Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 2505, Job Daniels, New Jersey

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New Jersey
Daniels Job
S 2505
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CONTENTS

New Jersey 30.838
Job Daniels, Musician of Morris Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Musician in the company commanded by Captain Gordon of the Regt. commanded by Col. Field in the N. Jersey mil. line for 1 year
(Dead.)
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of 45 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of Sept. 1836 and sent to R. Nicholas
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '36. 247.50 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 st Nov. '37. 22.50 $270.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832 . } 28.1836
Recorded by D. Brown Book E. 2. Vol. 3.
Clerk. Page 124
Dead. See Mtr & Pen agt L R. Nichols, Sept 16, 1836.

Job Daniels Pension Papers
8079
Hon. P. Dickerson

New Jersey of Declaration in Order to Obtain the Benefit Morris County of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
Personally appeared before me William Moma one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris at the age of Daniels a Soldier of the Revolution aged seventy five years and a Resident of the Township of Roxbury in the County of Morris at the time being by me first duly sworn according to law with 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 was born in said Township of Rox- bury in the County of Morris on the 25 th day of Nov r 1758 and that he was one of a number taught martial music at the Expense of the State of New Jersey in the year 1775 for the service of the Militia of said State by Capt. Joseph Rodgers, and that about the first of April 1776 he entered the service of the United States in the New Jersey Militia as a volunteer Musician in said a Company of Militia under Capt. Gordon at Dinwiddie where he was in said Township of Rox- bury and marched to Elizabeth from head quarters and that he continued in the service aforesaid as a fifer or Musician for different Companies of Militia for the period of two years and a half, being transferred from one Company to another by the Commanding Officers of the Militia as new Detachments were called into service and were destitute of music and that during his period of service aforesaid he was attached to different Companies of Militia under Captains Gordon, Beelow Jackson, Salmon, Stephens, Dickerson, Starke, and many other Officers he was not acquainted with and now has no distinct Recollection of their names, and that during his period of service he was at New Windsor, Hackensack, Pollyfly, Patterson, Morris Town Rahway, Amboy, Dibble Town, New Brunswick, Monmouth Piscataway and sundry other Places not now recollected by their names, and that he took a part in the Battles and Skirmishes with the enemy at Springfield, Pollyfly near Hackensack and at Monmouth, Dibble Town, and Brimley Town so called at that time, and that at a Skirmish with the enemy at Rahway he was wounded by a Musket shot from the enemy in the right arm, and that he spent the winter of 76 in Winter quarters with the Detachment to which he belonged near Rahway and the winter

of 1777 at Snible Town with his Detachment and in the fall of the year after about two and a half years service he was Honably Discharged from further service as a Volunteer fife or Musician by General Wines of the N.J. Militia by a Verbal Discharge, and that from the Period of said Discharge until the close of the war he was occasionally out as a Musician with the Militia for short Periods in cases of alarms, and that in the summer of 1781 he entered the service of the N.J. State Troops as a Substitute for Elyah Leonard under Capt Wade and served a term of three months and was Discharged by a Verbal Discharge by Capt Wade at the expiration of his service; He Recollects Genl Wines, Heards, Maxwell, Sullivan and Lee, Col d Martin, For Drake, Munson and Seward, and Majors Gaston and Luyes he does not know of any person now living who has any distinct knowledge of his services, that he is personally known to Doctor Elmeyer & Woodruff and Capt Robert Cadbury citizens of the Township of Roxbury for many years that he has lived in the counties of Sussex and Morris ever since the Revolutionary, and that he now resides in the Township of Roxbury in the County of Morris aforesaid and that he will be eighty years of age the 25 th day of Nov r next and unable from bodily infirmity and age to attend the County Court in this his matter of application for a pension that he has a family Record of his age not now in his possession but in the possession of his Daughter in the State of New York, and that he hereby Relinquishes every claim 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 whatever and further this Deponent saith not.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 25 th day of Aug t 1832
Job x Daniels mark
Wm Morris

