Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2079, Samuel Blackford, New Jersey.

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Blackford, Samuel
S. 2079
carded
CONTENTS

32.890
New Jersey Samuel Blackford
of _____ in the State of N.J., who was a priv in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by _____ in the _____ line for 2 Years
Inscribed on the Roll of N.J., at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of June 1857 and sent to W.S. Allison
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending Present
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by H.E. Robinson Clerk, Book @ Vol. 3 Page 116

State of New Jersey Middlesex County }
On this fifteenth day of March 1851, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Samuel Blackford, a resident of said county, aged 90 years, who being first duly sworn, testifies in order to obtain the benefit of the act of 7 th June 1832, as follows, that in 1777, ( sixteen seventeen hundred and seventy seven) he was drafted as a militia man of New Jersey for one month, under Captain Saperter and Colonel Martin, during which he was marched to Woodbridge, and remained stationed there during the whole of the time until discharged. When his turn came to serve again, which was to the best of his recollection, in about two months, he was again drafted to serve one month and was marched to New Brunswick, and to Amboy, and at the expiration of his term, was discharged. In about two or three months, thereafter, in the summer, he was again drafted and marched to Amboy, Elizabethtown, and other places, under the same officers, under which he first served, and under whom his second tour was performed, and served one month. He was again drafted to serve one month in the fall of the same year under the same officers, and was marched as before to Amboy & Elizabethtown, and remained stationed there for one month. During this year Genl. Burgoyne was taken prisoner, and the enemy had possession of Philadelphia. In the following year I was drafted to serve in monthly tours from the beginning of that year, until nearly it,

close, in monthly tours, under Captain Saporius and Colonel Martin, and was marched to Woodbridge, Amboy, Elizabeth town and New Brunswick, to guard those places from the incursions of the enemy. In this year I served six months. In 1779 I was again drafted and served in monthly tours, still under the commands of Captain Saporius, and as before were marched to New Brunswick and at Elizabeth town. During this year I was stationed at the latter place a part of the time, in each town, and partly at Woodbridge, and served five months. In 1780, there was a call for troops to guard different parts of the State of New Jersey, and under this call I served eight months, in 1781, under Captain Dunn, and was stationed a part of the time at Eliza- beth town, and opposite Staten Island. I performed at least three tours, in 1782, of one month each, under Captain Martin and was marched from place to place to protect such places as were exposed to the incursions of the enemy. I have been at different times, been called upon to give my testimony as a witness, but having a small farm, and means of support which never apply for myself, I am now old and infirm and totally unable to do any thing for my support, and am now brought by my necessi- ties to apply to my county for the bounty to which my services justly entitle me. I know of no living witness of my service.

but may be able to find some one who has for many years known that I have always been reputed to have been a revolutionary soldier by Samuel Blackford Sworn and subscribed Mark the day and year aforesaid before me, H. Brown Justice of the peace Witness H. Brown
I hereby certify that the above named deponent by reason of old age and bodily infirmity consequent thereon is unable to appear in open court to make his declaration, H. Brown Justice
State of New Jersey Middlesex County
Personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace, in and for said State & County, Isaac E. Giles, a resident of the aforesaid county, aged 46 years, and after being duly sworn testifies that he has known the above named applicant for a pension from his earliest recollections, and knows him to have always had the reputation of having been a revolutionary soldier, in which opinion
I concur Isaac E. Giles Sworn and subscribed before me this 15 th day of March 1857 H. Brown Justice of the peace

I hereby certify that the within named deponents are credible and respectable Witnesses, and further that Samuel Blackford who has made his mark to his declaration has always been able to sign his name untill within a few years past
A. B. Myrce

State of New Jersey Middlesex County
On this 15 day of March A.D. 1851 personally appeared before me, the undersigned of Justice of the Peace in and for said County and state, Renne Runyon, a resident of said County, aged 84 years who being first duly sworn states that he was in his eleventh year in 1776, and lived near where the enemy passed through from New York to Trenton after the Battle of Long Island. He was acquainted with Samuel Blackford, who is now claiming a pension for his revolutionary service and although he did not live near enough to the applicant and was too young to serve himself, was always told that he was frequently out in the militia of New Jersey, and have since the war heard old revolutionary soldiers speak of his service. Those old soldiers are now dead. It is my belief that he served as has been stated, and further saith not. Sworn & subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid.
Renne Runyon
B Ward Justice of the Peace
I do certify that the above deponent Renne Runyon is well known to me to be a Creditable Person of an impeccable Character and has held the office of Deacon of the Hampton Baptist Church for about forty years. Given under my hand and seal this 15 day of March 1851.
B Ward Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey Middlesex County
On this day of March 1857
personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace for said County, Ransom Blackford aged 85 years who being first duly sworn states that he is a brother of Samuel Blackford an applicant for a pension, and knows that he was out in the service as a militia man of New Jersey, and was fre- quently called out at different periods during the revolutionary war, I was too young to serve, myself, or to recollect the particulars of the service, or the officers names under whom his tours were performed, I have frequently heard him speak with other soldiers of his service and of the hardships which he endured. He has always borne the reputation of having served as a revolutionary soldier, in the community where he lived. We lived in a part of the state where the British passed through after the Battle of Long Island, and I remember of seeing the enemy at different times passing near where my father lived, as further the deponent saith not
Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid.
Sidney Blackford Mark
B. Ward Justice of the Peace
I do hereby certify that the above witness Ransom Blackford is known to me to be a Credible Witness and of unimpeachable Character Given under my hand seal this 15 th day of March A.D. 1857
B. Ward Justice

May 9 - 1857
Adal. evi in case of Saml. Blackford
Leup Tréplet
was Allison
Present
South Leg
Coownership of Pensions

N 38-122
March 28/57
App. (Orig.) of Samuel Blackford
up W.D.
W.S. Ellison Present
James M. Tinsley Washington Col.

