Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44227, William Carrell, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Carroll, William
S. 44227
CONTENTS

10.290.
New-York. R
William Carrell
of Ossian in the State of N. York who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Phoebe of the N. Jersey line, for the term of 3 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of New-York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 th of June 1910.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of Oct r 1921 and sent to Applicant, Angilia, N.Y.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1921 -  290.93     Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 th March 1922.  48.00     39 th 2 mo th  \frac{11}{30}   $: 338.93  
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818, } & 1 st May 1920
Allegany Co. N.Y.

The application of William Carmell
Any communication respecting the enclosed to be addressed to William Carmell, Angeles Allegany County N. Y.

ORIGINAL CLAIM.
York
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY, } ss. Allegany County }
ON this twenty fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and twenty one personally appeared, in open court of common pleas, being a court of record lege latus of the said state for the said county, of Allegany William Camell aged sixty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the 18th March, 1818, and 1st May, 1820, that he the said William Camell enlisted for the term of three years on the during the war day of in the year 1779 in January in the state of New Jersey in the company commanded by captain Jonathan McKenzie in the regiment commanded by colonel Martin afterwards by in the line of the state of New Jersey on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until  other service until the year 1783 when he was discharged from the said service, in Philadelphia - in the state of Pennsylvania
That he received an honorable discharge which not considering as of any particular service has many years ago been either lost or mislaid so that he cannot now find the same
That he was in the battles of Long Branch White Plains Red Bank  Red Bank and that he has no other evidence, now in his power, of his said services, except the depositions of Thomas Hallack lieut J. M. Cummings John Guttewright Jonathan M. Osborn Benjamin Miller and John Hugh all herewith transmitted
And in pursuance of the act of the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
William Camell York
annexed schedule I have a poor one value $5.00 one cow value $14. The applicant has not any other property. I have a wife and eight children myself and my wife live with and are supported by my elder children who are but poor themselves. I have a pain in my breast in consequence of which I am unable to labor
William Camell York
Sworn to, and declared, on the 24th day of June 1821 before Moses Van Camp, Thomas Pote John Griffin Justices of said Court Amos Peabody Clerk of Allegany Co.
I Amos Peabody Clerk of said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nineteen dollars and cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this first day of July eighteen hundred and twenty one
Amos Peabody Clerk Allegany County

William Carroll Private, Ossian, Allegany Co. New York. 1776 — 3 years, Col. Shreeve's regim. New-Jersey line —
24. June, 1818.
He not on Helder — too early. 3 May 1819
Philip Church, judge Angelica, Allegany County, N. York.
Original Application to Department of War Hoback

State of New York
Albany County ss
On this twenty fourth day of June in the year of our thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before the Subscriber first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in said County personally appears William Barrell aged. Sixty two years in August next. resident in the town of Cpsiaw in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to ob- tain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war , That he the said William Bar- rell enlisted in the State of New Jersey in the Company Command- ed by Captain Jonathan the Kinsey in the Regiment commanded by Col Israel Shreaves in the year Seventeen hundred & Seventy six for three years or during the war that he continued to serve in the said corps or the service of the United States until the year Seven- ty three when he was discharged from the said service at Philadelphia. in the State of Pennsylvania; that he was in the battles at Long Island. New Rochel, White Plains (Bot-  the the Hills,) Monmouth, Brandywine, Germantown, and two battles with the Indians. one at Chemung, one at Newtown in the State of New York and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and that he has not any other evidence of his said services now in his pos- session and declared before
me the day & year aforesaid Philip Schuch
William his X mark Barrell
I the undersigned first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Albany & State of New York do certify that it appears to my satis- faction that the said William Barrell did serve in the revolution- ary war as stated in the preceding declaration and against the common enemy also that he is in reduced circumstances and

his Country Hands in need of assistance for support and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and read before me to the secretary for the was Department of war pursuant to the directions of the afore mentioned act of Congress.
Philip Schuch
Albany County ss.
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the writing of Philip Schuch Esquire first Judge of the court of Common Pleas in the county of Albany & State of New York and know the above signatures to be the true signatures of the said Phil- ip Schuch and also that the said Philip Schuch Esquire was at the time of taking the above proceeding & still is first Judge of the court of Common Pleas in said Albany County given under my hand & the seal of said County this 10th day of August Eighteen hundred & Eighteen.
Amos Peabody Clk
Please send any communication on this subject to Allan Burr Angelica Albany County State of N Y
Hon John C Calhoun Secy for the Dept. of war
Allan Burr

