Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23506, Frederick Bancker, New York
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SERVICE
New York

Bancher, Frederick
or Banker
Ellen
or
Elener

NUMBER
W. 23506
B.L. Wt. 18219-160-55-
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24720 New York

Frederick Banker
of Hyde Park in the State of New York
who was a Priv & Sqt in the Compy commanded by Captain Conklin of the Regt command by Col Freeman in the New York
line for 8 months private and
13 months Serg
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 91 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of Feby
1834and sent Hon A Bockee
House Representatives
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 33 $229.15
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 34 $45.83
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$274.98
Book E Vol. 4 Page 134
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Jno Cromwell Clerk

Let to Hon C Warren
July 14th '48
Let to J. Attenborough
Nov. 13 '48
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State of New York
Dutchess County

On this twenty fourth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas of said County now sitting Frederick Barker a resident of the town of Hyde Park in the County and State aforesaid aged Seventy four
years on the third day of August last past 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 concerning Revolutionary Officers Soldiers

That this deponent residing in the Town of Hydepark (then called Charlotte precinct) entered the service of the United States in
the Militia in the Spring of 1776 deponent thinks the month of May under the following named Officers Genl Peter Tenbrook
Col John Frear Capt Isaac Conklin and Lieutenant Peter Schultz and served until the Autumn of 1780 in different capacities in different places and under different commanders as hereinafter stated
In the year 1776 upon first entering the service he officiated as a night guard at Poughkeepsie in the County and State aforesaid while building two Frigates to prevent their being burned. Lieut Peter Schultz was the commander of this Guard Deponent was employed in this service for Two
Months.
Deponent after this was ordered to Kingsbridge in the County of
Westchester and State aforesaid where he was engaged in cannonading for more than two weeks during the month of January and February and continued under arms until
the latter part of March 1777 making in all 6 months service
during this tour in the mean time had two engagements with the Hessians Genl Wooster commanded the first part of the town and Genl Tinbrook the latter, Col John Frear and Capt Isaac Conklin were the inferior Officers
during this tour Genl Tinbrook appointed deponent one of his life guards -
Deponent in the year 1777 does not recollect the precise time under Genl Putnam Col Frear and he thinks Capt Hagaman was ordered and went to Peekskill in Westchester
County aforesaid and waited upon duty daily for the arrival of the British cannot recollect the precise length of time waiting fort Montgomery was taken
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Deponent took three tours under Col Frear and Capt Barton to the lines which were sometimes at Peeks Kill & sometimes at the Highlands was in this service for four months
Deponent was drafted and went with a Sloop with provisions
above Catts Kill in the County of Green in October 1777
Deponent assisted in taking a Schooner near Hydepark under Lieut Peter Schultz
Went to the lines three times under Capt Spencer was engaged for four months
Deponent was drafted and went about 30 miles South west of Kingston in Ulster County & was engaged in guarding the frontier while gathering the autumn crops this service
was performed under Col Cantine Major Radcliff and Capt Ostrom was in this service for about 1 month-
Deponent served three months under Col Graham and Capt Van Kleeck at Fishkill and Verplanks Point in the County of Dutchess and State aforesaid in the year 1779
Deponent went from Albany to Lake George under Capt Wilson was engaged in transferring the wives and children of the disaffected was engaged in this service for Two months
Deponent further says that he was a Sergeant from the Spring of 1777 through the whole war and in addition to the above mentioned services was engaged from time to time
in recruiting collecting assessments and fines warning to Court Militials attending Martials taking to Jail &
Deponent further says that he was born in the town of Hydepark in the County & State aforesaid the 14th day of
August in the year 1758. That there is a record of his age in the Dutch Reformed Church at Rhinebeck in the County & State aforesaid that he has ever since resided in the town of Hydepark & State resides at that place with the exception of about seven years residence in the County of Ulster. That he
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has no documentary evidence of his services that he never had any written discharge from the service that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and that he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any state
Deponent further says that Edmund H Pendleton Esq first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Dutchess and the Rev W Johnston of the town of Hydepark in said County can testify to the deponents character for truth and veracity
Fredrich Banker

Sworn to & Subscribed the
day year aforesaid
Henry C Craven Clerk

Edmund H Pendleton first Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas of the County of Dutchess in
the State of New York hereby certifies that he is
well acquainted with the above applicant Frederich Banker that he is a man of unquestionable veracity, that he is well acquainted with the persons certifying their belief of his age, and services
that the signatures attached to said certificate
are genuine and that John Johnson is a Comissioner & that the signature annexed is his true signature
the
Edmd H Pendleton
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Dutchess County 

We, William Cahoone, 1st Minister of the Reformed Dutch Church Hyde Park and and
David Mulford of the same place Farmer Do
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Frederic Banker of the town of Hydepark & County & Stateaforesaid that we believe him to be 74 years of age and he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution
and that we concur in that opinion

Wm Cahoone

David Mulford

Sworn & Subscribed this 7th
day of September
1832 before me
John Johnston
Commissioner of Deeds
for said County & authorized
to take affidavits
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State of New York
Dutchess County
Reuben Nelson of the town of Legrange
in the County of Dutchess being sworn says that he is well acquainted with Frederic Barker of the town of Hydepark in said County that he acquainted with the said Banker from infancy that he was a fellow soldier with said Banker in the Revolutionary war that he believes him to be 74 years of age that he knows the said Banker was a Sergeant on behalf of the United States during the whole war of the Revolution that he belonged to a company of Militia commanded at different times through the whole war by Capt Isaac Conklin, Josiah Burton & Reuben Spencer which belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col John
and the brigade commanded by Genl
Tenbrook. 
That deponent served with said Banker
at West Point in the State aforesaid under Capt the Elijah Herrick, Genl Arnold was commander of the Garrison that deponent served with him for but one month at West Point aforesaid. 

The next service they performed together was in the Highlands near Peekskill in Westchester County that they were waiting for the British for about one month, the year deponent cannot recollect, Col. Frear, Capt Reuben Spencer and Jacob Schryver were among the officers,
That he recollects that Banker and himself were
in the 3 months service together at Fishkill
and Ver Planck Point under Col Graham and
Capt Hugh Van Kleeck that deponent verily
believes that said Banker was a Sergeant
through the whole war of the Revolution

Reuben Nelson

Sworn & Subscribed the ⎬
day & year aforesaid
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolution any soldier and served as he states. And the Court
further certifies that it appears to them that
William Cahoon Jr who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Hydepark and that David Mulford who has the same also signed is also a resident of Hydepark and is a credible person and entitled to credit

State of New York
Dutchess County

I, Henry J. Lauer,  Clerk of the Court of Common Please of the County of
Dutchess do hereby certify that the preceding
contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the matter of the application of Frederick Banker for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal
of Office to 25th September AD 1839
Henry Lauer Clerk
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11,250
Frederick Banker
Hydeparke
Dutchess Co.
N. York
Admitted
Sergeant 16 mo.
Private 6 [illegible] 24 mos.
29 Dec. 1832

P-188.

