Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7472, for Timothy Mount, New Jersey

SERVICE
SERVICE New Jersey
NUMBER _____
Mount, Timothy Deborah
No. 7472
CONTENTS

State of New Jersey } Monmouth County } on this eighteenth Day of May 1837 personally appeared before me Jehu Patterson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Deborah Mount a resident of the Township of Howell in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey aged 78 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 pro- vision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 that She is the Widow of Timothy Mount Who Was a private in Militia of the Revolution - he Was called out in his Monthly Term under the command of Capt Joseph Stilwell - this was in the year 1776 they were Station at the Highlands of Poughkeepsie - he Was there taken by the British and Refugees - at the time the fort Was taken - and carried to New York a prisoner, She say he had been out near a Month before he Was taken but he Was exchanged She believes in about three Week - She Remembers that he Was not a prisoner for more than that time - the first time - he Was a prisoner - after he Was exchanged and came home, he Was out in his Monthly Term, under the command of the said Capt Joseph Stilwell - Six months in the year 1777 this Deponent further sayeth in the year 1778 her late husband the said Timothy Mount Was out 5 Months in actual Service in Capt Stilwell Company and in 1779 and 1780 She cant say how many Months he her late husband Was in actual Service for they used to visit the lines that he Was a private to stay at home and Was With Capt Stilwell Company almost the whole time She says to the best of her knowledge and belief that he Was in actual Service for at least one whole year in 79 and 80 in January 1781 her late husband the said Timothy Mount enlisted in Capt Moses Shepherd Company for one year and served out his time faith- fully She Remembers that Colonel Asher Holmes Was one of the field officers but She does not recollect any of the other field officers except General David Forman whom she Will Remembers her late hus- band Was in the course of the Revolution made prisoner Three times She Remembers that all the time her late husband Was under the command of Capt Joseph Stilwell Moses Shepherd Was the Lieutenant but the other officers of the Company She does not recollect her late husband

Was in several skirmishes With the British and Refugees as she has herd him say - the services of her late husband was all performed on the lines in the Township of Middletown County and State of New Jersey they were stationed in the Village of Middletown after the first Lord was taken and their duty was in marching from thence along the shore a night to guard the intrenchments from the depredations of the enemy this deponent further saith she has no documentary evidence of these services of her late husband she further saith and declares that she was married to the said Timothy Mount on the first day of September 1775 according to the best of her recollection as she has no record of her marriage she can't speak certain as to the day of the month but she will know it was in Sep r 1775 that her husband the aforesaid Timothy Mount died on the 20 th day of February 1803 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed Sworn to and subscribed on the day her Deborahagh & Mount and year above written before mark John Patterson
Ann Herbert State of New Jersey on this 3 d Day of June 1837 before me John Patterson Monmouth Is one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth - personally appeared the under subscribers inhabitants of the County and State aforesaid and they being duly sworn according to law Did Depose and say that they have been acquain- ted with Deborahagh Mount formerly Deborahagh Winter for many years and some of us from the days of the Revolution and before she was married to Timothy Mount her late husband Now Deceased We Did Not see them married - but have no doubt but that they were lawfully married - we know that they lived together as Man and Wife and had one child who Name is Mary and is still living - we are satisfied that it is impossible for two young people to grow up in the same neighbourhood together and live as Man and Wife in that same neighbourhood and not be a country talk if they were not married this can't be We do believe from the knowledge we have of the corrector of the said Deborahagh Mount Wife of the late Timothy Mount

Corrector of the Said Deborah Mount Wife of the late Timothy Mount
Deed and from What knowledge we have of the facts she has stated in her affidavit her unto annexed is substantially true and that she is still the widow of her late husband the said Timothy Mount Deed and that full credit is due to the statement she has made sworn and subscribed before me J. John Crissman the day and year above written
John Patterson
Henry Johnson
Rachel Johnson
State of New Jersey } on this Ninth Day of August Personally appeared unto me } offered before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth Andrew Winter aged about sixtyseven years Brother of the said Deborah Mount - he being sworn according to law did Depose and say that the said Timothy Mount after and before he was married to his sister Deborah Mount lived in the same house with this Deponent and with his father and Mother in the Month of December 1776 a French Vessel was run on shore near the islands of Shrewsbury laden with liquors as he understood and remembers until the Morning he left home as one of the soldiers belonging to Capt Joseph Stillwell's of Militia Company the said Timothy Mount with a considerable part of the company if not all proceeded to said Vessel for the purpose of unlading her and keeping the English from landing he thinks they were there two day and on the second night they were betrayed by the Ensign and were made prisoners - how long the said Timothy Mount remained a prisoner he can't say he recalls well that he was taken in 1776 in December as his this Deponent father was taken the February following 1777 but a short time after the said Timothy Mount was taken but he never returned to his family more - it was said that the prisoners were poisoned by the keeper of the Gaol or some other of the enemy but he that as it may be died in the March following - the said Timothy Mount was taken twice after this during the War of the

