Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4413, Thomas Hadden, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Hadden, Thomas Mary
R.4413
CONTENTS
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FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
Thomas Hadden was born Mary Hadden was born John Hadden was born Catharine Hadden was born Ephraim Hadden was born Matthias Hadden was born Cornelius Hadden was born Jacob Hadden was born Thomas Hadden was born Cornelius Hadden was born Mary Hadden was born
BIRTHS.
January 24 th 1861 July 25 th 1860 November 8 th 1881 February 9 th 1883 Tuesday March 30 th 1884 April 5 th 1886 May 2 nd 1889 May 18 th 1791 June 1 st 1894 April 16 th 1798 January 15 th 1801

FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.
MARRIAGES.
Thomas Holden and Mary Bocher was Married December 19 th 1780
Uzziah Bloodgood and Mary Holden was Married November 19 th 1825

No 5170
Mary H a d u r
Act. July 4. 1836
M d 19 Dec 1780
Husband died 30 July 1803

State of New York, } City and county of New York, } ss. On this Eighth day of September, 1840, personally appeared before the judges of the Marine Court, in and for the city and county of New York, Mary Hadden, a resident of the Ninth Ward, in the said city, aged Eighty years; who, be being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the follow- ing declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 4, 1836: That she is the widow of Thomas Hadden, who was a private, and served during the Revolutionary War, as follows. That on the first of June, 1776, her late husband, Thomas Hadden, enlisted or volunteered his service at Woodbridge, in the state of New Jersey, for five months, in a company of which his father Thomas Hadden was capt, in a regiment commanded by Col n Furnan, and was taken to Brooklyn on Long Island, and served there until the battle was fought there, then retreated with Gen d Washingtons Army to New York, thence to Harlem, thence to White Plains, and continued retreating up the east side of the Hudson river to Fishkill, there crossed the said river and Marched down on the west side of said river and through the state of New Jersey to Monmouth, and was there discharged in the month of November after the said term of five months was expired.
That her said husband did serve under different captains, in Monthly tours during the year 1777 and part of the year 1778, but how many tours or under what Officers (naming him) she does not now recollect, nor can she now find any person to prove the service, as she is old and her memory much impaired she has forgotten a great part of the service rendered by her late husband as was by him related to her
That in the month of July or August, her said husband did serve one month under capt d Fraser, in Col n Websters Regiment, at Woodbridge being one of the Monthly tours allotted to him to per- form under capt d Fraser, the capt d of the beat in which he then resided.
That her said husband continued to serve in Monthly tours, under capt d Fraser and others, until the year 1781, but she is now unable to specify exactly the number of tours, or the time each was performed, or to offer any proof thereof

That in the Month of June 1781. (as near as she can recollect) it was before harvest, her said husband enlisted under Capt d Asher H Reindolf for three Month and while serving under the said Capt at Amboy, was taken prisoner by the British and confined part of the time at a fort on Staten Island, and part of the time at the Provos. in the City of New York, and remained a prisoner until near the last of November following, being the last of the Month before he came home, —
That her said husband continued to serve by Monthly tours, at different times until the last of the Year 1782. but the Old soldiers who served with him being gone she is unable to prove them and her memory imperfect she is unable to set them forth, and all the testimony she is able to offer is the annexed affidavits, and that but recently discovered altho she has long endeavoured to procure testimony to prove the services rendered by her said husband during said War. She further declares she was married to the said Thomas Haddan, on the nineteenth day of December seventeen hundred and eighty, and that her husband, the aforesaid Thomas Haddan, died on the thirtieth — day of July — hundred and three and that she has remained a Widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof thereunto annexed, sworn to, and subscribed, on the
day and year above written —
September 8. 1840 in open
Court before me Judah Haimon & Justice of the Marine Court
her Mary Haddan Widow