E. E. Cowley
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11,250
BRIEF in the case of Frederick
Banker
of Dutchess County
in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank]
3. How old is he? 74 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period: May 1776 till Autumn of 1780.
Rank: Private
Officers:  Capt. J. Conklin Col. J. Frear
Period: 1776 2 mos.
Rank: Guard
Officers:  Lt. P. Shultz (only)

Period: 1776 6 mos.
Rank: Private
Officers:  Officers:  Capt. J. Conklin Col. J. Frear

Period: 1776 4 mos.
Rank: Sergeant
Officers:  Officers:  Col. Frear, Capt. Hagaman


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5. In what battles was he engaged?
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Rank.
As a
private
Guard
┃ private
┃ St
of
Names of General and field Officers
under whom he served.
Gen.
Hydepark,
1774
till autumn of 1780
A.S. Conklin Co. J. Frear.
W. J. Shultz (only,
Capt J. Conklin Col. S. Frear
┃ of. Frear Capt Hagaman
Col. Contine Capt Ostrom
Col. Graham, Capt Van Kleek
Capt Wilson (only)
of me
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of
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service Hyde Park then Charlotte
precinct, New York
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence
by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Witness & Stat
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case
above mentioned.
W Witt
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5191
New York
Ellen Banker
widow of Frederick
N.Y.
who served in the Revolutionary war as a Priv & Sergt
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
91 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of June, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Nov 1849
and sent to

J. A. Sturtenburgh
Post Master
Hyde Park
New York
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 14 Vol. 4
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State of New York
Dutchess County SS.

On this twenty first day of July in
the year one thousand Eight hundred and Forty Eight personally appeared before me, the County Judge of Dutchess County aforsaid, Ellen Banker, a resident of the town of
Hyde Park in said County, aged eighty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on her oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled ""An act
granting half pay & pensions to certain Widows". That she is the widow of Frederick Banker deceased, late a pensioner of the United States for services in the army of the Revolution. That he was a Sergeant in said Army, in the Militia of the State of New York. That he was engaged in the service aforesaid, both before and after the marriage of this deponent with said Banker in the year 1781, but that this deponent cannot now state the particular times or dates when such service commenced or terminated. That he was engaged at different times and in different capacities, as this deponent believes drafted, and as a volunteer during the greater part of said war, that he served at Pokupsie in said County under Lieutenant Peter Schultz
deceased, and under Col Graham near Fishkill in said County and was so in the service near Verplanck's Point and Stoney Point at Westchester County, and at White Plains
That he was also in the service at different times in apprehending Tories in said County of Dutchess. but that this deponent is unable to state the particular time of such
services in that capacity he acted, and that there are as this deponent believes now no living witnesses to be found of his services, particularly, and that she has no documentary
evidence to support her claim, except the certificate of Pension belonging to her deceased husband. this deponent
further saith that she was married to said Frederick Banker deceased, at the County of Ulster in said State of
New York, on the Eighteenth day of March in the year
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One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty one by one Esquire Abram Dennison then a Justice of the peace of said County of Ulster in presence of several witnesses-- but that
said Esquire Dennison and all the witnesses who attended at said wedding are long since dead-- that the family of said Dennison are removed or dead, and that no record of
said marriage, if any there ever was, can now be found
That her said husband Frederick Banker died at his residence in Hyde Park aforesaid, in the sixth day of June in the year one thousand Eight hundred & forty eight
That she was married to him, while he was in the service aforesaid, as above stated. That she is still the widow of said Banker and that she has never made any application for a Pension.

Her
Ellen X Banker
Mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me the year year above written the said Ellen Banker being unable from infirmity to write her name-
No. Rowley County Judge &c

I hereby certify that Ellen Banker the applicant
also named cannot, by reason of old age and
bodily infirmity attend in open Court to make
said declaration and that I have therefore taken
the same at her residence in Hyde Park

Jno. Rowley County Judge &c.
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Frederick
Bancher was 
born August 13 1758 
in the State of New York
County of Dutchess in Clinton
and married to his wife
Elener in the year 1781 March
and Elener was born September 4
1762
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State of New York
Dutchess County, John A. Stantenburgh of
Hyde Park in the aforesaid County State
being duly sworn and examined in open
Court, deposes & says that the paper or
Leaf hereto sealed and proffered, was cut
and taken by this deponent from the book containing the family Register of Frederick Banker, deceased, Revolutionary Pensioner,
late of the aforesaid term of Hyde Park, that this deponent was well acquainted with said Frederick Banker in his life time
and had seen him write and from his knowledge of said Bankers writing and from information received by him, this deponent verily believes that the aforesaid Record of the marriage of said Frederick Banker deceased with his wife Ellen or Elener, her surviving, is authentic, and in the hand writing of said Frederick.
that this deponent further believes that said leaf contains the original and only record of said marriage, except a copy which was made therefrom some 10 or 12 years since
And further this deponent saith not-

J.A. Stantenburgh

Subscribed, sworn to and Examined in Open Court by the undersigned, Judge of the
Surrogates Court of the Cunty aforesaid 
this 11th day of September AD 1849
witness my hand & Seal of
said County 
[illegible]
Surrogate,
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Isaac Stoutenburgh afft
[illegible] Clk
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State of New York
Dutchess County SS.

Isaac Stentenburgh of Hyde Park in
the County and State aforesaid, being duly sworn in open court deposes and says that he is in the Eighty first yearof his age, and is of sound mind and memory, that he was
born, and has always resided within the now town of Hyde part aforesaid, and that he resided near to, and has always,
since his earliest recollection been acquainted with Frederick Banker, lately deceased, a Revolutionary pensioner and with his widow, Ellen Banker, formerly Ellen Underhill. 
That said Banker during said Revolutionary War
was a Zealous whig and was a soldier in the Militia of the State of New York and in the service of the United States during a good portion of said war, that this deponent has seen him in the service and knows him to have
been very active and efficient in the cause of his country but that this deponent is at this time unable to state under which officers or in what regiment said Banker served
This deponent further says that he personally knew Ellen Underhill, the widow of said Frederick Barker deceased before her marriage with said Banker and has always lived near her and been acquainted with her from that time to the present. That he attended the same
school with her, before her marriage with said
Banker - that she was then grown up and this deponent was then of about the age of Eleven years, as near as he can tell-- That as this deponent was informed and believes the said Ellen Underhill, was shortly after married
to one John Rodgers, who lived but a short time, dying away from home, in the service of the United States and that in the year one Thousand Seven hundred & Eighty
one or thereabouts the said Ellen was married
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the witnesses who attended the same are all dead. But that this deponent heard of the marriage at the time it took place or thereabouts, and that he has lived near
to said Banker and wife from that time to the present that they have always lived together as man & wife, until the death of said Banker, that they have reared a large family of children, the oldest of whom is about Sixty six years of age and that this deponent verily believes they were duly married, as above, and that he has never heard the fact of such marriage denied
or in any manner doubted but in the Contrary
he believes that it is universally reputed & believed to be true

Isaac Stantenburgh
Sworn & Examined in open Court, in the 
County Court of the County of Dutchess
a court of Record, before his Hon. John Reily
Judge of this Tenth day of July in
the year one thousand Eight hundred
and Forty Eight

Jos S. Adriana Clerk
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In the case of Ellen Banker
Widow of Frederick Banker, decd
applicant for a widow's Pension
Testimony taken May 23, 1849
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State
of New York.
Dutchess County S. 

