Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,890, James Bogert, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Bogert, James or Jacobus Suffren, Elizabeth
W17890
CONTENTS
Former widow

4034
Ch. 12 June 1844
New York City: N.Y.
Elizabeth Saffren formerly widow of James or Jacobus Bogert, who died on the 8 Septem 1808 of Rockland Co in the State of N.Y. who was an Ensign In the Comp y commanded by Captain Bartholj of the reg t . commanded by Col Day — in the Rev o War line for 16 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 160 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of June 1844 — and sent to Hon Isaac T. Starke Ho. Reps.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1844 2080.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 1844 80.00
2160.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3rd }
Recorded by J. R. Swann, Clerk. Book C. Vol. 1. Page 128.

State of New Jersey } On this 28 day of March 1844 Bergen County, } appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and the County aforesaid John S. Bartholf of the town of Franklin in the County of Bergen and State of New Jersey age Eighty three years and upwards who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that in the Revolutionary war he was a private in the Regiment of Militia commanded by Col. Dey in the County and State aforesaid and that he served his tours through the whole war as such along the frontiers of New Jersey against the British and Tories and that he is now a Pensioner of the United States He further deposes and saith that that he was well acquainted with Jacobus or James Bogert who was an Ensign in Col. Dey's Regiment of Bergen County militia that he was well acquainted with the said Bogert from his boyhood until his death and that the said Bogert served from the early part of the war along the frontiers of Bergen County at Bear Mountain Point English neighborhood Paramus and at the Liberty pole as an Ensign in the militia until the year 1781 in that year he served as an Ensign in a company of enlisted men raised and commanded by Capt. Thomas Blanch and served along the frontiers of Bergen County at Closter Newbridge Hackensack and other places against the enemy he knows that Jacobus or James Bogert served one year in this service under Col. Dey that the reason why he recollects the service is that the said

Isaac or James Bogert was his Brother in law That after the years service was done the said Bogert served as an Ensign in the Militia untill the end of the war This deponent does not recollect of ever serving under the said Bogert but he does recollect of seeing him at different times and places in the service but from his great age and the length of time since the war he cannot particularise the times or the length of his tours but from his well known activity as a partisan in said war and his bravery this deponent does not hesitate to say that it is his firm belief that Isaac or James Bogert served as an Ensign more than one year at different times along the frontiers in the militia and that he served one year in an Entisted company in 1781 commanded by Capt Thomas Blanch in all during the war he is satisfied that he served more than two years That the said Isaac or James Bogert was married to a sister of this depon- -ents whose name was Elizabeth Barthoff according to the best of his recollection on the thirteenth day or thereabouts of October One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty The reason why he has so clear a recollection of the marriage is that the situation of his sister was such as to force them to get married or else expose her shame and that shortly after they were married they had an heir which within a short time after its birth and he recollects that it was in time of gathering corn

That they during the year 1781 lived alternately at his and her parents house That they afterwards had an heir a son whose name they called Lucas he lived about three months and that they never afterwards had any more children That they were married at her fathers house at the time before mentioned in the District of New Barbadoes Bergen County New Jersey by the Rev Benjamin Van Alinda then Pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in that neighborhood That her husband the said Jacobus or James Boert died on the eight day of September Eighteen Hundred and one that she remained his widow until some time in the Spring of 1815 when she was married to John Soffner in the City of New York by the Rev W. Hooper Pastor of one of the Dutch Churches in that City and that the said John Soffner died in November 1836 and that she still remains his widow I sworn to and subscribed by making my mark the day and year last before mentioned and I certify that the said John S Bartholf is John his X S Bartholf mark a credible witness and his statements are entitled to full credit and belief before me Mathias Van Kortendyk Justice of the peace 2

