Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8163, John Bryant, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Bryant, John or Brian
N. 8163.
B.L.Wt. 71-60-55
Caroline
CONTENTS

8903
New Jersey
John Bryant of Roxbury in the state of New Jersey who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ogden of the New Jersey line, for the term of 5 years
inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of April and sent by Judge Smith
Arrears to 4th of March 89-29 semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept 19. 48
11 \frac{5}{31} 13729 11
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Hopeful and my N 6 1821 6 Hon. J. Bloomfield

State of New Jersey Gloucester County
John Bryant
May March 1818
John Bryant of the County of Gloucester State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the within is a true copy of the original now on file in my office

To the Secretary of War State of New Jersey Gloucester County ss
Personally appeared before me John Smith one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas of justice of the peace in & for the County of Gloucester of second John Bryant & being duly sworn saith that he was born in the County of Somerset in the State of New Jersey - That he enlisted in the Revo- lution; Under John H. a Captain in the first Jersey Regiment commanded by Col. Ogden in the Month of March in seventy eight & that he remained in the service of the United States until June 1781 when he received his discharge - That he never received any land - but continued in the service from his enlistment until peace was made & that he was about fifteen years of age when he first enlisted - and further this de- ponent saith & his
John H. Bryant mark

Taken suffered & sworn before me this thirty first day March 1818 In testimony whereof I have here unto to set my hand & seal
John Heath
And being further examined saith that he assigned his discharge to one Peter Set at Woodbridge in New Jersey & that his circumstances are such as to need the assistance of his country for support. And that he has no other evidence in his power of his release from an officer
John Heath ? his John + Grant mark

I John Heth Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Bryant did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declarations against the com- mon enemy and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had be- fore me to the Secretary for the Department of War - pursuant to an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war
John Heth
State of New Jersey
I Thomas Hendry Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Hunterdon do certify that John Heth Esq. is in Commission as one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for said County and that the signature of the said Judge is truly such
Witness my hand & Seal of office at Woodbury this twenty first day of July A.D. Eighteen Hundred & Eighteen — Hendry CLK

John Bryant
Copy -
0903 -
(Copy)
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Thos. H. H. H. Woodbury
Sent to Hon. Mr. Blomfield H. Reps. Jan 26. 1871

District of New Jersey, ss.
On this Third day of July , 1820, personally appeared in open court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, of the county of Gloucester , in the state of New Jersey, being a court of record, proceeding according to the course of the Common Law--having jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping records of its proceedings. John Briant
aged Fifty seven years, resident in Watertown Township in said County, who, being first duly Sworn according to law, doth, on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: in the Company commanded by Captain John Holmes , in the 1 st Regiment Commanded by Colonel Matthias Ogden and in the New Jersey line .
That upon a declaration made under Oath on the 31 st day of March 1818 he Obtained a pension Certificate Numbered 8903 .
1.00 1.00 75 1.25 2.00 2.25 1.59 1.12 1/2 40.75 $ 52.12 1/2
And I do solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any other manner, 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. to wit, one Burrow $1.00 one corner cupboard
$1.00 one table $1.00 one old Table 50 cts, three chairs 75 cts, crockery & tin ware $1.25. Iron Pots, tea kettle Shovel & tongs $2.00--1 barrow, casks, drawing knife, wooden horse $2.25 saddle candle stick 2 hoes four fowls $1.59 Spade, shovel & Bucket $1.12 1/2 Amounting to $11.37 1/2 I have debts due to me $40.75 I am to, and declared, on the indebted to sum day of any person $62.34 I am by Occupation before a Basket maker, but unable to pursue it, for want of materials and being a cripple by having my leg broken, and my knee dislocated I am unable to gain a livelihood I have no family except my wife Martha aged about 25 years, who has no capacity to contribute to my support
Sworn to & dictated this day of July A.D. 1820 before John Clement Pres. of said Court
his John X Briant mark
I, Thomas Hendry Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas the county of Gloucester in the state of New Jersey, 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 Fifty two dollars and Twelve cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the
said Court; on this Tenth day of July , 1820
Hendry CLK

The Court is of the Opinion that the Total amount in Value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Fifty two Dollars and 12 Cents
$52.12
By the Court
John Clearent Joseph Rogers Charles Ogden

41.741 New Jersey Caroline Bryant widow of John Bryant N.J. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 dollars 00 — cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 24 th day of November, 1854. and sent to James L. Street. New Brunswick N. Jersey
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 90 Vol. a
1818
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Declaration of Mrs. Caroline, widow of W m Bryant, for pension under the 2 nd Section of the Act of February 3 rd 1833.
James L. Street, Atty. New Brunswick New Jersey.

