Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 860, David Chambers, New Jersey.

New Jersey
Chambers, David
S. 860.
boarded.
CONTENTS

New Jersey 9846.
David Chambers
of Brunswick in the State of N.J. who was a Capt. n in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Hays in the N.J. Militia time for
10. months, Captain
Inscribed on the Roll of N.J. at the rate of 320. Dollars    Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21. day of June 1833. and delivered Chas. G. McChesney Present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. 640 - 11 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept. 11 - 160. 11
$ 800 11
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Franciosi Clerk, Book E. Vol. 3 d Page 105.
Hightstown
Letter to D r Addison
Nov. 21/51
Death not on A. B.

State of New Jersey } Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Middlesex County } Act of Congress passed June the 7. 1832.
On this thirty first day of July Eighteen hundred and Thirty Two. personally appeared in Open Court held as a special Term of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, held at the City of New Brunswick now sitting being a Court of Record David Chambers a resident of the Township of South Brunswick in the said County of Middlesex and State aforesaid aged eighty three years on the twenty fifth day of September last, who being duly sworn according to Law on her oath doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7. 1832. That while living in the village of Cranbury in the said County of Middlesex in the year 1775 he was appointed a Captain in Militia service, and obtained a Commission as such, but from whom he does not now remember, except it was from Governor Livingston as his said Commission is lost, or mislaid, and that he served as a Captain of the Militia from that time until the conclusion of the Revolutionary War; and that in his first tour of service he was ordered out as he believes by Colonel Jacob Hays a Militia Officer of the Battalion of the Middlesex Militia, to the City of Perth Amboy and after he lay there with his Company sometime he marched with them to a place called the Blazing Star, both of which places is opposite Staten Island where the British army lay which was in the year 1776, sometime in the summer in the later part of the same year he was out with his Company at New Brunswick immediately before the British army took possession of the same, and that in the same year after the British had taken possession of New Brunswick he went over into the State of Pennsylvania with a part of his Company where General Washington crossed the Delaware and took the Hessians at Trenton, that in the early part of the winter of 1777 while the British army lay at New Brunswick he lay with his Company in the said village of Cranbury he was out with his Company under the command of Colonel John Neilson when they attacked a party of armed Tories or Refugees lying on Barnets Island commanded by a major Stockton and took him and fifty nine privates prisoners, in which attack he had one of his men killed, and commanded several Scouting parties while the
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British army lay at New Brunswick, until they marched from that place into Somerset Court-house with an intention as was then believed to go to Philadelphia, when this deponent marched with his company to Sourland mountain, and from thence to a place called Hecks-gap where part of General Washington's army lay, from thence he was ordered with his company to the lines of the British army in order to harass them on their retreat and until they left the State of New Jersey and passed over to Staten Island, in 1777, after that he was out with his company at Elizabeth Town , and crossed from thence over to Staten Island under the command of General Dickinson, after that he was out with his company while the British lay in Philadelphia at Hatenfield , and Hab Town in the County of Burlington, under the command of Col. John Nielson, he thinks in the year 1778, after that in the same year he was out with his company immediately previous to the Battle of Mommouth , and acted as a guide or pilot for General Lee, and generally was out in the service at different times as a captain in the Militia until the end of the Revolutionary War, the particular times and places at the distance of time he does not at this present time distinctly remember, and this deponent further declares that he has no documentary evidence relating to his services having lost or mislaid his commission as before related, and 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, and this deponent further declares that the foregoing are the most material facts that he now remembers respecting his services in the militia during the Revolutionary War, and in the service of the United States, and he also further declares that he verily believes that he was out, and engaged in the said service as a captain of the Militia troops for as long a term at different times as two years, and upwards, and he further declares that all the Officers under whom he served are now dead as far as he knows, except the before mentioned Colonel John Nielson.
sworn, and subscribed in open Court this 31. day of July 1832
David Chambers