New Jersey } Personally appeared before me Wm Monroe Morris County } one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Morris N.J. Dcts. E. B. Woodruff and Capt Robert Gadsby citizens of the Township of Roxbury in said County who being sworn by me according to Law on their Oath saith that they are well acquainted with Job Daniels the applicant for a pension and have been for thirty years past and that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age as he has sworn to in the foregoing Declaration and that he is Reputed and Believed in the Neighborhood where he Resides to have been in the Service of the United States in the New Jersey Militia as a Musician and that we concur in that opinion and that the said Job Daniels is unable from Bodily age and infirmity to attend the County Court in his matter of application for a pension. Sworn and Subscribed Before me this 25 th of Aug. 1832 } E. B. Woodruff Robert Gadsby Wm Monroe
I William Monroe one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings had before me in the matter of Application of Job Daniels for a Pension, and that I am fully satisfied that the said Job Daniels was a Musician in the Revolutionary war and served as he has herein set forth, and that he is unable from Bodily age and infirmity to attend the County Court in this his matter of application for a pension For Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 25 th day of August 1832 — and that the two Witnesses Dcts E. B. Woodruff and Robert Gadsby are citizens of the Township of Roxbury and are men of truth and veracity and Entitled to Credit, Witness my hand & seal this 25 th day of Augt 1832 — } Wm Monroe

State of New Jersey
Morris County ss.
I David Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris aforesaid do hereby certify that William Monroe Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration was made, and testimony taken, was at the time of the doing thereof one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Morris duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit is due to his official acts as such Judge and that the name of W m Monroe thereto affixed is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Morristown the third day of September A. D. Eighteen hundred and thirty two —
David Day Clk

State of New Jersey County of Morris Before me William Morris one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris aforesaid personally appeared Job Daniels a Soldier of the Revolution aged Eighty years who being by me first duly sworn according to Law with an oath make the following additional Declaration and Explanation to the Declaration made before me on the 25 th day of August last past in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 - to wit that this deponent was one of twenty four viz twelve Drummers and twelve fifers who were taught Martial Music at Morris Town N.J. in the year 1775 By S r Major Joseph Rodgers and Drum Major Saby Biglow at the Special Instance and Expense of the State of New Jersey for the purpose of supplying the Militia of the State with Competent Music when called out for actual Service in the Revolutionary War, and that the said twenty four Musicians on Condition that they were taught Martial Music at the public expense pledged themselves to volunteer their Services as Musicians for the Militia of N.J. and continue in the said Service as Musicians so long as the public Safety Required their Service and they were able to perform their duty Required of them, and this deponent further saith that in consequence of the state of New Jersey having taught him as a musician as aforesaid he did Volunteer his Services as a fifer to the State on the first of April 1776 and was attached to a company of Militia under Capt. Gordon at Denmark in the County of Morris aforesaid and was marched to Elizabeth Town and attached to the Regiment of Militia under Col. Jacob Ford and at the expiration of one Month, Capt. John Biglows company of Militia arrived and Capt. Gordons company were Discharged when this deponent was then transferred to Capt. Biglows company and at the end of one month Capt. Biglows company was Discharged and Captain Joseph Carnes company of Militia arrived and this Deponent was then transferred to Capt. Carnes company, and this deponent further saith that the Militia was constantly and alternately called into the service of the State by companies and Detachments to serve Terms of Duty of from one to three months and that he was as new companies of Militia arrived and the Company to which he was attached

were discharged he was as often transferred to some other new company by the Commanding Col. as his services as a fifer were most needed, and was so retained as a volunteer fifer and continued in actual and constant service with the Militia of New Jersey, and served under the different officers and at the different places stated in his former Declaration until midsummer of the year 1778 the precise time he cannot now distinctly recollect but is positive he served not less than two years and a half as a fifer in the Militia, in addition to his service as a Substitute for three months as a private in the New Jersey State troops for Elijah Leonard in the year or summer of 1781 under Capt. Wade and that while in the service of the State troops he was engaged in the Battle with the enemy at Bonumtown in St. J., and further saith that he was discharged from further service as a fifer in the Militia in the summer of 1778 at the particular instance and request of John Jacob Haesch Esq. to assist in making the Large Chain to stretch across the River near St. York as this Deponent was a Bloomer of Iron by trade, and George Haesch had contracted to furnish a certain portion of the chain for the Government and further saith that there is not any Resident Clergyman near where he resides whose testimony he can procure as none lives within several miles with whom he has any acquaintance, and further saith that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades, for two years and three months I served as a fifer by volunteering in the New Jersey Militia and for three months I served as a private soldier in the year 1781 in the New Jersey State troops as a Substitute for Elijah Leonard and for such service I claim a pension and further saith not. — Sworn and subscribed before me this 8 th day of July 1833 Wm Morris His J. H. D. A. M. I. L. D. mark

Rev No
2505 INVALID.
File No. 2575
Job Daniels Mrs. D. J. Hill -
Act: June 28. 1836
Index:—Vol. 24 , Page 88
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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NR. 506
Job Daniels
N.J. roll - Act 28 June 1836
$45 per Ann: Com. 4
March 1831 -
Send cut. to
R. Nicholas
Hlanders P.O.
N-Jersey.
Ent.
Com: on Pensions

