Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 881, Peter Gulick, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Gulick, Peter
S 881.
CONTENTS
Carded

9870.
New Jersey
Peter Gulick
of S Brunswick in the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Chamber of the Reg t commanded by Col Hyer in the Militia line for 6 months — N.J.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of June 1833 and due to E. M. Chesney of High Bridge N.J. Pensioner
Arrears to the 4th of Mar '33 $40 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4th Sep '33 10
$50
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Francion Clerk, Book C o Vol. 3 d Page 113.

State of New Jersey } Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Middlesex County } Act of Congress passed June the 7. 1832.
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On this Eleventh day of September Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Two personally appeared in open court held at the City of New Brunswick being a court of common pleas in and for the County of Middlesex, it being a court of Record, Peter Gulich a resident of the Township of South Brunswick in said County aged Seventy years on the 19. of this Instant 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 the 7. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States in the Militia of New Jersey as a private, and served as herein stated Viz. in the Company commanded by Captain David Chambers under Colonel Jacob Hyre, and went out in the service early in the month of January in the year 1777 and was stationed at the village of Cranbury at the time the British lay at New Brunswick and served Two months and a half for himself as a volunteer, and two weeks as a substitute for his Uncle John Gulich, and two weeks as a substitute for Charles Barclay at the same place. This tour lasted until sometime about the first of June following, and while laying at that place was engaged in numerous scouting parties on the lines of the enemy in order to prevent them from plundering the surrounding inhabitants, was ordered out again to Elizabeth Town under Lieutenant Daniel Voorhees, and under Colonel John Neilson he thinks, was out half a month for himself, and a half a month as a substitute for his father, in 1778 was again called into service under Captain David Chambers, and Colonel William Scudder, and marched to Trenton, to Slab-Town, Black-horse, Mount-holley and afterwards retreated before the British army previous to the Battle of Monmouth, back to Allen Town, and from this place was permitted to return home to take care of his father's property, living near the line of march it was expected the British army would pursue, was out on this tour at least half a month, after this was called into service the same year under Captain Jonathan Lamb, and Colonel Scudder, and marched to Springfield, Newark, and Connecticut Farms, to protect the inhabitants of that part of the State from the numerous excursions, and depredations of the enemy, was out on this tour half a month for himself, and half a month for his father
after

after this was called out again under Captain Peter Penine or Captain Jonathan Lamb does not recollect certain which and under the command he believes of Colonel Sedderick the year 1779 and during part of this time lay at New Brunswick, Spotswood, and Chesepequahes, guarding the shores, and protecting the inhabitants, from the depredations of the British and the Tories in their employ, was out on this tour three weeks, besides was called out on different alarms, for short times cannot remember how long was thus engaged perhaps three weeks, the foregoing are the most material facts relating to his services during the Revolutionary war that he can at this distance of time remember, and this applicant declares that he verily believes he was engaged in the said service from first to last altogether as much as eight or nine months, so far as he can now recollect, and this deponent, or applicant further declares that he has no documentary evidence relating to his services, except the affidavit herewith attached, and he hereby declares that he relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and he also declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
sworn to, and subscribed in open Court this 11. day of September 1832.
Robert Weherney
Peter Gerlick
June 21 - 1832 of freely consent to receive a Certificate for the within document to be considered for 6 months after date of entry and relinquish all other claims to a pension - In witness whereof the undersigned has hereunto set his hand Chas. G. H. Fleming Atty

June 21 st 1833 I hereby consent to receive a Certificate for the within claimant to be computed for 6 months as a part of Inf'ty and relinquish all other claims to a Pension - under Act of 7 th June 1832.
Charles G. M. Chesney Atty
John G. Cook
Richard McChesney Seventeenth open Court this 11 day of November 1832.