John A. Stantenburgh of Hyde Park in the
County of Dutchess and State of New York aforesaid, being duly sworn & Examined in open Court deposes and says that he knew
Frederick Banker deceased, late a Revolutionary pensioner, in his life time, and is acquainted with his widow Ellen Banker: That
This deponent has made diligent search & enquiry to ascertain whether there has ever been or is now in existence, any Record, or
Documentary evidence of the Marriage of said Frederick Banker and Ellen his wife, which is reputed to have taken place in the year
1781, and that with the exception of the ancient entry in the family bible mentioned & set forth in the testimony of the Revd. Sherwood, hereto annexed - he is satisfied, and verily believes that there is no such Record or documentary evidence in existence.
That the said Frederick Shortly before his death consulted with this deponent in relation to the evidence of his marriage with the said
Ellen, in case of his death, which he then expected, and that he then there assured this deponent that he was married to said Ellen, March 18, 1781 by one Abram Dennison, a Justice of the peace in & for the County of
Westchester, in the State of New York. That no certificate of said Marriage was ever given, or any record thereof kept, as he believed,
by said Justice
That all the witnesses to said marriage had
long since died, & that said Justice was dead, and his family had either died or removed to some place unknown to said Banker or this deponent, which relation this deponent, from the examinations made by him, from the uniform reports of those best acquainted
with the facts, and the undoubted tradition & belief in the
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neighborhood, he verily believes to be true, and is satisfied that there
is no record or Documentary proof of said marriage in existence-
This deponent says that he has always resided in the near neighbor and of said Banker & wife, that he has always understood & believed that they were married during the Revolutionary war. and has never heard the same doubted. That he is acquainted with the surviving children of said Frederick & Ellen his widow, and that Thomas Barker their oldest son,
is now in the sixty seventh year of his age having been born in the year 1782 and during the lawful wedlock of his said
parents, as this deponent has always understood & believed.-
This deponent further says that he enclosed to the Pension Office, on or about the 18th July 1848 a certified [the word "copy" is crossed out] of an examination in the County Court of this County before John Roby Esqr County Judge, of witnesses as to the death of said Frederick Banker, his Revolutionary services, and marriage with said Ellen Banker his widow, in which it was set forth that" legal &
sufficient evidence, according to the laws of this State, had been exhibited of the marriage of said Fredrick Banker decd with said
Ellen Banker on the 18th March in the year 1781, & that the aforesaid Ellen Still remains the widow of said Frederik unmarried
at which time, to wit, on the 10th July 1848. The annexed depositions of Rev. Reuben Sherrod & Isaac Stantenburgh were taken in
open Court, and are herewith sent-
Dutchess County SS
J. Stoutenby
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Sworn & Examined, & the above deposition made & signed by the aforsaid J.D. Stantenburgh in open Court, in the Surrogates Court of the County of Dutchess aforesaid before John P. H. Fallman, Esquire, Surrogate, this twenty third
day of May in the year 1849
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the said of the said Court, at Poughkupsie in the County of Dutchess aforesaid the day & year last aforesaid
Jno. P. Fallman,
Surrogate
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69365
Act March 3/55
April

Ellen Banker Widow of
Frederick Banker, Priv.
was in the Revolutionary War 
Applicant is now
Pensioner of the Act Feby 3d 1848
Wt. 160 acres March 10/56
NY Feb 48 [illegible]

G.T. Pierce
Poghkeepsie
Poughkeepsie N.Y.

[illegible] G.C. Pearce Oct. 17/55
Ltr. Dec. 15 "
Sept. 11/57
Issue Duplicate
Was sent to G.T. Pierce
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

June 9/57 sent to Law Office - has caveat been filed
July 6/57 sent to [illegible] Law Office enclosing copy of warrant affidavit - in her application for duplicate applicant regarded (?) a sufficient caveat
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69,365
Ellen Banker

Widow of
Frederick Banker
War of Revolution
The Department will direct to
G.T. Pierce
Pougheepsie, N.Y.
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[Revolutionary Widows.]
DECLARATION.

State of New York
County of Dutchess
On this Ninth day of April A. D. 1855
before me, John A Degroff
a Justice of the Peace in and for the
county and state aforesaid, personally appeared Ellen Banker, aged 72
years, a resident of the town of Hyde Park in the State of New York who, being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the Act of Congress approved March 3d, 1855.
That she is the widow of Frederick Banker who was a Private in the Revolutionary War; that, on account of the services of her husband, the aforesaid Frederick Banker
in said war, she now receives a pension at the rate of 91 66/100 per annum, under the act of 2d February 1848  as will more fully appear by reference to the evidence now on file in the Pension Office at Washington.
She further declares that she is now a widow; that she has never before applied for nor received any Bounty Land under this or any other Act of Congress.

Her 
Ellen X Banker
mark

We, Margaret Banker and Ellenor Edwards residents of Hyde Park in the State of New York on our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Ellen Bank in our presence, and that we know her to be the identical person she represents herself to be.
Margrett Banker
Ellenor Edwards
Signature of Witnesses.

The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the identical
person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.

John A Degroff Justice of the Peace
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Frederick Banker Recd file 23,506

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT: 1776
LENGTH OF SERVICE:  8 mos.
RANK: Private

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED: Captain Hageman, Col. Canturd  
STATE: N.Y.


DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT: [blank]
LENGTH OF SERVICE:  13 mos.
RANK: Sergeant

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED: Captain Hageman, Joseph [illegible], [illegible] Spencer,  [illegible], Hugh Van Kleeck, Elijah Herrick, [blank] Wilson
Col:  John Frear, Canturd, Graham

STATE: [blank]


Battles engaged in [illegible]

Residence of soldier at enlistment: Hyde Park, then called Charlotte Precinct
Date of application for Pension:  Sept. 24, 1832 His claim [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y.
Age at date of application: Born August 13, 1758 at Clinton, now Hyde Park, died June 6 [illegible] at Hyde Park
Remarks:  Soldier was [illegible] N. Y. Mar. 18, 1781.  Ellenor widow of John Rodgers.  She was allowed pension on an application executed Feb'y 21 1848.  [illegible] Hyde Park, N.Y.  Large family referred to, no name other than Thomas [illegible]

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Very respectfully,
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11250
13 mos. Serg
8 mos. Private
$91.66 per annum
[illegible]
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State of New York
Dutchess County ss
On this fourth day of February in the year one
thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas of said County now sitting Frederick
Banker a resident of the town of Hydepark in the County of Dutchess and State of New York aged Seventy five 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
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That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated Deponent says that 
he belonged to the Brigade under the command of General Tenbrook, the Regiment of Colonel John Frear and 
Company of Capt Isaac Conklin that Peter Schultz was the Lieutenant of said Company - that in August 1776 deponent was drafted to guard two Frigates then building at Poughkeepsie one of which was called the Montgomery and the other the Constitution-- this was a Lieutenant grade under the command of Lieutenant Peter Schultz said Schultz being the only commissioned officer present.  Deponent was engaged in guarding
said frigates as a private under said Schultz for the space of five months the guard was continued until the frigates were launched and this deponent was present when they were launched-