State of New Jersey County of Middlesex } etc.
On this fourteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1854, personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County aforesaid, Mrs. Caroline Bryant, a resident of Rocky Hill, in the Township of South Brunswick, Middlesex County New Jersey, aged forty seven 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 Second Section of the act of Congress, passed the 3 rd day of February, 1853: That she is the widow of John Bryant, who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, at ninety six dollars per annum, under the act of March 18 th 1818, of the Trenton New Jersey agency; — That the Revolutionary service of her husband, the said John Bryant, was in the New Jersey State lines, (and that he always resided, so far as she knows or believes) in the County of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey. She further declares on her oath as aforesaid, that she was married to the said John Bryant, at East Windsor, now Mercer County, by one Roland a Justice of the Peace, on the eleventh day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty one. That her name before her said marriage was Caroline Philips; that her said husband died at Rocky Hill as aforesaid, on the twenty seventh day of June, A.D. 1849, and

that the arrear of his pension was drawn, at Trenton New Jersey, and his Certificate Surrendered; — That she was not married to him prior to the second of January, eighteen hundred and 40, but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow, and that she has no written evidence of the Revolutionary Service of her husband, the said John Bryant, deceased as aforesaid, & therefore refers to the papers on file in the Pension office, on which he drew his pension; She further declares, on her oath as aforesaid, that there is not, so far as she knows or believes either public, or family record of her marriage with her husband, the said John Bryant, deceased as aforesaid, nor of his death; in proof of which she refers to the annexed affidavits of those who have been acquainted with her for many years.
Attest;
Caroline her Bryant mark
Eliza Ann Bruce Elizabeth Barry
Also, at the same time and place, personally appeared before me, Eliza Ann Bruce, and Elizabeth Barry, the above subscribed witnesses, residents of Rocky Hill, in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey of mature age, and made oath in due form of law, that they were present and saw Mrs. Caroline Bryant, sign her declaration as above, and signed their names as witnesses thereto; They further depose and say, that they have

no interest in her claim to pension from the United States; that they were personally well acquainted with John Bryant, the Revolutionary Pensioner of Rocky Hill for thirty years before his death, that they were near neighbors; that they know of the marriage of the said John Bryant, the Pensioner as aforesaid, to Caroline Philips, now Caroline Bryant, the identical person who signed the above declaration; that they lived together several years as husband and wife, and had children, that they mutually claimed and acknowledged as theirs; that John Bryant, the Pensioner and husband of Declarant, as aforesaid, died at Rocky Hill, and was buried near where they, the said witnesses live; that they have been personally well acquainted with Caroline Bryant the declarant, ever since the death of her husband, John Bryant the Revolutionary Pensioner, deceased as aforesaid, and that she has not intermarried since his death, and is now his widow.
Eliza Ann Breece Elizabeth Barry
Sworn and subscribed before me, this fourteenth day of November, A.D. 1854, and I hereby certify, that I have been personally acquainted with the above signed Declarant Caroline Bryant fifteen years, and am satisfied she is the person whom she represents herself to be; I further certify that there will be no session of Court in Middlesex County for some months to come, and that if Court

were now in Session, Declarant could not well, by reason of her scant wardrobe, appear in open Court to make her Declaration; and that she and her children now need the assistance of the Country, for both clothing and food. I further certify, that I am personally acquainted with the above subscribed witnesses, that they are credible persons, Old residents of Rocky Hill; near where John Bryant lived and died; that they are entitled to full faith and confidence (as is also Declarant) in the Statements by them sworn and subscribed as above; and that I have no interest in Mrs. Bryant's claim to Pension.
Given under my hand of office at Rocky Hill, Middlesex County New Jersey, this fourteenth day of November 1854. J. B. P. P. P. for age
On Know all men by these presents, That I, Caroline Bryant, widow of John Bryant, deceased, late a Rev. Pensioner of Middlesex County New Jersey, do hereby constitute and appoint James D. Dyer of the City of New Brunswick, in the State of New Jersey, my true and lawful Attorney, for me, and in my name, to procure, for me, from the United States, the Pension Certificate, to which I am entitled under the 2 nd Section of the Act, of February 3 rd 1853; and I respectfully request the Hon.

Commissioner of Pensions to recognize him as such.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal, this fourteenth day of November in the year 1854.
Attest: Abr. P. Provost Eliza Ann Brece
Caroline her Bryant mark
State of New Jersey Middlesex County } ss.
Be it known That on this 14 th day of November, 1854, before me, personally appeared Caroline Bryant, above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney, to be her act & and Deed.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand officially, at Rocky Hill, the day and date last above written.
Abr. P. Provost Judge
State of New Jersey County of Middlesex } ss
I Nicholas Booreman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County and State above mentioned do hereby certify that Abraham P. Provost whose signature is subscribed hereunto is at the time of signing the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Middlesex duly qualified & sworn; to all whose officers and servants faithful service is given and that said County Court is a Court of record hereby Germain Lewis Clerk
Given under my hand and Seal of office at New Brunswick this 15 th day of November AD 1854
N. Booreman Clerk

49258 Ack March 3/55
April 7/55
Caroline Bryant & Widow of John Bryant private
Pension Act Vol. 1
Act Feb 3/53 Page 90
W. J. South line
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Jas L Street Newtown

Bounty land Declaration of Caroline, widow of John Bryant, deceased, of Middlesex County, New Jersey, Act March 3, 1855.
Revolutionary Original Claim
49958
James L. Street, agent, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

