Sources - The 1836 Widows

The information used to build the dataset behind the Continental veteran migration maps comes from the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Application Files, NARA Record Group 15, Microfilm Publication 804, held by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. In order to identify the men belonging to the cohort of veterans who applied for pensions under the Act of 1818, 3412312 pensions declarations were transcribed

State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County

Before me James Ewing one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County personally appeared James Kirkpatrick of the city of Trenton in said County a person to me well known and worth of Credit, who being duly sworn &c. deposeth and saith that he served the United States in the Revolutionary War upwards of five years having enlisted in Capt. Edward Patterson’s company in the New Jersey Regiment as a Drummer during the War, that the discharge hereunto annexed is the one which was given him by Gen. Washington at the close of the War, that he is now so reduced in his circumstances as to need the assistance of his country for his support.