Deponent further says that after said Frigates were launched he went home to Charlotte Precinct now called Hydepark
and remained there until the latter part of November 1776 then the whole Regiment under the command of Colonel Frear, and Major Fort, were ordered to Peekskill in the County of Westchester deponent accompanied said Regiment coming through Poughkeepsie and Fishkill and remained at Peekskill
in garrison until the third or fourth day of January 1777 and then deponent with the whole regiment marched to North
Carter (which is a short distance east of Peekskill) to guard the Continental stores at that place and remained there for the space of ten days thence deponent with the
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whole Regiment was ordered to guard Wrights Mills a short distance from Whiteplains in Westchester County in which duty
deponent was employed for one week - thence deponent with the regiment marched to Fox Meadow about three miles from Whiteplains and encamped there for the space of a week
and thence deponent with a detachment under the command of Brigade Major Fish marched to Bernans Heights in West Chester County where there was a small fort held by Hessians which Mass Fish this detachment surprised and took, said detachment remained at the Heights for at least two weeks during which time they had two skirmishes with the Hessians and
daily cannonading.  The other officer that deponent recollects who were present on this tour were Colonel Frear Capt Isaac Conklin
Lieutenant Barton the army after these skirmishes returned to a larger fort west of the Heights- The Brigade having marched in three divisions being under the command
of General Wooster as follows: one division marched down the river road, the other division to which deponent belonged
under command of Major Frear as aforesaid marched to White Plains. Genl Scott was also with this division-- the third division accompanied by Genl Wooster took the Horse Pond Road, and the three divisions met and encamped at Bernans Heights as aforesaid
While deponent was at the Heights, General Tenbrook arrive there and appointed deponent sergeant of a guard of Eleven Men
called General Tenbrook life guard. Deponent at the time of his appointment
had served on the tour last above described as a private for Three Months - The brigade then over marched to Fox Mead and
now and quartered at a Mr Bates deponent being then Sergeant as afore said remained there for two weeks - thence went to a place called Kingstreet & there deponent was discharged the latter part of
March 1777 having served as Sergeant for One Month -
Deponent recollects receiving from Capt Isaac Conklin Six
Months pay for his service as a Frigate Guard including the tour of service last above detailed
In the month of April 1777 Captain Conklin resigned his Commission & Captain Josiah Burton was appointed his
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&.
for said Company belonging to the Brigadier Regiment above mentioned deponent under the last mentioned Captain left Hydepark, being drafted and marched to Fish Kill Landding through Poughkeepsie thence to Fort Montgomery in a [illegible], thence to Peekskill thence to Peekskill Hollow and officiated as a guard to Continental stores. This tour was performed in the month of May and June 1777 deponent was a Sergeant and employed in this service for the period of One Month and was again discharged and returned home
Deponent in the month of July as a Sergeant under Captain Barton was drafted and Hydepark passing through Poughkeepsie and Fishkill went to Odell fright about 3 months next to Peekskill and remained there and in the South part of the highlands as a guard for the space of one Month

In the month of September 1777 left Hydepark under Captain Hagaman Col Frears Regiment being drafted marching through Poughkeesie and Fishkill arrived at Odell Heights (the enemy
having possession and being encamped at Peekskill in sight
deponent was a Sergeant during this tour performing garrison and sentry duties night and day-- the enemy although daily
threatening did not make an attack but turned their attention and took Fort Montgomery - The deponent with the whole Brigade under the command of General Putman
marched Northward and guards were placed all along the River in such places all were deemed necessary-- deponent was stationed at Hydepark as a guard to the house and private property of John Bard and also to watch the operations of the enemy
along the shore of the Hudson River-- Reuben Spenser was Lieutenant that commanded the guard at said Bards,
deponent served in this town as a Sergeant for two months
-
In the month of May & June 1778 deponent under Capt Burton as aforesaid being drafted left Hydepark, marching through
Poughkeepsie & Fishkill arrived at the Highlands in Dutchess
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and Westchester County and guarded the lines. some [illegible] England troops were there- deponent officiated as a Sergeant
and was employed in this tour for One Month
In the month of September 1788 being drafted under Captain [illegible] from Colonel Cantine and Major Radcliff left Hydepark crossed the Hudson River at Rhinebeck, marched
through Kingston Harley Marbletown Mambocket arrived at Nipenaw and officiate as a guard to the inhabitants while gathering crops remained at Nipenaw two weeks in this service thence marched to Van Line Kill
and under Lieutenant Hugh Montgomery guarded the [illegible] as aforesaid thence returned to Mambocket thence
a place called Yockcripple bush and
also guarded in that vicinity and remained at the last mentioned place until discharged, Deponent was for three months on this tour one month of which as a substitute for one Wright thence a private and for two months as a Lieut in deponents own behalf
on the month of June and July 1779 deponent received a bounty and under Capt Elijah Herrick, Reg. Col Frear 
marched through Poughkeepsie & Fishkill and crossed to West Point was employed in repairing batteries keeping guard, cutter
Pacienc, deponent performed Sergeant duty during the tour and was two months performing such duty 
in the month May 1883 Sept Barton having removed out the boat Renner Spenser became captain deponent continued to rank as Sergeant and under said Captain
a tour to the highlands near one Bates was ┃
as a guard of the lives was employed for One Month in this term
In July next following deponent under capt Spenser took another tour to the Highlands at Bodds and continued
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there guarding the lines for one month- Gov George Clinton and Col Frear were at the lines on both of the last mentioned expeditions

In 1780 in the month of September deponent under Colonel Graham & Capt Hugh Van Kleeck enlisted as Sergeant marching through Poughkeepsie west to Fishkill and was
engaged daily preparing for service in drilling and exercising for the space of one Month there to Van Blanks Point under the command of Major Hill was employed in felling wood for the use of the army
thence marched to Fishkill and joined the Regiment there until discharged it being a three Month tour
in the month of October 1781 deponent enlisted under Captain James Wilson, Lieut. Frances Nelson and Ensign Andrew
Miller, deponent being sergeant went as a guard to [illegible] Women and children to Lake George thence went to Fort Stanwick as a guard to a grove of Cattle which were sent there as meat provisions for the Soldiers
was employed two months as sergeant in this
service
In the month of May 1782 deponent was drafted and went under Capt Ruben Spencer to Fishkill through Poughkeepsie and continued there encamped for the
space of one month which was deponents last tour of service
Deponent besides the above services was employed about [illegible] 
as a recruiting sergeant, attending Court
as as a Sergeant of the guard taking delinquents to Jail, collecting fines and assessments searching for Tories and detecting deserters which at the
least calculation employed the deponent for
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four Months during the War of the Revolution
deponent further says that he served during the war of the Revolution Six Months as a private and for Twenty Two Months as a Sergeant which is a summing up of all deponent's service
Deponent says that he was born in Charlotte Precinct now called Hydepark in the County of Dutchess State New York on the 13th day of August in the year 1758 as appears by a record of deponents name and at the Reformed Dutch Church of Rheinbeck in said
State & County that deponent was living at Charlotte Precinct when called into service he lived there ever since except a residence of seven years in the town of
Woodstock in Ulster County after which deponent returned to Hydepark and has continued to reside here for the last twenty eight years. 
Deponent then says that he never received a written discharge
deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency or  any State Deponent further says that Edmund H Pendleton John Johnston of Hydepark can testify as to his character for truth and veracity

Frederick Bancher

Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court Feb. 4 1834
Henry C. Bauer, Clerk

We Samuel R Johnson a Clergyman residing in the town of Hydepark in the County of Dutchess and State of New York, and John Johnston of the place aforesaid
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Mr Frederick Banker who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Samuel R. Johnson, Rector of St. James
Church Hyde Park
John Johnston
Sworn to and subscribed the
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day and year aforesaid in open Court
Henry C. Bauer, Clerk
State of New York
Dutchess County

 Reuben Nelson of the town of Legrange in
the State and County aforesaid being sworn says that he is 77 years of age that he is well acquainted with Frederick Banker the above applicant for a pension that he has known said Banker from infancy- that deponent
and said Banker were children together and brought up in the same neighborhood, that deponent was well acquainted with said Banker during the war of the revolution, and that he is well acquainted with the fact of said Banker being a Sergeant in the said War and of his serving at different times places and
capacities during the whole war of the Revolution
Deponent recollects distinctly serving with him at West Point through the whole of one tour of service and that said Banker was a Sergeant- Deponent also recollects meeting said Banker at Budds in the Highlands and served with him for one month at that place and that deponent was a Sergeant- Deponent also recollects that he was with said Banker on a three months
tour of service at Fishkill and Verplanks Point and that Banker was a Sergeant - That said Banker when at home was much employed in collecting fines and assignments searching for Tories taking to Jail detecting deserters & Deponent further says that it was generally understood and believed at that time that he was a soldier of the Revolution
and deponent has heard and believes that said
Banker was engaged in other services, not now
recollected by deponent. That he was always considered very active in the cause of his Country and faithful in the discharge of all the
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duties incumbent upon him-- that deponents reputation for sobriety truth and veracity is unimpeachable and that implicit reliance can be placed on all his statements & depositions
both taken and subscribed
Reuben Nelson
Oath sworn to and subscribed in open court Feb. [illegible] 1834
Henry C. Bauer, Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the Court further
certifies that it appears to them that Samuel R
Johnson who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Hydepark and that John Johnston who has also signed the same is a resident of Hydepark and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. And the Court do further certify that Reuben Nelson the witness is entitled to credit being
a man of truth & veracity, and it also appear to us that Warman Van Bensertin the above witness is unable from ill health
to attend Court