We Symmes C. Henry Pastor of the first Presbyterian Church in the village of Cranberry in the County of Middlesex, and Andrew McDowell of the Township of South Brunswick in said County, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Chambers who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, and believe him to be upwards of eighty three years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Captain of the Militia in the Revolutionary war, and that we concur in that opinion.
sworn, and subscribed in open Court this 31 day of July 1832 R. B. Chambers
Symmes C. Henry Andrew McDowell
Hearings held by the Court to the foregoing applicant
1. Where, and when were you Born
Answer in the City of Trenton in the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey September the 25. 1748
2. Have you any Record of your age, and where is it
Answer taken from my fathers Bible
3. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live
Answer in the village of Cranberry in the County of Middlesex, to which place I moved in the year 1772, and have resided there with the exception of about ten years, and there I now reside
4. How were you called into service
Answer I entered as a volunteer
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers who were with the troops where you served, such Continental, and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service Answer I do not know that I was out under any regular Officers of the standing army, I was out part of the time under general Pickering, and the aforesaid Colonels John Nielson and Jacob Hope and as to the general circumstances of my services they are above related in my declaration
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service
Answer I never received any regular discharge, when the time I was called out, and the then present occasion of it expired, I was only verbally discharged by my superior Officers, which I believe was the case generally with the militia, and I received a commission I think from Governor Livingston, but I have not

7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a captain in the war of the Revolution.
Answer Andrew McDowell, lately a Major in the militia of Robert McHenry Esquire, Abraham Gulick, John Rees, William Newton of the Revolution, the Reverend Symmes C. Henry, the Reverend George Haffor Woodhull, John Dey Esquire, Captain Timothy Harn, Captain Benjamin M. Clarke, John Honahue, Moses Morris, Lewis Dey, of later years, and many others that I could name did I believe it necessary.
sworn and subscribed in open Court this 31. day of July 1832
R. W. Chenney
David Chambers
And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the above interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the abovenamed applicant was a captain in the Revolutionary service, and served as he states; and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Symmes C. Henry who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the said village of Cranbury in the County of Middlesex and that Andrew McDowell who has signed his name to the same is a resident in the said County and is a creditable person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
R. W. Chenney
Thos. Bance
J. B. Root
J. B. Root
William H. Mundy
The foregoing affidavits were all sworn to, and subscribed in open court this 31. day of July 1832 before the subscribing Judges namely
J. S. Wassar-dalen Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David Chambers for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 31 st day of July 1832
J. S. Wassar-dalen Clerk

POWER OF ATTORNEY:—Revolutionary Pension Claim.
Know all Men by these Presents, that I, Rose Fisher
do hereby constitute and appoint D. D. Addison Esq of Washington City to be my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Mr David Chambers deceased late of Cranberry South Brunswick township, Middlesex County New Jersey, who was my Father for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents of every description, in relation to said claim, that may be on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file any additional evidence or arguments that can be obtained; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to my sister Mary Lewis of Cranberry Middlesex Co N.J. , to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my hand and Seal this 16 day May A. D., 1851.
Rose Fisher
Signed and Sealed in the presence of Geo L Waldron
STATE OF New York COUNTY OF New York } ss:
On this Sixteenth day of May A. D. 1851, before me, a Justice of the Peace  alderman of 13th ward New York in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Mrs Rose Fisher and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal, the day and year aforesaid.
Joseph Bullock  J. P. County Judge

Claim of Act of
STATE OF New York } COUNTY OF New York } ss:
Be it known, that on this fifteenth day of May A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty one , before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace  alderman of the 15 th ward city of New York in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Rose Fisher a resident of the city of New York in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the daughter of the late Colonel David Chambers of Cranberry township of south Brunswick, State of New Jersey, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act
at the rate of Three hundred Twenty Dollars per annum; that she has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence and arguments as her Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. before me,
Rose Fisher
Joseph Britton County Judge
I, Joseph Britton  Justice of the Peace  alderman of 15 th ward New York do hereby certify that Mrs Rose Fisher who has executed the foregoing affidavit before me, is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
J Britton Judge of the County
I, _____ Clerk of the _____ Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that _____ before whom the foregoing affidavit was executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and his name thereunto subscribed, appears to me to be his usual signatures.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County Seal, this day of _____ A. D. 185 _____
[COUNTY SEAL.]
Clerk.