State of New Jersey / p Susan Barthoff of the Bergen County / of the town of Franktown in said County being duly sworn according to her depositions ever saith That she is seventy five years of age and that she was born and lived when a girl in the neigh- = borhood where Jacobus or James Boogert lived and was well acquainted with him and with Elizabeth Barthoff who lived in the same place and that she knows that the said Boogert in the Revolutionary war was an Ensign She further deposits and saith that she was present at the wed- = ding and saw the said Jacobus or James Boogert and Elizabeth Barthoff married at the house of the father of the said Elizabeth Barthoff in the Township of New Barbadoes in the County and State aforesaid in the year One Thousand sixty  seventy seven hundred and Eighty and she thinks that according to the best of her re- = collection that it was on the thirteenth day of October of said year That they were married by the Rev Benjamin Van Buren a Pastor of the Dutch church in the neighborhood where they lived The reason why she has a clear recollection of the time of the marriage is that previous thereto the situation of Elizabeth made a great deal of talk in the neighborhood and that soon after they were married they had an heir which did not live to any age That during the following year she saw Elizabeth living at the father's house of her husband and that previous to the close of the year she had a second heir which was called Lucas who died at the age of about three months and she never afterwards had any more That the said Elizabeth is now the widow of John Suffern sworn to and subscribed by making her mark this 28 day of March 1844 and I certify that she is a credible witness Martin Van Haren Jur Elizabeth X Barthoff Justice of the peace mark

State of New York } On this 27 th day of March Rockland County } 1844 personally appeared before the undersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County Elizabeth Suffer formerly Elizabeth Bogert a resident of the town of Mamapoon in the County of Rockland and State of New York aged Eighty one years who being first duly sworn according to law on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 and the act explanatory of said act passed March 3 1837 That she was mar- ried to Jacobus or James Bogert who was an Ensign during the war of the Revolution and that she has been informed he belonged to Captain Bartholfs company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Day in the County of Bergen and State of New Jersey - and served from the beginning of the war in 1776 untill the close of the war in 1783 in Capt Bartholfs company when out and in other companies belonging to Col. Days Regiment at Elizabeth town Aquackanonk Hoboken Hackensack Bergen and other places sometimes under Brigadier Gen. Wine and sometimes under Major Gatchie and other officers that she cannot recollect - That in the year nineteen hundred and eight one he served one year in a company of Enlisted men raised for the term of One Year by Capt Blanch and and served at Closter and other places along the Hackensack River in Bergen County of Bergen and State of New Jersey That from old age and loss of memory she is not able to state the particulars in relation to his services nor the times or their length that he was out but she is satisfied that during

the war he served more than two years as an Ensign That she was married to the said Jacobus or James Bogert on the thirteenth day of October Seventeen hundred and eighty — by the Reverend Mr Van Blom da Pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Ramapoo Bergen County New Jersey That she was married at her fathers house in a place called Yawpawagh in the County and State of Pennsylvania That her husband Jacobus or James Bogert died on the eight of September Eighteen Hundred and one That she was afterwards was married to John Suffer in the spring of Eighteen hundred and fifteen in the City of New York by the Rev Mr Cooper and that the said John Suffer died on the Eleventh of November Eighteen hundred and thirty six and that she has not since married but continues a widow That she has no documentary evidence of her marriage nor of her husband Jacobus or James Bogert's services, but relies entirely on the evidence that may hereafter be produced Sworn to and subscribed the day and year before mentioned before me herewith presented intitled before signing The words except the common
Sworn Subscribed to this 27th March 1844 Before me
Elizabeth Suffer
Edward Suffer in first Judge Rockland County
State of New York / p. I do hereby certify that Elizabeth Rockland County Suffer formerly widow of Jacobus or James Bogert is a respectable woman of good standing in the Dutch Church in Ramapoo and her declaration above made and subscribed by her is entitled to full credit and belief And upon personal examination I am satisfied that from old age and the disease attendant thereon she should be excused from attending the sitting of the court of Records in and for the said County
Edward Suffer First Judge Rockland County

