Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9,448, for Matthias Out, New York
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(8-1776)
Service
New York
Out, Matthias
Number
S.9.448
carded.
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32.861
New York, Albany
Matthias Out, decd
of Cortland Co. in the State of New York
who was a private in the compy {company) commanded
by Captain [blank line]of the commanded
by [blank line]in the Revolution
for 9 month s NY Line Feb.7.05
Records completed. [Illegible]
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 Ending 
[illegible] August 1834
Certificate of Pension issues the 29th day of 
April 1837 and sent to 
G.C. Ames [illegible, possibly Esq.]
Present
Arrears to the 4th of 

Semi-annual allowance ending

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by H.R. Weightman Clerk,
Book E.2. Vol. 4 Page 53
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Mathias Out.
Act of June [July overwritten] 7th 1832
NY ------ Susk.
A. H. Markland [at bottom of page]
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State of New York
County of Onondaga

Be it known, that on this Third day of November A.D. 1852 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mattias Out of the town of Tully in said County & Mary Holenbeck
resident of [illegible] in said County, and made oath according to law that they are the only [illegible] heirs of the identical Matthias Out who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of [Blank Line]
that they are directly interested as claimant in said pension and make this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as their Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given. Whereby constitute and appoint C.W. Bennett, of Washington City as true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of Mattias Out for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and Hereby authorize said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate [?]ish made payable at the Washington City, D.C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that might or could do were personally present.
Hereby ratifying and confirming all that any said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises. 
Mattias Out
Mrs. Holenbeck

Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Matthias Out & Mary Holenbeck to be the identical party therein alleged & I further certify that the words in said county were Erased [illegible] word "Out" inter[illegible] & that singular [illegible] changed [illegible] the above Power of Attorney before the same was expected
[illegible] 
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York 
Cortland County} ss

I Daniel Hawks Surrogate of Said County of Cortland do hereby certify that at a surrogates Court held in and for said County at Cortland Village it was proved by the addition of testimony satisfactory to the Court that Matthias Out Late of the town of Treble in the aforesaid County died on the 18th day of August, 1834 and at his death he left no widow but he left the following named children him surviving Mr. Matthias Out Jr of Tully Onondaga County NY and Mary who is now Mary Halenbeck, of Treble Cortland County NY, That they are his only children and that they are over twenty one years of age
That the aforesaid Matthias Out during his life made an application for a Pension for his services as a Soldier in the war of the Revolution

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 19th day of April 1851
D. Hawks 
Surrogate
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32.861


adm 17 months 15 days Serg
2 months private


S. B. Canfield
Homer NY
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Declaration

State of New York
Coftland County  ss}
on this 30th day of April personally appeared in open Court  before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Matthias Out a resident of Treble in the County of Cortland and State of New York aged Sixty Nine years on the Sixteenth day of February last part, 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 Seventh Eighteen hundred & thirty two__ that in the month of October Seventeen hundred and Seventy Nine he went as a Substitute for his Father Matthias Out, in the Militia of the State of New York, in the Army of the Revolution, under Captain Myndert Van Schaick, Lieutenant Leonard Bronk, Lieutenant, 
Gerhorn Tyron, & Ensign John Van Schaak, the Regiment was Commanded by Colonel Anthony Van Bergen, all of the above officers, together with myself lived in the town of Coxackie in said State aforesaid but how long he was out, he does not now [illegible] for his memory is very frail.  he says he was out & stood on guard at different times and was Sergeant of the Guard, at all times, when out from December Seventeen hundred and Seventy Nine til the close of the Revolutionary War,__ he was stationed the principal part of the time at or near Phillip Brank's in said Coxackie aforesaid, he sometime went with
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Scouting parties to Basics near on Haiyns's /so called once to berkithall, so called, we quartered at Daniel Hough [illegible], that tie, and several other places which he does not now recollect__he says that the Company to which he belonged, were called Minute Men, and that or part of said Company; were continually out on Scouting  parties and on guard from theme aforesaid til the close of the Revolutionary War
he says, he is confident, that he served at least Eighteen or twenty months on active duty, in the about germ of time__ and that John Out, Jonas Bronk, & John Van Schaick, if living , can testify to his services as a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution__he has no documentary evidence, of his services, as aforesaid 

