Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 922, for Richard Sutphen, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Sutphen, Richard or Sutphin
S. 922.
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New Jersey 9845
Richard Sulphin
of Brunswick in the State of N. J.
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Pyatt of the Regt. commanded by Col. Dyeinch in the N. J. Troops line for
12 months
Richard Sulphin Records A.K. July 19/05. S.
Inscribed on the Roll of N. J. at the rate of 40. Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21. day of June 1833. and delivered Chas. H. M c Cherry, present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 - 80. 00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept r 33 - 20. 00 $ 100. 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Franciosi Clerk, Book E. Vol. 3 a Page 130.
To Hightstown N. J.

Rev War
INVALID.
Sutphen
File No. 9226
Richard Sutphen
Pro. N. J. file.
Act: June 7, 1832.
Index: — Vol. a , Page 864
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New Jersey } Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Middlesex County ss. } Act of Congress passed June the 7. 1832.
On this thirty first day of July Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Two personally appeared in open Court held as a special Term of the Court of common pleas in and for the County of Middlesex at the City of New Brunswick now sitting being a Court of Record Richard Sulphur a resident of the Township of South Brunswick in the said County of Middlesex aged Seventy six years on the fourth day of December last, who being first 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 the 7. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States as a musician or fifer in the Militia of New Jersey under the following officers, and served as is herein stated viz. in the winter of 1776 under the command of Captain John Pyatt and marched under him, and Colonel Heard to Long Island for the purpose of disarming the Tories or disaffected, and was engaged in this service about three weeks after that in the same year, I was called out and went as a substitute for Isaac Smedelcher under the same officers I believe and marched to Paulus Hook and several other places near New York, at the time the British army landed on Long Island, and about the same time I was called out under the command of Colonel John Dycinch, or Colonel John Neilson does not remember certain which nor the name of the captain he served on that tour but he was engaged in guarding the shore along Elizabeth Town Woodbridge and other places, on these tours he thinks he was out about six weeks, when the British army took New Brunswick he was called out in the service in the year 1777 early in the month of January and stationed at the village of Cranbury in Captain Joachim Gutrich's company mostly, under the command of Col. John Neilson and served on various tours of duty until the British army marched from New Brunswick to Somerset Court-house the month of June following, in which tour he was engaged for about two months and a half, and immediately after that was called out he thinks under Colonel Jacob Hyke, in the company commanded by Captain Jonathan Coombs, and marched to Princeton, Pennington, Scutland mountain, and to Steels Gap where part of General Washington's army lay, and from there marched to the lines of the British army to Harnap, then on their retreat out of New Jersey as this tour was engaged upwards of two weeks about the same time was called into service again under the
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said captain Gulich and marched into Monmouth County to destroy the stores belonging to the Tories, or disaffected, which lasted about two weeks, after this was called out under different captains under Col. Neilson in guarding the shore along Elizabeth Town, Woodbridge, and various other places, from the excursions and depredations of the British and the Tories who lay on Staten Island opposite those places, this tour lasted from four to six weeks in the year 1779 when the British army leaped the Delaware from Philadelphia into New Jersey he went out again in the said captain Gulich's company and marched to the Black Horse, the draw bridge Allentown, retreating before the British to English Town near the place where the Battle of Monmouth was fought, this service lasted at least two weeks, after this was called out into service under Colonel Neilson and different captains owing to parts of companies being united into one and marched to Woodbridge, Elizabeth Town, Springfield and several other places, guarding the inhabitants of the surrounding country from the plundering parties of the enemy, in which tour I must have been engaged from four to six weeks, and when the British army crossed the Delaware into New Jersey I was called out under captain Gulich in the year 1779, and marched to the Black Horse and when the Pennsylvania line revolted, I was called out under the said Captain Gulich to Shippensburg, to prevent any communication between them and the enemy, this tour lasted about two weeks, and generally I can declare that I was out in the service every tour I was called upon from the time I first entered the service until the conclusion of the Revolutionary war, and I further declare that I verily believe that I was engaged in the said service at different times as a musician for the term of one year and - months, and this deponent also declares that he has no documentary evidence relating to his services, and he hereby declares that he relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present, and he further declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State, and he also declares that the foregoing contains the most material facts that he can at present recollect respecting his services during the Revolutionary War, and he further declares that all the officers that he served under during that period are now dead as far as he knows except before mentioned Colonel John Neilson.
Reckham
sworn and subscribed in open court this 31. day of July 1832
Robert McHenry

We Symmes C. Henry Pastor of the first Presbyterian Church in the village of Cranbury in the County of Middlesex and Abraham J. Gyllich of the Township of South Brunswick in said County, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Richard Stephens who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, and believe him to be seventy six years of age, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed in open Court this 31. day of July 1832 Robert McHenry } Symmes C. Henry — Abraham J. Gyllich
Interrogatories put by the Court to the foregoing named applicant
1. When, and in what year you Born — Answer in the Township of South Brunswick in the County of Middlesex on the 4. day of December 1755.
2. Have you any Record of your age, and where is it — Answer in a piece kept for a family Record, now in the possession of the widow of Jacob Medecher deceased.
3. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live? Answer in the Township of South Amboy in the County of Middlesex, mostly in the Township of South Brunswick in said County and Friends there at this time.
4. How were you called into service — Answer as a volunteer when ever called upon.
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops where you served, such Continental, and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services — Answer I do not recollect that I was out under any regular Officers of the standing Army, nor of any Militia Regiments, but only of the Officers of the Militia except those I have mentioned in my declaration, and as to the general circumstances of my services, they are related as above stated in my said declaration as far as I can recollect.
6. Did you ever receive any discharge from the service — Answer I never received any written discharge, but when the term for which I was called out expired, I was verbally discharged from the Militia.
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution — Answer Colonel David Chamber. Andrew McDowell, Robert McHenry Esq., Abraham Gyllich of the Revolution, and Major William Pat. Barrichle, Major John T. McDowell, Richard McDowell, Esq.
8. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution — Answer Colonel David Chamber. Andrew McDowell, Robert McHenry Esq., Abraham Gyllich of the Revolution, and Major William Pat. Barrichle, Major John T. McDowell, Richard McDowell, Esq.

Thomas Dean, Aaron Dean and John Vandynke of latter years
sworn and subscribed in open court this 31. day of July 1832 Robert McHenry
Richard Safford
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the above Interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named Richard Safford was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Symmes Co. Henry who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the said village of Cranberry in the county of Middlesex and that Abraham Gilich who has also signed his name to the same is a resident in the said county, and is a creditable person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
sworn to and subscribed in open court this 31. day of July 1832 before the following judges namely
Robert McHenry
A. Voorhies
Thos. Vance
J. F. Vanarsdalen Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Richard Safford for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 31 st day of July A.D. 1832
J. F. Vanarsdalen Clerk

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12 mo. pri.
40 $

State of N. Jersey } Be it known that on the 27. day of May 1833. Middlesex County } before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Abraham I. Gulick who being duly sworn according to Law did on his Oath depose and say that before the Revolutionary war, he was well acquainted with Richard Sutfkin an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress, passed June the 7. 1832, and that he remembers being out in the Militia of New Jersey in the company commanded by Captain Abraham Gulick in at several different places, and also under Colonels Neilson, and Ayre, and that he the deponent Richard Sutfkin served all the time he saw him as a fifer in the Militia service, and this deponent further saith that he saw him the said Sutfkin out in the service at the village of Cranberry Sourland-mountain Spotswood, William's Farms, and he has no doubt at many other places, and which took place in the years 1777. and 1778. But at this length of time he cannot recollect any thing further than he has above stated with any degree of certainty.
subscribed, and subscribed before me the day and year abovenamed Robert M'Cherny Justice of the Peace
Abraham I. Gulick -
The subscriber hereby certify that the said Abraham I. Gulick who has subscribed the above affidavit is a creditable person Robert M'Cherny Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey Middlesex County
I Nicholas Booracem Clerk of the Court of common Pleas of said County do certify that Robert M'Cherny before whom the foregoing and annexed affidavits were taken was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature Robert M'Cherny is his proper signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office This 27 th day of June AD 1833
N Booracem Clerk

