Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 817, Samuel Gosling, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Gosling, Samuel
S 817
CONTENTS
Carded

New Jersey. 17210.
Samuel Gosling.
of Salem Co in the State of New Jersey, who was a Private in the Co commanded by Captain Kille. — of the Regt commanded by Col Taylor. in the New Jersey line for 8 months & 7 days
27 44 100
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey. at the rate of 27 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of Aug. 1832 and sent to B. F. Thompson. Salem, New Jersey
Arrears to the 4th of March 1832. 54. 88.
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 33 13. 72
$68.60.
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm H. Palmer. Clerk, Book E Vol. Three Page 113,

Application of Samuel Goshing for a Pension.
— Amended —

Plate of New Jersey County of Salem ss
On this twenty, seventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight, hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Salem in said State of New Jersey, Samuelasting of the township of Upper Alloways Creek in the County of Salem aged 78 years who being first duly affirmed according to Law doth on his solemn affirmation make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th A.D. 1832.
That he is a resident of the township of Upper Alloways Creek in the County of Salem and State of New Jersey, that he entered the service of the United States in the latter part of the year 1777 he was drafted as a militia man, and was placed under the command of Captain Kille which was then raised under the was marched to Suedsborough and thence to different parts of the State of New Jersey, that the Company in which he was drafted joined the regiment under the command of Colonel Taylor. That Colonels Otto and Killoran had the command of other regiments at the same time. That he was in an engagement which took place between the Americans and a party of the British in the County of Gloucester A.D. between the "Death of the Fox" and Billingsport, that he was one of a picket guard of nine men ordered off to capture a boat coming up Mantua Creek and in the skirmish which ensued killed one of the enemy and helped to capture the survivors.
That while the regiment lay at "The death of the Fox" he arrested a British orderly sergeant and found the muster roll of his company and other papers secreted in his shoe. In February 1778 he quit the foot service and joined a company of horse commanded by Captain Vincent and continued in that service until late in April or May of the year 1778 when he was regularly discharged. No regular discharge in writing was ever made out for this deponent; that at the time of his entering the service he resided in the township of Pettsgrove in the County of Salem and State of New Jersey.

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: Affirmed & subscribed on the day and year first above written Samuel Gosling Sam L. James Pres d Judge County of Salem ps
Personally appeared before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Salem Isaac Smart and Samuel Nelson who being duly affirmed according to Law do declare and say that they are well acquainted with Samuel Gosling who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that he is about the age of 78 years that the said Samuel Gosling is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and these affiants concur in this opinion:
Affirmed and subscribed in open court on the day and year above written Isaac Smart Sam L. James Pres d Judge Samuel Nelson County of Salem ps
Personally appeared before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Salem Isaac Smart who being duly affirmed according to Law doth declare and say that about the year 1777 the above named Samuel Gosling was a member of the society of Friends and that he knows that the said Samuel Gosling was discharged by the society of Friends because he bore arms in the militia of the revolution and the affiant further states that he knows that Captains Tille and Vincent who are named in the declaration of the said Samuel Gosling had each the command of companies of militia at the time spoken of by the said Samuel Gosling:
Sworn and subscribed in open court on the day and year above written Isaac Smart Sam L. James Pres d Judge

3 County of Salem Jp.
Personally appeared in open court on the twenty seventh day of September A.D. 1832 before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Salem Zariah  Tarman who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that Samuel Posling who hath this day in said Court applied for a Pension is personally known to this deponent to have served in the militia of New Jersey during the war of the revolution; that he was at the time this deponent knew him first in Capt. Hilles company at different parts of the state of N.J. that he was afterwards under the command of Capt. Vincent of the militia, that he is personally known to this deponent to have been in one or two skirmishes during the period of his services and that this deponent was out with the said Samuel Posling and has accurate and perfect recollection of the several facts herein above stated. Sworn to and subscribed in open court on the day and year first above written
Zariah Tarman
Dan L James Pres of Judg of P Court

County of Salem Co.
Personally appeared before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Salem Abraham Elwell who being duly sworn doth depone and say that he is acquainted with Samuel Gosling the above named applicant for a pension, that he knows that the said Samuel Gosling was a soldier of the militia during the latter part of 1777 and in the year 1778 that the said Gosling was in the company of Capt Vincent to his deponent's knowledge; and served in different parts of the State of N.J. Sworn to and subscribed in open Court on the day and year first above written
A Elwell Sam L James. Presiding Judge County of Salem Co.
Personally appeared before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Salem Samuel Nelson who being duly sworn doth depone and say that he is acquainted with Samuel Gosling the above named applicant for a pension that he knows said Gosling to have been a soldier of the militia during the revolution and hath seen his name on the pay roll of Col Minkirk of the one of the Salem County regiments. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written
Samuel Nelson Sam L James. Presiding Judge
County of Salem Co.
Samuel Gosling being further duly affirmed doth declare that there is no clergyman residing in his neighborhood by whom he can further prove and maintain the truth of the several matters set forth in his declaration. Affirmed to and subscribed in open Court on the day and year first above written
Samuel Gosling Sam L James. Presiding Judge