Interrogatories put by the Court to the above named applicant
1. Where, and in what year were you Born.
Answer I was Born in the Township of South Brunswick County of Middlesex September the 19. 1762
2. Have you any Record of your age, and where is it —
Answer my age is Recorded in my fathers Bible and is now in my possession
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 Township of S. Brunswick and county of Middlesex lived since part of the time in the county of Monmouth, and I now live in S. Brunswick and county of Middlesex
4. How were you called into service?
Answer always as a volunteer, or as a substitute,
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 services.
I never does not recollect the names of any of the regular or Continental Officers who had any command where I was in the service, and the Militia Officers I was out under are above mentioned in my declaration and also the general circumstances of my services.
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service
Answer I never received any written discharge, at the expiration of the hours for which I was called out I always was verbally discharged
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can certify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer I am known to Major Andrew McDowell, captain Simon Addis, Christopher Beekman, Joseph Suidam, Cornelius Hoagland, Lewis Burnet, and Benjamin Hagaman v. v. sworn to, and subscribed in
Open Court the day and year aforesaid on the opposite page
Robert McHenry
Peter Gerlach

We James Romeyn Pastor of the Dutch Church at Six mile Run of the County of Middlesex and Hendrick Cortelyou of the said County Do
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Gulick who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, and believe him to be Seventy years of age or thereabouts, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and we concur in that opinion,
sworn to, and subscribed in open Court the day and year above said Robert McChesney
James Romeyn Hendrick Cortelyou
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the foregoing Interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the abovenamed applicant was a soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the said James Romeyn who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the vicinity of the said applicant in the Mid County of Middlesex Somerset, and that Hendrick Cortelyou who has also signed his name to the same is a resident in the Mid County of Middlesex and is a creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
The foregoing affidavits were sworn to, and subscribed in open Court the day and year above said in presence of the Judges present viz.
Thos Vance Robert McChesney N. Woodhull H. Ford
State of New Jersey } Middlesex County } I H. S. Vanarsdalen Clerk of the Court of the County of Middlesex in said State do hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Peter Gulick for a pension
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17 th day of September A.D. 1832 H. S. Vanarsdalen Clerk

Sufficient to any Declaration
State of New Jersey - Be it known that on the 15 th day of June Middlesex County ss. Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Three before me
Peter P. Newman
one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Peter Gulick, who being duly sworn according to Law did upon his oath before me say as an applicant for a revision and in the Act of being of said June the 7. With in addition to his original declaration and for the purpose of amending the same agreeably to the instructions of the war department, and more partic- ularly sets the length of the different tours he served during the Revolutionary war that to the best of his present memory and belief he states as follows and in the order of time he has related them in his original declaration viz. that in the year 1777 he entered the services of the United States in the Militia of New Jersey as a private in the company commanded by Captain David Chambers until Colonel Jacob Hays and was ordered out into service the same year and in the same Hays and was stationed at Cranbury
1777
January. Drafted under Capt David Chambers and Col Jacob Hays
Station in Cranbury generally was out scouting
Feby
Once a week
March
Served as Substitute for Charles Barclay and John Gulick under Capt Peter P. P. and Col Wilson
Apr
Drafted under Capt Chambers and Col J. Hays
May
Substitute for Peter Gulick sent same officers
1778
June. Volunteered under Capt David Chambers and Col
William Scudder marched to Trenton State House
Black house Borden Town Mt. Holly. He was in the Battle
Sept or of Monmouth as a Declaration state
Oct
Drafted under Capt Combs and Col Scudder served half a month then was a Substitute for his Father Peter
Gulick sent marched to Brunswick Newark
1779
Elizabeth Town Springfield making one month
Carried over

1779.
Cannot say what month - drafted under —
1. Mo. Capt Peter Perim and Col Seudden marched to - Spottswood - Amboy - Chester - Quaker - New Brunswick Principally engaged against the Tories & Refugees
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Jan. Drafted under Capt. Coombs and Col Seudden marched to Spottswood - Amboy - and was at Old Bridge when the Pennsylvania Line revolted This Loss was about a month - was out other Loss than those before mentioned But cannot Recollect the Precise times - and according to the Best of his memory and Belief he served full time months in actual Duty during the said war - altogether in Loss of Months and half months Sworn to and Subscribed the Day and Year before mentioned
Peter R. Mearns
Peter Gulick