Personally came before me Amos Potter one of the justices of the Peace in and for the County of Essex State of New Jersey Thomas Halkick and Made oath that he was knowing to the within William Ferrall being in the Continental Service three years that he was acquainted with him Sworn before me this 17 th day of March 1821 Amos Potter justice of the Peace
Thomas Halkick
New Jersey ss. I Rose Whitehead clerk of the court of common pleas for the county of Essex in send the to all certify that Amos Potter Esquire was at the time of taking the above deposition one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court the twenty sixth day of March A.D. 1821.
Rose Whitehead

44 227 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 44-227
William Garell
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index :—Vol. 3, Page 73
 [Arrangement of 1870.] 
1923-June 11 Mr. Haysen strenuously advised as to charge of Protection 1923-June 27, Coffee mated to Henson Stevenson

Affidavits of J. H. Osborn & Benj n Miller in the case of W m Farnel March 24. 1920

State of New Jersey } Personally appeared before me John County of Essex ss. } Wilson one of the judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Jonathan H. Osborn a free holder in said County - who being duly sworn deposeth and saith - That he knows William Carrel to be a soldier in Genl. Maxwell's Brigade in the year 1778 or 1779 then lying at the Scotch Plains in New Jersey - and that from the like appearance conversation and particular detail of the incidents occurring within his deponent's knowledge he has no doubt but verily believes that the person now present representing himself to be Wm Carrel is the same man - and in this belief he is in agreement with several of his neighbors who know the man at the same period - and further saith not - Jonathan H. Osborn
Taken before me this 24 th day of March 1821 at Scotch Plains in said County - John Wilson
State of New Jersey } Personally appeared before me County of Essex ss. } John Wilson one of the judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County - Benjamin Miller a freeholder in said County who being duly sworn deposeth and saith That in the year 1778 or 1779 one Wm Carrel a private in Genl. Maxwell's Brigade was quartered at deponent's house for about two months - and deponent from the appearance and details of the person now present calling himself Wm Carrel and endeavoring to procure testimony

to entitle him to a pension - has good reason to believe and does believe that he is the same man - altho from the alterations made by time he cannot particularly recollect his countenance - not having seen him since that time - and further saith not Benjamin Wells
Taken before me this 24 th day of March 1821 - at Scotch Plains in s d County -
John Wilson
State of New Jersey } Personally appeared before me John County of Essex ss. } Wilson one of the judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County - John High a freeholder in s d County who being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he knows the person now present at where Instance his deposition is taken to be W m Barron & that deponent remembers him when he was a private Soldier in the Continental Service and lay at the Scotch Plains in this State - at which time he was for some time quartered in the house of deponents Father - deponent is not certain what Brigade s d Barron belonged to but believes it was Maxwells - - deponent is not certain in what year this was but thinks it was in 1778 or 1779 - and further saith not - John High.
Taken before me at the Scotch Plains March 24 th 1821
John Wilson

New Jersey County of Essex
ss.
I Asa Whitehead, clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the said county of Essex, do hereby certify that John Wilson Esquire before whom the foregoing Depositions and proceedings were taken and held was at the time of doing thereof and now is a judge of said court & that his name to the same subscribed is his proper handwriting, I being well acquainted therewith.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court the 26 th day of March A.D. 1821.
Asa Whitehead

I certify that William Carroll who has this Day called upon me to give evidence of his having served in the Revolutionary War as I have received his account of the time where & where he is listed, where he joined the Regiment & of the different campaigns of the Army & the various engagements he was in. The names of the officers and in his whole detail is so ac- curate that after a lapse of thirty seven years I am fully persuaded, that he was a Soldier in list exactly in One thousand seven hun- dred and seventy seven & continued in service until the end of the War so many years have past since the Revolution that I have lost the Recollection of his Person thirty seven years makes great changes and alters the countenance of a Man, but from the minute relation he gives of the time of his Enlistment where he first joined the Regiment viz at Princeton, that General Paterson com- manded there, of the Battle of Short Hills that Lord Sterling commanded there. of Brandy wine Germantown & Monmouth & his relations are so particular that no person who was not in those battles could relate what he does and I am willing to testify that I have no doubt that he served more than three years in the Revolu- tionary Army Given under my hand at Newark this 22nd Day of March 1821 J. H. Haring Lieut Col Commandant Jersey Battalion