And the said Court of Common Pleas after the investigation of the matter of application of the said Samuel Gosling and putting the interrogatories prescribed by Law declare their opinion that the said applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and that there is no Clergyman living in his neighborhood by whom he could prove the same and that Samuel Nelson and Abraham Elwell who have signed the above certificate are residents of the County of Salem and are credible and respectable citizens of said County:-
Sam L. James Henry Green David Tolsmith Stacy Lloyd Meriman Smith Samuel Finley Charles Living
in the matter of the application of Samuel Gosling for a pension -
I Joseph Kille Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Salem and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original Proceedings of the said Court
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27th day of Septem r A. D. 1832 -
Joseph Kille Clerk

In the matter of the application of Samuel Gosling for a pension }
Amended certificates.
I Samuel L. James by whom the foregoing oaths and affirmations were administered do hereby certify that Isaac Smart, Samuel Nelson, Azariah Sarsman, A. Elwell, are credible witnesses and that full belief and credit may be attached to their several and respective statements - and I further certify that each of the said witnesses signed their names to the said statements in my presence:
Witness my hand this 11 th day of June A D 1833.
Sam L James
I Joseph Tille Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Salem in N. J. do hereby certify that Samuel L. James Esq. before whom and by whom the foregoing oaths and affirmations were administered was at the time the same were administered and still is one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County and is regularly Commissioned as such, that the name Sam L James is the true proper signature and hand writing of the said Judge and that full faith and credit is to be given to his official acts - and that Sam L L. James Henry Treas, David B. Smith Stacy Loyd Merriman Smith Samuel Finley and Charles Irving whose names are above signed were each of them a Judge of the said Court at the time when their said signature was thereto placed and were present in Court at the time of the proceedings in the matter of the application of the said Sam L Gosling for a pension.
In witness whereof I have hereunto placed my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 11 th day of June A D 1833.
Joseph Tille Clerk

In the matter of application of Samuel Gosling of the County of Salem for a Pension
Amendments to original Declaration & papers:
State of New Jersey, County of Salem ss.
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of the County of Salem Samuel Gosling who being duly affirmed according to Law doth declare and say that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot affirm 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 of the following grade; that he first served about a week in the month of April in the year 1776 and was then employed as a guard under the command of Capt Thompson along the Jersey shore at the period when the "Vice Buck & Liverpool" ships of war passed up the River Delaware, that Major Howell and Col. Griffiths had the general command, that he was again called out in September of the year 1777 and served as stated in his Declaration until the latter part of April or May 1778. making in all the period of Eight months and one week, and that he was a private soldier during that period, and for all which he claims a pension.
Subscribed and affirmed before me this 11 th day of June A.D. 1833
Samuel Gosling
Sam L James

Answers of Samuel Gosling to the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department.
Be it remembered that at the Term of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Salem and State of New Jersey personally appeared in open Court Samuel Gosling the within named applicant for a pension who being first duly cautioned to speak the truth of the several matters of which enquiry was to be made and being duly affirmed according to Law saith -
In answer to the first Interrogatory -
I was born at the Township of Mansfield in the County of Salem in the State of New Jersey in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty four - 1754 -
To the second Interrogatory he answers and says -
There is a record of my age - It is in the Book of Ages or Record of Ages of Salem Friends Meeting and is believed at present to be in the hands of Jonathan Freedland Clerk of the said Meeting -
To the third Interrogatory he answers and says -
When called into service I resided in Pittsgrove Salem County N. J. I have resided there and in different parts of Salem County since the revolution - and I now reside at or near Quinton Bridge in said County of Salem.
To the fourth Interrogatory he answers and says
I first volunteered my services to Col. Griffiths to guard the Jersey shore - after which I was drafted in in the Pittsgrove militia, in Captain Newkirk's Company in Col. Benjamin Holmes's Battalion of Foot militia; the said Samuel Gosling further answering saith that since his former declara

