Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S, 15081, Samuel Demarest, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
Demarest Samuel
NUMBER _____
NUMBER S.15081
barded
CONTENTS

4048 New York
Samuel Demarest
Waterford in the State of New York
who was a Captain in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col Dye _____ in the New Jersey line for three years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 480 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of Janua- ry 1833 - and deliv d to Samuel Demarest Esq. Present.
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 - $720.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 240.00
$960.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Mo Cromwell Clerk Book D Vol. 5 Page 81
Let to Sam l Demarest Sept 11. 1835. Do. to Same Oct. 28. 1835. (The
Pensioner is dead.) - do. to Same & S d Governor P. M. Jan. 12. 1836 -

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. State of New York Saratoga County ss. 3 On this Twenty day of September 1832. personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Saratoga aforesaid now sitting Samuel Demarest a resident of the town of Waterford in the County of Saratoga aforesaid aged eighty-seven 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 & served as herein stated viz in the latter part of the summer of the year 1776 when the British landed or came into the Hook at New York the Militia of that part of New Jersey where deponent resided were ordered out to Elizabethtown (N. J.) that deponent on that occasion turned out as a Soldier and went to Elizabethtown that he marched through the Village of Hackensack Acquacemia Second River and New Ark to Elizabethtown aforesaid that they remained there a few days were then ordered to Fort Bergen opposite N. Y. remained there a few days and were then ordered to Fort Lee when the troops built a Fort and remained some short time and were then discharged. that deponent at this time was out in actual service about one month and the names of his officers as far as he can now recollect them were Captain Cooper Col. Lewis Dye & Genl. Wynes - that there were no regular officers at the above named Posts at the time deponent was there according to his best recollection - that Washington Army at the time lay on Long Island. that the British landed at the time deponent was stationed at Elizabethtown as aforesaid.
And this deponent further saith that shortly after he returned home from the aforesaid months service he was pressed with his waggons and horses into the service and taken to Fort Lee & from thence to Fort Washington on York Island & from thence he removed a load of sick and retreated up to White Plains about the time that Fort Washington was taken. that he

was at White Plains at the time of the battle in the capacity of a Teamster as aforesaid that the next day after the battle he was discharged and returned home - that in the latter part of the year 1776 deponent received a Sargeant's Warrant in Captain Loren's Company of Col. John Dyer's Regiment of the New Jersey Militia which situation he held till the first part of the year 1777 when he received a Lieutenants Commission in said Company which he held till the year 1779 when he received a Captain's Commission which he retained till the close of the war.
That deponent at the commencement of the war resided at New Bridge (N.J.) within about fourteen miles of New York and six of Fort Lee. That the inhabitants of that part of the country were greatly exposed to and suffered much from the foraging, marauding and other parties of the enemy who were making repeated and continued incursions into the country from New York & Fort Lee. That that District of country was throughout the whole war on account of its vicinity to the enemy in an almost constant and continued state of alarm - in consequence whereof the Militia of the Neighborhood were so repeatedly called out to protect the country as to make their service amount almost to a continued and constant service - That during the time deponent held his Sargeant's Warrant and Lieutenants Commission aforesaid he firmly believes he was engaged in actual military service one half of the whole time - the precise times when called out and the length of the periods at the several times that he served he can not state that almost every day or every few days he was called out, would remain under arms until the hostile parties retreated or were repelled and then return home. That he has no doubt he was out upon Military Service during the time he was Lieutenants as aforesaid more than one year in the whole made up of short periods of service of the kinds above mentioned and when not actually under arms he was unable to attend to his business or even to remain at home except by stealth on account of his

