Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12673, Thomas Carr, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
barr Thomas baar Kerr
S. 12673
CONTENTS
carded

New York 31.107
Thomas Carr
of Orange Co, in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Octavus of the regt, commanded by  in the  line for 18 months & 21 days
N. J. Line Records corrected Jan'y 11/68
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 62 Dollars 33 Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of Feb. 1840 and sent to Hon. Nath. Jones, N.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '39 529.80 Semi-annual allowance ending Mar. '40 31.16
$560.96
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E.2 Vol. 4. Page 12

State of New York } Orange County } On this thirteenth day of September One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Judges of the court of common pleas being a court of record in and for the said county of Orange Thomas Barr a resident of the town of Warwick in the said county of Orange and State of New York aged Seventy eight years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832.
That he was enrolled in the militia of the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey in the year 1777 and served along the Jersey shore at Hackensack and other places during the said year at least three months in the militia of the said county but from old age and loss of memory he is unable to state the particular times or the officers that he served under
That in the Spring of 1778 he again entered the service as a militiaman in Captain John Outwater company belonging to Col Deep Regiment and he well recollects that in the month of September of the said year Capt Outwater company was called out to a place called Aquaconack and were out three weeks under Brigadier Gen Wind and that this deponent served in the said company the full term of three weeks as above mentioned and was dis- charged with the rest of the company
That in the month of June 1779 this deponent volunteered into a company of men under Lieutenant commandant Abraham Post and served in the said company at Hackensack and along the frontiers of New Jersey

in the company under Lieut Post and under Lieut Col Fell untill the first of October of the said year when the said company was attached to Col Seelys Regiment of State troops and served at Hackensack untill about the first of January 1780 when this deponent was discharged the term for which he volunteered having expired for this service he received a regular discharge which he afterwards lost
That in the early part of the summer and he thinks in the month of June 1780 he again volunteered into a company of six months men under Capt John Outwater for the term of six months and served at Hackensack and along the Jersey Shore against the British and Tories for the term of six months in the Regiment commanded by Col Dey at the expiration of the six months this deponent was discharged but did not receive a regular discharge nor did he ask for any that Adam Boga and Abraham Allen were Lieutenants in the said company. That he was discharged sometime about the last of December of the said year that on or about the first of January 1781 this deponent again entered the service for the term of one year and enlisted under Captain John Outwater Lieutenant Joseph Catterline Ensign Abraham Hagaland and in the Regiment commanded by Col Dey and served the full term of one year the time for which he enlisted and was discharged at Hackensack in the County of Bergen and State of New Jersey on the first of January 1782 That he did not receive any written discharge nor did he ask for any That he immediately joined the service again under Captain John Outwater and served until hostilities ceased along the Jersey Shore in this last service he was out at least one year in the Regiment under Col Dey And this deponent further saith that his brother Peter Carr who was a pensioner of the United States but who is now dead served in the above mentioned service with this deponent that he procured the affidavit

of his brother Peter Carr in his lifetime to substantiate his claim which is herewith presented. That he does not know of any person by whom he can now prove his services living and that he has no documentary evidence nor does he know of any whereby he can substantiate his claim except those documents herewith presented under the hand and seal of the Secretary of the State of New Jersey.
That this deponent always performed service in the State of New Jersey except at one time the Regiment under the command of Major Gootkes was ordered to Tappan State of New York where he thinks they remained about two months.
That this deponent while in service was frequently engaged fighting the enemy when they would come from New York and other places to plunder from the inhabitants their property at one time they had a severe engagement with the British near Hackensack they were beaten and driven back to their boats in this engagement Captain Outwater was severely wounded in the leg while this deponent was standing beside him.
This deponent further says that he was born in Pompton in the State of New Jersey in the year 1761. That he has no record of his age that he can neither read or write. That since the close of the war he has resided in Pompton and Patterson in the State of New Jersey and in the town of Newburgh in the State of New York where he is well known to many of the inhabitants of the said town. And this deponent further saith that he does not know of any Clergyman who is suppositiously acquainted with his general character who can certify to his belief of his having been a soldier. That William Wood and living in the town of Newburgh can certify to his general character for truth and to his reputation as a soldier.