State of New Jersey / p William J Thompson of Bergen County the town of Franklin in said County aged thirty two years being duly sworn deposit and saith that he is Pastor of a Dutch Reformed Church in said County of which the Rev Wm Van Klief was formerly Pastor that he has in his possession the Church records of Baptism and he found there on the Baptism Lucas J Bogert and as on the records as follows excepting the words added
   Datum het Doop Boek   Doop Dag Stuurs Kinds Getauigen     D 29 Jacobus Bogert Lucas J Cornelis Bogert   Septem Elizabeth Bogert 10 Septem Elizabeth Bogert   1782 1782  
Dated twenty ninth September nineteen hundred and eighty two, Jacobus and Elizabeth Bogert Parents, Lucas J Child, witnesses Cornelius Bogert and Elizabeth Bogert, September tenth nineteen hundred and eighty two. That he has no records of Marriages in his possession as kept by the Rev Wm Van Klief
Wm J Thompson, Pastor of Ref. Dutch Church in Bergen
Sworn to and subscribed this 22nd day of March 1844 before me and I certify that Wm Thompson is a man of truth and veracity Martin Van Houten Jd. one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bergen

Rev WIDOW, &c.,
File No. 17890
Elizabeth Suffren Former Widow of James or Jacobus Roger Ensign Rev War
Act: July 4 th 1836
Index:—Vol. M , Page 267
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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THE STATE OF NEW-JERSEY,
TO James Boquet Gentleman — GREETING:
WHEREAS it hath been certified to His Excellency WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief of this State, that you have been duly chosen by the majority of the Company of Militia in Prencet of New  Barland in the County of Bergen — (being the Phoenix — Company in the of the said County, whereof Jed Esquire, is Colonel) to be — Insign — of the said Company; you are therefore to take the said Company of Militia into your Charge and Care as Insign — thereof, and duly to exercise both Officers and Soldiers of the said Company in Arms; and as they are hereby directed to obey you as their Insign — you are likewise to obey and follow such Orders and Directions, from Time to time as you shall receive from your Colonel or other your superior Officer or Officers; and for your so doing this shall be your Commission. IN TESTIMONY whereof the Great Seal of the said State is hereunto affixed: Witness WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, Esquire, Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey , and Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the same, at Freehold the tenth Day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight.
By His Excellency's Command,
John Livingston
Wm Livingston

James Boger
Memorandum This is to Certify that James Boger is duly qualified accor- ding to the provisions of the Law passed for that purpose as Insign in the Reg- ment of Corral as Witness my hand this first day of June 1840
James Boger
James Jacobus Boger (Maurice) H. 178.10

V 6182 Elizabeth Suffren former widow of James, or Jacobus Roger, Set. to Hon. J. G. Farlee May 22 nd 1844

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Home of Refuge
Washington City Apr. 2. 1842
D. S. W.
I herewith enclose, a declaration of Elizabeth Safford, for a pension, your attention to the same, at your earliest convenience, will confer a favor on your friend & O
J. L. Edwards Esq
Isaac T. Hopper

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Act of July 4, 1836 & March 3 d , 1837, Declaration of —, Elizabeth Suffren late widow of Ensign — James or Jacobus Bogert of New Jersey
  Ensign in 82.  12.    " prior "  4        adm d  10.    16 mo Ensign   
$160.
adcp Isaac G. Farlee House of Rep s .

