Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4385, Frederick Gump, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
New Jersey
Gump, Frederick
R. 4385-
CONTENTS

4380.
P. O.
Francis Gump
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____ REJECTED _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Fredk. Gump an applicant for a pension.
Transcript of Record

Pleas held at Terre Haute in the County of Union in the third Judicial Circuit of the State of Indiana on the third Monday of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three. Before the Honorable Miles C. Eggleston Presiding Judge of said Circuit and Robert Swann and Enoch Burnside Esquires his Associates — So it is —
On this twenty second day of October 1823 person- ally appeared in open court in the Union Circuit of the term of October 1823 it being a court of record with in said State & for said County Frederick Gump, aged seventy years, a resident of said County who being duly sworn according to law doth upon his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions, made by the act of congress of the 18 th of March AD 1818 & the first of May 1820 That he the said Frederick Gump enlisted some time in the fall of 1776, at Fort Lee, in the State of New Jersey in the Company commanded by John Calvetson, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hawkins, for the term of nine months, in the line of the State of New Jersey on the continental establishment that soon after his said enlistment, he was attached to the company commanded by Captain Mattew Jones; that he continued to serve in said Corps, till some time in the year of 1777 when he was regularly discharged at Fort Lee. That the precise time of his enlistment & discharge this applicant cannot recollect, that he this applicant was in the battles of Trenton Germantown, Chestnut Hills & was taken prisoner by the British at Fort Washington & continued on board a British prison

Ship, a prisoner for fifteen days, when he & several other prisoners made their escape & returned to their respective Regiment. And, he knows of no other evidence, in his power to procure to prove his said services - And in pursuance of the act of Congress of the first of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident & citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby 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 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property securities contract, or debts due me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, that I am unable to support myself by my own labour or in any other manner whatsoever, that I am at present nearly blind and have an infirm old wife & am in absolute necessity of the assistance of my Country for whom I have fought. - The following is a list of the goods, chattels, lands, tenements, effects, credits, &c. of me Francis Gump (to wit)
  one old Horse 25 years old  $ 10.00    one cow & calf  " 10.00    some old House hold furniture  15.00    5 acres of Corn growing on a lease  20.00    I Francis Gump am a common labourer & am unable to support myself as above stated. I have a family consisting of an infirm wife about sixty years of age, together with three children the oldest a Girl between 15 & sixteen years of age the second

a boy of 14 years of age & the third a boy of seven years of age (Signed) Frederick Gump —
State of Indiana ss — Union County
I James Leavitt Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the County aforesaid do hereby cer- -tify that the foregoing is a correct Copy of the proceedings of Record in the foregoing case and that full faith & credit ought to be given thereto: And I do further Certify that it was the opinion of the said Court that the property of the said applicant is worth no more in value than it is estimated at in the foregoing Schedule —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court at Brownsville this 21 st day of January 1824 —
James Leavitt Clerk