State of New-York, City and County of New-York, } ss.
I, GEORGE W. RIBLET , Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Supreme Court for said City and County of New-York, being a Court of Record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Joseph Schillinger before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said City and County, duly elected and sworn, and that his signature thereto is genuine, as I verily believe.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 27th day of May 1851.
Joseph Schillinger Geo: W. Ribblet Clerk.
affidavit taken said New York testify that me, is a claim as by
I, _____ Clerk of the _____ Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that _____ before whom the foregoing affidavit was executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and his name thereunto subscribed, appears to me to be his usual signatures.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County Seal, this day of _____ A. D. 185 _____
[COUNTY SEAL.]
Clerk.

January 23, 1935
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Mrs. Lloyd W. Grover 391 Nassau Street Princeton, New Jersey
David Chambers, S. 860 BA-J/MCS Am
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of David Chambers.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 860, based upon the Revolutionary War service of David Chambers.
He was born September 25, 1748, at Trenton, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
In 1772 he moved to Cranbury, Middlesex County, New Jersey, and was living there when he was commissioned captain in 1775. He served as captain of the New Jersey militia at various times from 1775 until sometime in 1779, amounting in all to at least sixteen months and one week. He was under Colonels Jacob Hyes, John Neilson, Scudder and Duychinck and was in a skirmish at Bennet's Island.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 31, 1832, while living at Cranbury, New Jersey.
In 1851 he was dead. In that year his daughters, Mrs. Rose Fisher and Mary Lewis were living in New York City and Cranbury, New Jersey, respectively. There are no further data relative to the soldier's family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Washington May 22 nd 1831
Dear Sir,
I enclose herewith a Power of Attorney and application for an increase of Pension in the case of David Chambers who was a pensioner under the act of 1832 on the Roll of the State of New Jersey and have respectfully to request an early examination of the same.
I am very respectfully Your most obedient Servant W. Alderson

Pension Office
Oct 29 th 1851.
Sir,
The Power of Attorney authorizing you to act in the case of Anna P. Spencer together with the brief thereof prepared by H. S. Evans Esq c have been received and filed.
On reference to the correspondence in this and the case of Sarah Lyman widow of Jonathan Lyman, in which a Power of Attorney in your favor has also been furnished, I find that the cause of the former disallowance was in a great measure, the informality of the papers and the fact that they were attested by the same individual who acted as Agent. Under these circumstances I would suggest that new declarations be filed in each and that new certificates be obtained from the Comptroller of Connecticut setting forth the services with which the claimants' husbands stand respectively credited on the records in his office.
This course will get rid of the objections heretofore urged and at the same time facilitate the enquiry, so as to enable this office to come to a speedy result in the premises. The parole testimony already on file, if it be in conformity with the regulations of this Department will

can be entitled to all due weight and may be rendered of secondary importance by the record evidence that may at present be pro- cured from the Comptroller's Office, as much new testimony of that description has been brought to light since the year 1837, when the claim was first presented.
respectfully
Y r Ob t Serv t J. M. Wilson
for Comm ee of Pensions
S. A. Pringle Esq r Washington D. C.
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Department of State, Washington, September 18, 1851.
W. D. Addison Esquire, Washington.
Sir,
The following evidence of the service of David Chambers, in the Commissary Department, during the Revolution, is furnished to you from the Washington Papers, in reply to your letter of the 16 th inst.
In Army Returns Vol. 2, there is on page 2, a "General Return of Provisions and Stores + + for the Month of September 1777" signed by "Thomas Simes, D.C. & G. of Issues", in which David Chambers appears as the "Issuing Commissary at the Philadelphia Issuing Store".
Two returns of the same character, one for August and one for September 1777, are

found in Vol. 4 of the "Army Returns", pages 29 and 30; the latter, however, differing slightly from the others, in bearing the name of David Chambers as Issuing Commissary for "Phila- delphia."
I am, Sir, respectfully, Your obedient Servant N. G. Derrick, Acting Secretary.
1834 £3 1748
12m 400 240 80