State of New York, City & county of New York } On this Eighth day of September 1840 personally appeared before the judges of the Marine Court in and for the said City and county, Mary Hadden widow aged 80 years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that the annexed leaf is a record taken out of her present family Bible, that the same is in her possession and was truly copied by her son Cornelius Hadden — from an old family bible that was much worn and now destroyed or so worn and not fit for use and not in being to the best of her knowledge — Sworn to, and subscribed } her the day and year aforesaid { Mary Hadden in open Court — mark
New York fr. David Pye of Rockland County at present in the City of New York being duly sworn deposith and saith that that he is well acquainted with Mary Hadden the respondent above named, that she is a person of respectability and veracity and entitled to credit. Sworn the 8 September 1840 before me in open David Pye Court before me.
Judah Hammond Justice of the Marine Court.
In Name of the City of New York fr. The annexed affidavits are satisfactory evidence of the facts there in stated —
Judah Hammond Justice of Marine Court

State of New York } City & County of New York, } p. On this eighth — day of September, 1840 personally appeared before the judges of the Marine Court in and for the City and County of New York, Ephraim Hadden resident of the township of Woodbridge who being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that he is one of the sons of the late Thomas Hadden deceased aged 56 years — that his father died on the thirtieth day of July eighteen hundred and three that he knows the same by the time he was put out as an apprentice and from the family records, and that Mary Hadden the present  the applicant his Mother, has remained a widow ever since that period — Sworn to and subscribed } Ephraim Hadden the day and year aforesaid } in Open Court Sept. 8. 1840 }
Before me Judah Hammond Justice of the Marine Court
I John Barbere Clerk of the Marine Court of the City of New York do hereby certify that Judah Hammond whose signatures appear on the foregoing affidavits is one of the Justices of said Court, and that the said affidavits were sworn to in Open Court and that the said Court is a Court of Record and that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of the said Court —
In Witness Whereof I have hereto affixed the seal of said Court this eighth day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty
John Barbere

for a statement of the military history of Thomas Hadden a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Reg. 7. 4413.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June 4, 1776 5 mos Pri Thomas Hadden Soldier's father. Furnan N.J.   July & Aug. 1778 1 " " Fraser Webster "   June, 1781 — " Asher F. Randolph Crow "  
was taken prisoner and detained about for over 3 mos.  A careful search of the records fails to show that a claim for pension was ever filed on account of the Rev. War services of any Thomas Hadden other than Reg File 4413
Battles engaged in, In retreat from N.Y.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Woodbridge N.J.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 8. 1840.
Residence at date of application, Ninth Ward New York City.
Age at date of application, Born July 25; 1760
He was born Jan. 24, 1761,
Remarks: and married Dec. 19 1780 Mary Baker. He died
July 30, 1803. Her claim was rejected on the ground of lack of proof of six months service as required by law under which she applied
Children: John, b. Nov. 8, 1781; Catharine, b. Feb. 9, 1783; Ephraim, b. Mch. 30, 1784; Matthias, b. Apr. 5, 1786; Cornelius, b. May 2, 1789;
Very respectfully,
Jacob, b. May 18, 1791; Thomas, b. June 1, 1794; Cornelius, b. Apr. 16, 1798; Mary, b. Jan. 15, 1801.
Jno M. Hadden
32 Carroll St.

Sept 21. 1841
Bladensburg W.D. Sept. 18.
Dr
Mr. Ford Mrs. Haden
James L. Edwards Commf. of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Clarkstown Sept r 19 th 1841
Hon. Sir
In your letter of the 2 d Inst. as respects the claim of Mrs Hadden you refer me to your letter (in her case) of the 12 th of Nov r 1840. of which you sent a copy -
At the time I obtained the certificate referred to at Trenton, nothing more particular as to the services of Thomas Hadden could be found than therein contained, and according to said letter, until something more satisfactory could be discovered I thought it needless further to press her claim, but now having obtained a certificate setting forth the services rendered by Capt Aspher F. Randolph, setting forth the different services by him performed which tours continued until late in the year 1782, and embracing the very time that Mr Hadden served under Capt Randolph and was taken prisoner, as is proved by the Batt. of Abn Johnson, which I believed was so far complying with that part of said letter in which you state "If the Officers specified in the claimants declaration were in the service at the period referred to, the fact should appear in the certificate, the amount of the payrolls and the date &c." All which as to Capt Randolph, is contained in the certificate annexed to Samuel Harriets papers, as to his services in 1776 proven by the Batt. of Mr Monday and Mrs — as far as their knowledge extended, there is no record at Trenton of any service of the whole Regiment and but two or three Capt s services is on record in that year, and yet it is evident that nearly all the New Jersey Militia served in that year, and the case would be extremely hard if parole testimony is rejected when the higher authority neglected to make a record thereof, or if ever there was a record that must have been lost in the different removals of the Office during the war - I therefore again request you to review her claim and to allow her such pension as the equity of her case will warrant
I remain Hon d Sir your Ob t Serv t
Hon d James L. Edwards
David Pyle

