Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5030, Isaac Hinds, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
★ Winds, Isaac
NUMBER
R. 5030
CONTENTS
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No 3106. New Jersey. Isaac Hinds.
Rejected
26 Dec. '32
all his services were as Teamster, but with the exception of a monthly tour in the militia
5030

BRIEF in the case of  Isaac Hinds  of Morris County in the State of New Jersey.  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Sixty nine years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     In 1779 1780 1 8 " Waggon Service   1781 " 1 " Militia Capt. Taylor.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Somerset County  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? (Not entitled.) 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
H. Sumner.
Examining Clerk.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
5230
P. O. Isaac Hinds
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

Isaac Hinds. —
No. 3106
PG,

DECLARATION, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS, PASSED JUNE 7, 1832.
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY, } ss. Morris Com. Pleas, July & August special term, 1832 County of Morris }
On this second day of August 1832 , personally appeared, in open court, before the Judges of the court of Common Pleas
now sitting, Isaac Hinds a resident of Peapack township in the County of Morris and State of New-Jersey , aged sixty nine 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, and served as herein stated:
His father, Benjamin then living in Somerset Hinds, of Morris County, was regularly commissioned & engaged as a Wagon Master, by the Quartermaster Department of the Army of the United States, in or about the winter of 1779. '80, whilst General Washington had his head quarters at Morristown, & his army was encamped in huts upon the hills & mountains near that Town. This Deponent often saw the commission of his father as Wagon Master, but can not recollect by whom it was subscribed. His father's papers & books of account as Wagon Master he often saw in his father's possession whilst he resided in Morris County, but in the year 1795, he removed with his family into the State of Ohio with his family, & he died there as this deponent believes, & these papers & books this Deponent has not seen since, nor can he now obtain any evidence of their existence. This Deponent entered the service under his father by a written engagement, in the Wagon Department, in the winter of 1779. '80, & his first trip with his sled or sleigh team was to Philadelphia, upon the snow & ice, to carry some officers with their baggage. From Phila. he returned to the Camp, & was steadily engaged in his business of carrying military stores from Morristown to Westfield, - from Morristown to Kings Ferry on the North river, - to Stony Point - to Trenton & various other places in Jersey - to Newark & other places on the lines, - Amboy - Scotch Plains &c. - when small bodies of regular troops or militia or both were stationed on guard duty. Large stores of clothing, shoes, ammunition &c. were located at Morristown, & had to be distributed to other places, as circumstances required, & deponent was much employed in this service. - He was often sent out with his team & sled or wagon around to the farm houses, to bring in to Camp, provisions as grain, flour & meat for the Army, which often was reduced to great want. He often was directed to cart wood to the huts for the soldiers, & quarters of the Officers. When the main Army moved toward the South, for the purpose of taking Cornwallis, this deponent aided in carrying baggage to Trenton, on its way.

From about the period of 1781, this Department was not engaged in the Wagon Service. —
He performed some tours of Militia service under Capt. Peter Layton of Long Hill Morris County, & assisted in performing guard duty, in guarding prisoners in Morris town jail, after leaving the Wagon Service, & protecting Military stores at that place, but cannot remember the month — it was in warm weather. — He remembers whilst there, an affair or quarrel between Lieut. Benjamin Pearson, commanding the guard & one Ward of Chatham. — Was not out with his gun upon the lines along the Jersey shore; the above tour in guarding the prisoners at Morris town, being the only one, & continued for one month. — total, the precise time not recollected He was however by order of his officers, always in readiness at a minutes warning, to march in defence of his Country. He verily believes, that he was engaged in the duty of the Quarter Master or Wagon Department, as before stated, for a period not less than about twenty months of active & steady duty, & in the Militia, of one month.
He was born in Somerset County, in April, 25 th day, 1763, as he believes & lived in that County when he entered the Wagon Service under his father. It is a record of his age at home, taken from his father's record of family ages. —
He never rec d . a commission or discharge. It is well known to Dr. Lewis Condict for about thirty years, & to Israel Canfield Esq r . who has known him for forty years & more & to whom he refers for his character for truth. —

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, is only on that of the Agency of the State of New Jersey.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. William Brittin  Isaac Hinds
We Lewis Condict , & Israel Canfield residing in the township of Morris hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Isaac Hinds , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. William Brittin  Lewis Condict  Israel Canfield
And the said court 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 applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Lewis Condict & Israel Canfield  John Linsley who have signed the preceding certificate, are residents in the township of Morris in the County aforesaid, and that resident in the Township of Morris in the County aforesaid, which also signed the same in presence of the and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Silas Linsley Stephen Eail William Brittin
I David Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Isaac Hinds for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this Second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo
David Day CLK