exposure to capture from the enemy in consequence of his being an officer and obnoxious to the enemy - they having made repeated attempts to effect his capture from his own house -
And the deponent further saith that on or about the 23 d day of January 1779 he received a Commission from Governor Livingston of the State of New Jersey Captain in the Militia of the last mentioned State - that the aforesaid Commission bears date on the day & year last aforesaid and is hereto annexed - that shortly after he received the aforesaid Captain's Commission deponent was directed by Governor Livingston aforesaid to raise a company of men by enlistment for one year for the purpose mainly of guarding the lines - that deponent raised the said company accordingly and immediately called them into actual service - that deponent with his company took stations for the year at New Bridge that he was in the Regiment commanded by Colo. Dye and in the Brigade of Genl. Myles - that deponent's Lieutentant was David Demarest & his Ensign Brackett - that there were no regular troops stationed there at the time - that from the time deponent raised the aforesaid company in the year 1779 he was in the Military Service as Captain down to the close of the war - that he served in all as Captain about four years - that he was not engaged in any general battle but in a great number of skirmishes with parties of the enemy -
To the first interrogatory proposed in the instructions of the Secretary at War, and now propounded to the witness by the Court here in Session the deponent says that he was born in Hackensack Bergen Co. N.Y. on the 15 th Aug t 1745.
To the second interrogatory the deponent saith that he hath no Record of his age - 'twas recorded in Family Bible & probably in the Records of the Dutch Church at Hackensack - deponent does not know where the Family Bible is or whether in existence -

To the third interrogatory deponent saith that he was living at New Bridge  in the Precinct of Hackensack New Jersey at the time he was called into the Service - that he continued his residence there until the year 1792 then moved up into the town of Broad-Albin Montgomery Co. N. Y. where he resided till in or about the year 1820 when his wife died she broke up house-keeping, since which time he has staid about at different places with his children & friends, much of the time at Broad-Albin aforesaid & the town adjoining, some part of the time at Water Street in the county of Albany and considerable of the time at Waterford in the county of Saratoga where he now resides.
To the fourth interrogatory the deponent answereth that he was called into service by the order of his superior officers - that in the year 1775 while he was a private and a non-commissioned officer he was ordered out in common with the other militia men and after he received his commissions of Lieutenant and Captain he was ordered out by his superior officers.
To the fifth interrogatory the deponent saith that there were no Regular officers or troops stationed at the places where deponent lay while in the Service according to his recollection - that deponent was attached to Colo. Janis Dyes Regiment and Genl. Wynes Brigade. that he does not recollect the names of any other militia officers or Regiments at the places where deponent was stationed than those herein after mentioned and as it respects the general circumstances of the deponent's service he refers to his declaration herewith set forth - names of militia officers, Maj r Richard Dye, 2 d Maj r John Gutchess, two captain Hoopers, Alwater, Branch, Herndon, Boardman Van Busen also captains -
To the sixth interrogatory the deponent saith that he did receive a Lieutenant's Commission as in said declaration is mentioned, does not recollect by whom it was signed nor what has become of it - that he also received a Captain's Commission as is stated in his foregoing declaration which was signed by Governor Livingston of New Jersey and is herunto annexed -

To the seventh interrogatory the deponent saith that John B. Steel . . . . a clergyman of the Reformed Dutch Church in the town of Water Vliet in the County of Albany . . . and Moses Scott Esquire of the town of Waterford in the County of Saratoga will know deponent and have so known him for many years past and will testify as to the good character of deponent for veracity and to their belief in his services as a soldier in the Revolution.
And this deponent further saith that he hath no documentary evidence of his service except the annexed commission of captain, and 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.
Given to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid —
Sam, Bernard
Thomas Palmer Clerk

State of New York Seneca County ss.
On this third day of September 1832 personally appeared before me Samuel Demarest Junior who after being duly sworn saith that at the time of the Revolutionary war he resided at home in the family of his father Samuel Demarest at a place called New Bridge (N.J.) - deponent was then a lad but recollects distinctly that his father was out in the Military service in the Revolution - that the said Samuel Demarest Senior previous to the time of his obtaining the captaincy as in the annexed declaration mentioned was engaged in the Military service of the United States in the militia of New Jersey & that he continued in said service until the close of the war in the aforesaid militia. Subscribed on the day &
Sworn & subscribed on the day &
year aforesaid Before me
Henry Edson Justice of the Peace
D. Demarest e. Demarest Junior