Rev 11/2
24th CONGRESS, 1st Session.
H. R. 506.
MARCH 26, 1836.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. LAY, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill:
An Act
A BILL
For the relief of Job Daniels.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 3 the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place Job 4 Daniels, of the State of New Jersey, upon the roll of revolu- 5 tionary pensioners of the United States, at the rate of forty-five 6 dollars per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 7 eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and to continue during his natu- 8 ral life.
Approved 28 th June 1836
A true copy compared with the Roll in this office.
(Dept. of State } June 30 th 1836 }
Henry Brinkins chief clerk

JOB DANIELS.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 506.]
MARCH 26, 1836.
Mr. LAY, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to which was referred the petition of Job Daniels, report:
That from an examination of his petition, it appears that the petitioner is now eighty-three years old, and has been a revolutionary soldier. That he was one of 24 musicians, viz: twelve drummers and twelve fifers, who were taught martial music at Morristown, in New Jersey, in 1775, by Fife Major Joseph Rodgers, and Drum Major Jabez Bigelow, at the special instance and expense of said State, for the purpose of supplying the militia of the State with competent music, when called out for actual service in the revolutionary war. That in the month of April, 1776, he entered the military service, and was attached to a company of militia under Captain Gordon, at Denmark, in the county of Morris, and was marched to Elizabethtown, and joined the regiment of militia under Colonel Jacob Ford. That after Captain Gordon's company was discharged, he was transferred to Captain Bigelow's company, and then to Captain Crane's company after Captain Bigelow's company was discharged; and that he was thus transferred from one company to another, as the militia were constantly and alternately called into the service of the State, by companies and detachments, performing terms of duty from one to three months each. That he continued in such service, under different officers, constantly, from April, 1776, until the middle of the year 1778. The precise time he cannot recollect; but is positive he served not less two years and a half as a fifer in the militia. That he also served as a private for three months in the New Jersey State troops, as a substitute for Elijah Leonard, in the year 1781, under Captain Wade.
Proof of service.
The deposition of Robert Young, who served a greater portion of the time with the petitioner, a copy of which is hereunto annexed, is satisfactory to the committee for a large portion of the time for which he claims to have served. They are of the opinion that the petitioner is clearly entitled to compensation for one year's service under the provisions of the act of 1832, and have reported a bill accordingly.
Blair & Rives, printers.

NEW JERSEY, Morris county, ss.
On the 8th day of October, 1834, personally appeared before me, Stephen Salmon, Esq. one of the justices of the peace in and for said county of Morris, in the State of New Jersey, Robert Young, a citizen of said county, aged 80 years, a soldier of the revolution, and now a pensioner of the United States for the State of New Jersey, who being first duly sworn according to law before me, on his oath saith, that he is well acquainted with Job Daniels, of said county of Morris, who is now an applicant for a pension for revolutionary services; that he became acquainted with the said Daniels in the year 1775; that the said Daniels was then attending a music school at Morristown, in said county, taught by Fife Major Joseph Rodgers and Drum Major Jabez Bigelow, for the purpose of teaching the use and practice of the drum and fife, to supply the militia with music when called out to service for common defence; that he distinctly recollects that the said Daniels was a fifer, and about the 1st of April, 1776, he belonged to a company of minute men, raised in Morris county by Captain John Bigelow, as a fifer, to which company this deponent also belonged; that the company was marched to Elizabethtown, head quarters, and continued in the service for six months; this tour being the period of the enlistment, all which period the said Job Daniels continued in said service as a fifer; this deponent further distinctly recollects, that in consequence of the scarcity of music for the use of the militia when called out into service in the revolutionary war, that the music was not permitted to return home with the detachments, as they were discharged, but were retained for the use of such new detachments as arrived, and were continually changed and transferred from one detachment to another, for the use of the militia; and the said Job Daniels being a good fifer, and one of the musicians in service, this deponent is fully satisfied and verily believes that the said Job Daniels was retained in the revolutionary service as aforesaid, as a fifer, during a great part of the revolutionary war; and that this deponent is further satisfied of the fact of the said Job Daniels's revolutionary services, from the recollection of seeing him in the service at different periods of the revolutionary war, and attached to different companies of militia as a fifer, during the said period, and under the following different officers, as captains of the militia, viz: Captains Losey, Gordon, Bigelow, Jackson, Salmon, Stephens, Dickerson, Starke, Crane, Wade and Hathaway, several of which this deponent served under during said period; he also recollects seeing the said Job Daniels at different periods of the war, doing duty as a fifer, at the following places, viz: Elizabethtown, Newark, Pallefly near Patterson, Amboy, Quibbletown, Kingsbridge after the battle of Long Island, at the battle of White Plains, battle of Springfield, and in the performance of what was called the Mud Rounds, or the retreat with Washington's army through New Jersey, from opposite New York to Trenton; also at New Windsor. This deponent cannot now, at his advanced age in life, give distinct dates to the facts above stated; but the circumstances, as he has stated, are still fresh in his recollection, and from his long acquaintance with Job Daniels, both in the revolutionary war and ever since that period, he is fully satisfied that the said Job Daniels is 80 years of age, and that the most implicit confidence may be put in his own statements of his revolutionary services, as has been submitted to the pension department in behalf of his claim for a pension. And this deponent is fully satisfied, from the different periods of the revolutionary war, that to his knowledge the said Job Daniels served as a fifer, and also at the