Supplementary Declaration
State of N. Jersey } Middlesex County ss. }
Be it known that on the 31. day May A. D.
1833 before me the subscriber one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared Richard Tutshin and applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress, passed June the 7. 1832, who being duly sworn according to Law, did depose and say on his oath that in addition to his original declaration for the purpose of amending the same, agreeably to the instructions of the war department, and more particularly as to length of the different tours in which he served during the Revolutionary war, and also as to the proof of his actual service during the said term of time, that to the best of this deponent's memory and belief he states further by way of amendment to the same and in the order of time that he has stated them in his said original declaration and which are as follows Viz.
That he entered the service of the United States in the Militia of New Jersey as a Private , and was  was stated and mentioned, that is to say as far as he can now recollect, in the latter part of the year 1775, or beginning of the year 1776. but he rather believes now it was in the year 1775, and was ordered into the service under Captain John Pyatt and Colonel Nathaniel Heard and was marched to Long Island for the purpose of disarming the Tories was out on this tour ————— 770. weeks 0 v 3
after that in the year 1776 the Militia was again ordered out into service, and that he went as a substitute in the place of his step-father Isaac Medeker under the same Officers he believes and marched to Paulis-hoff and other places near New York, was out on this tour he now remembers for the space of ————— 1 v 00
After this was again called into service under Colonel John Neilson he thinks, and the said Captain Pyatt, and marched to Elizabeth Town, and Woodbridge out on this tour ————— 0 v 2
carried over 2 v 1

Brought over
mo. weeks 2 11 1
certain circumstance has brought to his memory that in the year 1776. and he believes under the same officers but of this not certain, and marched to Perth Amboy
and the Blazing Star was out on this tour —
0 11 2
in the early part of January in the 1777 he was again ordered out into service in Captain Joabich Guleich's company under Colonel John Neilson and was
stationed at the village of Cranbury this tour lasted —
2 11 2
in the same year and directly after was again ordered
into service under Captain Jonathan Coombs, and under Colonel Jacob Hyle, and marched to Scudder's
mountain, Steele's gap, and several other places this tour lasted, now he is sure — — — — —
1 11 00
Shortly after this tour was ordered under Captain Joabich Guleich does not remember the name of the Colonel for the purpose of destroying the stores of the Tories out on this tour
0 11 2
after this in the same year was ordered into service under Colonel John Neilson, and different Captains in two tours in succession after being received to Elizabeth Town, Woodbridge, and several other places these two tours must have lasted — — — — —
1 11 2
in the year 1778 was ordered out into service again under the said Captain Guleich, and either under
Colonel Neilson, or Scudder, and marched to the Black Horse, the Strawbridge Bridge, Allen Town, and various other places in preventing the marching of the British from marching through the fens until the Battle of Monmouth, this tour lasted instead of two weeks from the best information he can get and his own belief now — — — — —
1 11 00
in the year 1779. or 1780 was again called into service again under Col. Neilson, and different Captains owing to parts of companies being united into one, and marched to Elizabeth Town, New Ark, Springfield and several other places this tour I believe now must have lasted
1 11 2
in the year when the Pennsylvania line revolted he was ordered into service again under the said Captain Guleich in Col. Neilson's Regiment this tour lasted — — — — —
0 11 2
in addition to the above tours he was called out into service on special different occasions and sudden alarms as much as
1 11 00
Total months 12 11 00
The above additional declaration sworn to, and subscribed before me the day and year abovesaid
Robert McIlveney Judge
Richard Sulphur