Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 826, for Cornelius Myers, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Myers, Cornelius
S 826
carded
CONTENTS

Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6 April 1838 from 4 Sep 1838 to 21 Aug 1839. Age Notified 18 Oct 1844
New Jersey 17437.
Cornelius Myers.
of Hunterdon Co in the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain Thos. of the Regt. commanded by Col. Chamberlain in the New Jersey line for two years.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey. at the rate of 80. Dollars 00. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Aug. 1833 and sent to Charles Barker. Flemington. New Jersey.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. — 160. — Pension allowance ending 4 Sept. 33 — 40. —
200. —
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. H. Palmer Clerk, Book 6. Vol. 3. Page 121

no Sept 9. 1843

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
August 19 th 1843.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The child ren of Cornelius Myers, did a Pensioner on the Roll of the New Jersey Agency, at the rate of eighty Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1838, to the 2 nd Jan'y 1839.
Respectfully, yours,
 Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

Cornelius Meyer
04485
Certificate to be sent to
to Martin Hammett
... of the or several Court of Common Pleas of said County of Hunt- Crown Do hereby certify that Samuel H. King who has signed the foregoing certificate is one of the Judges of said Court and full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and know that that is his own forsooth nature
• In testimony whereof I have here unto affixed my hand & the seal of

State of New Jersey Henderson county ss: on the fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred & thirty two appeared in open court before the Judges of the Superior court of common pleas of the county of Henderson now sitting Cornelius Myers. now a resident of the township of Answell in the county of Henderson aforesaid aged Eighty five years on the Eighteenth of July now last past who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath making the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of 1820 passed June 7th 1832 was born the 18 th day of July AD 1747 in the township of Answell aforesaid I drafted to go out in the Militia in the war of the revolution my first tour commenced I think on the 22 nd of August 1776. marched from Raritan old town in Answell - our Capt was George Ely. forst Lieutenant - David Chambers was our Colonel don't recollect the Major. We marched to Woodbridge from thence to Blazing 1 st Star & laid there our tour of one month & was then discharged - remained home one month & was again called out in October went to Millstone laid at Raravochten Bridge a while. 2 nd I served a tour of one month & was discharged and remained one month & again called out. marched to Freeman along the Rariton and guarded a magazine on Freeman's farm. laid there a month. David Holmes was our 3. Captain & was discharged returned & remained home one month then again took my tour. & marched to Freeman's farm to guard the

4. the magazine. laid my tour out there of one month. my next tour was to Middlebrook 5 laid there one month. I was then hired to serve a tour for Peter Dills and we marched to 1 Paramus. we laid our tour out there. I was then discharged & came home. I laid at Elizabethtown several different tours. for one month each. I think I was there as often as four tours. I do not recollect particularly the time . when I marched to Elizabethtown. I recollect being called out in the month of June 1778. I was out on a scouting party the night before the battle of Monmouth. our scouting party was not engaged in the battle on that tour. I recollect of our marching to Allentown. Englishtown & Grosvelds. from failure of memory I am unable to state particularly all my different tours. but I remember that in the winter of 1777. when I was out the Tories came to my house & killed my cows. I think I can say with safety that I was out on different tours for two years. perhaps more. I served all my tours. except the one after my cows were killed - then I was excused & two tours I served as a substitute the one for Peter Dills & the other for Jacob Tidd. I think Abraham Dills & John Haines can testify as to my services or part of them. Henry K. Snyder can testify as to his character for truth & veracity.
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and I do declare that my name is not on any pension roll or agency of any state.
Subscribed in open court this 14 th day of August 1832
David Stout
Longinus J. Myers mark