September 9 th 1840 -
Wond Sir
Accompanying I enclose the papers of Mrs Hadden and accompanying the same is all the testimony she as yet has been able to obtain, as nearly all the soldiers of the Revolution have departed this life, which be pleas d to attend to as soon as it will answer your convenience
I remain Wond Sir your Ob t Serv t .
Wond James L Edwards
David Pyle

State of New Jersey ss.
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that I have caused diligent search to be made of the records and files in my Office and that I do not find therein any roll of the men com- posing Col. Forman's Regiment of militia in the war of the Revolution during the year of 1776 but that I do find on record the names of Captain Frayer and Captain Randolph who served as militia captains in the Revolutionary war
In Testimony where- of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at the City of Trenton in said State this Thirteenth day of October Anno Domini one Thousand eight hundred and forty. /1840/
James D. Westcott

Trenton Oct 13 th 1840
Hon d Sir
Pursuant to the requisition in your letter of the 10 th of Sept r last, in the case of Mary Hadden, I as soon as I could make it convenient went to Trenton, and by the assistance of the Clerks in the Secretary's and Treasurer's Office a thorough search was made -
I find, as you will see by the accompanying Certificate that complete returns of the services performed by the Militia of New Jersey is not in the Office the service of the claimant's Husband under Col d Furman in 1776 is not in either Office altho' sworn to by Gabriel Munday, and I expect by his papers sufficiently proven (he being a pensioner and his papers in your office) as to the services proven to have been rendered under Capt s Fraser and Randolph. The Certificate shows they were Militia Capt s and did serve -
The evidence heretofore offered shows the services as far of Mr s Hadden, as far as the few of the Old Soldiers can swear to the same and more or better testimony of the services rendered by Mr s Hadden's Husband I think will be impossible to produce
I remain Respec d Sir
Your ob t Serv t
David Page
Hon d James L Edwards

Mary Hadden N York

Clarkstown August 25 th 1841.
Hon. Sir
Accompanying I send you the papers of the heirs of the late Samuel Harriot Deed, with such proof of his services as at this late period can be had.
The original declaration being lost I have drawn the present agreeable to his own statement of his services as far and as particularly as his memory would enabled him to do a short time before his death, to which I request your attention as soon as can be convenient.
To the papers, in the certificate of the Secretary of the state of New Jersey is an account of services rendered by Capt. A. Randolph to which I beg leave to refer you as to the claim of Mary Hadden, now on your files, when her papers was sent, the amount of services rendered by said Capt. could not be found; I think it will be satisfactory as to the service and imprisonment of her late husband under said Capt. and a confirmation of the Bath of Mr. Johnson.
I remain Hon. Sir your Ob t Serv t .
David Pyle
Hon.
James L. Edwards Cont. of Pensions

June 76: Col. Paman 5 mo.
March 77: May Potter 1 mo.
- The above is the same set - part of Gabriel Monday also in the year 1777-78 4 mo Capt. Dunbar 4 mo. 791 80. 4 mo. Capt. Gubish 4 mo.    1  1     15  

No 5170
Sept 10. 1840.
Ans
July 4. 1836
May Hadden.
Hon.
James L. Edwards, Comr. of Pensions Washington City D. C.

