Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2371, for Jonathan Terry, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Terry Jonathan Hulda
W 2371
CONTENTS

New Jersey 7395,
Huldaah Terry
widow of Jonathan Terry
who was a Private NJ
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of November 1845 and sent to C. A. Lacy, New York
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
8 June 17, 1844.
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 2. Page 100.
Rep? 1884 Dec 6. Stephen Perry Cin a History Prior

Receipts for Cash paid One years' interest on Notes given by the Commissioners of the several Counties for Militia Services.
   No. of Voucher. No. of Certif. Date. SIGNED BY. PAYABLE TO. Amount. 1 y's int.     1202 Sep 3. 1784 Thomas Clark Jonathan Terry L. S. D. 5. 5. 10 L. S. D. 0. 6. 4  
STATE OF NEW JERSEY:
I, CHARLES G. McCHESNEY, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true abstract from a Book, headed as above, as taken from, and compared with the original, now remaining in my office.—And I do further certify, that Thomas Clark was, by an Act, passed by the Legislature of this State, December 20, 1783, entitled "An Act to procure an estimate of the sums due to the Militia and Troops who have been raised for the defence of the frontiers of the State, and to provide for the settlement of the same," appointed a Commissioner for the County of Essex for the purpose of settling and adjusting the pay rolls of the Militia and Troops of this State, as aforesaid, and also for signing and delivering out to each and every person a note for the payment of what may be justly due.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said State, this twenty third day of September A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty- five
Charles G. McChesney Secretary of State.

State of New Jersey County of Essex } ss I John P. Jackson Clerk of the County of Essex & also of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby Certify That before Parson before whom the afore- mentioned affidavits of Huldah Terry & Jonathan Woodruff were made and taken, at the time of taking the same was & now is one of the Judges of said Court duly Commissioned and sworn, and that the signatures to the Jurat of said affidavits respectively are genuine; I further Certify that William Clark Junr. before whom the annexed affidavit of William Clark was made & taken at the time of taking the same was & now is one of the Justices of the Peace for said County duly Commissioned & sworn; and that the signature "William Clark" Junr. to the Jurat of said affidavit is genuine —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & official Seal at Newark in said County of Essex the Sixteenth day of September A. D. Eighteen hundred and forty five — J. P. Jackson Clk

United States of America, State of New Jersey - Essex County. ss On this fifteenth day of September eighteen hundred and forty five, personally appeared before me the undersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of said, Huldah Terry a resident of the Township of Westfield in the State and County of said, aged eighty years, - 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 7 th 1838. entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Jonathan Terry who was a private and sergeant in the Militia of Essex County during the Revolutionary war. He was enrolled and belonged to Captain Benjamin Lany's Company and rendered such service as the Militia was required to do during the whole period of the war, except three times when he hired her brother to go in his room, they were three monthly tours, That she of her own knowledge knows that he performed numerous monthly tours, he was some times out every other month, and was in such towns Stationed at Elizabethtown, Rahway, Woodbridge and Amboy. That she had him say that he was out five monthly tours in one year. He served as a sergeant during the four last years of the war during which time she resided for most of the time in the same family with him, and does well recollect that he went out and performed his tour of service as often as it came his turn. That he was engaged in the battles of Springfield, Short Hills, and he was in the expedition on Staten Island, and may have been in other battles, That she has no documentary evidence of her said husband's service. That she cannot form any idea as to the number of his tours of service, in consequence of there being for so short a time, - "none of them she thinks exceeded a month in duration," in the early part of the war he went out every other month, That she should have made other application, but for the reason that she was informed that the proof of the marriage was not sufficient. That he resided during the whole period of the war in the Township of Elizabeth, "now Westfield" in the County of Essex, and State of New Jersey, in the same house where she now resides, at what is called the Short Hills. She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Terry on the third day of September, seventeen hundred and eighty three.

and that her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Terry died on the third day of June in the year eighteen hundred and and twenty. That she was not married to him previous to his leaving the Service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January eighteen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated. She further declares that the annexed is a leaf from her original family Bible which is her, and her said husband's original family record which is used in the hand writing of Joseph Cole - and has always been kept in her possession, in her family Bible. That she believes said record is true in all its parts, except the date of her marriage which is erroneously thereon noted, as having taken place in 1782, when it should have been noted as above stated in 1783.
Huldah for Terry
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year above written before me - Cooper Parr. Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas.
State of New Jersey, Essex County ss - Jonathan Woodruff of said County being duly sworn says that he is aged 75 years, and is well acquainted with Huldah Terry, who has made the foregoing declarations; that he knows her to be the widow of the said Jonathan Terry, with whom he was well acquainted during his lifetime. And this deponent further says that he recollects that he saw the said Jonathan Terry in the Service at Elizabethtown in the Revolutionary war, and also that he recollects of having often called with his mother at the house of Jonathan Terry, who was this deponent mother's brother, and will recollect that on many of such occasions he was informed that the said Jonathan Terry the late husband of Mrs. Huldah Terry, was out Souldering - or in other words he was out performing town of Service in the Militia, such as the Militia was required to render. That he believes that said Jonathan Terry rendered all the service that a Militia Man was required to render during the whole period of the war, with the exception of the three terms, of one month each as is stated in the declaration.
Jonathan Woodruff
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year above written before me - Cooper Parr. Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas.

I Certify that the person making the foregoing declaration is personally known to me and is a woman of good repute and I believe her statements to be entitled to Credit. I also Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that she is unable by reason of bodily infirmity to attend the Court. And I do also Certify that Jonathan Woodruff Esq is a man of the most undoubted character for truth and sincerity and is fully entitled to Credit
Cooper Parr. Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas

THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK: AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS
Jonathan Diligently compared and revised. Jerry Died June 3 rd 1820 aged 66 years and 2 Months
Spicewood is mine own TRENTON
PRINTED AND SOLD BY ISAAC COLLINS M.DCC.XCIV.

