Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 956, Peter Bloom, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
Bloom, Peter
NUMBER
R. 956
CONTENTS

1931 - Dec. 15 - Strik to Miss Helen Bloom - mrs.
Ex'r.
INVALID.
WM. 926
RECORD
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Peter Bloom
P. O. _____
Service: _____
Printed list of 1852 Rejected and suspended claims given
Enlisted: _____, 18
cause of rejection: "not
Discharged: _____, 18
military service".
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Peter Bloom - New Jersey -
Rejected -
Letter 11 June 1834
Hon: James Parker.
956
lib. says did not perform
6 mass. militia service act - 1834 - smart

Pete Bloom
31.098.
Ref-
Hon. J. Parker
direct to B. E. G.
Country dist. M.

State of New Jersey } B.
County of Hunterdon } on this 28 th day of May, 1832 Personally appeared, before me
Benj t Eogert one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, Peter Bloom a resident of the Township of Alexandria, in the County of Hunterdon, 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 th 1832.
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. . . Saith he was born in the Township of Alexandria in the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey, in Oct. 1758 - and has lived in the same Township ever since, and has never lived in any other place in (his) life - 1776 was called out in the Militia and Marched, under Capt. Philips Miller, a boy, from thence to Elizabethtown, was frequently alarmed in nights as the Enemy lay near us Joseph Beavers was our Col d - this tour was not more than six weeks had to stay a little longer on account of sickness in June or July 1777 - was called out and Marched under Capt. Gronendyke from Bonners Tavern in the Township of Bethlehem to Morristown, from thence to Bumptown from thence to MacKensack, this tour was out six weeks, the Col d  Acting Colonel was a stranger. I have forgot his name and does not recollect the other officers - say he was then engaged four months, employed by John Hanna and Hugh McAllister agent of the United States at the Shoe Factory at Pittstown Making Shoes for the army. The said Peter Bloom says he was engaged in the Publick Service of the United States, in the Militia, and Shoe Factory, Making Shoes, working up leather of the United States into shoes for the Army at least seven months, that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person except Ebenezer Smith, whose testimony he can procure that is now living who can testify to his services that his services was all for the Publick no part of it by private contract, that he never had any written discharge as he recollects, he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever 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 State of New Jersey. He was also employed in Making Cartridge boxes, and bagnet belts - one of the Towers he turned out as a Volunteer, but in consequence of old age and Bodily infirmity, does not pretend to remember particulars.
Sworn to and subscribed the date
his Peter X Bloom mark.
above before me -
Benj t Eogert Judge.

State of New Jersey } ss-
County of Hunterdon } On this 23 rd day of May 1934, personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, Ebenezer Petty, aged 83 years, who first being duly sworn according to law, on his oath, saith, he is well acquainted with Peter Bloom - have known him ever since the Revolutionary war, from the commencement of the same say nearly sixty years, remembers well of being in the time of the revolutionary war, at Bergen Point or Paulus Hook, we was there together but not in the same company but together every day on parade we had pretty hard service while we was there, but I do not remember to have been with him any other time, but have frequently heard of his being in the service, in the militia in the state factory and other services. It is generally believed in the neighborhood of his being an old Revolutionary soldier, it is not disputed by any.
Sworn to and subscribed the date above written before me
Ebenezer Petty
Benj. Egbert, Judge
I Benj. Egbert one of the Judges of the inferior courts of Common Pleas in and for the county of Hunterdon aforesaid do hereby certify, that Ebenezer Petty who has signed the above Affidavit is a credible person, and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Benj. Egbert
We Holloway W. Hunt residing in the township of Bethlehem County of Hunterdon New Jersey and Christopher Slope of the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted Peter Bloom, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion, sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Holloway W. Hunt, Before me.
Christopher Slope
Benj. Egbert Judge

I Ben t Egbert one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify, and declare my opinion that the said Peter Bloom, the above Applicant, was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states; and do further state that in consequence of old age, infirmity, that he cannot possibly attend the Court in the time of its sitting, and the opinion of the whole neighbourhood as to his services is all the same and not even a dissenting voice, and I further certify that Holloway H. Hunt, who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman residing in the Township of Bethlehem, and that Christopher Trope who has also signed the same is a resident in the same Township and is a Credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Ben t Egbert Judge.
State of New Jersey Hunterdon County } ss
I Isaac G. Farla Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hunterdon do hereby certify that Benjamin Egbert Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration, and affidavits were taken sworn, then was and now is one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such, and that his signature is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Flemington this fifth day of June 1808 Eighteen hundred and thirty four
Isaac G. Farla Clerk

Miss Helen Leonard
3145 Mt Pleasant St. N.W. City by Miss Margaret E. Maylor
B 2 3 24
Dec. 14-1931

December 15, 1931
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Miss Helen Leonard 3145 Mount Pleasant Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Dear Madam:
This is in response to a request made in your behalf, by Miss Margaret E. Naylor, this city, for the records of various soldiers of the War of the Revolution with surname Bloom or Blum.
Your memorandum presented by Miss Naylor has been read carefully and the two records furnished herewith are those of the only soldiers with that surname found on the Revolutionary War records of this office, who rendered service in the New Jersey troops, or who applied for pension from that state.
Said records do not show a claim for pension or bounty land on file on account of the services of a William Bloom or Blum.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator
This is for Abraham Bloom P.955
Returned to Miss Naylor

December 15, 1931
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Miss Helen Leonard 3145 Mount Pleasant Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Dear Madam:
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 956, based upon the military service of Peter Bloom in the War of the Revolution.
Peter Bloom was born in October, 1758, in Alexandria Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
He applied for pension May 28, 1834, at which time he was a resident of Alexandria Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, where he had always lived, and stated that he enlisted in September, 1776, and served more than six weeks as private in Captain Philip Metler's company, Colonel Joseph Beavers' New Jersey regiment; that he enlisted in June or July, 1777, and served more than six weeks in Captain Growendycke's company, Colonel Frelinghuysen's New Jersey regiment; that he was employed four months in a factory in Pittstown making shoes, cartridge boxes and bayonet belts for the army.
His claim was not allowed as he did not render service of six months as required by the pension laws; his service in the factory was not provided for in the act under which he applied.
There are no data relative to his family in this pension claim, (R. 956).
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator