Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3142, Israel Canfield, New Jersey

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New Jersey
Canfield, Israel
S 3142
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9007 9008 New Jersey
Israel Canfield
of Morristown in the State of N. J. who was Pri. of Cav in the Co. 11th commanded by Captain Arnold of the Reg commanded by Shelder in the N. J. line for Mo
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 29 Dollars 16 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of March 1833 and sent to S Condit. Morristown
Arrears to the 4th of March 33 $59 32 Semi-ann. allowance ending Sep. 1833 : 14 84 $74 16
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. D. Bullock Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 13 Page 105
Why? L. Condit, July 1: 36 - (dup as)
Duplicate certificate issued 11 th July 1836, and handed to S r Condit - See application on file with the papers of Israel Canfield, New Jersey, June 7, 1832 - N o 9008.
Dead Let to Hon J. W. Miller Aug 4. 1842.

DECLARATION, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS, PASSED JUNE 7, 1832.
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY, } ss. County of Morris }
On this fourth day of August , 1832, personally appeared, in open court, before the judges of the Inferior
the court of Common Pleas , now sitting, Israel Canfield Esq. a resident of Morris town in the
County of Morris and State of New-Jersey , aged seventy three years, who being first 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States , under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated:
That in the year 1775 or early in the year 1776 he was enrolled as a private in Capt. Thos. Kinney's Troop of Morris County Light Horse, that he was uniformed & armed with a carbine and bayonet a pair of Pistols and cutlass, That Peter Mackie was Lieutenant and Alexander Carmichael was Cornet and that he served as herein stated In the month of June 1776 he was called on as one of a guard to conduct the then late Governor Franklin of New Jersey to the Governor & Council of the State of Connecticut That said Capt. Kinney & Peter Mackie commanded that we went from Morris town, (N.J.) via of Hackensack in the County of Bergen where we were detained some days, Passed from thence to Dobbs ferry on the North river about 25 miles New York, Thence through Horse neck &c. Through New Haven & Waterbury to Hartford, thence about 30 miles to a village called Lebanon, where the Governor and council were sitting, after being detained there several days the Governor & Council paroled Genl. Franklin as I was informed at Middlesex in Connecticut, where we left him on our return home, on our return part of the guard thinking that it would be difficult to pass through the City of New York, having heard that the British Fleet and army had arrived there, returned with the Lieutenant by Dobbs Ferry, The Capt & others with myself returned (via) of New York where I saw the fleet lying near Staten Island shore, this was in July 1776 he believes he was engaged in this service several days or more Soon after he was ordered out by some of the officers of said company and not now recollect which of them & was at Elizabeth Town, Woodbridge, Anboy and New Brunswick & stationed a number of days at Woodbridge as an outpost with some militia of said company about thirty days, In November 1776 he was ordered as one of a guard under the direction of a non commissioned officer Jacob Arnold to take a lot of deserters & others sent from New York and confined in Morris County Jail & Philadelphia on returning from Philadelphia was informed at Princeton that the British had arrived at New Brunswick, changed our route & all in with the Morris county militia (who had been discharged at New Brunswick) before we arrived at Morristown was about ten days, About this time a general relaxation of military duty took place Early in December 1776 he was ordered on duty at Morristown carbine & bayonet, Dispatched to Genl. Lee in the County of Essex, his troops soon after arrived at Morristown and pitched their Tents on the South Side of Morristown Mountain, he was still on duty at Morristown when Genl. Lee was taken prisoner at Baskin ridge 8 miles from Morristown, some of his guard who were wounded were brought to Morristown to be dressed saw their wounds dressed by Capt. Lee , Campbell, who was afterwards surgeon to Col. Sheldon's Regiment of U States Light Horse, was placed as a guard at Morristown over some persons said to be Tories, ordered to be arrested as he understood by Genl. Lee He further states that he was doing duty as a Light Horse man in or near Morristown between the 10th of December 1776 and the 8th of February 1777 about  sixty days He believes that the first part of this duty done at Morristown was under the orders of Capt. Kinney of said company Capt. Kinney being inform resigned, the other officers having also resigned In Election of Officers for said company of Light Horse took place some time between 15th December 1776 and 1st of February 1777 at which he was present When Jacob Arnold was chosen Capt & Penetius Beach Lt and Wm Sedell Ensign or Cornet He further saith that about the 8th of Feb y 1777 he was ordered to join S d company on duty and stationed between the Rariton & Millstone Rivers about 8 miles from New Brunswick after being at this station a while S d company was ordered into the County of Sussex to attend a meeting of the militia of said county called as he believes by Patriotic men of that county to induce them to enter the service in defence of the Country, but don't know whether S d company was ordered there to convince the militia, that the militia of the lower counties were in arms opposed to the enemy, or to guard against the outrages of the Tories at said meeting. That he and the said company returned to said station While he was on duty at Morristown some of the said company was with the militia on the Millstone when they attacked a British Foraging Party & captured about