THE STATE OF NEW-JERSEY,
TO
GREETING:
WHEREAS it hath been certified to His Excellency WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief of this State, that you have been duly chosen by the ... Company of Militia in ... the County of ... (being the ... Company in the ... of the said County, whereof ... Esquire, is Colonel to be Captain of the said Company; you are therefore to take the said Company of Militia into your Charge and Care as of, and duly to exercise both Officers and Soldiers ... directed to obey you as then you are likewise to obey and follow such Orders and as you shall receive from your Colonel or other your superior Officer or Officers and for your so doing this shall be your Commission. IN TESTIMONY whereof the Great Seal of the said State is hereunto affixed: Witness WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, Esquire, Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey, and Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the same, at Elizabeth the twenty third Day of January in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Five
By His Excellency's Command,
[Handwritten signature]
[Handwritten signature]

15081 INVALID.
File No. 15,081
Samuel Demaree Capt Boer War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: Vol. 1, Page 94
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Gen. L. Edwards Brgt.
Pension Office War Dept. Wash.
See this statement he received as guardian of the person of Capt. Demarest
L. C.
adm?
$480 per ann
del? cat: to
Sam l . Demarest jr

We have inspected the Declaration of Captain Samuel Demarest, with his Commission & testimonials of service in the Revolutionary war. Beside the regularly enlisted soldiers of the Army proper , & the Militia of the States, there were various other forces or corps raised in N. Jersey under different names upon special emergencies, & engaged for such periods as circumstances demanded. Some were engaged for 5 months - some for 6 - some for 9, - & others for 12. - For distinction sake, some were called, year men - others minute men - some were called the " flying camp " - some Volunteers - some nine months men &c. &c. - Some were raised by enlistment strictly, - some by draft , - others volunteered . - Some enrolled, or subscribed their names, not under the rules & articles of War, but as associates , for a limited time, serving under their own company officers. - All these modes were practiced, as we have understood & believe, - as the public emergency & necessity demanded. - These various corps, were engaged & employed under State authority, & were generally perhaps denominated State troops . -
H is Demarest, living in the neighbourhood of Gov. Livingston, & being well known to him as a man of influence & good standing, & more especially as a firm & decided Whig, - it is very reasonable to suppose, that he should authorize him to embody a company for twelve months, & station him upon that portion of the lines, which for several years was in the alternate possession of the contending armies. - But whatever doubt there may be of the mode in which this company was raised - whether by enlistment , draft , or, as Volunteers - the services were actually performed , as it seems to us, & summing up the whole of Capt. Demarest's services, we think there is conclusive proof of more than two years military duty. - The records of N. J. had they been preserved, would no doubt throw much light on all these subjects - but her seat of government was a sort of " flying camp " during the whole war, & many of her records were said to be lost in the flight.
Your ob st . serv t
Lewis Bondict.
Lewis Bondict
James L. Edwards Esq. Pension Office, War Department.

Peter Demarest, Affidavit in relation to Captain Samuel Demarest, appli- -cation now about to be made to Congress for relief.
Dated 24. Feb. 1830.

State of New York Montgomery County ss. Peter Demarest of the town of Broadalbin in the County and State aforesaid makes oath according to law and saith that he is and has been acquainted with Captain Sam- uel Demarest of the town and County and State aforesaid. And that he will know the said said Samuel previous to and during the revolu- tionary war and that he was commissioned by Governor Livingston of New Jersey to raise a company to serve in the said revolutionary war. And also that the said Samuel did receive a Captain's Commission and did enlist a company to serve in the army for one year and also that the deponent knows the said Samuel did serve as a Captain during the time aforesaid or there- abouts and that during the year he so served and at other times he the said Samuel was actually engaged at several different times with the enemy and had to undergo severe hardships and difficulties incident to a state of war and the particular situation in which he lived at being on or near the lines between the contending armies - and further saith not
Subscribed and sworn this 24 th day of February
1830 Mr. W. E. T. Justice
Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid
Peter Demarest

