Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,736, for Francis Prickett, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Prickett, Francis or Picket
S. 3736
carded
CONTENTS

22,838 New Jersey
order to pay Apr. 27, 1837.
Francis Pickett Pickett Middlesex Co in the State of New Jersey who was a Dr in the Company commanded by Captain Morgan of the Regt commanded in the New Jersey Militia
23 Mo - 23 Ds - $ 79.23
Enscribed on the Roll of New Jersey the rate of 79 - Dollars 23 Cents per annum, commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Nov - 1833 and sent to Hon James P. Randolph, New Brunswick, N.J.
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1833 - 198.07 1/2 Pension allowance ending 4 Oct '34. 39.61 1/2
$ 237.69 1/2
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by A. P. Sprague Clerk, Book 6 - Vol. 3 - Page 125

Francis Pickett
Application for pension
7.8.86
Certificate to be sent to James M. Mason W. Burns H. L. L...

State of New Jersey Middlesex county } On this eleventh - day of September in the year of our Lord one thou- sand eight hundred & thirty two personally ap- peared before the Judges of the Superior court of common Pleas in & for the county of Mid- dlesex & State of New Jersey in open court the same being a court of record and now set- ting, Francis Dicket a resident in the Town- ship of South Amboy in the county and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law and being examined & interrogated according to the instructions from the War- Department doth on his oath make the fol- lowing declaration in order to obtain the ben- efit of the act of Congress passed the 7 th day of June 1832 - To wit -
That he was born in the month of January in the year 1758 & is now in the seventy fourth fifth year of his age - Has no record of his age but knows it from his brother John who was a prisoner under the law of 1818 & has been dead for some years - Was born in the Township of South Amboy in the county of Middlesex, lived in that Town- ship when the revolutionary war com- menced & when he first entered into the service of the United States - Since the revo- lutionary war he has also resided there and still resides there - He entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in a com- pany of Militia commanded by Captain

I knew Major Lieutenant Nicholas Mor- gan but don't remember who was his Colo- nel. This was sometime after the commu- ncement of the war but don't know how long it was or good while before the battle of Monmouth & he thinks it was in the Spring of 1777. He served under them officers for a considerable time but don't know how long in the country of New Jersey Monmouth & principally along the Bay shore. He was main captain Mor- gan when a party of British went from Perth Amboy to Millstone & burned the Church at that place & returned by the way of South Amboy. In this expedi- tion Colonel Irvine was taken Prisoner & then Captain Peter Voorhies in the American service was killed. The com- pany to which he was then attached met the British forces on their return from Millstone about a mile from the South Amboy ferry & had a severe skirmish with them until the latter got on board their vessels at South Amboy in mid- dling country. About six months after that he went into the country of Sussex in New Jersey & enlisted for six months un- der Captain Dickinson & Major Galt. Served his six months out except a few days being discharged a little before the expiration of said six months. His la- ter service was rendered in the country of Morris & Bergen & on the shore of Sep- tember bay. He marched from Sussex to Morris & thence to Hackensack in

Bergen county & thence to Bergen Point where they were called out to storm the Black house which was burned down by the British themselves immediately after it was evacuated. At Sappan bay he kept guard for some time & then return- ed to Hackensack where they were disband- ed. After that he served under captain Norton for for six or nine months & was during that time at the battle of Spring- field. Under captain Norton he served between Hlanders & Succasunney plains in the county of Morris & Morris. After that he served under captain Peter Solomon for a considerable time at Succasunney Plains. Don't know how long. His mem- ory will not enable him to give a more particular account of his services in the revolution, many of the events of that pe- riod have passed from his mind. He can say with certainty that he served for two years & more but how much more he cannot say. He never served as a sub- stitute nor does he now recollect the name of any other officers than those he has named. He has no written discharge from the service nor any documentary evidence of his service, but is well known to Eli- zabeth Pickett widow of Stephen Pickett whose husband was a brother of this ac- claint & also a soldier of the revolution- ary war. He is at present chargeable on the ownership of South Amboy & has so long been

excluded from society that he can refer to no one at present whose attestation can be procured at court to testify to his character & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution -
And he hereby relinquishes all claim what ever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State -
I swear & subscribed in open court this day a year ago N. Morrison Judge
Francis his X Prickett mark
I Elizabeth Prickett of the city of New Brunswick in the county of Middlesex do hereby certify that I am now in my eighty fifth year & is the widow of Stephen Prickett who was brother of the above applicant There were five brothers of whom Francis Prickett was one they all served in the revolutionary war as soldiers - I know very well that Francis served in the militia a part of the time & then understood that he had enlisted for six months - He was out in the service nearly the whole of the war from the time he first engaged in it - Lived in the neighbourhood where Francis resided & had a good opportunity - After his declaration read as above has full belief in the truth of the whole statement there in contained -
I swear & subscribed in open court this day N. Morrison Judge
Elizabeth Prickett

May 24 th 1833
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories proposed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And it the court further certifies that it appears to them that Elizabeth Pickett who has signed & sworn to the preceding certificate of service in the city of New Brunswick is a credible person & that her statement is entitled to credit.
Dated Sept r 11. 1832 N. Morrison Judges Thos Hance H. Ford
I Ferdinand J. Van Asselstein clerk of the inferior court of common Pleas in & for the county of Middlesex do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Francis Pickett for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
F. J. Van Asselstein Clerk

Rev War 3736 INVALID.
File No. 3736
Francis Prickett or Picket Post Rev War
Act: June 7. 1832
Index:—Vol. 28 , Page 302
[Arrangement of 1870.]