Henderson county ps: John Meins age being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he is near his age seventy three years old  and is acquainted with is acquainted with Cornelius Myers the apple within named applicant who is his brother. I recollect that my brother Cornelius was out in the war of the rebellion as a soldier man the length of time that he was out I do not recollect. I know it was frequently of times of one month each. I did not live at my father's at that time so that I cannot recollect the different towns to name them particularly. I have frequently at the time of the rebellion heard of his being out at that time since has always borne the name of a soldier of the rebellion  sworn & subscribed to in } John his Myers open court this 14 th day } marks of August 1852 David Stout
Henderson county ps: William Dills being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he is aged seventy eight years on the last day of February of the present year he is acquainted with Cornelius Myers. he is the within named applicant & has been acquainted with him as long as he can recollect. Has always lived within three miles of the said Cornelius. I know that the said Cornelius was out as a soldier of the rebellion. I recollect of seeing him out

during the revolution. I saw him at the battle of Monmouth. I saw him at Aguehany falls. I saw him off from Annapolis to camp at several different times. I know that he was out on duty more than any other man in my neighborhood. I know that he served himself as a substitute. I think I can say with safety ten years. I have no hesitation in saying that he was out one year upwards.
Sworn & subscribed in open court this 14 th day of August A.D. 1832
David Stout Judge
William Dils mark
We William H. Roberson a clergyman residing in the township of Kingwood in the county of Henderson aforesaid and Henry Snyder and residing in the township of Kingwood county aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Cornelius Myers who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. that we believe him to be aged eighty five years. that he is respected & believed in his neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion William H. Roberson Sworn & subscribed this 14 th day of August A.D. 1832. in open court. David Stout Judge. Henry Snyder

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 the above named applicant Cornelius Myers was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that William H. Roberson who has signed the preceding declaration certificate is a clergyman residing in the Township of Kingwood and that Henry Snyder who has also signed the same is a resident of the same Township and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit Done in open court August Term 1832.
John Thompson George L. Seebert
I. Isaac D. Farlee Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Hunterdon aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Cornelius Myers for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of this court this eighteenth day of August AD 1832.
Isaac D. Farlee Clerk
State of New Jersey Hunterdon County ss
I. Samuel Hill one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county of Hunterdon do hereby certify that I am acquainted with John Thompson & William Dilly who have signed the preceding affidavits and believe them to be men of truth & veracity and that their statement is entitled to faith & credit.
Samuel Hill

State of New Jersey Hunterdon Co. ss:
I, Isaac G. Farlee Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County of Hunter- don Do hereby certify that Samuel H. Hildreth who has signed the preceding certificate is one of the Judges of said Court and full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and know that that is his own free act and determination.
• In testimony whereof I have here- unto affixed my hand & the seal of said Court this 2 d of April A.D. 1833.
Isaac G. Farlee Clerk.
Cornelius Meyers
24483
Certificate to be sent to
to Francis Fleming

State of New Jersey } p. Hunterdon County, }
Personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hunterdon aforesaid Cornelius Myer who has made the foregoing Declaration who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below as as provided in the militia of New Jersey . For two years as a private in the militia of New Jersey and for such service I claim a pension. Our town was almost always of a months duration when we staid at home the same time and was then again called out. I served whenever my turn came except the time my cows were killed when I was excused, and I served also in town as a substitute. — Our service was to keep guard over the country where we were stationed and prevent injury from the incursions of the enemy, and go in scouting parties against them. — I cannot from failure of memory give a detail of my town, but I recollect I went several times to Boundbrook, Elizabethtown, Amboy and also to Somerset Court house. Woodbridge, Paramus, Lyndhurst. —
Sworn & subscribed this 8th day of June A D 1833 before me
Geo. Henry
his Cornelius Myer mark

State of New Jersey Hunterdon county ss. I John Barton one of the Judges of the Superior court of common pleas of the said County of Hunterdon do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Myers, who has signed the preceding affidavit and that I believe him to be a man of truth and veracity and that his statement is entitled to full faith & credit given under my hand this 10th day of June A.D. 1833.
John Barton
State of New Jersey Hunterdon county ss. Isaac G. Farlee clerk of the Superior court of common pleas of the said county of Hunterdon do hereby certify that John Barton who has signed that last recd. certificate & George Henry who has signed the last affidavit now on file were at the time of signing the same Judges of the Superior court of common pleas of the said county, & that their signatures are genuine & that due faith & credit is to be given to their official acts. In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court this 10th day of June A.D. 1833.
Isaac G. Farlee clerk

Cor. Myers. - Carmelina Myers
Adm 2 years
certificate to be sent to.
• Charles Parker Flemington Hunterdon Co. N.J.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Cornelius Chyn which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No See quar 5 VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? no dit as to one Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeh and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
¶ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Rev. War
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Cornelius Myers Rev. N. J. Syn.
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