I Edmund H Pendleton first Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas of the County of Dutchess do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Frederick Baker and thereby cheerfully testify that his character for truth and veracity is beyond reproach in the neighborhood where he resides
Edmd H Pendleton
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I Henry Traver Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Dutchess do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Frederic Banker for a pension and I do hereby further 
certify that Peter A Schryver who has signed the affidavit of Herman Van Benscoten is a Justice of the peace of the town of Hydepark and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the
signature attached to said affidavit & certificate is his signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto my hand and seal of office this 10
day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four
Harry Oliver Clerk
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State of New Dock,
SS.
County of Dutchess.
I, GEORGE H, TOMPLUNS, Clerk of the County of Dutchess, Do hereby Certify, That John H. DeGroff whose name is subscribed to the annexed Jurat or Certificate, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for
the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, duly elected and sworn
and authorized to take the same. And further, That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said Jurat or Certificate is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal
of the said County, the -- day of --
A.D. 1885
Geo H. Tompkins Clerk
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State of New York ⎬ 
County of Dutchess

On this 9th of Nov 1855 personally appeared Thomas Banker and Joel A Degroff to me well
known as credible & intelligent witnesses who
being duly sworn according to law, declare
that they are well acquainted with Ellen Baker who made application No 69365 for Bounty Land under the act of March 3. 1855 and know her to be the same Ellen Banker now receiving semiannually a pension from the government of the United States in virtue of the services of her husband Frederick Banker in the war of the revolution who also up to the time of his death was in the receipt of a pension from said Government in virtue of said services
and for proof of which service he & she refers to the evidence on record in the departments at Washington - and we further declare said Ellen Banker still alive & still the widow of said Frederick Banker

His
Thomas X Banker
Mark
Joel Nelon Degroff

Witness G. T. Pierce and 
John A Degroff

Subscribed & sworn this 9th Nov 1855 before me & I certify as above & that I have
no interest in said Ellen's claim
John A. Degroff Justice of the peace
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ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
PENSION OFFICES
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
October 17, 1855 

The claim of Ellen Banker,
for bounty land under the act of the 3d of March, 1855. No. 69, 365, has been examined and suspended.  The revolutionary service of Frederick Banker, the husband of the applicant does not appear of record in this
office

The 3d section of said act requires a service of "FOURTEEN DAYS to be established by RECORD EVIDENCE.

Upon production of such evidence of service authentication of  the Official character of Jno. A. De Graff, as a Justice of the Peace the claim will be favorably considered.
Very respectfully

J. MINOT,
Commissioner.

G. T. Pierce, Esqr
Poughkeepsie
N. Y.
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Commissioner of Pensions
Sir:

Enclosed find evidence
1st That Ellen Banker applicant for
Bounty Land No 69365 act March 3. 1855
received pension in virtue of services
of her husband who recd one before
her
2nd That this is evidence that her Husband
served & I submit that it is
Record evidence as before sent
3rd Authentication of the official character of Jon A. Degroff Justice of the Peace

---
The Evidence is now the same at
that on which a warrant was awarded
to Widow Ruger (application No 7517)
same act a Revolutionary Pensioner
also, about one month ago
Yours &c
G.T. Pierce
Poughkeepsie N York
Dec 3, 1853

P.S.
Of course the widow refers you
to the Roll for evidence of her
in same manner of the widow
Ruger
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State of New York
County Of Dutchess

On this 2 day of June 1857personally
appeared before me Ellen Banker and George
T. Pierce who being severally and duly sworn
according to law declare as follows - the said
Ellen that she made her application to the
Department of Pensions, sometime in the spring of 1855, for Bounty Land in virtue of the services of her husband in the war of the Revolution for which she now draws a Pension
of $91.75 a year from Government and afterwards offered the requisite proof to sustain the said application under Bounty Land
act of March 3, 1855, and that she has Never received any Warrant for Bounty Land in virtue of said application of at any time from the Government of the United States, but that she is informed by her agent & Counsel in the premises G.T. Pierce that he has received
information from the Commissioner of Pensions that a Warrant was issued by said
Department to her for 160 acres of land in
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On this 2 day of June 1857personally
appeared before me Ellen Banker and George
T. Pierce who being severally and duly sworn
according to law declare as follows - the said
Ellen that she made her application to the
Department of Pensions, sometime in the spring of 1855, for Bounty Land in virtue of the services of her husband in the war of the Revolution for which she now draws a Pension
of $91.75 a year from Government and afterwards offered the requisite proof to sustain the said application under Bounty Land
act of March 3, 1855, and that she has Never received any Warrant for Bounty Land in virtue of said application of at any time from the Government of the United States, but that she is informed by her agent & Counsel in the premises G.T. Pierce that he has received
information from the Commissioner of Pensions that a Warrant was issued by said
Department to her for 160 acres of land in
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Concerning  the said Warrant and particularly
that he never received the same
but that on the receipt of said information
he immediately (to wit on the 10th day of
April last) filed his caveat in the matter by directing to the "Commissioner of
the Land Office at Washington City"
 a letter stating the fact, &c.  as above set
forth, and gave the requisite notice
of the said loss in the Poughkeepsie Eagle as hereinafter set forth
Her
Ellen X Banker
MArk
Geo. T. Pierce

Witness
Margret England
Joseph Banker

Subscribed & sworn to before me the day & year above written
Enoch Durham
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
COUNTY OF DUTCHESS.
I GEORGE H. TOMPKINS, Clerk of the County of
Dutchess, do hereby Certify, That Enoch Dunham & C. R. Corliss Esqr whose name is subscribed to the annexed Jurat or Certificate, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, duly elected and sworn and authorized to take the same. And further, That I am well acquainted
with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that the signature to
the said Jurat or Certificate is genuine
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and the Seal of the said County, the 20 day of June A D. 1857

Geo. H. Tompkins Clerk
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Affidavit of publication from the EAGLE office, a weekly newspaper, at two dollars per annum, where is printed all kinds of law papers and blanks.
STATE OF NEW YORK.
DUTCHESS COUNTY
NOTICE. -- Notice is hereby given that Bounty Land Warrant No. 18219 for 160 acres, issued under act of 1835, in the name of Ellen
Banker, having been lost in its transmission
from Washington, a caveat has been filed at the General Land Office, and an application will be made to the Department of Pensions for a duplicate of said warrant.
Po'keepsie, April 6, 1857. 93 G. T. PIERCE, Atty.