revolutions once he came home and concluded to stay all night but Before Morning a Party of Tories captured him and carried him off to New York This Deponent sayeth he now has the Barrel of the Musket that was taken with the said Timothy Mount these Refugees broke it to pieces and left it as much as three quarters of a Mile from the house it was found by some one and brought to their house - he the said Timothy Mount remained a prisoner for some time - but by the influence of some friends - he got his parole and was permitted to come home he remained on parole for some time but at last was exchanged for a Refugee by the Name of John Buffum - this Depo- nent further sayeth - he remembers well of his coming home one day and had not been in the house more than an half hour when he went to bring in a leg from the wood pile he heard the crack of the gate left he ran round the end of the house jumped down the bank and escaped - it was very seldom that he attempted to stay at home except the time he was on parole - This Deponent further sayeth that in those days of trial and trouble he was but a boy but by the death of his father who died in a foreign prison with no friendly hand to succor his wife in the hand of a savage enemy yea worst than the most cruel savage - this said Timothy Mount leaving his brother-in-law the husband of his only sister that his acts in the war of the revolution are fresh in his memory living in the same house - and he is well satisfied that the said Timothy Mount was in actual service in the District Company commanded by Capt Joseph Stillwell every other month from December 1776 to the first day of January 1781 except what time he was a prisoner and whilst on parole this Deponent further sayeth that he believes from the sufferings he endured by confinement in those dreadful prisons and his having cut a right in the war of the revolution a consumption was brought on of which he died in early life this Depo- nent further sayeth that the said Deborah Mount has remained the widow of the said Timothy Mount from the day of his death to the present time
Sworn and subscribed this day and year above written John Patterson
Andrew Winter

State of New Jersey } Monmouth County } ss on this 9 th Day of August 1837 before me Jehu Patterson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth aforesaid personally appeared Deborah Gorman a resident of the Township of Middletown County and State aforesaid and she being Duly Sworn according to Law did Depose and say that she that she is in her 84 year of age since the 11 th Day of June last past that she has known Deborah Mount formerly Deborah Winter from the time she was a small girl to the present day that her Mother and this Deponent were own cousins that she remembers well the night on which the said Deborah Mount the above applicant was married to Timothy Mount they went from the house of Capt Moses Shephard to Middletown and were married by a Justice of the Peace by the name of John Taylor they came back to Capt Shephard and staid there all night this Deponent did not see them married but she has no more doubt but that they were married then she has of her own marriage they always passed for man and wife not a whisper to the contrary was ever heard by her from any one she remembers well the said Timothy Mount the husband of the said Deborah now his widow in the Revolutionary War he was once taken by three Refugees from their house he saw them coming he took the house in charge and run they being on horseback soon overpowered and took him prisoner she has frequently seen him out with the Troops but can't say whom he was under she remembers that the said Timothy Mount often came to their house and he and her brother would take their guns and go out to some place of safety to keep this War when they were not out in the monthly turn Sworn and subscribed before me the Day and year above written
Jehu Patterson
Deborah her Gorman mark

State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss. And I John Patterson, the Judge before whom the fore- going declaration of Deborah Mount was made, do hereby certify, that the said Deborah Mount was at the time of making her said de- claration & still is unable from bodily infirmity to attend Court, & I do further certify that she is a credible person & her statements entitled to belief & confidence, And I do further certify, that John Chasey, Henry Johnson, Rachel Johnson, Andrew Winter & Deborah Garrison are well known to me , who have signed the foregoing affidavits are well known to me & that they & each of them are credible persons & their statements entitled to belief & confidence
John Patterson
State of New Jersey Monmouth County ss. I the undersigned clerk of the Superior Court of Com- mon Pleas in & for said County, do hereby certify that John Patterson, who has signed the foregoing affida- vits & certificate, was at the time of the doing thereof & still is a Judge of the said Court, duly commissioned from & enrolled in my office & that full faith & credit are due & ought to be given to all his official acts as such & that I am personally acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge & that his name signed to the foregoing affidavits & certificate is genuine. In testimony whereof
I have hereunto my hand sub- scribed the Seal of said Court at Free- hold in said County this twenty fifth day of September Eighteen hundred & thirty seven J. H. Ellis Clerk.

7,472
P. O. Deborah Moun
Service: wid. of Timothy
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

Susp d
See let. to Hon. G. D. Wall,
Dec. 22, 1837.
do to same & Hon. J. F. Randolph
June 5. 1838. same June 25. 1838.
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Washington May 4 1838
Sir
Please to inform me whether the claim of Deborah Mount - widow of Timothy Mount has been allowed - if not to state the objections to the allowance.
Yrs reply
Garrett D. Hall

Honored Sir
Middletown Monmouth County New Jersey
When I transmitted the claims of Mrs Walling and Mrs Mount - I did not think it necessary to give the Department the trouble of reading any letter from me upon the subject of their claims - I have just received a circular from you which teaches me I was mistaken - as to the claim of Mrs Mount it is a New one - I know her and her husband for many years - I know her Brother Andrew Winer who has Testimony you have before you - he is a Member of the Baptist Church of Middletown and one of its most pious - I know the Mother she was also a Member of the same Church for more than sixty years - the father I did not know personally he was taken in the early part of the War of the Rebellion and died in prison - Mrs Mount and the whole family are as respectable as any other family in the place - I know all those persons well whose Testimony you have before you in her case - they are all credible persons for veracity and truth - for I would not send on Testimony to the Department - on a case such as I had the best reason to doubt as to Mrs Walling her husband Joseph Walling was one of our earliest Pensioners - his pay was stopped for two years but was renewed again - he is now deceased - this Mrs Walling is his widow the Testimony you have before you as to her living so - I have known Joseph Walling and Margaret his wife - now his widow for more than 50 years - they were poor but respectable I do not know that I can say anything more on the subject if anything more by way of proof is wanting you will let me know by the first opportunity
J. H. Edwards Esq.
I have the Honor to be Sir your friend and humble servant
N.B. Direct to Middletown Monmouth County Post office - postmaster
William W. Mierry
John Patterson

J L Edwards Esq
Dear Sir,
My friend John Patterson Esq of Middletown N.J. requests me to obtain for him copies of the papers filed in the application of Deborah Morant widow of Timothy Morant for a pension also information as to any further evidence that may be required in the case.
Yours Respectfully
J. H. Randolph Clerk
H. R. June 4 th 1838