Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,400, Samuel Hicks, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
Hicks, Samuel
NUMBER
S. 34.400
CONTENTS
7

3,846
New Jersey Roll.
Samuel Hicks Capt Baldwin Private New Jersey line - 1778. 9 months In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 th of May 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d of October 1818 and sent to William Pennington Esq. Judge Newark. N.J.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 3 m. 28 d. \frac{23 \frac{1}{4}}{30} - 30:99 Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4 th March 1819 - 48: -
$ 78:99
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
5.92 1.07 6.99
copy Morris
Pension on 18th September 1818 to Mrs. Deborah Morris, New Jersey

Samuel North
Declaration.
Correct in every except the Judge's Certifi- cate.
The Judge must Certify in every case that the claimant is in indigent circumstances.

District of Columbia ss:
On this ninth day of May 1818 before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States, for the said District, personally appeared Samuel Hicks aged fifty eight years resident in the County of Norris in the said District who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following de- claration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War" That he the said Samuel Hicks enlisted on or about the first day of May 1778 at Prince- town in the State of New Jersey in the Company commanded by Capt Daniel Baldwin in the first Jersey Regiment commanded by Col Matthias Gden in the Army line, That he continued to serve in the said corps in the ser- vice of the United States for the full term of nine months when he was discharged from service at Princetown in the State of New Jersey, but whether he received any written discharge or not he now forgets, if so he has lost the same. That he served upwards of eighteen months during the War in the Militia of New Jersey. That he was in the Battle of Monmouth which in the Continental line, in the Battles of Long Island, Brandywine & Red Bank which in the Militia. And that he is in reduced circum- stances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Coun-

try for support. And that he had no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid —
Samuel Hicks
William Pennington District Judge
I, William S. Pennington Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky do certify that it ap- pears to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Hicks did serve in the revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the direction of the aforesaid act of Congress.
At Frankfort Ky. May 9 th 1812
William Pennington District Judge

I William Pennington Clerk of the District of New Jersey do certify that the signatures to this instrument are the proper hand writing of William S. Pennington Esq Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
In witness my hand and the seal of the said District Court at Newark this Eleventh Day of May A.D. 1818.
Wm Pennington "
I William Pennington District Judge of the United States Court for the New Jersey District do certify that from the examination of a respectable witness under oath, whose character I am well acquainted with, and from the certificate of a Magistrate living in the neighbourhood of the applicant, I am satisfied that the before recited applicant Lawrence Dicks is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the supplied assistance of his country for support.
Newark 12 th October 1818
William Pennington District Judge

Samuel Hicks
3845
Randolph
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not entitled
3845
Mar 19
Ex

District of New-Jersey, } ss. Morris County, }
On this Tenth day of July, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris-Town, in and for the County of Morris, in the term of July, in the year aforesaid. [The said court being a court of record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping records of its proceedings, and its Judgments being removeable by writ of error only] Samuel Hicks aged Sixty years, resident in the township of Randolph in said county, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath declare, that he served in the first Jersey Regiment commanded by Col. Nathaniel Ogden in Capt. Daniel Hold- win's Company; that he applied for his pension in May 1818 - that his pension certificate is deposited in the Trenton Bank for safe custody where it now remains, upwards of fifty miles off where he is rendered unable to specify the number thereof or the exact time of his original declaration
And I do solemnly swear - that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. That I am a labourer by occupation but by reason of the Rheumatism in my hands which has stiffened, and enlarged the joints, am unable to do but very little towards making a support for myself; that I have a wife aged fifty five years, subject to the dropsy and Rheumatism so that she is entirely unable to do any kind of work; that I have a son named Charles, aged eighteen years who is a cripple from a white swelling in his knee that resides with me; that I have a son named Samuel Hicks Junr. aged twenty one years that resides with me and whom I hire to work my place for me - That I have a grand daughter aged fourteen years that resides with me, to whom I give her board for her services in assisting and taking care of my wife
Sworn to and declared on the 10 th day of July 1820 before me Col. A. Ford
Samuel Hicks

SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing deposition of
Samuel Hicks Esq.
 20 Acres unimproved land  20 Acres of improved land  one old wagon & two horses  one bow — one hog  one plough — 1 shovel  1 pitch fork — 2 hay rakes  2 old broad hoes — one sythe  one chopping ax —  one corner cupboard —  one old bureau —  two maple & gum tables  six setting chairs  one small looking glass  one shovel & tongs —  6 knives & six forks  6 earthen plates  6 cups & saucers  6 silver tea spoons  1 Kettle with foot off  1 dutch pot & cover  1 gridle —  1 dinner pot, with hole in it  1 tea kettle —  2 Tin Milk pangs 
He owes and is indebted as follows   Matthias Kitchell note — 60-00  Leah L. Estile note — 30-75  Sam l McClocklin — 24-00  Jeremiah Baker — 11-20  John Johnson & Son — 19-50  William Dayton — 3-00  Moses Chauden — 1-00  Edward Price — 2-00  Benj o Williams — 5-00  Hulbert & Martin — 17-74  Joseph Jackson — 6-50  Job Talmage — 2-58  Elizabeth Dell — 2-25  Thos s Dell — ~5  Jacob Wilson — 3-50  Isiah Furd — 1-38  Stephen Conger note — 14-26  William Jackson — 25-87½  Abijah Conger — 8-28  Barnabas King — 4-75  Asa Barker — 1-75  Samuel Hicks Jr — 53-70  John P. Conger — 4-00  John T. Durthick — 4-00  Stephen Cropper — 2-00  Sam l Benjamin — 1-50  Jeremiah B. Miller — 4-50  Samuel Benedict — 2-00  Joseph Herriman — 1-62½  Ira Brittenden — 8-04  Daniel Lamson — 2-50  Mrs Ab o Britton — 3-50  Pilas Johnson — 3-09 
$336.52
Sworne to and declared on the 10 th July 1820 before Col H. Ford
Samuel Hicks

State of New Jersey, } ss. County of Morris. }
I, Robert H. McCarter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Morris, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; And I do hereby further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property described in the aforesaid schedule is six hundred and seventy one dollars and thirteen cents, $671.13
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty.
Robert H. McCarter Clerk of the Court for the County of Morris

34 400 Ray  INVALID.
File No. 34,400
Samuel Hicks
Re Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 188
[Arrangement of 1870.] ✓

New Jersey Samuel Hicks Private - 9 months 1 st Schedule. July 1820
R.E. 20 acres im: & 20 acres un-im Wood Land -
Old Wagon & Horses - 1 Cow - 1 Hog & furniture - BOSTON amt of schedule
$671. 13
Debts (names given) $336.52
2 nd Schedule 7. July 1823
39 acres - Old House & Barn - about 15 acres improved - Horses, 5 Sheep - 5 Lambs. Old Wagon & furniture amt of schedule $285.
Debts (names given) 253.45.
His age 63 - laborer - Wife 58 - unable to walk without help - a son - a cripple from a white swelling in his knee
The following charges have taken
Since since 1 st Schedule
The Horses died - and have purchased one since 1 st Schedule 1 Cow - Killed for Beef - 1 Hog butchered - and a few articles of furniture sold -
Lewis Condit Morris town N Jersey
July 26. 1823