different places where this deponent saw the said Daniels in service, he served not less than two years in the revolutionary war, for common defence; and further this deponent saith not.
ROBERT YOUNG.
Sworn and subscribed before me, this 8th day of October, 1834.
STEPHEN SALMON,
Justice of the peace.
NEW JERSEY, Morris county, to wit:
I, Stephen Salmon, one of the justices of the peace in and for said county of Morris, and State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that Robert Young, whose testimony is herewith, was taken before me, is a person of respectability, and also of credibility of character for truth and veracity, and that his statement is entitled to credit whether in or out of court. Given under my hand and seal, this 8th day of October, 1834.
STEPHEN SALMON,
Justice of the peace.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY, county of Morris, ss.
I, Joseph Dalrimple, clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Morris, aforesaid, do hereby certify that Stephen Salmon, Esq. before whom the deposition herewith of Robert Young was taken, was, at the doing thereof, and still is, one of the justices of the peace in and for the county of Morris, and State of New Jersey, duly commissioned and sworn to act as such justice of the peace, and fully authorized to take such deposition, and that the signature ( Stephen Salmon, ) subscribed to the foregoing deposition, as well as to the certificate following, is his genuine signature.
[L. S.]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of said county of Morris, this — day of October, 1834.
JOSEPH DALRIMPLE, Clerk.

Robt Daniels
Revo. Pen.
Feby 2 d 1836
Mar. 26. 1836 Bill reported N o 506
Mr Dickerson

24 Congress.
1st Session.
Congress of the United States
In the House of Representatives
February 2d 1836
On motion of Mr. Dickerson Resolved, That the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions be instruct- ed to inquire into the expediency of granting a pension to Job Daniels of New Jersey Attest
W. F. Franklin Clerk
The Comm. of Pensions has been instructed to send the papers to Committee

J. Edwards M g Comm

Very Sir
I again enclose the papers of Job Daniels with the additional Deposition of W Young which I think will remove the doubt you have upon the subject as expressed in your letter of the 15 March 1834. I have been acquainted with this Job Daniels from my childhood and have no doubt of the fairness of his claim for at least 2 years service which I think is made sufficiently manifest by the papers.
I am yours very Respectfully
Ph. Dickerson Dec 29. 1835
J. L. Edwards Esq Comm-tee

Feb. 5.
My
Job Daniels
J. P. Edwards Esq.
Hon. Dickerson H. R. 24
Comm. of Survey

Yr Sir
I have referred the case of Job Daniel, to the committee of Revolutionary Pensions & would thank you to send the papers either to me or the Chairman of that Committee.
I am, Sir, Respectfully,
L. L. Edwards
Ph: Dickerson
July 3 rd 1836

War Department Pensions Office 11. October 1833.
Sir,
The claim of John Lefay has been examined and rejected. No company of militia was held in service for the period alleged by the Claimant, and the statements in the additional declaration are contrary to the general facts of the service, if they are intended to convey the impression that the Claimant was in actual and constant service three years as sergeant of a militia company. If they were not, it must be borne in mind that no service but actual service in the field or garrison, is within the act. The papers are placed on file.
Whether the claim of Job Daniels comes within the act will be determined when he shall make a specification of the time, and place of each term of his service, state whether there are survivors of each term, and support his claim

claim by the best evidence in detail which can be produced. His papers are herewith returned.
I am, respectfully your ob't serv't
Geo. M. Brumf Actg Commr of Pensions
Rev. Nicholas, Esq. P. M.
Flanders
Morris County, N.J.