District of New Jersey ss. General John H. Cummings being by me duly sworn according to law on his oaths saith that the facts set forth and contained in the within certificate written and signed by him before me , is true, and that he is well convinced and verily believes, that the said William Barrett served in the Second Regiment of the New Jersey line of the continental army, in the Revolutionary war from the year seventeen hundred and Seventy seven until the close of the said war,
Sworn before me the
John H. Cummings
22 d March 1821
William Pennington District Judge of the United States in and for the New Jersey District.
I William Pennington District Judge as aforesaid Do hereby certify that the before named General John H. Cummings was to my knowledge an Officer of distinction in the New Jersey line of continental troops in the Revolution- ary war.
William Pennington
Newark 22 d March 1821

I William Pennington Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the New Jersey District do certify that the signature of William J. Pennington to this paper is the proper hand writing of William J. Pennington Esq District Judge of the United States for the New Jersey District
As witness my hand & the seal of the District Court of the United States for the New Jersey District March 22 d 1821.
William Elmer King Esq. Adj. State New Jersey. -
Wm Pennington

State of New Jersey Essex County
Personally came before me Jonathan Woodruff one of the justices of the peace in and for said County John Garthwait, who being sworn on the holy Evangelist deposeth and saith, that he was know- ing that William Garrell was a listed private soldier in the Continental Army for the space of five years and that he served in the second Jersey Regiment, commanded by Coln. Israel Brewer and in Captain Jonathan Melinsys Company of Infantry, also served in the fourth Jersey Regiment commanded by Coln. Ephraim Martin.
Sworn before me this 21 st day of March A.D. 1821
his John X Garthwait mark
Jonathan Woodruff Justice of the peace
New Jersey County of Essex } ss.
I Asa Whitehead, Clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the said County of Essex, do hereby certify that Jonathan Woodruff Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and had been at the time of taking thereof and now is one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County, and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and that his name subscribed thereto is his proper handwriting.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court the 20 th day of March 1821.
Asa Whitehead

May 21. 1855, The Power of Attorney in my favor withdrawn & filed in the 3rd office. J. B. Hasler

M 233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
JUN 18 1923 192
Chief of Rev. War Section Sir:
I have this day received from Henry Stevenson No. 533,156 for $ 65 1.00, requesting post office address as per letter herewith.
Copies mailed to Law Dist. Miss June 27/23 aw
Respectfully,
O. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Div.
(MF 42)
Date June 26. 23.
No. 544257
Memo New barrel
Rev War
Photographic copies wanted of pieces, consisting of 11 pages.
Remarks:
Exr. McMillan Chief for War Dept
Low Clerk.
Serial
No.

Postal Money order $1.65 ✓ rec'd 7/11/23 W
Armstrong Cork Company
LINOLEUM DEPARTMENT
Armstrong's Linoleum for Every Floor in the House
SOLE SELLING AGENTS Fetterolf Quality Wilton Rugs and Carpets
Lancaster, Pa.
June 15, 1923.
awf.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Attention: Rev. War Section
Dear Sir: ✓
A money order for $1.65, drawn to the Secretary of the Interior, is enclosed as payment at 15¢ a page for photostat copies of the eleven pages comprising the records in the Revolutionary War pension claim Survivor File No. 44227 of William Carrell, N. J. Troops.
Kindly make one photostat copy of each page for me, without certification. This is in accordance with your letter of June 11th, and my original inquiry of June 4th.
Please mail copies to me at my home address - 934 Virginia Avenue, Lancaster, Pa.
Yours truly,
Kenyon Stevenson

Rev. War Section.
June 11, 1923.
Mr. Kenyon Stevenson, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Sir;
In response to your letter of the 4th instant, I have to advise you that photostat copies of the papers in the revolutionary War pension claim Survivor File, No. 44337 of William Garrell, N. J. Troops, will be furnished you under the provisions of the Act of Aug. 24, 1912 at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty five cents extra for certification, if that is desired. The number of pages to be copied is eleven.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order, drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

1.1.1875
Armstrong Cork Company
LINOLEUM DIVISION
Armstrong's Linoleum for Every Floor   in the House
SOLE SELLING AGENTS Fetterolf Quality Wilton Rugs and Carpets
Lancaster, Pa.
June 4th, 1923
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I wish to get a photostat copy of the complete pension records referring to William Carrell, a Revolutionary soldier, whose File Number is 44227. I understand that there is a charge of 15¢ a page for the photostating.
Will you kindly inform me the number of pages comprising William Carrell's record, therefore, in order that I may make the proper remittance and get the copies as soon as possible.
William Carrell was my great-great-grandfather, and I desire the copies for a family history that I am writing.
Very truly yours,
Kenyon Stevenson
11 pages