year 

C
Pension Office
Nov. 9. 1853
Sir,
Please certify the time & which the within pensioner was paid; and, if in your power, the date of his death.
Very respectfully Your Off. Servt
J. Males
As Commissioner
H. Burt Esq. 3 d Auditor. Present
(See other side.)

Cornelius Suydam, Act 1832 $70.00 p. an. - Paid to 4 th March 1851, no date of death on our Books.
Sam. S. Birds Actg Auditor, "

Rev. War
WIDOW, &c.
No. 1326  Snidam Margaret Snidam Widow Cornelius Snidam Pres. Rev. War.
Feb. 3. 185-3.
Vol. M , Page 229
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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N. Jersey Cornelius, children Letter to Hon. Jos. D. Randolph 29. Sept. 1857

v 6297
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Sto Crum

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Business
Feb 7, 1853 No. 31587 Margaret Suydam widow of Cornelius Suydam Middlesex Co N.J.
Rev. Act 3 d Feb'y 1853 Amount $70 per annum Commencing 3 d February 1853
James L. Street New Brunswick N.J.

No. 49959
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received April 7, 1855.
Cornelius Saydam
Br
Warrant No. 6297-16-55
James L. Sheet New Brunswick N.J.

New Brunswick New Jersey. November 4 th 1853.
Hon Com. of Pensions.
Enclosed please find the declaration of W m Margaret Snyder, widow of Cornelius Snyder, of this County; It will be seen, that there is a little peculiarity in this declaration; when I had nearly finished writing the first page of her Declaration, she remembered where her deceased husband's certificate (enclosed) was, and sent and got it; See bottom of first page; — I have throughout the declaration adopted the present universal orthography of the name in this County. See Census of Pensioners of 1840. Middlesex County New Jersey while in the Certificate it is Snyder , and she writes it Snydam and Snydam ; it will be seen however that the identity is clearly proved. I have tried to comply with former instructions, and remain Most Respectfully — James L. Street, Attorney for W m Margaret Snyder.

Cornelius Snydman
   1777 May 0 1 0 Capt Dey Cranbury   " " 0 1 0 " South Amboy   " 0 1 0 " Morgan Sandy Hook to  to   " 0 1 0 " Woglan "   1778 0 1 0 " Dey South Amboy   " 0 1 0 " Morgan "   " 0 1 0 " Dey West Jersey Batt of the  the   " 0 1 0 " Woglan South Amboy   " 0 1 0 " Dey "   1779 0 1 0 " Elizabeth town   " 0 1 0 " Morgan Amboy   " 0 1 0 " Gist Van Brunsick &c   " 0 1 0 " Woglan South Amboy   1780 0 1 0 " "   " 0 1 0 " Dey "   " 0 1 0 " Morgan Springfield   " 0 1 0 " Woglan South Amboy   1781 0 1 0 " Dey Elizabeth town   " 0 1 0 " Williamson "   " 0 1 0 " Longstreet Perth Amboy   1782 0 1 0 " Dey Elizabeth Town   " 0 1 0 " Morgan Chunghankes   " 0 1 0 " Walling Tonkuntung   " 0 1 0 " Dey "   1783 0 1 0 " Woglan "  

Brief in the case of Margaret Suydam, widow of Cornelius Middlesex County and State of New Jersey act 8th February 1853
Claim, ("original," or "increase" )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the act of June 7. 1832, at $70 per annum, as a pirate.
Marriage proved by the affidavits of Aaron Tindell and Ann Tindell, duly certified the credible witnesses.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
James L. Street Esq. New Brunswick, Name and residence of Agent W.I.
H. Biddle Examining Clerk.

July 1 st
nd
ack 1832
Then to Mr. Edwards
J. L. Edwains Esq. Am Parsons Washington

New Brunswick June 29, 1857
Sir, I enclose a supplemental statement in the case of Cornelius  Swidam (This is the way he spells his name). Will the Comm ee please look at it himself?
Most respectfully,
Your obed Serv t
James A. Burrough
J. L. Edwards, Esq. Comm. Pm.

10. England
Wiltshire of Somerset Co a. d. 1. modern of Cornwall 1838 or 1836

C. Suydam
We the subscribers do voluntarily enlist ourselves in the company of Captain Jacob Van Eyck in the township of Bridgewater in the county of Somerset under the command of Colonel Stephen Hunt and do promise to obey our Officers in such service as they shall appoint us agreeable to the rules and orders of the Provincial Congress. We keep our hands this twenty third day of June 1775.
Cornelius Sedam - John Wortman. Gilbert Lane.
A list of pay paid to these men for Bergen Campaign. before Harvest in 1776
Cornelius Suydam £ 1. 7. 9
A list of the money which I paid to my company.
Jacob Van Eyck Capt n .
Corn e Sedam - £ 0. 11. 8. Gilbert Lane. £ 3. 12. 10
A list of the men who went under me to Bergen the first time July 8. 1776 to November.
Gilbert Lane Sgt. £ 11. 6. 7½ Cornelius Sedam Corp s 11. 11. 13. 3. Jn s Wortman 11. 6. 7½
List of the men of Capt. Capt. Jacob Van Eyck's Company Jan y 17. 1777 Cornelius Sedam Corporal went away 7 th day of February John Wortman. Corp s Gilbert Lane. went away 7. February
A list of the men under Capt n Jacob Van Eyck the 19 th day of June 1778 Cornelius Sedam. Gilbert Lane. Drummer.

A Pay-roll of Captain Jacob Van Dyke's Company of Somerset Militia of Col. Spelinghuyzen Battalion at the alarm at Springfield commanded by Col. Frederick Spelinghuyzen from the 8 day of June to the 14 of the same month which is 7 days and in the year of our Lord 1780.
   Names of Officers & Privates Time of duty June 8 Time of duty June 14 Days service Rate per day Subsistence Mileage Total amt. of the whole   for 3 days at 3 cents per day Mileage 15 2/3 Miles at 1/3 per mile £ s d     Gisbert Lane Captain 8 14 7 1.10 3 7 6 1 3 6 16 7   Cornelius Sackett 8 14 7 1.8 3 7 6 1 3 6 13 5  
A list of my men who have received pay. Nov. 6. 1781.
Gisbert Lane £. 1. 12. 10      Cornelius Sackett £ 2. 13. 4
State of New Jersey
I Thomas Allison Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing are true extracts from papers therein mentioned, as taken from and compared with the originals on file in
my Office.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Trenton this twenty fifth day of February Eighteen hundred and sixty two.
Thos. Allison Secretary of State

New Brunswick New Jersey March 5 th 1855.
Hon. L. P. Waldo, Com. of Pensions,
Sir;
Enclosed, please find application of Mrs. Margaret Suydam of this County, for bounty land under the act of March 3 rd 1835. I am personally acquainted with the claimant and know her to be the identical person, for whom I obtained pension Certificate No. 2832, for 70 $ per annum, of the date of November 12 th 1853, under the act of February 5 th 1853.
Respectfully;
James L. Street, Agent.
Hon. L. P. Waldo, Com. of Pensions, Washington D. C.