September 7, 1932
Mrs. H. P. Keyhoe 312 Albany Street Ottumwa Iowa
BA-J/MCS David Chambers S. 860
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of September 1, 1932, requesting information in regard to the wife or wives of the Revolutionary War soldier, David Chambers.
The papers in his pension claim, S. 860, contain no data relative to his family other than that contained in the letter sent you on August 25, 1932.
This office has no record that a claim for pension was ever filed by anyone as the widow of this soldier.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

August 25, 1932
Mrs. H. P. Keyhoe 312 Albany Street Ottumwa Iowa
BA-J/MCS David Chambers S. 860
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter requesting information in regard to Colonel David Chambers who served in the Revolution.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 860, based upon the Revolutionary War service of David Chambers, the only soldier by that name who served from New Jersey, as shown by the Revolutionary War records of this office.
He was born September 25, 1748, at Trenton, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
In 1772 he moved to Cranbury, Middlesex County, New Jersey, and was living there when he was commissioned captain in 1775. He served as captain of the New Jersey militia at various times from 1775 until sometime in 1779, amounting in all to at least sixteen months and one week. He was under Colonels Jacob Hyer, John Neilson, Scudder and Duychinck and was in a skirmish at Bennet's Island.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 31, 1832, while living at Cranbury, New Jersey.
In 1851 he was dead. In that year his daughters, Mrs. Rose Fisher and Mary Lewis were living in New York City and Cranbury, New Jersey, respectively. There are no further data relative to the soldier's family.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

February 19, 1924
Lucy Usher 711 Jenkins Ave. Norman, Okla.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.860, it appears that David Chambers was born September 25, 1748, at Trenton, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
While a resident of South Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, in 1775 he was commissioned Captain and served in the New Jersey Militia,,at various times, until sometime in 1779, sixteen months and one week in all, under Colonels fast Hyer, John Neilson, Scudder, and Duychinck; he was in a skirmish at Bennet's Island.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 31, 1832, while a resident of South Brunswick, New Jersey.
Two children, Rose Fisher and Mary Lewis, were alive in 1851. There is no further family data on file in this Bureau.
Respectfully,
Commissioner

Jan 7 th 1935- Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
Please send me what data you have of David Chambers - born in Trenton N.J. Sep 25- 1748 served as Captain Middlesex Co. militia New Jersey during the Revolutionary war. Did he receive a pension?
Yours truly
Mrs. Lloyd W. Grover 391 Nassau St. Princeton N.J.

Ottumwa Iowa
The Veteran's Administration Sept. 1-1932 Washington D. C.
Mr. Hiller
Dear Sir:
I wish to thank you for the information rec'd in regard to Col. David Chambers, whom you say rec'd a pension in 1832; his home was in Cranbury, Middlesex Co. N. Jersey. But what I am seeking is the names of his wife or wives? Does not a pension application give their names? It is very necessary that I should know, if he had one wife named Ann Easton and a second named Ruth Clark, or vice versa. Will be very grateful, if you can give me this information.
Very sincerely
Mrs H.P. Hughes 312 Albany St. Ottumwa Iowa

Attunna Iowa, Aug 13-1932
Pension Dept. Dear Sir:
I am seeking the names of the wife or wives of Col. David Chambers who enlisted in the Revolutionary war, in New Jersey, in Hunterdon or Huntingdon Co - Did he receive a pension? If so, was his wife's name Ann Gaston or Ruth Clark. Will greatly appreciate an answer.
Very sincerely Mrs H. P. Hughes 312 Albany St. Attunna Ia.