City of New York ss
Benjamin Domaine of the said City, being sworn, deposeth and saith that, he has known Captain Samuel Demarest (now said to be an inhabitant of Broad-Albin, in the County of Montgomery and State of New York) from the year 1776 or 1777 to this day; - That my father with his family, fled from the city of New York to the State of New Jersey, and County of Bergen, in 1776, before the British troops took possession of the said city, and he remained near New Bridge, in the neighbourhood of the said Samuel Demarest, and that myself, with a remainder of our family, continued to dwell in and about the same neighbourhood, during the war, by way of alternate flight, and return to our deserted habitations, as the enemy advanced or fell back to the city of New York, - their strong hold. - Deponent has served, at sundry times, in a military capacity, under the command of said Captain Samuel Demarest. - That he raised a company of twelve months-men, and was otherwise in continued service, (as all the Wigg-Inhabitants in that part of New Jersey) & may be truly said, during the whole War of Revolution, were at no time out of the service of Arms, and never failed to force and attack of the Enemy on every approach, - as this place was the outer lines between the contending parties. - That Captain Samuel Demarest and his family suffered the repeated plundering, and destruction of his property, in a pointed manner, from from his open and unceasing activity in arms; - That this deponent, and others, came to the aid (in night time) of the said Captain Demarest and his brother, who alone had attacked a party of the enemy, and their Captain, Drake was found dead from their first fire, when the rest of the enemy fled and left their Captain on the ground. The services of Captain Demarest, both from precept and example, were highly serviceable to our country's cause. He is now a man perhaps more than eighty years of age, and declared to be wholly dependent on his friends for a subsistence. This deponent could proceed in further and numerous details.

detail of his personal knowledge in relation to this subject, but deems it not called for on the present occasion, and therefore this deponent further saith not.
Y s M c Romaine
New York 19 th March 1830
Whereas the within written documents in form of Affidavit and before me De-
at hand, - I do therefore hereby certify, on honor, that the with statement is true.
Signed Y s M c Romaine
The preceding certificate was sworn to before me this 13 th day of December 1832, And I do certify that the said Benjamin Romaine is a person of credit. Offingham Schieffelin
Justice of the Marine Court of the City of New York and of the peace
19 th March 1830 Y s M c Romaine in relation to the Affidavit James M c Romaine residing now about 10. be made to be prepared for his trial.
I, John Barberie, Clerk of the Marine Court of the City of New York do hereby certify that Offingham Schieffelin before whom the preceding certificate affidavit of Benjamin Romaine was taken is a Justice of the Peace in and
for the City and County of New York and that the signature attached thereto is his genuine signature in Open Court.
Witness my hand and seal of office this 13 th day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
John Barberie

John Banta Affidavit in relation to Captain Samuel Demarest ap- plication, now about to be made to Congress for pecuniary relief.
Dated 8 th Feb y .
1820.

County of } John Bant of the Town of Broad Montgomery } albin in the said County being sworn depositteth and saith that he is well acquainted with Captain Samuel Demarest and perfectly knows the distress of his family and his special labour in Arms, during the Re- volutionary War That the said Samuel fa- mily residence was, at that time at the New Bridge near Hackensack in the State of New Jersey then also the immediate seat of war - being on the line which separated the contem- ing forces then in possession of the City of New York and in the service of England - That the said Samuel was at that time a Cap- tain of the Militia force , and as the opponent believe was in constant service almost during the whole war - That his family suffered great- ly from the repeated plunderings of the enemy in consequence of his unceasing services in his country. cans. The deponent further states that he has satisfactory evidence of the meritorious condition of this aged patriot now seventy the five years of age, and further this deponent saith not
Sworn before me John Bant at Broadalbin this 8th day of Feby 1820 Samuel Bant, J.P.