Samuel Hicks
March 189

District of New-Jersey, Morris County, ss.
On this seventh day of July 1823 personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris-Town, in and for the county of Morris, in the term of July in the year aforesaid, (the said Court being a Court of Record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping record of its proceedings, and its judgments being removable by writ of error only) Samuel Hicks aged sixty three years, and resident in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March, 1818, and the 1st of May, 1820, that he the said Samuel Hicks enlisted for the term of five months in the spring of the year 1776 in the state of New Jersey in the Company commanded by Capt. Jedediah Swan in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Van Courtland in the line of the state of New Jersey and after serving that time out he again enlisted for three months in January 1777 in the Company commanded by Capt. Jacob Crane in Col. Spencers regiment and after serving that time out he enlisted for seven months in May 1778 in the Company commanded by Capt. Daniel Baldwin in the New Jersey Regiment commanded by Matthias Ogden on the continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said Corps until his term expired when he again enlisted in the Company commanded by Capt. John Scudder in Col. Seelys regiment in the Jersey line and was discharged at Elizabeth town in New Jersey - that his name has been placed upon the pension list and draft therefrom on account of his property.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May, 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any Income , other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. That, since the exhibition of my first schedule, the following changes have been made in my property and is as follows. Thirty nine acres of land with an old house of wood built 35 years ago and a wood barn built 33 years ago, now very much out of repair the land about 26 acres improved, but the fences very old. Upon the residue of the land very rough & mountainous, with some wood on it. one horse 20 years old, five old sheep & five lambs, one old waggon one bed & bedding, six old chairs, one chest of drawers one tin pail one pot one tea kettle, one skillet, one griddle five knives & forks seven earthen dishes six small tin spoons, one table. This deponent has no bonds, no notes, or other securities for money due to him. He is indebted to the following persons in the following sums as nearly as he can now ascertain viz - To Mrs. Britton $ 15.31 cents, Samuel Hicks jun $ 28. Jeremiah Baker $ 12. Joseph Eastabrook $ 11. John Johnson & sons $ 20. Joseph Jackson $ 1.50. Canfield & Hunt $ 1.89. John P. Benger $ 7. Benjamin Williams $ 7. John Tates $ 2.50. Moses Chandler $ 1.25. Charles Root $ 1.50. Charles Spencer $ 1.25. James Earl $ 1.50. Job Talmadge

$ 1. 10 - William Minton $ 2. 00 - Peter G Hoagland $ 2. 00 Barnabas King $ 2. 75 - Stephen Mucker $ 5 - Daniel Samson $ 2. 00 - Jonathan Benjamin $ 3. 18 - Stephen Conger $ 16. 00 John Conger $ 64. 20 - The heirs of Elizabeth Berry $ 36. 30 William Spencer $ 2. 59 - Pralyamon Belnap $ 1. - Richard Patterson $ 0. 63 making a total of $ 253. 45 - two hundred fifty three dollars forty five cents - This deponent has no trade or occupation except a labourer, but from a long series of Rheumatism in his hands, he is unable to do any kind of labour - His family consists of his wife aged 58 years who is unable to do any work, or to walk about the house without help, on account of the Rheumatism & dropsy with which she has been afflicted for six years last past - and a little girl named Jane Hard, aged 14 years - This deponent has eight children named Jason, Ester, Hannah, Joshua, John Bishop, Catharine, Samuel & Charles, who are all out from home and provide for themselves, except my son Charles who is a cripple from a white swelling in his knee who can earn a small part of his support - That since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property viz - two horses that I then owned have died and I bought one since - one cow killed for beef last fall for family use, one hog butchered for family - one plough worn out - one shovel, 1 pitch fork, 2 hay rakes - 2 old broad hoes, one scythe & 1 chopping ax all worn out, and entirely gone - one corner cupboard given his son - The rest of the household furniture either worn out or sold for family uses the improved lands are lessened by the decay of the fences and all the lands are very much impoverished -
Swore to & subscribed in open court, Samuel Hicks 1 st July 1823 - David Mills

I, Robert H. M'Carter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for the county of Morris, do hereby Certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Samuel Hicks did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding Declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months under one engagement, on the Continental establishment. I also certify, that the foregoing Declaration and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further Certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is two hundred and eighty five dollars and cents. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty three
Robert H. M'Carter

Free
The Honorable John C. Calhoun Esquire
Secretary of War
Washington