when he has been informed that his name is entered as a private on the pay roll & class roll of Capt. Newkirk as above, which from old age and loss of memory had escaped his recollection, that the said papers have been shown him by William N. Jeffers Esq. and that the name is there stated "Samuel Gauslin" meaning as this affiant believes the present applicant for a pension:
To the fifth Interrog y he answers and says:
I remember Col. Shreve and Major Harrison were two of the officers of the Continental line - also remember Capt. Bloomfield, Col. Holmes, Griggs, Taylor, Hillman & Otte, Major Howell, Captains Eille, Vincent & Newkirk
To the sixth Interrog y he answers and says
I never received a written discharge as I can now remember:
To the seventh Interrog y he answers and says.
I am known to Stacy Loya Esq. Samuel Nelson Isaac Smart Asariah Garman Abraham Elwell & others in my present neighborhood who can testify to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Rev te
Subscribed, Interrogated and affirmed in open Court this 11 th day of June AD 1833.
Samuel Gausling
Sam L James
We the subscribers Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Salem were present at the proceedings above set forth and do hereby concur in and state our opinion that the statement of the said Samuel Gausling is true and entitled to full belief.
Robt G Johnson
Merriam Smith
Judges
Jeremiah Dubois
Sam L James
James Bulcher
Peter K Dewback
Josiah Shell
Judges

9 County of Salem ss.
William N. Jeffers being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that he has had in his possession as Attorney for several pensioners papers purporting to be the Clap Roll of Capt NieuKirks Company and the Pay Roll of the said Company. the former is headed thus " October 20 th 1777 Clap'd the foot Militia Belonging to my Company - Capt Cornelius NieuKirk" and the latter is headed thus " A Pay Roll of Capt Cornelius NieuKirks Company & Colo: Benjamin Holme Battalion of foot Militia in the township of Pitts Grove and County of Salem assembled to annoy or repel the enemy on an Invasion at Sweads Burrough, Gloucester County on April 4 th 1778." and the Clermont states that the name of "Samuel Fawlin" is on both of the said papers in my possession: and further saith not.
Subscribed and sworn in Open Court June 11 th AD 1833 Sam L James
W. N. Jeffers.
I Samuel L. James whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affirmations and oath do hereby certify that William N. Jeffers Esq. who has taken and subscribed the above oath is a respectable witness of the town of Salem N.J. that the said witness is credible and that full belief may be placed in his statement.
Witness my hand this 11 th day of June AD. 1833. Sam L James

Joseph Kille Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Salem in New Jersey do certify to all to whom these presents shall come greeting that Samuel L. James Esq. who administered the foregoing affirmations and oaths was at the time of administering the same and still is, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and Justice of the Peace of the County of Salem that he hath been regularly commissioned as such and that the name Sam l L. James is in the proper hand writing and signature of the said Judge and Justice, and that full faith and credit is to be given to all his official acts.
In witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed at Salem on this Eleventh Day of June AD 1833.
Joseph Kille Clerk

New War
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File No.
817
Samuel Josling Pro. N. J. Lins
Act:
June 7, 1852.
Index:—Vol.
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[Arrangement of 1870.]
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J. L. Edwards Esq.

15687 war dept.
17. 210.
S. Gaskins
Rec d May 21. 1853. PP.
Samuel Gaskins N.C.
Adm 8 Months 8 1/2 day
 26. $9    27. 64 
Richd P Thompson Salem N.C.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Samuel York which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes 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? Yes 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? No VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes 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? Yes

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? No clergyman
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? Yes
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? Witness
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?
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? #
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
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? No
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.
B (Please return this brief)

L. Edwards Esq.
Salem N. J.
Sir
I return to the Dept. the papers of Samuel Gosling for a pension and hope that the additions which have been made will enable me to succeed in procuring for my old friend a portion of his country's gratitude -
Will it be giving you too much trouble to inform me whether Andrew Bacon of this county is a pensioner how long he has recd. a pension and the amount?
With great respect.
Yr. obed. servt.
Nich V. Thompson
June 15. 1833

Samuel Gerling
Payments to be made at Trenton. — by St Newton Banking Co. Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of New Jersey.
R. P. Sherman
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book 6 Vol. M Mee Page 113 by Miss Baline Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Samuel Gosling of the state of New Jersey who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive — Twenty seven dollars and forty four cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this tenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty- three .
Lee Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.

April 7. 1835 Paid to Mar 4 1835 Sept 12 1835 paid Sept 11 1835 Sept 5. 1834 paid to Mar 11. 1836 Paid to Sep 11 1836 Paid to Mar 4 1837
Apr 17. 210.

Sept 18. 1833 Paid to Sept 4. 1833 April 2. 1834 Paid to March 4. 1834. — $13.72 Sept 17. 1834 Paid to Sept 4. 1834. —