State of New Jersey
I Charles G. M c Chesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby Certify that Martin Van Buren Esq r . before whom the affidavits of the Rev d . W m . S. Thompson, William Van Vorhase, John S. Bartholf & Susan Bartholf were taken, was at the time of the doing thereof a Justice of the Peace & Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Bergen in said State, duly appointed Commissioned and sworn, that full faith and Credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signature thereto is in the proper hand writing of the said Martin Van Buren
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office at Trenton in said State this thirtieth day of March A. D. One thousand eight hundred and forty four.
Charles G. M c Chesney Secy of State

$1.50 fees

Receipts for Cash paid One years' interest on Notes given by the Commissioners of the several Counties for Militia Services.
   No. of Voucher. No. of Certif. Date. SIGNED BY. PAYABLE TO. Amount. 1 y's int.     Indent 154 17 Sep 1784 Peter Wilson James Bogart Ensign £ 69. 10. 4   Do 474 " " Do Do " £2. 10. 0  
STATE OF NEW JERSEY:
I, CHARLES G. McCHESNEY, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true abstract from a Book, headed as above, as taken from, and compared with the original, now remaining in my office.—And I do further certify, that Peter Wilson was, by an Act, passed by the Legislature of this State, December 20, 1783, entitled "An Act to procure an estimate of the sums due to the Militia and Troops who have been raised for the defence of the frontiers of the State, and to provide for the settlement of the same," appointed a Commissioner for the County of Bergen for the purpose of settling and adjusting the pay rolls of the Militia and Troops of this State, as aforesaid, and also for signing and delivering out to each and every person a note for the payment of what may be justly due.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said State, this thirtieth day of March A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty- four .
Charles G. McChesney Secretary of State.

Abstract of Pay Rolls discharged by Joseph Lewis.
   No Dates Reg t or Bat Officers names Where Serv d Under Whom £ s D     355 Sep r 17. 1777 Col D y Capt. Bartholf Bergen Maj Goetschin 19 3 6   356 Oct r 5. " D o D o D o D o 62 8 4   357 " 12 " D o D o D o D o 37 18 0   358 Oct r 13 1778 D o D o D o D o 78 0 0   383 June 6. 1779 D o D o D o Col D y 23 0 10   384 July 5 " D o D o D o D o 101 14 8  
State of New Jersey
I Charles G. M c Chesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing Abstract headed as above taken from Liber B. of Auditor's accounts, folios 64. and 65. as taken from and compared with the original now remaining of records in my office
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hands and affixed my Seal of Office at Trenton in said State, this Thirtieth day of March One thousand Eight hundred and forty four. Charles G. M c Chesney Secy of State

State of New York ss James Suffren of the town Rockland County of Ramapo in said
County area thirty nine years being duly sworn deposeth and saith that Elizabeth Suffren formerly the widow of Jacobus or James Bogert is a member of his family and that he has often heard her speak of her husband Jacobus or James Bogert having been an officer in the war of the Revolution. That she was mar- ried to John Suffren sometime in the Spring of Eight- een hundred and fifteen and that the said John Suffren died on the Eleventh day of November 1836 and that she still remains a widow
He further deposeth and saith that the paper attached hereto purporting to be a commission for an Ensign to James Bogert has been in the possession of the widow Suffren formerly the widow of Jacobus or James Bogert as long as he has known her which is as at least twenty years during which which time he has had access to all her papers and he knows that the said commission has been in her possession during that time
Sworn to and subscribed this 27 th day of March 1844 before me
Edward Suyem
First Judge Rockland County
Rockland County ss I certify that James Suffren who made and subscribed the foregoing affidavit is a respectable citizen and his statements above made are entitled to full credit and belief
Edward Suyem
First Judge Rockland City

State of New York Rockland County ss I, Abraham Hogenkamp clerk of the County of Rockland to whomsoever shall be that Edward Sussen Esq. before whom the annexed affid- avits were taken was at the time the first Judge of said County duly Commissioned and sworn and his signature thereto subscribed in witness.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 29th day of March 1844
Abm. Hogenkamp clerk

