MILITARY: Pension; Solomon Middaugh; Caroline, Tompkins co., NY

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Revolutionary Pension Application 23323
Revolutionary Pension Application of Solomon Middaugh
Copied from pension application 23323

State of New York )
Tompkins County )
On this 4th day of October, personally appeared in open court before the 
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County now sitting, 
Solomon Middaugh a resident of the Town of Caroline in the County of Tompkins
and State of New York, aged seventy-seven 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 7th, 1832. That he
entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers
and served as herein stated.

That he volunteered into said service for one month in March, 1776 in Capt.
Harker's Company of New Jersey Militia in a Regement under the command of Col.
Ephram Martin - that at that time he resided in the Town of Wantage, County of
Sussex and State of New Jersey where he volunteered, as aforesaid - that
during the aforesaid month of March he served on a tour to New York and was
engaged in building and repairing batteries in the City of New York. That in
the month of August in the same year he again volunteered into said service
for one month and was called to Perth Amboy in the State of new Jersey where
he served for one month in a Company commanded by Samuel Muker in a Battallion
under the command of Major Samuel Westbrook in the New Jersey Militia under 
Gen. Robedeaux - that in the month of October in the same year he again
volunteered to serve for one month in a Company commanded by William McLennen
in Col. Broderick's Regement of New Jersey Militia and was called to South
Amboy where he performed the last aforesaid month's service during which time
he was chosen by the voice of said Company to serve as Ensign and he served
accordingly as Ensign and was employed in guarding the Shores - That in
December, 1776 the said Samuel Muker was promoted to the office of Major in
the Regement commanded by Col. Hankinson and this declarant was then elected
by said Company as the First Lieutenant in said Company. That in January, 1777
he again volunteered with said Company to serve for two months under Col. 
Hankinson, Lt. Cd. John Steward and Major Muker - That he served with said
Company as Lieut. Commandant during the said two months and until in the month
of March, 1777 - and was engaged in said last volunteered service as Lieut.
Commandant as aforesaid at Scotch Plains in the State of New Jersey in
guarding the shores and in scouting in that neighborhood - that during the
last volunteered service at Scotch Plains he saw a Brigade of U. S. Tropps
under General Sullivan. That in the month of May he received his commission
from William Livingston, Esq. Governor of the State of New Jersey which said
commission is hereto annexed. That he with said Company again volunteered into
said service for about five weeks during the months of May and June, 1777 and
served for that time in said Company then commanded by Capt. Coy Kindell as 
first Lieutenant under his aforesaid commission as such hereto annexed, at
Presumption Plains and at Paramus in the State of New Jersey in said Col.
Hankinson's Regement then under the command of Lieut. Col. Seward and Major
Gordon and General Hurd commanded the Brigade to which said Corps was attached
and belonged.

That in February and March, 1778 he again volunteered with said Company then
under John Holbert in which the applicant served as first Lieutenant as
aforesaid for about six weeks in the Regement under Col. Smith and Col. Wines
at Elizabethtown, New Jersey during which time they were then stationed as a
guard and served as such. That in the months of May and June, 1778 he was
again in actual service, in the Revolution as a volunteer with the aforesaid
Company under his command as Lieut. Commandant for one month at Minisink in
the State of New York and was employed in building a fort at that place. That
in September and October, 1778 he was again actually employed with said
Company in the aforesaid service as a volunteer for one month at Germantown in
the State of Pennsylvania - that during that month he commanded said Company
in the absence of Capt. Cole under Col. Hankinson and belonged to the Brigade
under Genl. Furman and was present there and engaged in the Battle of
Germantown where Gen. Washington commanded the American forces in person aided
by Gen. Grim. That during the fall and winter of 1778 he was engaged with his 
said Company as volunteer for two months in said service in which he served as
Lieut. in the Town of Montague and along the Delaware River in New Jersey in
the aforesaid Regement. That from 1779 to the close of the Revolutionary War
in 1783 he was actually engaged in said service as the Commandant of said
Company under his aforesaid commission in the states of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and New York, was present at the Battle of Larkwax on the Delaware on
the 22nd of July, 1779 - at which Col. John Haythorn commanded. That he has no
documentary evidence except the commission hereto annexed and that he knows of
no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except 
those whose affidavits are hereto annexed. 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.

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, in open Court before the
Judges aforesaid. 
Solomon Middaugh
Sam'l Love, Clerk

The following questions were propounded by the Court to the applicant.
1. Where and in what year were you born? - At Wantage in the County of Sussex,
New Jersey, August 20, 1755.

2. Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it? - I have in my 
Bible at home.

3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived 
since the Revolutionary War; and where do you now live? - In Wantage, New
Jersey, I was first called into service. After Revolution lived in New Jersey
in the County of Sussex 'till 1806, then moved to Tompkins County in New York
& here through now. (In the Town of Caroline)

4. How were you called into service; were you drafted; did you volunteer; or 
were you a substitute; and if a substitute, for whom? - I volunteered, I never
was drafted, nor never will be.

5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops
when you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect,
and the general circumstances of your service. - General Washington, Gen.
Sullivan, Gen. Maxfield and Gen. Putnam, Col. Spencer. In the Militia I knew
Generals Hurd, Furman, Robedoux, Colonels Hankinson, Seward.

6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was
it given, and what has become of it? Did you ever recieve a Commission and
from whom? - I never received any written discharge - I received a
Lieutenant's Commission from Gen. William Livingston and Col. Pitts which is
hereto annexed.

7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present
neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their
belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. - John King - David
Quigly - Barthomolew Grim - Peter Sounsbery - Levi Stater - Aaron Bull - Silas
Hutchinson.

We, David Woodcock residing in the Town of Ithica and County of Tompkins and
State of New York, and John King and David Quigly, residing in the same place,
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Solomon Middaugh who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and that we believe him to be
seventy-seven years of age, and 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, ) D. Woodstock
the day and year aforesaid ) John King
Sam'l Love David Quigly

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of
the matter, and after putting the interrogations 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 David Woodstock, John King and David Quigly, who have signed the
preceeding certificate, are citizens, residents in the Town of Ithaca and
County of Tompkins and are creditable persons, and that their statements are
entitled to credit.

I, Samuel Love, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Tompkins,
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the
said Court in the matter of the application of Solomon Middaugh for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 
4th day of October, 1832.
Sam'l Love clerk