Pension Application

S.33,960
Private, Capt Gales, Company Maryland Line. Inscribed on the roll of New Jersey. Wounded twice at the Battle of Monmouth, once in the leg, once in the side.
District of New Jersey SS.
On this thirteenth day of April 1818, before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the said District, personally appeared, James Agens, aged sixty seven years resident in Newark in the County of Essex in the said District who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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”. That he the said Samuel Agars enlisted (by the name of James Ragens because other in the same company were named Agens, which creating confusion he was called & entered by the name of Ragens) sometime in the year 1776 at White Plains in the State of New York in the company commanded by Captain Gates in the fourthe Maryland regiment commanded by Col. Hal in the Maryland Line, Samuel Smith Esquire being Lieutenant Colonel on the Continental establishment. That he continued to serve in the said Corps for the term of three years when his term of enlistment expiring he was discharged at Tappon in the State of New York. That in less than ten days after receiving his discharge as said which he has since lost he enlisted at West Point in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Capt. Roosecrants in the fourth New York Regiment commanded by col. willet in the New York line on the Continental Establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps untill the war was over, when he was discharged from service in the City of New York about a week after the City was evacuated—That he was in the Battle of Germantown, Monmouth, Stoney Point & at YorkTown, and that he is in reduced circumstances and thinks in need of the assistance of his country for support & that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services having lost his discharge—that he was twice wounded, once in the Battle of Monmouth by a musket ball & once at Stoney Point by a bayonet, that these wounds do now prevent him from laboring. (Signed with his mark) James Agens
Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid. William S. Pennington, District Judge of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey.

District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey holden at New Ark Essex County in said District.
            Present the Honorable William S. Pennington, District of New Jersey SS. Be it Remembered, that on the fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, in open court, the said court being a court of record for the District of New Jersey, holden in Essex County aforesaid. James Agens, aged seventy one years, resident in the Town of New Ark, county of Essex,& State of New Jersey, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declares, that he served in the revolutionary was as follows: That he enlisted as a Private before the Battle of Brandywine the day & year he cannot state. In the 4 Maryland Regiment under Captain Gates in the Regiment commanded by col. Samuel Smith & was shortly after promoted to be drill Sergeant of the same Regiment, and continued on the Roll of the said Regiment for three years, and then obtained his discharge from Col. Hall, who was the first Col. in command. He then enlisted in the 4th New York Regiment under Col. Wittel [Willett] & there remained during the residue of the war. Was in actual service on the Continental Establishment for six years. His certificates are now on file in the office of the War Department accompanying his first application. He was in the Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, Battle of Stony Point, Battle of Monmouth, Battle at Fort Stanwick & in several small skirmishes, at the taking of Lord Cornwallis at Little York, and that his original declaration is dated the thirteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that his pension is No. 2164.
            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 thereby 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, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: 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, to wit: No real estate—no person al estate except wearing apparel—By occupation a labourer, unable to gain a living by reason of a wound in the leg, and side received at the Battle of Monmouth. No family at home, no income whatever. (Signed with his mark) James Agens
            Sworn to & declared before me July 15th 1820. William S. Pennington. District Judge

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