711 Jenkins Ave. Norman, Okla.
Jan. 14th/24
Commissioner of Pensions. Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: Would you please tell me if the old records in your office show any thing of a David Chambers, Colonel New Jersey Militia 1776-79 New Jersey Regiment During Revolutionary War. Thanking you for this favor, I am, your truly Lucy Usher.

J.H. BASS, Pres! J.I. WHITE, Sec'y R.J. FISHER, Treas.
Fort Wayne, Ind. Nov. 20/93. RS
H. C. Bell, Esq.,
Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir; -
Will you please send me the military record of David Chambers, who served in the Revolutionary War, as Colonel from Hunterdon County, New Jersey? Any expense attached will be remitted upon advising me of the amount.
Very respectfully,
R. Fisher

Jan. 3/94 Mil. Hist. to R. J. Fisher, Pass Foundry Machine Works F. Mary and 1914 Feb. 19. Histo Lucy Usher 1932 Aug. 25. Hist to Mrs. H. P. Keyhoe Mrs 1932 Sept. 7 Mrs. H. P. Keyhoe adv. no further family data. Mrs. 1935 Jan. 23 Hist. to Mrs. Lloyd W. Grover Mrs
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 David Chambers  Sgt. N. J. Mil. 
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Whereas the declaration made by David Chambers of the County of Middlesex and State of New Jersey in order to obtain the benefit of Pension Act of Congress the 7. of June 1832 as a captain in the service of the Militia of New Jersey, and the United States, hath been sent back from the Pension Office for amendments, and no regulations accompanying the same stating wherein the amendments are necessary, But judging from those deficient in similar cases that nothing more is wanting than proof of actual service, and that the said David Chambers did act and serve as a captain of the Militia to supply the place of the loss of his commission as mentioned in his declaration, and the length of the different tours of the service in which he was engaged, the first being complied with by the affidavits herein attached to his original declaration, and the other is herein complied with as far as it is possible by reason of the loss of memory, and the infirmities of old age in the following manner Viz.
State of N. Jersey) Be it known that on the sixteenth day of May Middlesex ss. J. A. D. Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Three before me
the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county personally appeared the said David Chambers captain as aforesaid, and being duly sworn according to Law, did depose and say that he served in the Militia of New Jersey as a captain as stated in his declaration in the followed mentioned years, places and length of time to the best of his deposements, memory which has become very frail owing to bodily infirmities, and extreme Old age being now in his 85 th year. Viz in the winter of 1775 he marched with part of his company as far as Woodbridge for the purpose of proceeding on the Long Island for the purpose of disarming the Tories there, but there being Officers more than wanted on that occasion he was permitted to go home in this tour he was out 8 mo. 1 week    1776 was again ordered out into service and marched to  } 1 " 2    Perth Amboy, and the Blazing Star, out on this tour    1777 was ordered out again and marched to  } 1 " 2    Mountain, Hecks-gap and other places out on this tour    1777 was stationed at Cranbury for the term of  3 " 0       carried over no. 6  1 " 1  

