District of New Jersey
Morris County
On
this seventh day of July, 1820, personally appeared in open Court,
before the Judge 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 the proceedings and the Judgments being removeable [sic]
by writ of error only.
Daniel Guard aged
sixty five years, resident in the
township of Roxbury in said
county, who being duly sworn according
to law doth on his oath declare,
that he served in the third Jersey Regiment commanded by Col. Elias Dayton
in Capt. Jeremiah Ballard’s company and was discharged at west point [sic],
that he applied for his pension on 6 April 1818, That his pension certificate
is deposited in the Funton [Fulton?] Bank for safe Keeping (about fifty miles
off) by reason of which he cannot state the number of it.
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, 1118;
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 by occupation a Forge man, but from the loss of my right arm, which is
amputated near the shoulder, can do nothing towards my support; that I have a
wife aged sixty years, who enjoys tolerable health; that I have one son, aged
nineteen years, able to earn his living, and one son aged ten years, not a very
healthy child, which composes all my family—
Sworn to and declared on the his
10th July 1820. before David
X Gard
Gab. H. Ford mark
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S.,
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Accessed 10 Nov 2014.
Original data: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application
Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department
of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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