And this deponent hereby relinquishes all claims to any pension or annuity from any state or the United States except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency or state in the Union. And the reason why he has not applied under the act of 1818 is because he did not at that time desire to be a pensioner and since the passage of the act of 1832 he has been unable through ill health and the want of money to procure the witness that was necessary until now that he had no friends to help him.
And this deponent further saith that from old age and the infirmities of his body that he ought to be excused from attending the sittings of the court of records of the said county.
Sworn and subscribed the
30 th day of September 1839 —
Before me
Thos Barr Mark
Dwight Clark a judge of oyer and terminer County Common Pleas —
I Dwight Clark a judge of the court of common Pleas in and for the county of Orange do certify that Thomas Barr who made and subscribed the foregoing declaration is a man of truth and that his statements herein made are entitled to full credit and belief. And from personal examination I think that he ought to be excused from attending the sittings of the court of records in and for the said county.
Dwight Clark

State of New York
Orange County ss:
In the Matter of the Application of Thomas Carr, an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed the 7 th day of June 1832
Orange County ss: Peter Carr of the Town of Cal- houn in the Said County being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he who resides in the Said Town and is the brother of the above named Thomas Carr, and is aged Eighty four years. This Deponent was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and served during the whole war. This Depo- nent knows that his brother the above named Thomas Carr served as a soldier in said war. He recollects that he per- formed service in the militia soon after the commencement of the war. He served about two months at Hackinsack in the State of New Jersey. Deponent was lying at Hackinsack at that time. He was again out in service the next year under the Post in the six months service & as deponent knows served out his term. The Regiment was commanded by Col Anthony Dry being the same regiment in which this Deponent performed duty. The year after- wards the Said Thomas Carr enlisted in the six months service in the Company Com- manded by Captain John Outwater in Col Dry's Regiment, being the same Company in which this Deponent had enlisted and

in which he was then doing duty - That the said Thomas Carr, continued afterwards to perform duty as a private in the said Company with this Deponent during the continuance of the war - This Deponent further says that he knows that the said Thomas Carr was at a battle between the Americans and a body of British and Tories near Haverstraw, in which the latter were driven back and in which Captain Outwater received a wound. This Deponent was in the same battle - and Deponent further says that Col. Days Regiment were stationed at or in the vicinity of Haverstraw, a principal part of the time, for the object generally of protecting the property of the inhabitants from the depredations of the British and Tories. at one time the Company of Capt. Outwater was at Tappan in the State of New York about two months & this Deponent and his said brother were then at the same time with their Company - And further this Deponent says that —————
his Peter Carr mark
State of New York }
Orange County ss }
On the 16 th day of August 1832 personally appeared before me the above named Peter Carr, and was by me duly sworn to the foregoing affidavit - and I certify that the said Peter Carr by reason of bodily infirmity (being perfectly helpless) is unable to attend Court - and that he is a credible witness
H. W. Elliott Judge of Orange Co. N.Y.

Rev. Carr
12673 INVALID.
File No. 12,673
Thomas Carr
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1723
REPORTED
P. O. Thomas Carr
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18

N. York Thomas Barr Bt. to J. W. Martin 4. Dec. 1839
1723
Act June 1832

N. York Thos. Carr let. to Hon. Mr Jones, 22. Jan, 1840
Act June 1832

Jan 21. 1840
My Returned Cert original
Hon. J. P. Kirtland Asst. Commissioner Pensions Hon. Nath. Ames H. R.

"An Act to raise by voluntary enlistment eight hundred and twenty men for the defence of the frontiers of the State.
Whereas it is highly necessary that provision should be made for the protection and defence of the frontier inhabitants of this State, and also for the important purposes of preventing the illicit trade carried on, and breaking off the communication now maintained, by disaffected persons with the common enemy, to the extreme prejudice of the United States;
1781 II. 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 soon 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 and 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 serjeants, three corporals, one drummer and three horsemen;
One to be raised and commanded by Captain