William Schram one of the publishers and proprietor of the Pougheepsie Eagle every Saturday, being duly affirmed, says that the notice, of which the annexed
is a printed copy, has been published in said Pougheepsie Eagle once in each week for Six weeks successively, commencing
on the Eleventh day of April 1857
firmed before me, this 2d day 
of June, 1837
William Schram
C.K. Coslip  Justice of the Peace
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In re Ellen Banker widow dec'd
J. L. Edwards Esq
---
Hyde Park Sept 11, 1849
Dear Sir

Agreeably to yours of the 7th instant, I herewith send you the original Record of the Marriage of Frederick Banker, deed
late a Revolutionary Pensioner, to his wife, Ellen
now an applicant for a pension, together
with my Same affidavit of the authenticity of the same
When you have considered the evidence in this
matter and made your decision, will you increase the obligations your promptness has placed us under by informing me of the same, and of the manner I shall proceed to collect any pension that may be granted to the widow?
 Respectfully
Your Ob't Svt.
J. Sentenburgh

for Ellen Banker
Widow
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State of New York
Dutchess County

Personally appeared before me Jacob
Heirmance a Justice of the Peace of the
town of Rhinebeck in the County & State aforesaid, Frederick Banker of the place aforesaid who being sworn says that he served in the war of the Revolution as a private for the space of Six months that as a private as aforesaid his served two tours the first at Poughkeepsie in guarding the shipping under Lt. Peter Schultz
who had the command of said guard for the space
of Two months - and also as a private as a
aforesaid at Kingsbridge in the County of West
Chester for the space of four months - Genl
Wooster commanded the first part of the one
and Geal Tenbrook the latter part or
John Frear and Capt Isaac Contelin when
the inferior officers that deponent recollects
And deponent further states that he served as a
Sergeant for six years in the hours and
under the officers in the declaration annex
to the best of deponent recollection
deponent further says he recollects that not
which he took was less than one month in
length but that frequently those towns were
much longer as appears from the statements
in the annexed declaration deponent says
he is unable from the lenght of time loss
of memory to enter into a more detected
statement of the matter to reckon
Sworn & subscribed this 8th
day of January 1833 before me
Jacob Heermance
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Dutchess County

Theophilus Nelson being sworn says that he has been well acquainted with Reuben Nelson who has subscribed the affidavit as to the Revolutionary services of Frederick Banker
for a great length of time and says
that his statements are entitled to credit 
said Nelson being a man of truth and
veracity

Theophilus Nelson

Sworn & subscribed this 11 day of Jan'y 1833
before me
Jacob Hermance
Justice of the peace
Dutchess County ⎬ 

I Jacob Hermance Justice of the Peace of the town of Rhinebeck in the  County aforesaid hereby certify that the above is the signature and affidavit of Doct. Theophilus Nelson that his statements concerning Mr Reuben Nelson are entitled to the utmost confidence and credit and I do further certify that I have no personally acquaintance with Mr Reuben Nelson he residing some
distance from this place
-
Jacob Hermance
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State of New York
Dutchess County
I Henry J Frauer Clerk of said County
do hereby certify that Jacob Hermance Esq before whom the preceeding examinations were made was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and sworn and authorized to take the same and further that I am
well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe his signature above subscribed to the certificate & taking such as examinations are genuine-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed
my seal of office the 18th January in
the year 1833-
-
Henry J. Frauer
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Office of Commissioner Pensions

Sir-
About 10th April last, I enclosed
your office, the requisite additional
evidence in the case of Widow Banker
a Revolutionary Pensioner, for County
Land under act March 3, 1855 the
number of the acceptance being 69345
said evidence consisted of the certificate
of Controller of New York of her husband
service, duly authenticated &c
I have forwarded additional
evidence in several cases, since that
time, and have got answer in
few days. But this I hear nothing
of, and it therefore occurs to me
that perchance the papers were not
received
The case of Andrew Owen No 159, 208 is
also behind. Also David D Schryver No
138.096

G. T. Pierce
Poughkeepsie New York, Oct 6
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291363
G. T. Pierce
Poughkeepsie N.Y.
 June 23.57

In regard to the Claimant
of a Dup  Act 1855
Wt. (?) No. 18209

Gen. Land Office
June 26/57
Respectfully [illegible] to Commissioner of Pensions
[illegible]
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JACKSON & WILKINSON.
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLDIS
AT LAW,
Nos. 3 and 5 Market St. (opposite the Court House,)
POUGHKEEPSIE.
JOSEPH H. JACKSON,
WILLIAM WILKINSON.
Comr Land Office

Sir
In reply to yours of the 4th last, stating that it was necessary that the claimant herself instead of her attorney should make oath to the loss
of her warrant & in order to get a
duplicate, I have to say that in case
18219 (act March 1855) referred to, you
will find her oath to that effect in
an application for said duplicate in
the Pension office forwarded by me
five days since. Hoping this will answer
your "requirements" as the claimant is a
Revolutionary pensioner near 100 years
& utterly unable to move from her bed
to whom a Justice of the Peace has to be
taken on [illegible] on every occasion of
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administering the oath and who has expected
the land now for two years & needs it
for her support I will go to no further
expenses till I am informed by you that
it is absolutely essential. Therefore
please inform me, if it becomes indispensable.

Respectfully yours,
G.T. Pierce

Poughkeepsie N.Y

June 23/57
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General Land Office
July 21st 1837

Sir-

I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 6th last
enclosing a certified Copy of the affidavit
of Ellen Banker of Dutchess County
New York relative to the loss of Bounty
Land Warrant No 1821 for 160 acres
under act of March 3d 1853 to said Ellen Banker.  
In reply I have to state that the
affidavit above alluded to will be noted
in the Records of this Office as a Caveat
to amend the issue of a patent in the case
I am yours
Very Respectfully
[illegible]
Commissioner

Geo C Whiting Esq

Commissioner of Pensions
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Commissioner of Pensions
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Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Allow me to enquire in regard to
the Bounty Land case of Widow Banker
No 69365 act of March 1855
I transmitted to your office
last March Additional Evidence consisting
of our State Comptrollers certificate of the
service of her Husband in the Revolution,
since which I have heard nothing from
the case. I have sent additional
evidence in other cases to your Department
long since the above & got speedy
returns thereto. Hence my solicitude in the premises
Yours &c
G.T. Pierce
Po'keepsie New York
Dec 26, 1856
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Pension Office

Dec. 6" 1855,
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 3d inst;
You are informed that Frederick Banker
was pensioner upon parole proof of his service
---
The recorded action of the Office in admitting
such pension is not "record evidence", within
the meaning of the Section of the act of 3d
March, 1855. For record evidence of the
service of Mr Banker, You are referred
to the Comptroller of New York, in which
State the soldier alleged he served various
tours from 1776 to 1780.
Jones Respectfully,
G. T. Pierce, Esqr
Pokeepsie
N.Y.
G. H. Rhett Comm. Pensions
,
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to the
Department of Pensions
Enclosed find the Evidence
required within and as the old
lady stands very much in need of
the avails of her land, she hopes
to hear from it forthwith

I neglected attending to the matter
till she was very much tried
in her patience
Yours &c
G.T. Pierce
Pokeepsie NY
Mar 5, 56
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Hyde Park, Dutchess County N.Y.
June 20, 1848

J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir-

Frederick Banker, a revolutionary Pensioner, having lately deceased, it is desired by his friends here to procure a pension
for his widow, who is still living, and in destitute circumstances.-- The only difficulty I perceive in the case is the difficulty of proving the marriage, they were married about 68 years since, during the Revolutionary War by a Justice of the peace, there were several persons present who are all long since dead.-- the Justice who officiated has been dead many years. & his family having removed to some place unknown - no Record proof, if any there has been can now be obtained.  My
grandfather & other persons knew 
Mr & Mrs Banker from before their marriage
to the present time. they having always
resided in the town & they recollect of
hearing of the Marriage at the time, & know
that the parties always lived together as
man & wife. they reared a large family
the oldest of whom is Sixty Six years by
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years of age.  These facts can be shewn
by many of our oldest citizens.
Will these facts be sufficient proof of
the marriage & if so must she give any
proof of the services & of her late husband
We feel a good deal of interest in the
matter and an answer will much oblige
her, and her many friends
Very Respectfully yours &c.

