Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S.34164, Alexander Camron, New York

SERVICE
New York.
Cameron, Alexander
NUMBER _____
S. 34164
CONTENTS

(2,983)
New Jersey Roll
Alexander Canrow
Capt. Benedict (private)
New York line - 1776 9 months
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of Sept. 1818 and sent to Lewis Condict, Esq. Morristown New Jersey
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 28.40 Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 th Mar. 1819 48.00
Arrears 4 Mo 24/30 $86.40
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
✓ ✓
Continued
near Morristown Morris County
Robertson sent September 18. 1820 to Lewis Condict, Morristown, New Jersey

Alexander Camron
Priv-
Lewis Condict Esq Morristown, N.J.
Admitted
Castleford N.Y. July 1818
11. April 1818
[Faint mirrored handwriting from the reverse side of the page]

State of New Jersey County of Morris ss
Personally came before me Lewis Condict one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Morris, Alexander Cameron, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he was engaged in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, against the common enemy, on the Continental establishment; That he first enlisted as a private soldier at Salem in the State of New York (for six months) some time in the Month of June of the year Seventeen hundred and seventy five in Captain Joseph Benedict's Company of the Fourth Regiment Commanded by Col. Holmes of the New York line, and continued in the said Company & Regiment until the 31 st day of December of the same year, when the said Regiment was disbanded at Salem aforesaid — That he afterward, to wit, on the first day of March in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six at Salem aforesaid enlisted for nine months as a Sergeant in Capt. Cornelius Steenrod's Company of the First Regiment Commanded by Col. M c Dougall of the New York line, that he continued in the same in the said Company and Regiment until the 31 st day of December of the same year, at which time he rec d a regular honorable discharge from the army from the said Col. M c Dougall; which discharge is now lost — This Deponent further saith that he resides near Morristown in the County of Morris & State of New Jersey; that he has never heretofore received any pension from the United States; and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support and prays to have his name placed on the Pension list under the act of Congress passed the 18 March 1818 entitled "an act to provide for certain persons"

engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war"
This Deponent further saith that he knows no person now alive who would be able to corroborate the facts set forth herein, but that the same are correct and true.
Given & subscribed before me at Morristown the 11 th of April 1818
Alex r Camron
Lewis Condick.
I, Lewis Condick, a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Morris, in the state of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Alexander Camron did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the foregoing deposition, against the common enemy; - and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony had and taken before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the act of Congress of the 18 th March, Dom. 1818.
Morris Town, N. Jersey Apr. 11 th 1818.
Lewis Condick.

State of New Jersey } I Robert H. M c Carter Clerk of the said County of Morris ss } County of Morris, do certify that Lewis Condich Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit is made, is and was, at the doing thereof duly enrolled One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Morris, and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to his official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscri- bed my name and affixed the seal of the said County the second day of May A D Eighteen hundred and eighteen.
Robert H. M c Carter

Alexander Cameron
1776 Hanover 2983
Con
26 Sept 18
Mar 19
bc

District of New-Jersey, } ss. Morris County, }
On this eighth day of July, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris-Town, in and for the County of Morris, in the term of July, in the year aforesaid. [The said court being a court of record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping records of its proceedings, and its Judgments being removeable by writ of error only]
Alexander Cannon aged seventy four years, resident in the township of Hanover in said county, who being sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in Colo. Holmes Regiment in Canada in the year 1775 in war of the Revolution. I also served in Colo. Alexander McDouglas Regiment at New York and Long Island in the year 1776.
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 manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent 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. That my original declaration was made for a pension on the 11 th of April 1818 and that my pension certificate is numbered 2983. That my occupation has been that of a common labourer, that from old age, infirmity and a fall from a waggon I am unable to support myself. I have no land no house. I have a wife aged fifty nine years. one son aged ten years.
Sworn and subscribed before me, the 8 th day of July 1820
Alex Cannon
Gab. A. Ford

SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing deposition of Alexander Cannon as follows -
  1 Cow - - - - - $ 18.00   1 Hog - - - - - 10.00   2 Tables - - - - - 1.50   1 Chest with drawers - - - 4.00   6 setting chairs - - - - - 1.00   1 Kitchen dresser - - - - - .75   Kitchen furniture - - - - - 5.00   40.25 
I owe debts to the    amount of - - - - - 10.00   $ 30.25 
Sworn and Subscribed before me July 8 th 1820 - } Gab. A. Ford - }
Alex Cannon

State of New Jersey, } ss. County of Morris. }
I, Robert H. McCarter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Morris, 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 forty dollars and twenty five cents.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty.
Robert H. McCarter, Clerk of the Court for the County of Morris

34164 Rev. INVALID.
File No. 34,164
Alexander Cameron
His Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 65
[Arrangement of 1870.]