110 Waggons with Teams of large Horses of the dray breed, that he continued at the said Station until about the 20 th of March 1777 making as he believes forty Two days, and further he says that he was with the said company who's duty it was for one half of the Company to find the Ration or Millstone and go every day to the vicinity of New Brunswick so as to see the British Pickets & ascertain whether the British Troops were in motion. That some of Capt. Lees Troop of Light Horse were quartered in same neighborhood & Capt. Lee afterwards Major Lee, of Virginia, was quartered at Mrs. Tenenkes the same house I was quartered at most of the time. That Capt. Lees men were having the Small Pox some time before I was discharged from this Station and they performed no duty that I know of. They were putting their horses in order for regular service. Col. or Major Bland of the N. State Cavalry was I believe quartered in the same neighborhood having been here at Capt. Lees quarters, and further he supposes that Capt. Lees company were really and through the Small Pox when he was discharged. Immediately after his return home to Morris town he had the Small Pox. This year about the time that Genl. Gates captured Burgoyne's army as he believes he was ordered on duty under Capt. Arnold at Elizabeth Town & was in an expedition against the British on Staten Island Genl. Dickinson of Trenton Commanded. Soon after said expedition was stationed at Newark and immediately after hearing of the capture of Burgoyne's army he was sent with dispatches from said Genl. Dickinson to Genl. Gates which he delivered to him or some of his aids at Fishkill in the State of New York and returned with dispatches from Genl. Gates. This tour of duty he believes to have been in Oct. 1777 or Oct. & Nov. 1 month or more.
We did a tour of duty in said Troop in the Summer & Fall of 1778 the Col. Genl. Frelinghuysen Major or Col. Commandant at Elizabeth Town, in reconnoitering the British lines &c, before we were dismissed said Commandant informed Capt. Arnold & a few of the Troops who had been with him reconnoitering the British lines that he had received such information from within the enemys lines as convinced him they intended an expedition into Jersey very soon. This tour of duty was thirty days or more a few days after we were discharged Genl. Windt the Commandant of the Militia of the eastern part of New Jersey was informed of the appearance of the enemy, the alarm guns were fired & Capt. Arnolds company assembled at Morris town and marched to Springfield where we received information that the enemy had crossed near Elizabeth town and moved towards Newark and found Col. Frelinghuysen at camp town 2 miles from Newark at evening. Soon after Genl. Windt arrived and ordered Capt. Arnold to go as near the enemy as he could and patrol all night. We went into Newark and there was informed they had gone through Newark, we passed through Newark & patrolled all night between Newark & Bloomfield. Genl. Windt with the Militia came forward this day & was formed on the heights near Belville and was engaged with the enemy a long time some of the militia was killed as is said & some were wounded. Early next morning the enemy crossed the Passaic River into Bergen County, the Militia pursued them several days until they passed the Town of Hackensack returned and were dismissed about after 8 or 10 days service. Always did duty as a soldier of the Revolution, when and where ordered by his officers until verbally discharged, never received any other discharge his principal place of residence during the whole period he was doing military duty in said company was at his fathers house 4 miles from Morris town. his father was a merchant or trader which was his principal business until 1776 when it almost ceased as to foreign goods. That he had a family of 11 children his deponent being his oldest son was in the habit of writing in his fathers books at the age of 12 or 14 years & which have been his principal guide in making out the time he served in said Troop that he does not know of any person living who served in the said Troop with him after 1778. His Father being in want of his services to cultivate his land for the support of his family joined with one of his neighbours on hiring a substitute to enlist during the war, which by a law of New Jersey was to exempt him & his deponent from duty except in cases of alarm. That he believes Joseph Bilton & Ephraim Coates who are now living in Morris County State of New Jersey belonged to said company after 1778 & that he does not recollect being in service with them but he thinks he was in time of invasion in different detachments as was the case frequently with the said Troop. In the year 1780 the enemy came to Springfield in Essex County I went there and was there and at other times in military service in said company fifteen days exclusive of the above making in all eight months actual service performed by said deponent. He never recd. a commission. According to a family record kept by his father, not now in his possession, he was born on the 3 rd of July, 1759. Entered a Volunteer in the Troop to which he belonged, & did duty according to order, then living in Morris town, when he has spent the whole of his life. Recollects as officers Genl. Windt, Genl. Dickinson & Col. Frelinghuysen.