John Outwater, of the county of Bergen, Lieutenant Joseph Catterline and Ensign Abraham Hogaland of the county of Somerset;— The other, to be raised and commanded by Captain Thomas Blanch, Lieutenant David Danarist, and ensign Jacobus Bogart of the said county of Bergen."
State of New Jersey ss.
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract of a Law of said State, passed the twenty sixth day of December A. D. Seventeen hundred and eighty, (1780) entitled "An Act to raise by voluntary enlistment eight hundred and twenty men for the defence of the frontiers of the State". as taken from and compared with the original now remaining in my office:— And I further certify that to the title of the said Act in the compilation of the Laws of New Jersey made by Peter Wilson Esqr. by authority of the Legislature in 1784 the following note is appended "The men raised in consequence of this act continued in service until January 1st 1782."
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the city of Trenton in said State, this twenty third day of September Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. (1839)
James D. Westcott

Abstract of Pay-rolls discharged by Joseph Lewis
   No Dates Regiment Officer's name Where served Under whom L. S. D.     301 Oct. 12. 1778 Grey's Battery Capt. Outwater Acquaconack. Brig. Winds 91 8 7  
State of New Jersey ss
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract of an account headed "Abstract Pay-rolls discharged by Joseph Lewis" as taken from the record in Book A of Auditor's Accounts during the Revolutionary War, folio 64 now remaining in my office.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Trenton in said State, this twenty-third day of September Anno Domini, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. (1839)
James D. Westcott

(No. 1.)  Account of Pay and Subsistence p o to Capt. D. Wentzel viz:
No 370 { For 57 men of his Comp. of Col d Frelinghausens Regt. for service under Lt. Col d Bell at Hackinack from the first day of Aug t to the 1 st Septem r : 1779 } £175. 15. 0
No 371 { Subsistence for the above men from the 18 th Aug t to 1 st Sept r : 1779. } 141. 7. 6
No 372 { Pay for 43 men of Lt. Abrah. Posts Comp y . the month of July 1779 } 110. 14. 7
No 373 P d for 5 o for the month of August 1779 122. 15. 0
No 374 Subsistence for the above Co. from 18 th Aug t to 1 st Sept r . 86. 2. 6 £ 636. 14. 7
Received Morris Town 25 Sept r : 1779 of Joseph Lewis Paymaster Six hundred and thirty six pounds fourteen Shillings and Seven pence pro o in full of the above 5 pay Rolls for which I have signed a Dup t . Rec t . on each Roll.
£ 636. 14. 7
Daniel Wentzel Capt t .
Received Morris Town Oct. 1. 1779 of Jos. Lewis Paymaster Three hundred and thirty two pounds pro o in full of pay due to 46 men of Lt. Abrah. Posts Company of Col d Frelinghausens Regiment under command of Lt. Col d Bell from the first of Septem r : to 30 th inclusive last for which I have this day signed duplicate Receipts
No 378 £ 332. 0. 0
Daniel Wentzel Capt t .

Received Morris Town 18 th Decem r 1779 of Joseph Lewis Paymaster four hundred and nine pounds two Shillings and four pence proc. in full of pay due to my Company of Col. Seely's Regt of New Jersey State Troops which served at Hackinsack from 1 st October to the 16 th Inst. for which I have signed Duplicate Rec s . No 380 £409. 2. 4 Abraham Post. Lieut.
(No 2)
Rec d cash p r Capt. Dan. Wentzel 25 th Sept. 1779
No 258 - For 57 his Co. men of Col. Frelinghuysens Regt. for Augt. Served at Hackinsack under Lt. Col. Pile $450.00
No 259 - For 43 do. of St. Ab. Posts (for the month of July) 317.12.6
No 260 - for do. in August 1779 333.15.0 £1101. 7. 6
Received Morris Town 25 th September 1779 of Joseph Lewis Paymaster One thousand one hundred & one pounds seven Shillings & six pence proc. in full of the above three Bounty Rolls for which I have this day given a Duplicate Rec t . on each Roll.
Daniel Wentzel Capt.
Received Morris Town 10 th of October 1779 of Joseph Lewis Paymaster three hundred and forty eight pounds fifteen shillings, proc. in full of Bounty due 59 men of Lieut. Abraham Posts Company of New Jersey State Troops.