State of New Jersey } On this third day of April County of Middlesex } A.D. one thousand eight hun- dred and fifty five personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Caroline Bryant aged fifty years a resident of Middlesex County in the State of New Jersey who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of John Bryant who was a Private in the Revolutionary War and afterwards a Pen- sioner of the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey and of the Newton New Jersey Agency at ninety six dollars per annum under the act of 18th of March 1818; and that she is the identical Caroline Bryant who is now the widow of John Bryant deceased, drawing a Pension at the Newton New Jersey Agency of ninety six dollars per annum under the act of February 3. 1853 on Certificate Now "Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3. 1853 Page 90 Vol. 1 st " and bearing date November 24 th 1854. She further states that she was married to the said John Bryant as stated in her declaration which is now on file in the Department and that her said husband died as therein set forth, she refers the commission for the proof of her marriage and the death of her husband to her declaration aforesaid. That she is now the widow of the said John Bryant and makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3. 1855 and that she has not heretofore made application for received bounty land under this or any other act of Congress.
Her Caroline + Bryant mark

We James S. Combs and Asa Applegate residents of New Brunswick, in the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Caroline Bryant in our presence and that we believe and have no doubt from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
James S. Combs Asa Applegate
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written. And I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Peter P. Rynson Justice of the Peace
State of New Jersey } I Nicholas Borrows Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in + Middlesex County } for the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that Peter P. Rynson whose genuine signature appears above is + was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace in + for the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes + that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts. I further certify that said Court is a Court of record having general jurisdiction + a clerk + seal, + that I have no interest in this claim.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand + seal of office at New Brunswick this 5 th day of April A.D. 1855- N. Borrows Clerk

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8163
Caroline Bryant Wid.
John Bryant Christ Rev War
Act: Feb. 3  1853
Index: Vol. 24 , Page 84
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Rev Mr Office, Nov: 28 1854.
Sir: Please certify the time to which the within named pensioner was paid, on the date of his death.
Very Respectfully,
Lowance Commissr.
Rev Mr
R. J. McKim Dr. Esq. Rev Mr. Treasur.
Mr Randall

Official Business
Post Office Will Not Deliver Without Proper Postage
Return to sender
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington 25, D. C.

Caroline Bryant,
Widow John N o 5. 233
Middlesex Co., N.J.
Act 153.
$96. 00 / 100 per An. Com: Deliv: 3.1853.
Rev:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Pension Office, Official Business.
Jas. S. Street, New Brunswick, N.J.
Commissioner

2 that they were known to the Manager of the Paris & Sons & Co; to the French family of Children. 2 to death 7 th June 49 & Cent of fund of Christ to death. 2 Downd; & Cent. of Ct:
"B. G. H."

And Mr Office.
Nov: 18/1854.
Sir,
Please certify the time to which the within named pension was paid. On the date of his death.
Very Respectfully,
L. M. Allen Commission.
W. Randall.
R. J. Atkinson Esq. G. H. Smith, Treasurer
John Bryant, died 28 June 1849, had in full Kings Attorney Annuity

71 Coacere
Coacere, 71. Coacere

New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 15 th 1854.
Hon. J. P. Waldo, Com. of Pensions.
Sir,
Enclosed, please find Declaration of Caroline, widow of John Bryant deceased, late a Revolutionary Pensioner of this County; In view of the facts presented in the certificate of Judge Rownt, which are most distressingly true, I have to ask an early examination of the case, and remain, Most Respectfully,
James L. Street, Atty.
Hon. J. P. Waldo, Com. of Pensions Washington D.C.

49958
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New Brunswick, New Jersey April 6 th 1855.
Hon. J. P. Waldo, } Com. of Pensions, }
Sir,
Enclosed please find the application of Caroline, the widow of John Bryant deceased, late a Revolutionary Pensioner of this Com ty , under the act of March, 18 th 1818. She is the identical Caroline Bryant who is now drawing a pension of 90 $ per annum, on Certificate No. 41741 of the date of November 24 th 1854, which I obtained for her, under the act of February 3 rd (P. 1853). — Judge Remyan in whose house writing the enclosed declaration is, holds her pension Certificate, and is well acquainted with her; he wrote her Declaration because I was not in town when she called.
Respectfully;
James L. Street Agent.
Hon. J. P. Waldo } Com of Pensions } Washington } D.C. }

Brief in the case of Caroline Bryant, widow of John, Middlesex County and State of New Jersey, act 3 d Feby: 185 th .
Claim, ("original," or "for increase." )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was pensioned under the act of 18 th March, 1818, Sec d , @ the rate of $96.00 per An m . Two credible witnesses testify that they were privy to the marriage of the parties, they lived & cohabited together as husband & wife, of children. Pension due 28 th June, 1849 upon the affidavit of two credible witnesses, a certificate of the Court & report of the Third Auditor.
Widowhood's identity established by the affidavit of two credible officers & a certificate of Court. (If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
James L. Street, Esq., New Brunswick, N. Jersey, Name and residence of Agent
A. B. Alston, Examining Clerk.