David Pyle Esq r
Now in New York
care of Capt. B. F. Smith
To be called for on board

J.W. Rev. War Section.
Thomas 19441-3 November 22, 1915.
Mr. F. W. Gardner, P. O. Lock Box 604, Woodbridge, N. J.
Sir:
In response to your letter of the eighth instant, you are advised that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a Revolutionary War soldier unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been filed on account of his services, and a careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file for any Thomas Hadden, other than the one, a history of whose claim ( Rej. File No. 4413, Rev. War ) is furnished herewith.
Very respectfully,
G. M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner.

1842 Staddon Pyel 1840 1841 1842 4413

Recd Rec 2, ots. stamp Stamp recd osc w Recd
Law H.H.
Woodbridge, N.J. Nov. 8, 1915.
Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Pensions. Per War Section. Wash.
Gentlemen:
Will to make inquiry regarding Thomas Hadden and his son Thomas Hadden, Jr., of Woodbridge, N.J.
Thomas Hadden died it is said at Woodbridge in 1778, he was a Lieut. Col. of First Reg. Middlesex Co., militia & left a widow Annah (or Abigail) who died in New York City July 28, 1821. Did she apply for & receive a pension - what information have you relative to her husband Thomas Hadden?
Thomas Hadden, Jr., son of above was a private in Capt. Asahel Fitz-Pandolph's Co., Middlesex County militia and died about

1803 at Woodbridge. His wife Mary survived until 1843 or 1845. Did she apply for & receive a pension. What information here you relate to her husband Thomas Hadden, Jr.?
Thanking you for a reply, I am, Very truly,
J. W. Gardner,
Woodbridge, New Jersey.
P.O. Lock Box 604.
REV. WAR SECTION
NOV 20 1915
PERIODIC BUREAU

RECORD DIVISION
Department of the Interior BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Briefed by C
Claim No. 10
Certificate No. _____
Claimant Mary
Soldier Thomas Haddan Jr Capt, A.P. Randolph's Service Colt Mtn
Additional Service 60 N. J. mil mar, 1872
Wife died 1873-75
No _____ claim, State records _____, 191
No claim, combination records _____, 191
REMARKS:
No old War claim as above to Gov
H. G. Duncan

2 18 th Sep. 1840
OL

Pension Office 18. Sept. 1840
192
Sir The papers of Mrs. claim Hadden widow of Thomas Hadden have been examined & filed. The proof in relation to the revolutionary services of the claimants husband is insufficient. Some further and more satisfactory evidence in support of this claim may be had by application to the Treasurer & Secretary of State of New Jersey
David Pyle Esq. Clarkstown N.Y.

32 Gracie Street
Poughkeepsie N.Y. July 20 th 08
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
I am told you have in your department a well worked out family record of those whose ancestors fought on the American side of the Revolutionary War. My Fathers Grand Father Thomas Woodward was a Lieut. Colonel in the Middlesex Co. N.J. Militia during that period and discharged on account of ill health. My mothers Great Grand Father Elias Mearns was a Captain in the Essex Co. N.J. Militia (2 sides) during the whole war

Have you any record of either of these families since or before this date? I can go back in both cases to about 1625 or 1627 and our knowledge may be of mutual benefit
Please let me know for you Respectfully Jas. M. Woodson

Feb. 11. 68. Hist. to Jos. M. Hadden. 1915; Nov. 22. Hist. to F. W. Gardner
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
P. O.
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

State of New Jersey } Middlesex County } On this thirtieth day of June, 1840. personally appeared before me, Ichabod Potter a justice of the peace in and for said county. Tabbitha Cutter, a resident of the township of Woodbridge in said county, aged, near 87 years, who, being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say: that she was well acquainted with Thomas Hadden late the husband of Mary Hadden, now a widow, whose Maiden Name was Mary Baker. — That at the commence- ment of the Revolutionary War, in the year 1776, she resided with her husband at Woodbridge, in State of New Jersey, and that Thomas Hadden, the late husband of the said Mary, re- sided at the same place; that in the Month of June, 1776, or near about that time, the particular day she has forgotten, there was companies raised for five months, as she then was inform- ed, and that the said Thomas Hadden had enlisted in one of the companies, she then also understood that they were taken to Long Island, and she well recollects that the said Thomas Hadden was absent from Woodbridge until the return of the said troops, or companies, which was in the Month of November in said year —
Sworn and subscribed. the day and year aforesaid before me.
Tabitha Cutter
Ichabod Potter justice of the peace
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Tabbitha Cutter who has subscribed & made the the above affidavit who is a person of good character & is a woman of veracity & that full credence may be given to her declarations
June 30 th 1840.
Ichabod Potter justice of the peace

Mar 19 Dec 1780 Mar 230 July 1803
set my name over upon the seal of said county this first day of July A.D. 1840 N. B. Root Clerk

State of New Jersey Middlesex County } ss I Nicholas Woodruff Clerk of the County of Middlesex aforesaid do hereby certify that James Harnett before whom the annexed affidavit of Abraham Johnson was taken, and Abraham D. Smith before whom the annexed affidavit of Gabriel Munnay was taken, and Deborah Patten before whom the annexed affidavit of Deborah Catter was taken were sincerely at the date of the taking said several affidavits Subscribers of the peace in & for said County of Middlesex duly commissioned & sworn and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of each of the said Justices and truly believe their respective signatures to the said affidavits are genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said county this first day of July A.D. 1840 N. Woodruff Clerk
Mar 19 1840 Recd 100 3/4

State of New Jersey Middlesex County } ss. On this thirtieth day of June 1840. personally appeared before me A. D. Fitzworth — a justice of the peace in and for said County, personally appeared Gabriel Munday, aged 80 years, a resident of the township of Piscataway, who being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that on the first of June, 1776, he enlisted for five months in a company of which John Webster was capt, in Col n Furman's Regiment, in which Regiment was a Det company, of which Thomas Hadden was capt, and said Regiment shortly after enlistment was first formed at Brooklyn on Long Island and served there until the British took possession, when the said Regi- ment retreated with Washington's Army to New York, thence to Fort Washington and up the river to Fishkill then crossed the river and marched down said river to Monmouth and was discharged at Monmouth, that in the company of the said Thomas Hadden his son Thomas Hadden did serve, as far as the knowledge of this deponent now extends — That  _____ And further that the said Thomas Hadden, son as aforesaid, did in the months of July or August in the year 1778, serve one month, under Capt Fraser in Col n Webster's Det. and served the time at Woodbridge Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid } Gabriel Munday Before A. D. Fitzworth Justice
I do hereby certify that the words (personally appeared) in the third and fourth line, and the words (of which) in the eighth line from top and the word (right) in last line was all made before signing
A. D. Fitzworth

I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Gabriel Mundy named in the within affidavit and know him to be a man of truth and veracity whose statement is entitled to credit.
A. D. Folsom Justice

State of New Jersey, } Middlesex County. } ss. On this thirtieth day of June, 1840, personally appeared before me James Harriet Fuller of the Peace — in and for said county. Abraham Johnson a resident of the town Westfield, in Richmond county, and State of New York, aged 70 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth depose and say, That he was personally acquainted with Thomas Hadden late the Husband of the present widow Mary Hadden during the Revolutionary War, and knows that the said Thomas — Hadden, some time in the Summer, (he believes) in the year 1781. he knows that it was after the said Thomas and Mary were reported to have been Married. The said Thomas then being a Soldier enlisted or serving under Capt. De Lattancie Asher F. Randolph, (he believes) under Coln Crow, was taken prisoner by the British and remained a prisoner part of the time at Woodbridge part of the time at the fort then on Staten Island part of the time in Provost in the City of New York and continued a prisoner until late in the fall of said year when he was exchanged, to state precisely the time the said Thomas was a prisoner he cannot now positively say but knows it was not less than three months and feels confident that four months would not exceed the time, and that during the whole of the said Imprisonment, this deponent was a fellow prisoner with the said Thomas — Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid }
James Harriet Fuller
Abraham Johnson I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above deponent Abraham Johnson, and know him to be a person of truth and veracity whose statement is entitled to credit
James Harriet