Jonathan Terry was born April the 10 th . . . 1755 Huldah Terry his wife was born July the 27 th . . . 1766 Jonathan & Huldah Terry Married Sept r 3. 1782 Their Children's Ages.
Hannah Terry their Daughter was born August the 11 th . . . 1784 Mary Terry their Daughter was born February the 14 th 1786. William Terry their Son was born August the 31 st . . . 1787. Lewis Terry their Son was born August the 14 th . . . 1790. Martha Terry their Daughter was born April the 8 th . . . 1792. Ruth Terry their Daughter was born April the 14 th . . . 1794. Sarah Terry their Daughter was born February the 7 th . . . 1799. Sally Ann Terry their Daugh r was born October 9 th . . . 1803 Abba Terry their Daughter was born December 16 th 1809
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Waccata Series. Pd Sept. 26. 1895.
N. J. Act 7. July 38 adm Oma pri
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Sep. 11. 1895.

State of New Jersey Essex County } ss
William Clark of Westfield in the state and County of aforesaid being duly sworn, deponeth and saith that he is aged 89, years and upwards, that he resided in the Revolutionary war in the Town of Westfield in the state and County of aforesaid and was then well acquainted with Jonathan Tury of the same place where he resided and that he well recollects that the said Jonathan Tury was a soldier in the militia of the County of Essex in the Revolutionary war, he having often seen him in the service during the war in Capt. Laings Company, at Rahway and other places, that he was about the age of this deponent, and this deponent recollects that he was in the service in the commencement of the war and continued to go out in his regular turns until the close of the war, That he this deponent did not belong to the same company, and cannot remember how many times the said Jonathan Tury was out, but believes he went out and performed all the duty that was required of a militiaman during the whole period of the war.
Sworn to and subscribed this 11th } day of September 1845 before me }
William Clark
William Clark Jr Justice of the Peace

I certify that my Father William Clark who has made the with in affidavit is of a sound disposing mind and his statements in said oath is entitled to full credit
William Clark Jr Justice of Peace

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Hildah Terry
N.S. near flora
Act 7 Aug 38
Lib. 6 C. L. Day Nov. 3. '45

WIDOW, &c. am Pay
No. 2371 Hulda Terry, Widow, Jonathan Terry, Paris, Rev. Ward.
Act: Mar. 3. 1843. &c.
Box:—Vol. M. Page 267
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Rep.
New Jersey 9709
Huldah Jerry
widow of Jonathan Jerry who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 3 rd June 1820 of Essex Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Loring of the N. J. Vols. commanded by in the N. Jersey mil. line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of November 1845, and sent to C. A. Lay New York
Total amount,
$100 —
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown Book D. Vol. 1.
Clerk, Page 209

Sir New York Sept. 25. 1845.
Under Cover herewith, I have the honor to enclose to you the Application of Huldah Terry, widow of Jonathan Terry for a pension under the act of July 7-1838. She cannot furnish the certificates of her husband's services as is required by the rules but the best proof the nature of the case will admit of is enclosed, and she prays to be allowed such a pension as the Dept in its liberty and judgment may determine that she is entitled to.
I am very respectfully Your Most obed Servant C. R. Gay
C. L. Edwards Esq r Commiss y of Pensions

Very the kind Jerry.
Nov. 7. 1845.
Rev. Dr. Jerry. J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington D. C.

New York Nov. 4. 1845.
Sir,
I have received your letter of yesterday, in relation to the Case of Mrs. Huldah Terry, widow of Jonathan, per act of 7th July 1838.
You say it is impossible for the Office to obtain from the papers an idea of the length of Service, claimed for as rendered by her husband, and that she must state with more distinctness the former renderings, the time per, agreeable to the regulations, &c. In reply I beg leave most respectfully to say, that her declaration is drawn up by me, and it shows that I had the regulations, which pointed out the necessity for her to have set out the service in accordance therewith if she had been able to, do so. She cannot state the service more specifically. Nor is there any further proof to be found of the service. She claims on a general allegation of a Militia Service, during the war, and furnishes the testimony of two witnesses to the fact that they knew him to have served as a Militia Man during the war, and in further support of their allegation there is record evidence that he was above the age to be enrolled at the commencement of the war, and also a Certificate of the Secretary of State of New Jersey showing that her husband was credited with a balance of pay for his service. It is well understood by me that the rules require that each hour of service should be set out by the claimant and duly proved. All of which I was well aware of when she made this application, but inasmuch as I have presented numerous similar cases, where the proof was not of so high a grade as in this case and the Department has deemed itself warranted in estimating the

service at the average length of a Militiaman's service of the County from which the applicant's husband resided, and allow a pension accordingly, is the reason that she made this claim. If the Department deems itself warranted in giving her the benefit of the relaxations of the rules, as it has done in hundreds of similar cases, and admitting such a pension as is usual in similar cases, she would be very thankful. If however it should not, then this is the end of the matter, so far as the Dept. is concerned. It certainly cannot be expected that a widow of a Militia Man, whose term of service did not generally exceed one month in duration, and who was not married to him until after the war, can at this late period of time, specify or prove anything beyond the general allegation of a Militia Service, and the relaxation of the rules in such cases is just and proper, and we rely on the proof adduced in this case, as being sufficient to settle it within the rule upon which similar cases has been admitted.
I have the honor to be Very respectfully Your obedt Servt A. A. Lay
Hon J. L. Edwards Commr of Pensions