Interrogatory 1st by the Court}  where & in what year were you born__ Answer I was born in February Seventeen & Sixty four, in the Town of Coxackie in the State of New York __  I lived in the Town of Coxackie when called into the service__ I moved from Coxackie to Tully in the County of Onodage &  State of New York twenty five or twenty six years ago__from Tulley aforesaid I moved to Treble in the County of Cortland , in the said State, where I now live__ I [illegible] went as a Substitute about six Months for my Father  Matthias Out/  who died Eighteen years ago coming July/ the remainder of the time I was [illegible] out, & volunteered in the said service_ he was acquainted with Philip
Conine who was a Continental Officer, in the Army of the Revolution , an Ensign also Daniel Everson  who was an Officer, Ensign from Salisbury, in the State of Connecticut, also he knew Col Van Schaick who was a Brother to Myndert Van Schaick, his Captain__ he says he never received  a written Discharge while in thee service__ he says
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Van Schaick, his Captain - he says he never received a written Discharge while in the Service- he says that the Reverend Matthew Harrison and Ebenezer Moore can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief
of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution - 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, ["only in that of the Agency of the State of New York" crossed out]
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Matthias Out [signature]
Saml Hotchkiss [signature] Jr Clerk of Cortland
County 
the [illegible], [illegible] only on the of the agency of the State of New York and
in signs L B Canfield Witness-
The Matthew Harrison a Clergyman residing in the Town of
Preble and Ebenezar Moore residing in the same hereby
certify, that we are well acquainted with Matthias Out
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age, that he
is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he
resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and
that we concur in that opinion - Matthew Harrison
Sworn and subscribed before me
this 30th day of April 1833,
Lizur B Canfield Justice Peace
E Moor
our pased therein are timeand
the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after
the investigation of the matter, and after putting the inter
rogatories prescribed by the War department, that the
above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier and served as he states- and the Court further ┃
tifies, that it appears to them, that Matthew
John Out
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Harrison who has signed the preceding
certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the Town of Preble & is a credible person and that Ebenezer Moore, who has also signed the same, is a resident in the Town of Preble, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Judges of Court of Common Pleas
Cortland County
Joseph Reynolds
Oliver Kingman
Wm Bartlett
John Gillett

I, Samuel Hotchkiss, Junior Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cortland, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
Matthias Out for a Pension - and that Ligirt B. Canfield Esquire, before whom Matthew Harrison & Ebenezer Moore purports to have been sworn, was Justice of the Peace in the Town of [illegible] in the County of Cortland & State of New York, and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting is the same Justice and know that his signature to the same is genuine in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this [illegible]th day of April 1833. 
Samuel Hotchkiss Jr. Clerk
[handwritten notation] Matthias Out or Out 25064
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John Out of the Town of Coxsackie in the County of Greene and State of New York being duly sworn deposed, and faith that he
is seventy-one years old & is personally acquainted with Matthias Out whose declaration is hereto annexed and has
been ever since he can recollect. That he is a brother of the said Declarant and that said Declarant was 69 years old the 19th day of February last and that he this Deponent knows him to be the identical person he represents himself to be. And this Deponent further says that he, this Deponent entered the Revolutionary service in the Militia in the year 1778 and that the above Declarant entered the same company in which this Deponent was enrolled in the year 1779 and further that they both served when called out till the end of the War. And this Deponent further states that the following officers commanded the company in which he was enrolled
Captain Myndert Van Schaick, Lieutenant Leonard Bronk, Lieutenant Jehoiakim Tryon and Ensign John Van Schaack and that Anthony Van Bergen was Colonel of the Regiment. This Deponent also says that the said Matthias was stationed most of the time in Coxsackie at Philip Monks - The said Declarant also was out with this Deponent on scouting parties to Basrich and to Neskithaw and to other places to Cairo and to Newry & he also recollects that they quartered at David Hoghtailings. This Deponent also says that the said Declarant was Sargeant of the Guard us he knows and recollects for some time for two or three years as he thinks. And this Deponent further states that the said Declarant was out on duty eighteen or twenty months in the above term of time. And also that he has heard the Declaration of Matthias out read to him
and that according to the best of his knowledge and belief the facts stated therein are true.
John Out
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Subscribed and from before me this 23rd July 1833 
Tallmadge Fairchild
Justice of the Peace

