Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 538, Benoni Hathaway, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Hathaway, Benoni
S. 538
carded
CONTENTS

New Jersey
Benoni Hatheway Captain
In the army of the revolution.
Inscribed on the roll of the New Jersey Agency at the rate of $10 per month
Formal Certificate issued 19 December 1821 and sent to the Hon. Lewis Condict House of Reps

Certificates issued between the 4th March and the 4th September are not payable until the 4th September. Those issued between the 4th September and 4th March are not payable before the 4th March. The stipend due to the within named Pensioner will be paid at Trenton New Jersey by
The President of the Trenton Banking Compt.
Benois Hathaway
# 538
Registered in Book 3
Vol. 6 th page 9 by
Benj a L. Wall Clerk.
45 21 98 76 108

INVALID.
Rev Wm
138 Denoni Pathaway, Safe. Rev. Wm
at: _____ —Vol. a , Page 156
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Apr 8. 1822 to Mar 4. 1822 Apr 20. 1822 to Sep. 4 1822 Mar 20. 1823 to March. 1823

Copy of a P...
WAR DEPARTMENT.
INVALID PENSION.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Laws of the United States,
Benoni Hathaway late a captain of the Revolutionary Army is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New Jersey Agency, at the rate of ten . . . . . dollars per month, to com- mence on the _____ day of _____ one
thousand eight hundred and  This Pensioner will be paid from the time to which he was last paid by the Agent.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United
States, this nineteenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty one .

Issue a new Cert.
J. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office
War Department.

Home of Rev. Dec 17th 21
I mentioned verbally to you a few days later, the case of Reuben Hathaway of New Canaan, N.H. Young, an Invalid pensioner, who had been refused a certificate on the ground that he presented no certificate at the pay office, when in fact none had ever been issued to him. — I enclose to you, an application to the Secy, praying for a certificate, & an affidavit stating the time, place, & other circumstances of receiving his wound. — Having at the time the affidavit was taken, no office forms, the affidavit is more in detail than was perhaps necessary, but I presume it will authorize issuing a certificate.
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May I ask the favor of you to on
the Certificate, or to notify me, if any further shorts or required?
Very respectfully
Your obedt servt.
Leon Conrad
J. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office

To the Secretary of War.
The petition of Benoni Hathaway, of Morristown New Jersey, respectfully represents, - That your petitioner commanded a company of Militia in the war of the Revolution, which was raised in this place, & attached to the Regiment of which Jacob Ford Esqr. was Colonel. - That he, with his company & Regiment were frequently called out for the defense of the country against the common enemy, during the struggle for Independence, & to aid the efforts of the American Army under General Washington. - That whilst a considerable part of New Jersey was in possession of the enemy in the year 1776, your deponent petitioner with his said company of Militia, & under the command of said Colonel Ford, was in an engagement with the enemy at Elizabeth town, on the 8th day of December of said year, when he recd. a wound in the back part of his head, from a musket ball, which entirely disabled him, & in consequence whereof, he was carried off the field, & remained under the care of the surgeon of said Regiment for several months before he was able to attend to any business. - That your petitioner made no application to his County for relief, until from the infirmities of age, the effects of his wound were more sensibly felt, & his pecuniary circumstances became embarrassed, & he almost entirely incapacitated to labor. - That some time in or about the year understanding that some provision had been made by a law of the U.S. for the relief of persons disabled by wounds recd. in defense of their Country, your petitioner applied for its benefit, to Robert Morris Esqr. then District Judge of New Jersey, who thereupon issued a commission to John Doughty Esqr. of Morristown, to examine into the merits of the case. That your petitioner was examined, with other witnesses, relative to the time, place & circumstances of his receiving said wound, & the opinions of respectable surgeons & physicians, as to the effects of said wound upon the constitution, & the actual degree of disability resulting from the same, were all taken in writing & attested to by solemn oath, before the said Commissioner Doughty & duly returned, as is believed by him, to the aforesaid District Judge Morris, as by a reference to the records of the War Department at this day may probably more fully appear. - That some time afterwards, your petitioner recd. through the hands of James Ewing Esqr., Commissioner of loans & agent

agent for paying U. S. pensions for N. Jersey, a pension at the rate of Ten dollars per month, but that no warrant, or pension certificate, ever came to your petitioner's hands, or was ever issued from the War Department as your petitioner understands & believes. — That said pension has from time to time been paid, with occasional interruptions in point of regularity, until September 1821, when payment thereof was refused by the pension agent at Tren- ton, on the ground, as your petitioner was informed, that no certificate was presented & that said agent said his instructions from the War Department were positive & peremptory, not to pay any pensioners, except they produced certificates, either original, or certified copies when lost. — That your petitioner is thus unadvisedly placed in a dilemma from which he cannot extricate himself, & his pension withheld, in consequence whereof he feels the pressure of extreme want, & has no means of support. He humbly solicits from the Secretary of War, that he will grant him prompt relief, either by issuing to him a certificate of pension in the proper form, or give such instructions to the Pension agent of New Jersey, as may do him present justice, & prevent him similar trouble as regards future payments, should he live to require them.
And your petitioner, as in duty bound will ever pray.
Morris town, N. Jersey.
Nov. 20 th 1821.
Benoni Hathaway
State of New Jersey
Morris County
On this 20 th day of Nov. 1821, Benoni Hathaway, the above petitioner, to me well known, for more than 30 years, appeared before the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of common pleas of said County & made solemn oath, that the various facts, as set forth in the foregoing petition are true, as he verily believes.
Sworn & subscribed before me
Lewis Condict.
Benoni Hathaway