J. A. Stoutenburgh
R.M
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State of New - York,
COMPTROLLER' S OFFICE.
Albany February 18, 1856.
I Hereby Certify, That on searching the Records in this office for the Registry of Certificates
issued in pursuance of a law, passed April 27, 1784, entitled "An Act for the settlement of the pay of Levies and Militia for their services in the late war, and for other purposes therein mentioned,” I find the following, viz:
NAMES.
Fred'k Bancker Private
No. OF  BOOK 7
No. OF CERTIFICATE 32842
DATE 1780 Dec. 14
£ 3
S 13
D 9
RANK AND NAME OF COMPANY OFFICER.
Capt Henry Humphrey
Levies raised by order of the
Governor to protect the frontier.

I have examined the Rolls for the items above set forth,

Arlee [illegible] Clerk

Philip Phelps
Controller
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State of New York
Dutchess County ss.

Frederick Banker of the town of Hyde Park
in the County & State aforesaid in pursuance of the instructions of the Commissioner of Pensions being sworn hereby make a supplemental  affidavit of his revolutionary services in the matter of his  application for pension - and says, that he first entered the service in the summer of the year 1776 in the militia in Captain Isaac Conklin's Company, in Colonel John Frear's Regiment in General
TenBrook's brigade, under the command of Lieutenant Peter Schulz
he was drafted, as he now thinks for the special service of guarding the two frigates the Montgomery, & the Constitution then building
at Poughkeepsie in Dutchess County aforesaid, deponent can not now recollect the day or month that he entered the service aforesaid 
and thinks he was not drafted for any particular term of service, he however entered the service as aforesaid as a private
in the Lieutenant's guard commanded by the said Peter Schultz
marched to Poughkeepsie aforesaid, & remained in the service of guarding the said frigates, until they were launched, sometime
in the autumn of 1776 when he was verbally discharged after serving as aforesaid for the period of two months, according to the
best recollection & belief of deponent aforesaid were no other troops, in
this service Except Lieutenant Peter Schultz' guard, who guarded the said frigates against any danger to be apprehended from the
tories who at that time infested the county of Dutchess, & were active in embarrassing all the operation of the whigs in that region of
country. This deponent belonged at the time to Captain Isaac Conklins company in the Regiment & brigade before mentioned

He does not now remember the name of any of the other field officers
except Major Fort and Major Fish of the company officer, of Captain Conklin's
company, he now remember the names of Ensign Moll who was afterwards taken a prisoner by the enemy, Lieutenant [illegible] Buster who was afterwards promoted to 
the command of the company, and
Sergeant Reuben Spencer who was afterwards promoted to the Lieutenancy.
the Christian names of the before named officers are not stated so far as are recollected by deponent
This deponent next entered into actual service as a private in the said Isaac Conklin's Company, under the field & Company
officers before mentioned, in the autumn of the year 1776 the precise month or day not recollected by this deponent, but deponent
remembers it was immediately after the receipt of intelligence of the battle of White Plains at this time the whole of Colonel Frear's
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State of New York
Dutchess County ss.

Frederick Banker of the town of Hyde Park
in the County & State aforesaid in pursuance of the instructions of the Commissioner of Pensions being sworn hereby make a supplemental affidavit of his revolutionary services in the matter of his application for pension - and says, that he first entered the service in the summer of the year 1776 in the militia in Captain Isaac Conklin's Company, in Colonel John Frear's Regiment in General
TenBrook's brigade, under the command of Lieutenant Peter Schulz
he was drafted, as he now thinks for the special service of guarding the two frigates the Montgomery, & the Constitution then building
at Poughkeepsie in Dutchess County aforesaid, deponent can not now recollect the day or month that he entered the service aforesaid
and thinks he was not drafted for any particular term of service, he however entered the service as aforesaid as a private
in the Lieutenant's guard commanded by the said Peter Schultz
marched to Poughkeepsie aforesaid, & remained in the service of guarding the said frigates, until they were launched, sometime
in the autumn of 1776 when he was verbally discharged after serving as aforesaid for the period of two months, according to the
best recollection & belief of deponent aforesaid were no other troops, in
this service Except Lieutenant Peter Schultz' guard, who guarded the said frigates against any danger to be apprehended from the
tories who at that time infested the county of Dutchess, & were active in embarrassing all the operation of the whigs in that region of
country. This deponent belonged at the time to Captain Isaac Conklins company in the Regiment & brigade before mentioned

He does not now remember the name of any of the other field officers
except Major Fort and Major Fish of the company officer, of Captain Conklin's
company, he now remember the names of Ensign Moll who was afterwards taken a prisoner by the enemy, Lieutenant [illegible] Buster who was afterwards promoted to
the command of the company, and
Sergeant Reuben Spencer who was afterwards promoted to the Lieutenancy.
the Christian names of the before named officers are not stated so far as are recollected by deponent
This deponent next entered into actual service as a private in the said Isaac Conklin's Company, under the field & Company
officers before mentioned, in the autumn of the year 1776 the precise month or day not recollected by this deponent, but deponent
remembers it was immediately after the receipt of intelligence of the battle of White Plains at this time the whole of Colonel Frear's
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regiment was ordered out, and deponent marched with his regiment from Hyde Park in Dutchess County aforesaid through Fishkill
and the Highlands to Peekskill in Westchester County they remained stationed at Peekskill, (& deponent with the regiment)
in garrison until the New Years day the first of January 1777
deponent then made with the regiment to Northcastle in West Chester County, & remained there for some two
weeks guarding continental stores at that place then marched below to guard Wright's Mills, in the said county & the grain & stores contained in said mills  remained some days there in the performance of said duty
& deponent then marched with the regiment aforesaid to Fox Meadow about three miles from White plains encamped there for some days, and then deponent marched with a detachment under Brigade Major Fish an officer deponent then for the first time saw or knew belonging to the regiment in a division of the American army as this deponent then understood commanded by General Wooster
to the heights near Kingsbridge. deponent was with the a body of troops that took a small fort held by the Hessians, at Berman's Heights some two miles or thereabouts from Kingsbridge under the last named officers. The Hessians who had occupied the
retreated to a large fort a short distance West of Berman's Heights the name of which is not now recollected by deponent, but he understood at the time that it was built by the Americans, it was then in the
troops lay [illegible] there for some ten days
or thereabouts in which time they had some
skirmishes with the Hessians two of which deponent engaged personally, some of the troops ranged above same & took some prisoners as deponent then understood. One of the skirmishes with the enemy and 
the first one in that deponent was engaged of
my was brought on by the attempt of the American minute men to intercept some negroes who were carrying water in a pail, from a swamp or marsh to the fort in possession of the enemy a body of troops sallied out of the fort, & deponent was one of the first volunteers to support the minute men
The parties on each side were respectively supported until the enemy [illegible] to the fort 
These skirmishes were with small arms except that in the last one a six pounder was used until it broke its strap and was thrown off the carriage- Cannons were used 
and while the troops lay there is firing at the fort, & then threw some shells one day they fired a brass twenty four pounder
deponent stood near when the piece was run back on the frozen ground
after a discharge against a rock & broke the carriage, so that it could not be discharged again that day. Deponent does not remem
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ber to have seen that piece before the day it broke the carriage it was repaired the next day & the carriage made strong, but deponent does not remember that it was fired again at all. 