An Act to raise by voluntary enlistment, eight hundred and twenty men for the defence of the frontiers of this State.
Sec. 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Council and General Assembly of this State and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that eight hundred and twenty men, shall be raised by voluntary enlistment, and embodied for the defence of the frontiers of this State to continue in service until the first day of January, One thousand seven hundred and eighty two, unless sooner discharged, and to be stationed in the several Counties in such a manner as to afford the most equal and beneficial protection to all the inhabitants on the said frontiers, and that the said eight hundred & twenty men be distributed and stationed in the different Counties as follows that is to say:
In the County of Bergen One hundred and twenty men to be divided into two Companies consisting of sixty men each, including three Commissioned Officers three Sergeants, three Corporals, one drummer and three horsemen, one to be raised, and commanded by Capt. John Outwater of the County of Bergen, Lieut. Joseph Catterline and Ensign Abraham Hoagland of the County of Somerset, the other to be raised and commanded by Capt. Thomas Blanch, Lieut. David Demarest, and Ensign Jacobus Bogart of the said County of Bergen. &c &c.
Passed Dec. 26 - 1780

State of New Jersey.
I Charles G. M c Chesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that, the foregoing is a true extract from an Act passed by the Legislature of this State Dec. 26. 1780 as taken from and compared with the original now on file in my office.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my Seal of Office at Trenton in said State this fourth day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty four
Charles G. M c Chesney Secy of State

State of New Jersey } On this 28 th day of March Bergen County } 1844 personally appeared
William Van Voorhase aged Eighty five years and upwards of the township of Franklin in the County and State aforesaid
before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and made oath as follows
That he was a soldier from the earliest part of the War untill its close in 1883 and is now a Pensioner
of the United States at the rate of forty six dollars and fifty six cents per month for services rendered in the militia of Bergen County and State of New Jersey
and for one years service in Capt Blanches company of one years enlisted men in 1787 done along the frontier of Bergen County against the British
and Tories at Kloster Newbridge Hackensack and at the Liberty pole. That during the war he belonged to Col Dey's Regiment He further deposes and
says that he was well acquainted with Jacobus or James Bogert from his boyhood untill his death that in the Revolutionary war the said Bogert lived at a place called Yawcaw in the
County of Bergen and State of New Jersey Yawcaw was in the Precinct of New Barbadoes He further deposes that in the early part of the war the said Jacobus or James Bogert was appointed
an Ensign in the Regiment of Militia of which Col Dey was Colonel and that the said Jacobus or James Bogert served as an Ensign from the early part of the war untill its close in 1783 in the Militia of Bergen County and in the enlisted company under Capt Blanch in 1781 That this deponent knew the said Bogert to be a very active

partisans in the Revolution and was out a great deal in the militia. This deponent was out several times at different places in Bergen County with the said Boget in the militia under Major Grooten and Col. Day. He knows that the said Boget was a very active officer in the militia was a brave man and a violent Whig. That in the beginning of the year 1781 a company of men was raised by voluntary enlistment for the term of one year and commanded by Capt. Thomas Black. David Demarest, Lieutenant and Jacobus Boget was ensign. This deponent was a soldier in this service and knows that the said Jacobus or James Boget served during that year as the Ensign of the said company under Col. Day. That he the said Boget in the following year served in the militia along the frontier of Bergen County as an Ensign and had charge of a company of which Rev. Ritten had been Captain but became terrified and ran away after the said Ritten ran away the said Boget continued in command of said company until the end of the war. This deponent from his very great age and the consequent loss of his memory he is unable to state how much the said Boget was out in the militia but from his well known activity and bravery this deponent verily believes he done duty in the militia and in the years service at least two years as an Ensign. That he was not at the money of the said Boget but he knows that he was married sometime before the close of the war and his wife's name previous to her marriage was Elizabeth Dierckx. The name Jacobus is written in English it is James. Sworn to and subscribed this day of March 1844 by making his mark because he is blind and cannot see to write.
Martin Van Buren Secy Justice of the peace
William his X Jan Voorhase mark

X Orange County ss I certify that William Van Voorhies who made the foregoing affidavit is a respectable citizen and his statements are entitled to full credit and belief and that the same has been distinctly read in his hearing and understanding
Martin Van Buren Secy
Justice of the peace