Pension Papers
Job. Daniels
N. Jersey
May 12 1834
Ref. to Genl Rev. pension
June 3. 1834
Com d - link - to lib
March 26 1836
Bill - n o 506
Hon. P. Dickerson
HR
Pay

War Department, Pension Office,
March 15. 1834.
Sir,
The great difficulty in deciding upon the claim of Job Daniel, is, that unless his swomping statement that he served more than two years without any evidence to support it, is taken as a sufficient basis for a pension, there is no data given by which a computation can be made. His character appears to be good, but the regulations require a definite specification specification of service, which cannot be dispensed with, either from the claimant or witnesses. The gentlemen who express an opinion, that he is entitled to a pension do not state whether it should be computed for six months, or twenty four months service. Unless the necessary facts are furnished, the claim cannot be allowed. The papers are again returned.
I have the honor to be
Yr. M. S.
J. L. Edwards
Hon. P. Dickinson
Ho. of Reps.

Gen. P. Wilkinson
The Hoults
Lucius C. C. Secy of War Washington

Suckasunny N.J. Dec. 21. 33
Sir.
I have been acquainted with Job Daniels of Morris 6 o N.J. now an applicant for a pension, for about 40 years - I have always understood he was a soldier in the revolutionary war - I believe him to be perfectly honest - and that his statement may be implicitly relied on - but he about 80 years old as he says, and as I should judge - is very infirm in body & mind - and cannot recollect all the circumstances of his service as he could have done 20 years ago - He is very poor & helpless - and I have no doubt he is intitled to a pension - if he w d swear to what I have no doubt is true, but what he cannot clearly recollect, I presume there w d be no difficulty in the case -
I have the honor to be with Great respect You S r M c H.
M. Dickerson,
W th H on ble.
Lewis Cass
Secy of War.

Gloucester N.J. Decr. 26 th 1833
Sir
Hon ble
Lewis Cass
Secy. of War
Washington City
District Columbia

Br. Sir
Hanover P.O. Morris Co. N.J. Dec r 22 nd 1833
I take the liberty to address a line to you in behalf of one of the old soldiers of the Revolution whose Claim has been twice forwarded to the Pension Department and returned for further proof and Explanation so far as I can understand the Law and Instructions I think Mr. Daniels the applicant has fully complied with the Requirements at least so far as it is possible for a man of his age after a lapse of fifty seven years and much infirmity in body and mind, he has no documentary evidence to offer and cannot procure any living testimony as to his services, Mr. Daniels, cannot add any thing in addition to what he has already offered Except that he is aged, very infirm, poor, and possessing one of the noblest and most exalted traits of the Human Character - to wit, Honesty and Sterling Integrity,, Mr. Daniels is now reduced to extreme penury and want, the Hon ble Abiah Dickerson herewith transmits his testimony in favour of Mr. Daniels for your consideration, also Josiah Munson Esq r who is now a Revolutionary pensioner also a man of unblemished character has forwarded to me his statement of his personal knowledge of Mr. Daniels which I also transmit to you, fifty Testimonies of the worthy and estimable character of Mr. Daniels can be procured if necessary from persons of the first respectability in his vicinity, My Object in now addressing you is to lay before you his papers for Examination or to ask of you the favour to examine them in connexion with the letter of Genl Dickerson at the Pension Office as I shall transmit them back to that office without any further alteration, Be so good Sir as to confer with the Hon ble Philemon Dickerson of N.J. now at Washington as to the character of Josiah Munson Esq r and of Mr. Daniels, as I presume he is personally acquainted with them both, Col d Fowler I presume is acquainted with Esq r Munson and probably with Mr. Daniels, It is truly lamentable that the worthy old soldiers of the Revolution do not always receive the Benevolent Donation of the Government intended for their support and comfort, I have thus far acted as the agent of Mr. Daniels in forwarding his Pension Claim to the proper Department, which I offer as an apology for thus troubling you at the instance of Genl Dickerson with this note of my own views on the subject in connexion with his
Very Respectfully your Obedient Servant
Hon ble Lewis Cass Sec y of War
Thos. Nicholas P.O. Hanover N.J.

When Nicholas Esq. D.C.L.
4
Francis
devoirs lea dr. J.