I certify that John Out is a man of truth, and veracity and reputable in his neighborhood
Tallmadge Fairchild
Justice of the Peace

Jonas Bronk of Coxsackie in the County of Greene and State of New York being sworn, says that he is nearly seventy-three years of age, that he is personally acquainted with Matthias Out and knows him to be the identical person he represents himself to be in his declaration. This Deponent states that he has been acquainted with him since he was a boy, and also that they served in the Revolutionary war together and in the same company. This Deponent cannot tell how long a time they were together, neither does he know when the said Matthias entered the army or how long he remained in it. This Deponent further says that the following officers commanded the company to which he was attached and to which Matthias belonged.
Captain Myndert Van Schaik, Lieutenant Leonard Bronk, Lieutenant Jehoiakim Tryon & Ensign John Van Schaack & that the Regiment was commanded by Colonel Anthony Van Bergen. And this Deponent further says that he has heard the declaration of Matthias Out read to him and he believes the facts therein stated are true to the best of this Deponent's knowledge and further this Deponent says not. 

Subscribed from before me this 1st August 1833.
Tallmadge Fairchild, Justice of the Peace
Jonas Bronk [signature]

I certify that Jonas Bronk is a man of truth and veracity, and reputable in his neighborhood.
Tallmadge Fairchild, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Greene County I William VB Heermance clerk of said county certify that Tallmadge Fairchild Esquire before whom the annexed affidavits of John Out and Jonas Brook were sworn was at the date of the claim and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for the stated county and that his signature to the said affidavit is genuine.
Witness my hand & seal of the office this sixth day of August 1833.
WVB Heermance Clerk
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Town of Hamm  }
Cortland County ss  }
State of New York  }

Personally appeared before
me, the undersigned a Justice
of the Peace, Matthias Out
who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that
by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of Memory,
he cannot swear positively as to the precise
length of his service, but according to the best of his
recollection, he served not less than the periods
mentioned below, and in the following grades -
for the year 1779 he went as a substitute for his Father
under Captain Myndert Van Schaick & Col Anthony
Van Bergen Commanded the regiment, & in was appointed
a Sergeant by the said Captain, & served
as such, always when out, but never had a
Sergeants warrant, he generally was out, for short
tours, and in small parties, but was alwas the Sergeant
of the Guard, he thinks no Sergts Warrants
were given at that time - he recollects of going
along with Ensign John Van Schaick, & Lt Gersham
Lyon, with a party to a place called Basick
0.3 in October 1779 was gone three days-- he says he recollects
of going out again in said month to a place called
Flat Bush to one Houghtaling & thinks he was gone
0.8 Eight days -thinks he was out once two days in
0.2 November 1779 under Captain Van Schaick, went up toward
Barick - in 1780 in the month of May. he was out under
Capt Lansihaik again Seventeen days as near as he 
0.17 can recollect . in June after was acct at least
half of the said month, on Guard at, or near
0.15 Phillip Bronks House in Caxacke's he says 
according to the best of his recollection he was out at least
half of the time, in July, August September & October, 
he was out on two days in
November 1779 under Captain Van Schaick, went up toward
Barrick
in 1780 in the month of May he was out under
Capt Hanshack again Seventeen days as men as he
can recollect-- & in June after was out at least
half of the said month, an Guard at or near
Phillip Branks House in Caxackin he says or
ding to the best of his recollection he was out at least
half of the time, in July, August September & October, & Two