He refers to Col. Jos. Butler & Dr. Lewis Condict, in regard to his standing in society, & as to the general belief of having served in the war of the revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State, except  on that of the Agency of the State of New Jersey
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
William Britton
Israel Canfield
We, Joseph Butler, & Lewis Condict, residing in the County of Morris hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Israel Canfield Esq., who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy three years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
William Britton
Joseph Butler Lewis Condict
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Joseph Butler and Lewis Condict who have signed the preceding certificate, are resident in the Township of Morris in the County aforesaid, and that  who have taken signed who are  residents in the and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
William Britton
Stephen Dail
I David Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Israel Canfield for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this Seventh day of August in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
David Day

I hereby certify to the Honble the Secretary of War, that Israel Banfield Esqr. the within applicant, has been personally well known to me more than thirty years past, as one of the most respectable & most respected citizens of this County. He has always enjoyed an unspotted reputation. He has been High Sheriff of this County, & one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for several years, both of which offices he filled with honor to himself & satisfactorily to the County. He has lived a life of industry & integrity, & is highly esteemed by all who know him. He was extensively concerned in the Iron business for many years, & in the general depression of that branch of industry which occurred about the close of the late war, he failed in business, is now in reduced circumstances, & the aid of his country for his revolutionary services, at this period of his life, would be peculiarly acceptable.
Morris town, N. J. Aug. 4. 7 th . 1832.
Lewis Condick, one of the Representatives from N. Jersey in the Congress of the U. S.
* N. B. The affair of Gov. Franklin, to be better understood, when it is recollected that he was Colonial Governor, under the Crown, at beginning of the Revolution, & refused to recognize the authority of the Provincial Congress, & was by them convicted as a Prisoner to Connecticut, as a place, where in exile, he could do no harm. He was a natural son of Dr. B. Franklin, & for his father's sake, was dealt more tenderly with, than otherwise he might have been.
Israel Banfield NO 4. 653 8 mos. Barclay street New York City The private of General 24. 16

State of New Jersey Morris County ss
I James Stites of Newark in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey being of full age and being duly sworn saith that he was living in the Township of Morris in said County of Morris in the year A.D. Seventeen hundred and seventy six a near neighbour to Israel Canfield and his father's family and that he was present in said summer of Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Six when said Israel Canfield started from his father's house uniformed armed and mounted as a light horse man and that he understood that at that time and since that he was going into the service of his country and further that he saw him when he returned from tours of duty and that he is fully convinced that his absence in the service of his country in course of one year from about June Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Six was from six to eight months
Sworn and Subscribed before me June 22. 1832
James Stites
Charles Freeman Justice Peace Morris County
N. Jersey
State of New Jersey Morris County ss
Be it remembered that on the first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two before the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Morris Peter Forchchild who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is now seventy seven years of age deponent knows with his father in the

year 1776 & that his father's house was within thirty or forty rods of the house of Abraham Langfield the father of Israel Langfield born of Monmouth in said county & that he is well acquainted with the said Israel Langfield & knows that he was informed armed & equipped as a light horse- man & believing that he did duty in the military as above stated by James Stiles & that the said James Stiles lived at that time in adjacent father's house — & further deponent saith not —
Peter Fairchild
Peter Fairchild, the above Deponent: I will know to be a man of truth. Just Conduct a Ref. Jan'y 19 th from N. Jersey 1833.
Sworn & subscribed in open court the day & year above written
Stephen Vail
State of New Jersey } ss. Morris County }
Be it remembered that on the 11 th day of August A.D. Eighteen Hundred & thirty two before me, Charles Freeman  Charles Freeman  Justice of the Peace  Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Morris Personally appeared Jacob Langfield who being duly sworn upon his oath saith that he is the brother of Israel Langfield of Morristown in said County and that this deponent was sixty seven years of age the fourth day of June last and will remember that his said brother Israel was informed armed and equipped to do duty in time of the Revolutionary War as a light horseman and that he was in the habit of writing in his father's day book in the years Seventeen Hundred and seventy six, Seventeen Hundred and seventy seven & Seventeen Hundred & seventy eight and believing he did at least eight months duty as a light horseman in those three years above stated
Sworn & subscribed before me August 4 A.D. 1832 Charles Freeman Justice of the Peace
Jacob Langfield

Jacob Ganfield, the above Deponent is well known to me, to be a man of truth & of good standing 19 th Jan y 1833. — Lewis Bonquet, a Rep. from N. Jersy.
State of New Jersey Morris County ss.
I David Day Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Morris aforesaid do hereby certify that Charles Freeman Esquire before whom the depositions of James Hites and Jacob Ganfield were taken was at the time of taking of the same and still is a Justice of the Peace of said County of Morris duly Commission- ed and sworn. And that the signatures by the said Charles Freeman thereto annexed is his genuine signature —
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this seventh day of August A. D. Eighteen hundred and thirty two — David Day Clerk

Rehran
3142 INVALID.
File No. 3142
Israel Mansfield
Print "Cavy" Rev "War"
Act: June 7 th 1852
Index:—Vol. A , Page 57
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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