7886 Thomas Pickett
Amended
Admitted by the Commissioner Date
Adm o 23 mo. 23 days. Private 79. 23.
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Hon James Randolph N. Brummit N. J.

Supplemental Declaration of Francis Prickett, of Middlesex County New Jersey, for a Pension
State of New Jersey
Middlesex County ss. } Personally appeared before me the subscriber, a justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, Francis Prickett, 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 services; but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and always in the grade of a private. He entered the service in the year 1777, he thinks in the early part of it - in the company commanded by Capt. James Morgan, and Lieut. Nicholas Morgan, and served as a volunteer and private during this year four tours of a month each under Capt. Morgan, in South Amboy, and in the Township of Middletown, in Monmouth County, along the shore of what is termed Amboy-bay, guarding the lines, and defending the inhabitants and their property from the attacks and depredations of the enemy. In the year '78 he continued on the same station, and in the same service, and served under Capt. Morgan, five tours of a month each. In '79 and up to the fall of that year he served four tours of a month each, (besides being out on alarms) on the same lines under Capt. Morgan, as before, and in guarding that part of the country. The shore of Amboy-Bay being peculiarly exposed to the enemy then on Staten Island, and in their vessels all along the Bay, the service there was constant and arduous, and the captains were out almost all the time, and the men, half the time or more. This deponent served under no other Captain than James Morgan, in the time he specifies. Col. Forman of Monmouth, com- manded part of the time as he recollects. In the year

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following 1780. having in the mean time removed to the County of Sussex, he enlisted for six months, in the six months service, in the company commanded by Capt. Dickerson, and Major Goats cus (pronounced Guttis and so written in original declaration,) and served out his six months, except a few days, not exceeding a week, being regularly discharged at that time!
This service was rendered principally in the Counties of Morris and Bergen, as he has particularly detailed in his original declaration, and to that paper he also refers for all the particulars of his various services.
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In 1781, he served not less than five tours of a month each, in the Counties of Morris and Sussex, under Capt. Norton and Solomon. Three of these tours, as he thinks were under Capt. Norton, and two under Capt. Solomon.
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In 1782, he served not less than four tours of a month each, under the same captains, two tours under each.
Col. Lewis was his Colonel a part if not the whole of his time in the upper part of the State. He never received any written discharge from the service, that he recollects, nor can he from the circumstances of the greater part of his services, being performed from his present and usual place of residence obtain witnesses to his services. He knows of no one living by whom he can prove those services, except David Hall and Anthony Collins, whose testimony is given below, and Elizabeth Pickett whose affidavit appears in his original papers. He however adds that he has his lyrical of a Clayton & Co. Francis & Pickett they are  to  accuracy  of  general  repute . Sworn and subscribed mark
this twenty third day of August 1833 before me Peter P. Harnygor Justice of the peace

State of Kentucky } Middlesex County } ss. On this twenty fifth day of August 1833 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared James C Goble a Clergyman of said County, and Stephen Hall a resident of said County, and both neighbors to Francis Pickett the foregoing application for a Pension, who certify on oath, that said Pickett is believed and repre- sented in the neighborhood in which he reside- d to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that they concur in that opinion. They also certify that they believe him to be of the age he states, and a person of credibility, whose statements under oath may be fully relied on. Sworn subscribed to the } James C Goble day of Aug aforesaid } Stephen Hall before me }
Peter P. Runyon } Justice of the Peace }
I hereby certify that I know James C Goble, whose name is above subscribed to be a Clergyman, and that I am also acquainted with Stephen Hall the other deponent, who is a respectable person, and a Justice of the Peace, and that their statement is entitled to entire credence.
Peter P. Runyon } Justice of the Peace }

State of New Jersey Middlesex County } ss. On this twenty-sixth day of August 1833, before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, David Hall, who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is in the 75th year of his age, a sol- dier of the Revolution - that he is well acquainted with Francis Prickett named in the foregoing application, has known him for more than sixty years, knows him to be a man of fair reputation, whose statements under oath or other- wise are to be relied upon, knows that he served in the Revolutionary War frequently, but not being out with him cannot specify - has always understood him to have served long and faithfully - has no doubt that he did so serve, and that his statement is true David Hall
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid before me Peter P. Henson Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that David Hall the deponent who signed the foregoing affidavit is a credible person and his statement is entitled to credit
Peter P. Henson Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey Middlesex County } ss. On this twenty fifth day of August 1833, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Anthony Collins, who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is in the 75th year of his age & a soldier of the Revolution - that he is well acquainted with Francis Prickett the ap- plicant for a Pension named in the foregoing application, has known from his boyhood, knows him to have served in the Revolution, recollects to have seen him on several occasions in service in South Amboy, can't remember how often, nor the year,

Known that he served much of faithfully. Believe him to be a man of veracity, that in doubt of the truth of his statement as to his revolutionary services.
Subscribed this on to the 3 day of year aforesaid
Anthony Collins
Peter P. Runyon Justice of the peace
I certify that it satisfactorily appears to me that the above named deponent, Anthony Collins, is a credible person, and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Peter P. Runyon Justice of the peace
Nicholas Bousum Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex New Jersey. do hereby certify, that the foregoing are the original supplicants proceedings in the case of Francis Pickett, an applicant for a Pension. I further certify that Peter P. Runyon, before whom said supplemental proceedings were had, is a Judge of the said Court, and also a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature of said Runyon is in his own proper hand written. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty ninth day of August one thousand eight hundred thirty three.
N Bousum Clerk