Oct 26
18 - 26
Miss Deborah
4048
D. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Office Washington City D.C.

City N.Y. Oct 24 th 1835
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Since Sir about 45 Days since I desired from you to order the Pension of Col. Samuel Dismarck to be paid in this City that he was then a resident of this place and entitled to go to Albany to obtain the same and had been a resident of this City and had been for two years past. I trace not since an answer and on the 15 th of last month he died and his heirs now in Number living at Buffalo are being most eagerly to have all answered the executors to act in this City and Lyman Spencer Esq. who has pension being a statutory public has prepared the papers which have been sent to my Brother and Sisters in order to have them correct which have authorized their attorney to draw the amount of Pension on this City and Sir you will do us a favor if you will direct Mr. Spencer to pay said balance of Pension to our attorney and give notice in Albany of your order to that effect. With much respect Sir I remain your obedt Servt ————— F. Dismarck
P.S. please to defer me to inform you that I spent much time to obtain said pension at your office

Sept 10.
W. Brewster
S. Demarsh
Payroll
gan 33
32
40 48
L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office
Washington City

Harlem 12 th Ward City of N.Y. Sept 4 th 1835
J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir on the 9 th January 1833 you granted a Pension to my Father, Samuel Dessarist who said at the Branch of the U.S. Bank in the City of N.Y. where he has Recd his pay. but is withheld this day, being considered a Resident of Saratoga County. It is true that he resided in that County with me in 33. but I have removed in the 12 th Ward of N.Y. and this is the residence of my Father will have the goodness to direct the Mechanics Bank in the City of N.Y. to pay him, as it would be extremely inconvenient for him to go to Albany on account of his infirmity in old age being over 90 years of age Your kindly and by return of mail will very much oblige your obedient Servt ————— P. Dessarist

State of New York Saratoga County p. 3 We John B. Steele a clergyman residing in the town of Watervliet in the county of Albany and Moses Scott residing in the town of Waterford in the county of Saratoga and State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Demarai who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we have so known him for a great many years past that we believe him to be eighty seven years of age that he is respected and beloved (and has been as long as we have known him) in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion & also believe him to be a man of veracity.
Sworn & subscribed on the day & year aforesaid Before me
Moses Scott
Moses Scott was sworn before me
This 25 th day of August A.D. 1832
Henry Edson Justice of the Peace
John B. Steele Pastor of
The Ref: Dutch church of
Rensselaer at the Boght - Albany Co. Town of Watervliet
County of Albany Town of Watervliet Rev John B Steele sworn before me this 1 st day of Sept 1832 Isaac Fonda Jr Justice of Peace
The Rev John B Steele was sworn before me this Third day of September 1832. Henry Edson Justice of the Peace
State the said Court of Common Pleas 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 applicants was a Revolutionary soldier and officer and servant as stated and the Court further certifies that it appeared to them that John B. Steele who had signed the preceding certifi- cate is a clergyman residing in the town of Watervliet in the county of Albany and that Moses Scott who had also signed the same

is a resident of the Town of Watford in the County of Saratoga aforesaid and is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit. And the Court further certifies that Samuel Demarest Junior whose affidavit is hereunto annexed is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit, and further that in their opinion the above named applicant cannot without too much expense and inconvenience to him, produce the said John P. State Moses, Scott & Samuel Demarest Junior in open Court upon his said application now made.
1835 I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Demarest for a pension and that Henry Edison Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit was taken is a not- ary of the Peace in & for the County of Saratoga aforesaid, and that the signatures annexed to the same are his genuine signatures.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hands and seal of office this fourth day of September in the year 1832.
Thomas Palmer Clerk
6903. Lt. Samuel Demarest.

