Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28800, for John Mandevill, New York
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State of New York
Orange County

On this 22nd day of June in the year 1836 personally appeared before the (ILLEGIBLE) Gilbert Ogden Fowler First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Orange (said Court being a Court of Record) John Mandeville of the Village of Newburgh in the County aforesaid a credible witness to me personally well known aged seventy (ILLEGIBLE) 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.
In the year 1776 Deponent served five months in the five months service at Fort Montgomery in the County and State aforesaid as a private in a company of volunteers commanded by Captain William Tellford of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Paulding - Deponent by reason of having had a stroke off the palsy has in a great measure lost his recollection and cannot therefore state with certainty the names of the officers under whom he served in the Revolutionary War nor the precise times when his respective terms of service commenced and ended but certain he is that in the
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year 1776 he enlisted at New Windsor in aforesaid County. To serve fie months in the company commanded by the said Captain William Tellford. Deponent served out the term of his enlistment aforesaid at Forts Montgomery and Clinton and at the end thereof was honorably [honourably] discharged but received no written discharge according to the best of Deponent's recollection and belief.  The time of Deponent's service embraced the months of May, June, July, August and September of the year last aforesaid.  One Robert Jordan now deceased was Sargent [sergant] in said company and John Barber (ILLEGIBLE) deceased late a pensioner of the United States of the Town of Montgomery and County aforesaid whose affidavit is annexed commanded a company at that place at that time.  Deponent does not now know a single person living who served with him at Fort Montgomery in the five months service aforesaid.
In the months of April and May in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven Deponent served one month at Fort Montgomery in a company commanded by the said Captain William Tellford. Said service commenced on the latter part of the month of April in the year last aforesaid and ended in the latter part of the May following
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John McMichael a pensioner of the United States whose affidavit is hereunto [ILLEGIBLE] served as a private in said Company with deponent during the term last mentioned Whilst at Fort Montgomery as last aforesaid deponent together with the company to which he belonged were [ILLEGIBLE] [ILLEGIBLE] erecting fortifications and standing guard.  Immediately after Fort Montgomery was captured by the enemy which took place on the [ILLEGIBLE] day of October in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven. Deponent served three weeks as a private in a company commanded by Captain Leonard Nicoll at New Windsor aforesaid to prevent the enemy from landing from their fleet on their way up the river. Later in the fall of the year last aforesaid after the British (Brittish) had evacuated fort Montgomery according to deponents' recollection and belief deponent served one fort night on a general alarm at Fort Montgomery & the Forrest of Dean as a private under the command of Captain Leonard Nicoll of the Regiment aforesaid . Samuel Arthur now deceased was a Lieutenant in said Company at that time.  There is not to the knowledge of deponent a single person living who was in service at that time with Deponent.  James Edmonson of the Town of [ILLEGIBLE]
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aforesaid a Pensioner of the United States whose affidavit is [ILLEGIBLE] [ILLEGIBLE] throughout the Revolutionary War in the same neighborhood with Deponent must have been knowing to Deponents being in the service from time to time as related in this affidavit. In the fall of the year 1778 Deponent served under the command of the said Captain Leonard Nicoll as a private at [ILLEGIBLE] on the Indian frontier one month whilst said company was stationed at [ILLEGIBLE] as aforesaid Deponent volunteered with about ninety others to go to [ILLEGIBLE] on the Delaware River against the Indians Deponent went accordingly under the command of Captain Leonard Nicoll and Captain [ILLEGIBLE [ILLEGIBLE]. We took a number of prisoners and brought off some horses.  The horses were afterwards sold at auction at Wards Bridge in the town of Montgomery County aforesaid and the prisoners were confined in the in the County of Dutchess and State aforesaid William Beaty late a pensioner of the United States (now deceased) served with Deponent at (ILLEGIBLE) as aforesaid - in the fall of year 1779
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Deponent served under the command of the said Leonard Nicoll one month at Fishkill in the County of Dutchess and State of New York.  The militia were ordered out for three months on a secret expedition but it was abandoned and the troops discharged at the end of one month. John Barber, Esq before named served at the same time and place as adjutant of a regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Phillips. Deponent does not recollect any person now living who was in service with him at Fishkill as aforesaid in the year 1780. Deponent served one fortnight at West Point on (ILLEGIBLE) duty and was engaged in (ILLEGIBLE) under the immediate command of Colonel Warner who superintended the works and in answer to the interrogations put by the said Judge to Deponent in (ILLIGEBLE) of the instructions of the Secretary of War he says that he was born on the third day of April in the year 1760 in the Town of New Windsor then Ulster now Orange County aforesaid. That he has a record of his age in this family Bible that he lived in said town of New Windsor when he volunteered into the five months service as a (ILLEGIBLE) aforesaid and lived here until after the peace then moved to New York. Lived in New
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York eighteen months and then returned to New Windsor aforesaid. Lived in New Windsor three years and then moved to Newburgh where deponent now lives.  Deponent entered the five months service as a volunteer and afterwards performed his regular tour with his Company when called on Generals George & James Clinton were at Fort Montgomery when deponent served these (ILLEGIBLE) also at New Windsor when deponent served at that place. The regular troops at Fort Montgomery and New Windsor during my respective tours of service at those places were DuBois's  [Duboises] Regiment and Captain Moody's company of artillery. Deponent never received a written discharge - and deponent also saith that he is known to the Revered John Johnson and William Walsh,Esq. President of the Bank of Newburgh whose affadavits as to my character and services in the Revolutionary War is here unto annexed and Deponent also (ILLEGIBLE) that by reason of his body by infirmity aforesaid he is unable to attend court.
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State

Sworn to and subscribed John Mandeville 
the day and year aforesaid before me Gilbert Ogden Fowler. First Judge of Orange County
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State of New York
Orange County

We John Johnston a clergyman residing in the Village of Newburgh county & state aforesaid and William Walsh residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Mandeville who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy (ILLEGIBLE) years of age. That he is (ILLEGIBLE) and (ILLEGIBLE) in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion.

Sworn to and subscribed this 25th day of June 1836 before me Gilbert Ogden Fowler. First Judge of Orange County

John Johnston
William Walsh
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Newburgh, New York
August 15th 1836

Sir,

I avail myself of the present occasion to say that Mr. John Mandeville (whose pension papers were forwarded yesterday) is one of my neighbours and has been known to me for more than twenty years.  He is a man of great worth highly esteemed by all who know him for his veracity and integrity of character and has always been reputed to have served as a soldier in the Army of the Revolution. If there is any cases amongst this applications for pensions where reliance should be placed upon the statements of the applicants (ILLEGIBLE) Mr. Mandeville's is one where it can be done with the utmost safety.
In regard to the reason why he has postponed his claim for so long I also beg to state that ever since the passage of the law granting pensions to those who served in the militia, he has from time to time spoken to me and (ILLEGIBLE) his claim and (ILLEGIBLE) his desire to be put upon the pension roll and I have as often advised him to postpone his