Brought over
1110 Weeks 6 " 1
 1777 marched to Trenton, and from there to E. Town this tour 1 " 0  1777 marched under orders to Elizabeth Town again this tour 1 " 0  1777 marched under do to Brunswick and from thence to Pennsylvania when General Washington crossed over the Delaware and crossed over into Jersey after the Battle of Trenton out on this tour } 2 " 0  1777 marched under orders to Haddonfield and other places when the British army lay in Philadelphia this tour was 1 " 0  1777 do. to Elizabeth Town this tour lasted 1 " 0  1777 do. to South Amboy, and South River this tour was 1 " 0  1778 marched under orders to Red Bank, Crosswicks, Allen Town, and served part of the time as a pilot to General Lee, about the time of the Battle of Monmouth out on this tour } 1 " 2  1779 march out again under orders to Newark and other places this tour continued for ————— 1 " 0 was out in the service on several short alarms say as much as two weeks ————— 0 " 2 
months ————— 16 " 1
and this deponent further says that on these several different tours he was under the orders part of the time of Colonels, Dylinders, Neilson, Ayre, Scudder, and once under General Dickinson, and he further declares that he is not sure that the years are exactly correct, but is sure he was out at all the abovenamed places, and commanded his company or parts of it and sometimes parts of other companies, but owing to loss of memory, he cannot state more particularly than he has above stated and in his declaration heretofore made, and the difference as to time between his declaration, and this statement is because the one was made in general terms, and the other in specified particulars.
sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year abovenamed Robert McChesney Justice of the peace
David Chambers

...his chambers an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed June the 7. 1832, and that he will now and has his being appointed a Captain of the Militia in the Regiment commanded by Jacob Hyre Colonel in the year he thinks of 1776 and that he served under him, was then as a Captain of the company, and has since him set as Captain several different times during the Revolutionary war, and to the end of the same, and further saith not sworn to, and subscribed before me the day and year abovenamed
John Ewin
Robert McChesney Justice of the peace
The subscriber as hereby certify that John Ewin who has subscribed the above affidavit is a creditable person
Robert McChesney Justice of the peace
State of New Jersey Middlesex County ss
I Nicholas Booraeu Clerk of the court of common pleas of the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that Robert McChesney & John Smith before whom the foregoing and annexed de- positions were made, were at the time of signing the same in and for said County and com- prehended and knew and that the signatures Robert McChesney and John Smith are their proper signatures
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17 th day of June AD 1833
N Booraeu Clerk

Capt David Chambers
adm d
16 mo. Capt
320 $

State of N. Jersey } Be it known that on the fifteenth day of May A.D. Eighteen Middlesex County } Hundred and Thirty Three before me the subscriber one of the justices of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Peter Gulick who being sworn according to Law did depose and say that he has been acquainted with David Chambers of the village of Cranbury in the Township of South Brunswick in the said County of Middlesex ever since the Revolutionary War, and who now is an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed June the 7. 1832, and this deponent under his oath represents, and says that he knew him the said David Chambers to be a captain and commanded a company of the New Jersey Militia under Col. Jacob Hyre, as early as the year 1777 and that he this deponent resided in the bounds of his company, and served under him the said David Chambers as captain to the best of this deponents memory at the following places, viz. the first tour in the year 1777, the next tour at the village of Cranbury, was afterwards out under him as this deponents captain in the years 1778. 1779. and 1780 and in succession as nearly as he can recollect, at Scarland mountain, Steels-gap, N. Brunswick, Elizabeth Town, Springfield, New Ark, Mount-holley, Flat Town, Allen Town, at Ches-gaaher, and divers other places, and this deponent says that one reason why this so well remembers these facts is deponent acted as a sergeant in the company commanded by him the said David Chambers and received instructions from him to sworn the men out into service on numerous occasions sworn to, and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid
I do hereby certify that Peter Gulick who hath subscribed the above affidavit is a creditable person, and entitled to belief In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name Robert McIlwaine Justice of the peace
Peter Gulick

State of New Jersey Middlesex County ss
Be it known that on this 28 th day of May - A.D. 1833 Personally appeared before me John Smith one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Middlesex William Applegate and Asher Applegate who Being duly known according to Law, Depose and Say that they were well acquainted with David Chambers before the war of the Revolution and knew him to have been a Captain in the militia and Commanded a Company of men in the same Battalion in the Defense of our Country during the Revolutionary War and further say not
Sworn and Subscribed
The day and year above written
John Smith
William Applegate Asher Applegate
I certify the Subscribers above in favor of David Chambers an Person of Credibility and entitled to full Belief
John Smith