Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9937, for Amos Sorels, New York
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Service - New York

Sorels, Amos
or Sorils

Number
R.9937

Contents
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Amos Sorrils a soldier 
application of Durand Sorrels a Colored man
for a pension under act of June 7th 1832

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Joseph Ellis ageant [agent]
Bloomingburgh
Sullivan County, NY

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the depositions is support 
the application of 
Durand Sorrels son
and Amos Sorrels to
a pension whose papers are on file
in your office
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State of New York
Delaware County ss.

Be it known personally appeared  before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, David Honeywill a resident of said county aged 63 years, who being duly sworn by me according to law, states that he was personally acquainted with Amos Sorels deceased, a late resident of said county for several years previous to his death in 1838 and that the said Sorels had a good character and was generally reported and believed to have been a soldier and to have served as such for some time during the war of the revolution, all of which he believes to be true. 

David Honeywill [Honeywell]


Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of April 1851

Platt Townsend
Justice of the Peace

Milton H. Sawyer aged 53 resident of the county aforesaid
Benjamin B. Eells a resident of the county of Delaware aged 63  years

I certify that the above named Milton H. Sawyer and Benjamin B. Eells were before me and being by me duly sworn according to law say that the statement made in the affidavit above, made, by David Honeywell is true. 

April 12th 1851

Platt Townsend 
Justice of the Peace
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I certify that I am personally acquainted with  David Honeywell, Milton H. Sawyer and Benjamin B. Eells within deponents and believe each of them to be men of truth and veracity.

Platt Townsend
Justice of the Peace
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State of New-York, Delaware County Clerk's Office - ss.

I, William McClaughry, Clerk of the County of Delaware, and also Clerk of the Courts of said County, do hereby certify that Platt Townsend Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition purports to have been taken, was at the time of taking such deposition a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Delaware, aforesaid, elected and sworn, and duly authorized by law to take the same, and that signature thereto is genuine.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this 25th  day of April 1851.

William McClaughry Clerk
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38077

Durand Sorrels
one of the 2 Children of 
Amos Sorrels
application for a pension
under the act of June 7, 1832

Joseph Ellis Agent
Bloomingburgh
Sullivan Co. NY
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At a Surrogate Court held at the Office of the Surrogate in Delhi in the county of Delaware in the State of New York, the same being a Court of Record, on the 11th day of July in the year 1850, personally came before me Durang Sorels a man of color a resident of said County, of Delaware aged 33 years who being first duly sworn according to law in open court makes the following declaration to wit - That he is one of the children of Amos Sorels a man of color, deceased, a late resident of said County, and that he makes this declaration in order to obtain the pension which was due his said father the said Amos Sorels at the time of his death under the act of Congress passed on the 7th day of June 1832 and that this father served in the war of the Revolution as follows - he entered the service in the early part of the war and served under different officers and at one time in various regiment and that during some portion of the time he was in the army General Washington commanded the regiment to which he belonged and that the said Amos Sorels served in the war from the commencement until near the close of the same - and that his father the said Amos Sorels with the view of making application for his pension left his home and went into the western part of the State of New York in the year 1835 or 1836  in search of persons who served with him in said war in order to get their testimony to prove his services as a soldier during said war and that his said father returned to his home in the county of Delaware in the State of New York and that he heard his said father say after his return that all the persons who served with him in said war had died and that he knew of no one of them then living who had served with him during said war by whom he could prove his services and this declarant further states that  his father Amos Sorils died on or about the 18th day of February in the year 1838 and that he left no widow at the time of his death, but left the following named children to wit - Lavinia Sorels and Durang Sorels, this declarant both residents of the county of Delaware in said State, and that they are both of lawful age, and
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that they are now the only surviving children of said Amos Sorels, deceased. This declarant further states that his said father served as above stated as he has heard from his said father, and from other persons, and that he believes the same to be true and that this declarant himself knows of no person or persons now living by whom he can prove the services of his said father and that he calls upon the Commissioner of Pensions to give him all the aid and assistance that  he consistently can under the rules of his department by searching the records in the War Department, and in furnishing the necessary proof to support his claim for said pension and giving this declarant all other information he may require to make out his claim for said pension.

Durang W. Sorels

Subscribed and sworn 
this 8th day of July 1832

[E Mn?] Surrogate
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State of New York
Delaware County

Be it known that on the 25th day of June of 1850, before me  a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Delaware authorized by the laws of the State of New York to administer oaths personally appeared Lewis S. Fitch and being by me duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he was personally acquainted with Amos Sorils deceased a late resident of said county and that he the said Amos Sorils died on or about the 18th day of February in the year 1838, and that he left no widow at the time of his death - that he left the following named children to wit. - Lavinia Sorils and Durang Sorils both residents of the county of Delaware and State aforesaid, and that the said Amos Sorils, Lavinia Sorils, and Durang Sorils are persons of color, and that the said Lavinia Sorils and Durang Sorils are the only surviving children of the said Amos Sorils, deceased. 
Deponent further says that he has resided in the neighborhood of the said Amos Sorils, deceased, eighteen years previous to his death and that it has been currently reported and believed that the said Amos Sorils had served during the war of the Revolution as a soldier.

Lewis S. Fitch

Sworn and subscribed this 25th day of June 1850 before me

Abraham Ogden Justice of the Peace

I the said Justice do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Lewis S. Fitch , who made oath to and subscribed his name to the above affidavit and that he is a man of good character and that his statements are entitled to credit and belief.

Abraham Ogden J.P.
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State of New York
Delaware County Clerk Office ss.

I William McClaughry Clerk of the County of Delaware do hereby certify that Abram Ogden Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition purports to have been taken was at the time of taking such deposition a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid. Elected and sworn and duly authorized by law to take the same and that his signature thereto is genuine.

Witness my hand and seal of the said County this 27th day of June 1850

William McClaughry
Clerk
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9907


Daniel Sorrel (Sorel) one of 
the two children of Amos Sorrels (Sorel)

Rejected

Act August 9, 1906
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No. 38077

Amos Soril, deceased
N.Y.

Act. 7th June 1832

Let Joseph Ellis 21 Nov. 1850
Same 21 July 1851

9937