Rev War
2079
INVALID.
File No. 2079
Samuel Blackford
Print Rev War
Act: June 2. 1832
Index:—Vol. A. , Page 34.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
✓

No 38.122
Sam Blackford
N.C.
Feb 11th June 1832
See C. M. H. H. H.

Samuel Blackford.
N. Jersey.
Act 7 June 1832.
ad? 2 yrs per - $ 80.00 per Ann. from 4 March 1831.
Payable to him.
beet to W. J. Allison Present.

Washington, May 8, 1851
Sir,
Enclosed herewith is additional testimony in the case of Sam l Blackford of New Jersey, under act of June 1832, where claim I presented some time since.
I am, respectfully,
Your O bt Serv t
Wm Lloyd
J. E. Heath Esq r House of Peers.

State of New Jersey
I Thomas S Allison Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that I have made careful search in the Revolutionary records of my office, and do not find therein the name of Samuel Blackford; and I do further certify that the books, containing the names of the privates of Militia, of this State, are only for the payment of interest of certificates granted for balance of pay due them, and that therefore the absence of their names in such record (if no balance was due them) is no evidence of their not having been in the service.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office at Trenton in said State this eighteenth day of March Eighteen hundred and fifty one.
Thomas S Allison Secretary of State

Samuel Blackford N. Jersey at 7 June 32
W. S. Alston Attorney, Pied

State of New Jersey Middlesex County ss. I Nicholas Boorse clerk of the County of Middlesex do hereby cer- tify that Bethune Ward & Abraham Boor Bogus before whom the above recited statement of several the said affidavits of Isaac E. Green, Reuben Reynolds & Nathan Blackford were made & taken respectively before me this day personally and for the said County duly sworn and known, at the time of the making thereof said each of them affidavits and that their respective signatures to the said papers are genuine
In witness whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this fifteenth day of March AD 1857 Nicholas Boorse

add d evidence of Samuel Blackford
W. D. Allen Attorney,

State of New Jersey Middlesex County
On this 25 th day of April A.D. 1851 - personally appeared before me B. Ward one of the Justices of Peace in and for said County Nathan Blackford a resident of said County aged 96 years who being first duly sworn State that he served as a Militia Man of New Jersey during the Revolution that he resided in the said County aforesaid at the time he was drafted, and was drafted at different periods or times in each year during the Revolutionary war from 1776 to 1782, that he served in Capt. (Dennis) D. Frazers Company that Samuel Blackford resided in the said County, and served also as a Militia Man and was called out by draft; his services commencing in 1777 that said Blackford served partly in Captain L. Porters Company and partly in Captain Duncans Company, that he was stationed at Woodbridge and other places exposed to the enemy and I believe he served in his different tours fully two years, said Blackford was a relative of this deponent and owned a small farm, and would never have prevailed on to apply for a pension until recently and deponent further saith not Sworn and subscribed } before me this 25 th day of } April A.D. 1851 -
His Mark Nathan X Blackford
B. Ward Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that Nathan Blackford who has been sworn and subscribed to the foregoing Affidavit is an old and respectable person whose testimony is entitled to the highest credit, and although he cannot now sign his name by reason of old age, was in former years fully capable of doing so
B. Ward Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey } County of Middlesex } ss I Nicholas Boorman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Bethune Warner whose signature appears within is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn, that all his official acts and seal are entitled to full faith and credit, and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of record having General Jurisdiction
Given under my hand and seal of office at New Brunswick this thirtieth day of April AD 1851
Nich Boorman Clerk

Apr 10/57 Samuel Blackford N. Jersey at 7 June 1832 supplementary decl n
Tripartite
Orig claim filed Apr 4/57
W. D. Allison Atty

State of New Jersey Somerset County,
On this 4 th day of April 1851 personally appeared before me John H. Voorhies, one of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Somerset, Samuel Blackford, a resident of Middlesex County, aged 90 years, who being first duly sworn makes the following declaration in order to obtain a pension under act of June 1832. That he entered the service as a militia man of New Jersey, in 1777 in Captain Lapham's Company and Colonel Martin's regt. and was marched to Woodbridge and served at other places also served under Captain Martin and Captain Hugh Dunn, as set forth in his original declaration and served at some time with James Dunn, who received a pension, but who is now dead. Having heretofore made a declaration before a justice of the Peace, and being informed that it should be made before a judge of a court of record, and there being no such judge nearer than eight or nine miles, in Middlesex County, and living near the line of Somerset County have made my declaration before a judge of that county. This deponent would refer the Department to his declaration on file in the Pension office for a detail of his services, as therein set forth. He is now old and infirm and having heretofore had enough to live on and now apply for a pension but now thinks that he owes it to his family to make application for the bounty of his county which has been extended to those who assisted in gaining the independence of their country. He served in all not less than two years as heretofore set forth. 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, or, if any, only

on that of the agency of the State of New Jersey.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year 1851
aforesaid. Samuel this Blackford Mark
John H. Voorhies
And the said Judge does hereby declare his 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 he further certifies that by reason of old age and bodily infirmity he is unable to appear in court to make his declaration.
John H. Voorhies
State of New Jersey
Somerset County ss. I Henry D. Johnson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State above mentioned do hereby certify that John H. Voorhies whose signature appears to the foregoing declaration is and was at the time of signing the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the aforesaid Court is a Court of record having general jurisdiction.
Given under my hand and the seal of the County at the Clerk's office in Somerville this fifth day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and fifty one.
Henry D. Johnson Clerk

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Blackham, George GRADE Private LINE Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER 10946 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED February 7, 1790 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.