State of New Jersey } Be it known that on the 20. day of May 1833 Middlesex County ss. } before me Robert W. Sherney one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County personally appeared John Gulich who being duly sworn according to Law did depose and say that he was well acquainted with Peter Gulich before, and at the commencement of the Revolutionary War, and who is an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed June the 7. 1832 and that the said Peter Gulich was in the Militia in the Company commanded by Captain David Chambers under Colonel John Neilson and in the month of January early in the year 1777, was stationed at the village of Cranberry and continued there until about the first of June following being relieved, for a fortnight unless serving as a substitute, and this deponent further says that shortly after that time he moved into Somerset County and was thus deprived of being out in the service with him the said Peter Gulich afterwards and further saith not and subscribed the day and aforesaid.
John Gulich
and I do hereby certify that the witness who subscribed the above affidavit is a creditable person
Robert W. Sherney Justice of the Peace

I Nicholas Booraeu Clerk of the Court of common Pleas of the county of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey do certify that Robert McCherry and Peter Pellerroll before whom the foregoing and several depositions were taken were at the time Justices of the peace duly commissioned and sworn and that the signatures Robert McCherry & Peter Pellerroll 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

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.
May 15, 1928
Mrs. Stella Rankin 938- 15th Ave. S. E. Minneapolis, Minn.
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 881, it appears that Peter Gulick (son of Peter Gulick) was born September 19, 1762 in South Brunswick Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
While residing there, he enlisted in January 1777 and served at various times as a private in Captains David Chambers', Jonathan Combs', and Peter Perrine's Companies, Colonels Jacob Hyer's, John Neilson's, and William Soudder's New Jersey Regiments, he was in the battle of Monmouth, and served in all eight or nine months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 11, 1832, while a resident of South Brunswick Township, New Jersey.
It is not stated that soldier was married.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

Minneapolis Minnesota 5 Aug. 1927.
Dear Sir -
Will you please send me copies of the Pension papers of Peter neg. Gulick a Rev. soldier from Middlesex Co New Jersey and also of John Gulick neg. Rev. War from Somerset Co New Jersey.
Thanking you
I am Mrs Stella Rankin 938. 15 th Ave S.E. Minneapolis, Minnesota

New Year
INVALID.
File No.
881
Peter Gschick,
Prin. N.Y. Coll.
Act
June 7, 1882.
Index:—Vol.
a
, Page
154
[Arrangement of 1870.]
✓
1928. May 15. Miss to Mrs. Stella Rankin Gschick

State of New Jersey } Be it known that on the first day of September Middlesex County ss. } 1832 before me Robert Wethersey one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex personally appeared Jacob Witroff who being duly sworn according to Law did depose and say that he is and for a long time has been well acquainted with Peter Gulick and distinctly remembers being out in the Militia of New Jersey in the time of the Revolutionary War and was out with him in the said service when the Militia lay at Elizabeth Town in New Jersey opposite to Staten Island as much as two weeks, and also was in the service at New Brunswick, and at Spotswood for several weeks cannot now tell exactly how many, and this deponent further saith that he the said Peter Gulick has good reason to believe that he the said Peter Gulick was in the said service a number of other times, he having lived in the same neighbourhood and near him, but this deponent being so young at the commencement of the said war, that he did not enter the service until the war was in much as half over sworn to, and subscribed before the subscriber the day and year abovenamed
Jacob Witroff
Robert Wethersey and hereby certify that the witness to the above affidavit is known to me to be a credible person
State of New Jersey } Middlesex County ss. }
I F. J. Vandersalen Clerk of the Court of the County of Middlesex in said State do hereby certify that Robert Wethersey before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time a Judge of said Court and duly authorized to admin- ister oaths
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 17 th day of September A.D. 1832 F. J. Vandersalen Clerk

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Peter Gustlich H. J.
5.1904 1st
9mo in 2 nd
Service estimated by Consent at 6 mo.
Asm d
6 mo. p.u.
20 H
Sister Brunsbrich Cate Grombach Cal Flyre
also daughter's child

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Peter Gurlich , which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yy II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yy III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? 2/10 V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? e to VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yy VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yy VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yy IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yy X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yy

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. †If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes
XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and 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 _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.