being a detachment of Col. Frederick Phelen hausen's Reg. t under Com d of Lieut. Col. Pell at Hackensack for the month of Sept r past for which I have sign d Duplicate Receipts
No. 2644 £348. 15. 0
Daniel Wentzel Capt.
Received Morris Tawn. 18 th Decem r 1779. of Jos. Louis Pay- master light hundred and twenty four pounds Ten Shillings proc. in purs e of Bounty due to men of Lieut. Abraham Post Com- pany of Col. Suly's Reg t of N. Jersey State Troops, which served at Hackensack from 1 st of Oct r to 16 th Decem r inclusive for which I have this day signed Duplicate Rec ts
No. 266. £824. 10
Abraham Post Lieut.
State of New Jersey ss.
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certi- fy that the foregoing (No. 1) is a true extract from an Ancient book of original receipts relating to the Revolutionary war
marked on the back "Pay No. 2." ; and that (No. 2) is a true ex- tract from another Ancient book of original receipts relating to the same war, marked on the back "No. 2. Bounty" now remain- ing in my office
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at the City of Trenton in said State, this twenty sixth day of September Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine. (1839)
James D. Westcott

State of New York } ss I William Wood and Orange County } Samuel G. Wood of the town of Goshen in the said County of Orange being duly sworn depose and say that we have been acquainted with Thomas Carr of the said town for more than twenty five years and know an applicant for a pension and believe him to be a man of truth and veracity and that we further believe that he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and that his services have never been doubted in the neighbourhood where he resides but on the contrary he is reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we have never heard his services doubted Sworn and subscribed before me the thirty day of September 1839 William Wood Samuel G. Wood
Filed Clerk a true copy of Orange County Common Pleas
I certify that William Wood and Samuel G. Wood who made and subscribed the foregoing affidavit are men of respectability and their statements made are entitled to full credit and belief.
Filed Clerk H " "

State of New York
Orange County } ss: I Albert S. Benton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange do hereby certify that Horace W Elliott before whom the affidavit of Peter Carr, hereto attached, was sub- scribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, afore- said; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavit is genuine - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this first day of October 1839
A. S. Benton Clerk
State of New York
Orange County } ss: I Albert S. Benton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange, do hereby certify that Horace Clark before whom the foregoing declaration of Thomas Carr and the within affidavit of William Wood & Samuel G Wood were subscribed and sworn was at the time of taking the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge, and verily believe that the signatures to the said declaration and affidavits is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County the First day of October 1839
A. S. Benton Clerk

State of New York, On this Thirteenth day of January Orange County ss Eighteen Hundred and Forty personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, Thomas Reerr a resident of the town of Warwick in the said county who being first duly sworn made oath to the following effect as an amendment and explanation to a former declaration made by him in September Eighteen Hundred and Thirty nine before Hulet Clark a Justice of the court of commonpleas in and for the said county That in the Spring of the year 1780 he volunteered for six months into a company of men commanded by Capt John Butwater who belonged to Col Deyo Regiment in Bergen County New Jersey and served about seven months in the said company and in the Battalion commanded by Major Gootches who was a Major in Col Deyo Regiment of Militia and was discharged about the last of December of the said year He further deposeth and saith he was at Hackensack when he volunteered after we had been sometime in Hackensack and the adjoining neighbourhood we were ordered to a place called Scrollingburg where we met a party of British soldiers and had a pretty smart skirmish with them and drove them back towards Gappan in September or October of the said year Captain Blanche gave notice that some British soldiers were in the neighbourhood of Fort Lee a cutting wood and plundering the inhabitants Major Gootches ordered his battalion to march towards Fort Lee and found the enemy in the woods we commenced firing upon them and had a pretty hard fight and drove the enemy to their boats in this action Major Gootches commanded as Major Butwater Blanche Reerr (and others that he cannot recollect) acted as Captains. In this action Daniel Banto was wounded in both legs John Lazer was

