Rev. War Pension: John GARRIGUES; Morris Co., NJ

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DECLARATION IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT
OF CONGRESS PASSED JUNE 7, 1832

State of New-Jersey,
SS.
County of Morris

On this first day of August, Personally
appeared, in open court, before the Judges of
the court of Common Pleas now sitting,John Garrigues
a resident of Hanover in the County of Morris and State of New-Jersey, aged 
forty two 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:
He first entered the army in the militia, at Morristown, and served one month at 
Elizabethtown in New Jersey, in August seventeen hundred seventy six; but cannot 
certainly tell in what company or the name of the Commanding officer of the 
Regiment; He had just entered the seventeenth year of his age, and thinks he was 
drafted to do this tour of duty. He first enlisted for three months in the 
Militia service in the beginning of the winter of seventeen hundred seventy six 
in Capt Josiah Halls company and was marched to Ashswamp, as it was then called 
in Essex County New Jersey.The British at that time lay in New Brunswick and 
Amboy, in which tour of duty he served out the full term of three months, but 
has no recollection of having any written discharge. while in this tour of duty 
the Regt he was in was engaged in three skirmishes or fights, with the British. 
The principle one was that of Ash swamp in which one man in the company of Capt 
Hall was killed and several wounded. He was out again the summer and fall of 
seventeen hundred and seventy seven, part of the time under Capt Josiah Hall and 
several other
officers, but cannot certainly recollect the names. He thinks his term of 
service in seventeen hundred seventy seven amounted to at least six months part 
of the time at Elizabethtown, two months at Monmouth County and Red Bank, near 
Haddonfield in New Jersey. In seventeen hundred and
seventy eight he thinks he was drafted and served one month under Capt DeBough, 
and during which tour of duty he was in the Battle of Monmouth. After this 
during most of the fall of seventeen hundred and seventy eight he was stationed 
at Elizabethtown, and at Springfield in Essex County.

In the year of seventeen hundred seventy nine, he was again out nearly half of 
the year, most of the time as a substitute or volunteer, and most of the time 
was stationed at Elizabethtown, Newark, and Hackensack, part of the time under 
Capt Josiah Hall, and others, but cannot certainly tell the names of the 
officers, at the particular times he rendered the service. He has a distinct 
recollection that at the Battle of Springfield he was under Command of Capt 
Josiah Hall. In seventeen hundred and eighty he was in the service very near six 
months; stationed most of the time at Elizabethtown and employed in guarding the 
lines between New Jersey and Staten Island; He was frequently transferred from 
one company to another, and the officers were so frequently changes that he 
cannot state precisely under whose command he was- In seventeen hundred eighty 
one he enlisted, he thinks in Col Seely?s Regiment for six months, and served 
part of the time at Dobb?s Ferry on the North River, and part of the time at the 
farms or Vieux Hall road near Springfield in Essex County N.Jersey, He thinks he 
was in no engagement during this tour of service , and does not think he ever 
enlisted again or did any further service during the war of the Revolution- He 
is confident that from the first of his entering the
service in seventeen hundred and seventy six to the close of the year seventeen 
hundred eighty one he served as a common soldier one half of the time he never 
held any commifsion but served a short time as a Sergeant- He was born on the 
30th day of June, 1760, agreeably to a family record. He lived in Hanover 
Township, Morris County, New Jersey when he entered the service, lives there at 
this time, & has spent his lifetime thus for there, except when in service of 
his country. He thinks he never received a written discharge, but whenever his 
tour of militia duty, or term of enlistment expired, he was dismissed verbally 
by his officers and went home.


He is well known to Stephen Vail Esq. Now one of the
Judges of this Court & to Israel Canfield Esq. Both of Morris town to whom he 
has been known many years, and to whom he refers for his character for truth & 
standing in society.