Amended Declaration. State of New York } Saratoga County, s. }
On this Seventh day of December 1832 personally appeared before me Henry Edson a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Saratoga aforesaid residing in the town of Waterford Samuel Demarest in the annexed declaration mentioned who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following amended declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832. That early in the Spring of the year 1779. and after he had received his Captain Commission as set forth in his aforesaid declaration, he was ordered by Colo. Tunis Dye the Commandant of the Regiment (to which deponent as Captain as aforesaid was attached) out into actual service with his Company that in pursuance of those orders deponent called out his Company and rendezvoused at New Bridge. That deponent can not recollect the precise time when they rendezvoused but feels assured and certain that it was some time previous to the first of May 1779. That he so remained in service as last aforesaid in the command of his said Company at New Bridge down to and at the time he was ordered by Governor Livingston to raise a Company by enlistment for one year and until said Company were raised for the year. That he can not state with certainty the precise time when he raised the aforesaid Company for the year but thinks it was in the Spring or Summer of 1779. That he commanded that Company for the year for which they were enlisted and was in actual service the whole of the time. That after the term of their enlistment had expired deponent was immediately ordered out by his aforesaid Colonel with his Company into actual service and was stationed at New Bridge aforesaid during the whole of his service as an Out Post or Picket-Guard to check and repel the foraging and marauding parties of the enemy and to give notice

on the approach of larger bodies of the enemy. And deponent further saith that during the above terms of service he was attached to the Regiment of Militia in the County of Bergen & State of New Jersey of which Junis Dye residing in the same County was Colonel Commandant, Richard Dye & John M c Gue- -ches Majors, John Van Buren Adjutant, and John Stewart, Garret Lydeker, Thomas Blanch, John Stopper, John Mead, David Demavert, James Christie, Abraham Herring, Board, Van Buren and Cooper were Captains.
And this deponent further saith that from the time he entered the service as captain as aforesaid in the Spring of the year 1779 he continued in actual service as such captain as aforesaid to the close of the war a period of more than three years for which he claims a Pension. The exact time when he was discharged he does not recollect but is certain it was at or about the time the troops generally were disbanded. He recollects distinctly of being in the service at the time of the Surrender of Cornwallis in October 1781. And that it was some months afterwards that he was discharged.
And this deponent further saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he can not swear with any greater degree of precision as to his services as a private and Lieutenant than what he has already done in his declaration hereto annexed that for those services he does not claim a pension but for his services rendered as a captain as aforesaid and he further says that by reason of his old age & the consequent loss of memory as aforesaid he can not swear positively as to the precise length of his service as such captain but has no hesitation in saying that from the time he entered the service as such captain as aforesaid he served in that capacity more than three years previous to the time of his being discharged as aforesaid at or about the close of the war.
I certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the original Signed Gerardus

named Samuel Demarest was sworn before me on the fourth day of December AD 1832 that the facts set forth in the foregoing amended declaration were true. And I further certify that the deposition of the said Samuel Demarest is entitled to the fullest belief.
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Henry Edson Justice of the Peace.

I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that Henry Edson Esquire before whom the preceding affidavit of Samuel Demarest to his amended declaration was taken taken was at the time of taking said affidavit a Justice of the Peace of the County of Saratoga aforesaid and that the signature annexed to the same is the genuine signature of said Justice
Witness my hand and seal this 10 th day of December 1832
Thomas Palmer Clerk