was wounded in the thigh Peter Van Voorhies had his arm broke Garret Vanhouten was wounded in the back after the battle Major Gootches marched back to Hackensack with his battallion and Captain Blanche moved off towards Tappan Captain Belcheater company remain- ed at Hackensack untill about Christmas of the same year when they were discharged after a service of about seven months done in the County of Bergen and state of New Jersey under Major Gootches
This deponent further declares that from sickness and disuse which is fast bringing him to the grave he is unable to attend the sitting of the court of record in and for Bergen County
the word about, erased before signing sworn and subscribed the day and year above written by making his mark because he never was taught to write
Thomas Herr his mark
H. H. Coe Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am acquainted with Thomas Herr who made and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and believe his statements therein made are entitled to full credit and belief
And from personal examination believe he is unfit to attend the sitting of the court of record in and for the County of Bergen H. H. Coe Justice of the Peace
District

State of New York, William Leona of the town of Orange County, Bearwick in the said county being duly sworn deponent and saith that he is forty four years of age and that he has been acquainted with Thomas Herr who is now an applicant for a pension at least twenty years and the said Thomas Herr has resided in the family of this deponent for at least seven years and has allways known the said Herr to be a man of truth and his word to be relied on and this deponent further saith that the said Thomas Herr from disease which appears to be fast preying upon him is unable to attend the sitting of the court of records of the county of Orange Sworn and subscribed this 15th day of January 1848 and certify that the above is a true and correct copy before me H. H. Hooker Justice of The Peace
State of New York Orange County ss } I Albert S. Benton clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Orange do hereby certify that Henry H. Houston before named is a Justice of the peace in and for the said county and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 16th day of January 1848
A. S. Benton Clerk

Washington Feb. 6 th 1840
To the Commissioners of Pensions Sir,
I ask the favor of the Commissioner to furnish me the Certificate of Thomas Carr for the 12 mo. under Capt Outwater in 1781 and 6 mo. Lieut. Post, should be deny allowance of service rendered in '78
I presented his Amended Declaration Jan. 4 th 21 st and the requisite or supposed satisfac- tory reasons for Carr's not making his declara- tion in Open Court. I will repeat, that I know the declarant personally - saw him in Nov. last and before the Commission, that his infirmity at that time would have utterly forbid the attempt of attending court.
Very Respectfully Your Servant
Nathl. Jones

House of Representatives Jan. 4 th 1840 Hon. G. W. Cump Court of Pensions
Sir. Your letter to me, returning the Declara- tion of Thomas Carr of Dec r 4. 1839. states that his Declaration "should be made in the Court of Record" I accordingly sent the same to his Agent with your letter, in the hope that the old man might be able to attend the Dec r term of Orange county. I have just received said Declaration together with an Amended declaration and explanations to which has been made before a justice of the Peace, with affidavits reiterating that his health age and infirmity prevent him from attending the Court. Permit me here sir, most respectfully to state that I am personally acquainted with the old man (Carr), William Wood and the Justice (Houston) and certify to you that they are, each, men of unquestionable veracity and morality. They are all my townsmen. I saw Carr, the declarant, in November last who was then in my opinion too infirm to be carried with safety, twelve Miles to Goshen where the court was held in September and much less to be transported from his place

of abode to Newburgh at which place the De- term was held being a distance of thirty one miles .
In the Commissioners letter to me Dec. 4th above alluded to, he says in conclusion, All the services that can be allowed upon the papers on file is the 12 months under Capt. Outwater in 1787 and six months under Lieut. Post in 1779 - and therefore denies the service in 1778 because "the officers not mentioned" allow me to remark that by referring to the declaration, it will appear that declarant states that he served two months in that year under Capt Outwater - There seems to be some portion of time covered by the Certificate of Sec. Westcott. It seems to me that such time ought to be allowed.
Very Respectfully
Your Humble Servant
Nathaniel Jones

J. Edwards Commence of Pensions

24 Tenchville Orange County New York Oct 11/39
Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Respected Sir with
this letter I send for your examination the declaration and witness in the case of Thomas Barr a Soldier of the Revolution you will please to examine and answer to your obedient Servant
John W. Martin
Tenchville Orange County New York

34,931 New York, Oct 5. Thomas Carr Oct 32.
J. J. Edwards Pension Office Washington City