Stanhope Dec. 19 th 1883
Sir
I have been acquainted with Job Daniels upwards of forty years all which time he has been in the habit of blowing the fife. I was also acquainted with Sgt Major Jas. Rogers in the time of the Revolution hence have seen him act in that capacity, in the militia & a mile and myself was in separate Regiment living about twelve miles apart, was not acquainted with him, but from the continual drills, alarms, and short enlistments think it pro- -bable he was in the service a good while as every one being old enough was obliged to go when called ever since my acquaintance Job Daniels he has kept a good honest and industrious character and full credit given to his testimony when called on as a witness I have often heard him since the pension act of 1818 speak of being out in the service and thought he ought to have a pension as much as those embraced in that act.
Yours &c
Ebenezer Minton

Waverly City Oct 24-1836
Aug 8.
Mr. Daniels Sp. act.
Dear Sir,
Yours respectfully J. P. Williams Esq. Washington City
J.P.W.

Flanary P.O. N.J. Aug. 4 th 1835
Sir In behalf of John Daniels a sol dier of the Revolution - I am advised by letter from the Hon. Philemon Dickinson that by an act of congress passed the last session - John Daniels had been placed upon the pension list as a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States I am requested to ask of the Pension Department on his ap pl . to transmit to this office as soon as convenient - such warrant or other voucher in conformity with the regulations of the Department in such cases as evidence of such claim - that his back pay may be obtained from the pension agent at Trenton as soon as possible as it is much needed.
Most respectfully yours etc.
Robert Nicholson P.O. Flanary N.J.
James L. Edwards Esq.

Sept 8 th 1858 Hanover N.H.
Free
Sept 12 James A. Bennett Esq.
Produce of this
Washington City
D.C.
Robt Daniel Esq.

Hanover P.O. N.J.
Sept. 8 th 1835 -
Sir Yours of the 8 th August in Reply to mine of the 4 th was duly Received informing me that before a Pension Certificate could issue for late Daniel he must send to the Pension an official Office setting forth the particulars of his case viz - the Regiment and Company in which he served, the name of the Member who presented his petition to Congress, and the date of the act passed for his Relief. I have to inform you that Mr. Daniel has lately Deceased as I am informed by his Son in law leaving no Widow but two surviving Daughters only who are married - there is then no way to obtain such official of his services setting forth the particulars of his case - the old man was an inmate of the poor house for several months before his death. his surviving Daughters are very poor but divorced their scanty pittance with their venerable parent for several years until they could do it no longer, they now much need the Benefit that may be due to their father by the late act of Congress in his favor. - If there has been any Regulations adopted by the War Department to meet such cases. I would ask of the Department to transmit to me a Blank form of such evidence as is required in such a case as Daniel, to obtain a pension Certificate in behalf of his surviving Daughters who are now the only legal Claimants. I understand from the Hon. Philemon Dickinson Member of Congress from N.J. that he presented his petition to the House of Representatives together with his Declaration and accompanying testimony which are on file with the Papers of the pension Committee and the evidence upon

which the pension committee reported a bill in his favor as then fully set forth, - as he is now De d . I know of no way that any thing further can be obtained. Explanatory of his Revolutionary services Except what is already on file with the papers of the committee on Pensions, where I presume if necessary a certified copy might be obtained. - If any of the former Regiments in this case of Daniels, are to be mustered by his surviving Children at the Regular term of the County court. I would ask the Reply of the Department without Delay as the court of the County of Morris where they reside will commence its regular Session on the 27 th Sept r inst - when they desire to Exhibit such Documents as may be required in their behalf.
I write at the Request of Mrs Ruth Heaton & Electa Wright the only surviving Children of Mr Daniels De d .
Please direct to me at this office
I am very Respectfully Yours At Serv t - John Mahaley P.M. Hanover N.J.
Hon J. L. Edwards

I William Monroe one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris aforesaid do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Job Daniels whose testimony is herewith taken before me Explanatory of his services in the war of the Revolution. I have been acquainted with the said Job Daniels for thirty years and freely state that I have the highest confidence in the character of the said Job Daniels for truth and veracity whether in or out of Court and I further certify that that there is not any Resident Clergyman near the vicinity where the said Job Daniels resides whose testimony he could procure in connexion with his application for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid. — Wm Monroe
State of New Jersey } I David Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Morris aforesaid do hereby certify that William Monroe Esq. before whom the foregoing additional Declaration of Job Daniels was made was at the time of the doing thereof one of the Judges of said Court and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such Judge and that the signatures W m Monroe annexed thereto and also to the certificate concerning the character of the said Job Daniels is the genuine signature of the said William Monroe —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Morris Town the twelfth day of July A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty three — David Day Clk