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:
The petition of Samuel Remarrest of the town of Broad Albin in the County of Montgomery and State of New York respectfully represents
That at the commencement of the war of the revolution and before, he resided with his family at a place called, New Bridge near Hackendack in New Jersey and within about fourteen miles of the City of New York, and within about six miles of Fort Lee. — The inhabitants of that district were during the year 1776 and from that time until the conclusion of the war, exposed to and suffered greatly from the foraging and other parties of the enemy who were making continued and repeated incursions into the country from Fort Lee and the City of New York. — By these parties many of the Citizens were carried off prisoners, and the houses of the inhabitants were plundered — their furniture destroyed and their fields devastated as often as the returning season provided a harvest to their anxious hopes — The Petitioner suffering in common with many others by having his house repeatedly pillaged — his crops destroyed and every thing valuable about his farm & residence either carried off or destroyed while he was engaged in the performance of military duty — In consequence of this state of things and the near vicinity of the enemy those of the militia who did not submit to their power and accept of the protection of that enemy, were repeatedly called upon to protect the country against the ravaging parties of the British troops, and that so often and continually as to amount to an almost constant military service —
The Petitioner was a noncommissioned officer in 1776 and as such was repeatedly called into service upon

the continual alarms that occurred, until the first part of the year 1777 when he received from the authority of the State of New Jersey a commission as Lieutenant and in that capacity he continued this species of military service until the first of the year 1779. being during that period absent from his family upon military duty more than half the time, and when at home which he could be only by stealth, he was unable to attend to his own business on account of this constant exposure to capture, and the repeated attempts of small parties of the enemy to effect that purpose, his station as an officer and his active exertions in defence of the country having rendered him particularly obnoxious to the hate of the marauders.—
On the twenty third day of January 1779 the petitioner received from the authority of the State of New Jersey a commission as Captain, and shortly thereafter he was directed by Governor Livingston to raise a company by enlistment for one year, which he did and continued to command them in constant and active service until they were discharged at the expiration of the term of service.— During this period the petitioner acted as occasion required in concert with and sometimes in conjunction with the regular troops of the United States, and had repeated engagements with large parties of the enemy, who attempted to penetrate the interior of the State and harass the citizens and the American troops— After the discharge of the company enlisted as has been stated the petitioner continued in the militia service as before and was in actual duty almost constantly until the close of the war— It is true your petitioner received the pay to which he was entitled for services, but it was received in the depreciated paper currency of the times which was nearly

valueless in his hands. Indeed so low was it held in the public estimation of that part of the country that the petitioner was driven to the necessity of paying and did pay one hundred dollars for as many pounds of flour to furnish bread for his family. Such was the effect of the constant ravages of the enemy, and your petitioner's absence from his farm, that a small patrimonial estate which he enjoyed and on which his family resided, yielded nothing for their subsistence; and such was the accumulation of debts contracted for the maintenance of his family during the period that your petitioner was compelled by necessity to sell his patrimonial estate for the payment of those debts within a few years after the close of the war — and your petitioner is now in the eighty fifth year of his age, in reduced circumstances and altogether dependent on his friends for the means of comfortable subsistence —
Your petitioner is aware that the services he has performed as stated in this memorial were not done under the authority required by the various acts of Congress granting relief to the soldiers of the revolution, and that his case does not come within the letter of any of those acts, but he humbly apprehends that those services were of a similar and at least equal character, so that upon the equity of the existing laws he is entitled to a similar relief — And your petitioner would respectfully represent and urge to the consideration of Congress that his services have been more arduous, and were at the time more important to the interests of the American cause, and more decidedly effective to annoy and embarrass the operations of the British than any the service performed or undertaken to be performed by the greater portion of those who were come within

the letter of the law and therefore enjoy the relief granted to the soldiers of the revolution —
Your petitioner therefore prays that he may be allowed to participate in the benefits granted to those who served in the army of the revolution as he has most abundantly in the services privations and sacrifices of that arduous & glorious struggle; And as in duty bound will ever pray
March 10 th 1830.
Samuel Demarest
Sworn this 10 th March 1830 before me
John Savage Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York. —

Capt. Samuel Demarest Memorial to the Con- gress of the U. States for pecuniary relief.
March
10.
April 2 o 1832
Ref d to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
June 7. 1832 - for d - dish d - to li d
Mr. Root

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Demary, Ezekiel GRADE Private LINE New Hampshire
WARRANT NUMBER 3071 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Feb. 3, 1792 to Nathan White, assignee
*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.