Before the troops left there General TenBrook arrived there & joined the troops
soon after his arrival he appointed this deponent a serjeant & gave him the command of Eleven picked men called General TenBrook's life guard & Deponent was the Sergeant of that guard-
soon afterwards, deponent with his regiment marched to Fox Meadow lay there some time, thence marched to Kings Street in Westchester,
County & lay there near the Quaker Meeting House for some time when deponent was verbally discharged the latter part of the month of March 1777. The troops suffered much from the cold during
this company or tour of duty, while deponents regiment lay at Peekskill, there were other troops by there also, but they did not
occupy the same barracks with Frears Regiment, & deponent does not
know what troops they were except that he understood they were six
month men. While the regiment was near Kingsbridge, there were other troops there from New York & also from Connecticut & Massachusetts, all of the militia as deponent believes, unless some artillery
men who were there were of the regular troops; repent of which deponent is not certain whether the artillery men were regulars or not 
Deponent does not recollect the names of any officers other than those named, Except Colonel Dubois, and an old gentlemen called Gen Scott, Lieutenant Ely was killed in the first skirmish with the Hessians with small arms-- The deponent went into this tour of service as hereinbefore stated, without any definite
period being fixed for its duration. He served as before stated for the period as he verily believe, of full four months upon
this tour of duty. His recollection of the period of the two terms of service herein stated being one for two months & the other four
months is certified by the distinct remembrance of the circumstance
that deponent was paid by Captain Conklin for both the said terms of service together & at one time, & that deponent was paid
by said Conklin for six months service, in continental money-
Deponent again entered the service in the month of May 1777 in the same company then commanded by Captain Josiah Burton,
Captain Conklin having resigned his commission. He was drafted for one months service - Deponent was then Sergeant in said company & entered said service as Sergeant marched to Fishkill Landing with the company embarked on board a perriagua & sailed
to Peekskill, by a landed there remained some days, thence
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marched to Peekskill Hollow, & remained there guarding the continental stores there until the term of service expired in June 1777, when
he was verbally discharged, Deponent does not remember the day of the month upon which he entered the service of the time, or was discharged.  Captain Burton commanded the company on this tour.  No other troops were there, another company supplied their place when they were discharged, but deponent does not know who any of them were.

Deponent again entered the service as a Sergeant in a company commanded by Captain Hegeman, in Colonel Frears
regiment as a volunteer for two months service, in the month of September in the year 1777 (part of Captain Burton's company had 
gone to the northward to deponent understood to arrest the progress "
of General Burgoyne - Deponent can not remember the day or the month he entered upon this tour of service. He marched with
this company under Captain Hageman through Fishkill & the Highlands to Odells Heights, a few miles above Peekskill and lay there in garrison, the enemy then lay at Peekskill in sight of the American troops, & it was daily expected they would make an attack upon there but they directed their attention to Fort Montgomery on the West side of the Hudson river.  They attacked & took that
fort while deponent by at Wells Heights-- Other American troops lay at & near Odells Heights, but deponent does not remember
what troops they were, nor the names of any of their officers except General Putnam who was there & had command of
the American forces of that place, both of the regular troops & the militia. After the capture of Fort Montgomery deponent
with the troops under General Putnam marched thing the Highlands to Fishkill. He detached part of the troops in squads
& stationed them along the river at such places as were deemed necessary to guard the inhabitants against the tories & watch
the operation of the enemy along the shore of the Hudson, Deponent was marched up to Hyde Park & then detailed for this duty
& to guard & particularly the house property of John Bard of that place, under Lieutenant Reuben Spencer. After remaining there
a few days, deponent the command of six men to embarked on board of Stoughtenburgh's stoop at Hyde Park, boarded with grain and  flour to guard her on her passage up the river, to secure these stores against
the enemy - after putting the sloop in a place of Security near Catskill deponent with his guard returned by land to Hyde Park
& joined Lieutenant Spencer remained there some time,
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On the return of the British vessels which had been up the river deponent was marched to Poughkeepsie & after the Expiration of his term of service was there discharged in the month of November in the year 1777.
In the year 1778. Deponent performed two tours of service of a month each as a Sergeant in Captain Josiah Burton's Company aforesaid. Deponent can not now recollect the months
in which either said tours of service were performed. They were marched
down into the highlands, & along the river at such places as were deemed important or useful to protect the inhabitants against the
Tories or to reconnoiter the enemy - deponent remembers that at the expiration of one of these tours of a month service, he was discharged at Budds in the Highlands where the road from West Point crossed the main road. He believes that at the Expiration of the
other period of one months service he was discharged at Fishkill. On these tours of service last mentioned deponent does not remember that they were at any time stationed near any other troops-- eves not districtly
remember the officers for the tours Except Captains Burton and [illegible] these two tours of service of a month each in the year 1778
Deponent now remember that during that year Captain Winton moved away up to Kinderhook, & Lieutenant Reuben Shearer
became the Captain of the Company, & that deponent performed another tour of service of a month under said Captain then
was marched down through Fishkill into the Highlands & lived in tents down below Budds in the highlands. other troops
were there, does not know if any regular troops were there, only remember, Colonel Bloom of the officers & Governor
Clinton- Governor Clinton had his quarters at Haight, in the upper part of the highlands. Deponent was a Sergeant this tour of duty. He remembers that a picket guard of thirty
men commanded by a lieutenant deserted from the British army which then lay at Verplanks point and delivered themselves
to the American Army. Deponent went with them to Governor
Clinton who gave them a pass up the river to a certain place
deponent was discharged at the said Haight, after the expiration of the said last mentioned months service. Deponent was after
called out in shorter period, & on private expeditions against tories
& refugees in the neighborhood during the year 1778. He is not able now to state them with the particularity required by the
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War Department and can not state the services for three tours of a month each performed by him in the year 1778 with more precision or particularity than he has herein before
stated them & the circumstances connected therewith
Deponent again entered the service in October in the year 1778, as a private & as a substitute for one Wright Skinner, who was drafted, for one months services this was in
Captain Ostrom's company in Colonel Cantine's Regiment of which Radcliff was major, deponent does not recollect the
day of the month he entered this service, nor the name of any other officer except Hugh Montgomery the lieutenant of the company. This regiment was at this time made up of men
drafted from some other regiments - Deponent marched with this
regiment to Rhinebeck Landing, crossed the Hudson, marched thru Esopus, Hurley Marbletown, Mumbackus to a place called
Nipenaugh, a little village of some twenty houses, where the regiment made its head quarters the object of this Expedition
was to protect the inhabitants & their property while they were gathering their autumnal crops of corn potatoes & the like against the incursions of the Indians who were in fine force
of two hundred warriors in the woods with Tories west of this place - Deponent under Lieutenant Montgomery marched
from Nipenaugh with fourteen men to Van Tuyn Kill, three & a half miles from Nipenough, & lay there about two weeks, minded
thence to Nipenaugh, & with the Regiment marched first to Mumbackus & then to York Crippleburgh, & laid there till the expiration
time of the months term of service & was discharged at Chamberlin which was the head quarters of the regiment. Deponent
does not remember that any other troops were on this Expedition except that Colonel Van Cortland's regiment lay at Mumbackus
& as deponent understood that regiment remained there during the succeeding winter

Deponent again entered the service in the spring of 1779 as Sergeant in Captain Spencer's company for a term of one month
on a draft marched with other companies of the Frears Regiment thru Fishkill into the Highlands, remained there during the
term of one month & was marched up to Fishkill returned the arms which they had taken from the public armory, & were there discharged. Deponent does not recollect the
month in which this service was performed, or that any troops were stationed with or in company with the troops to which de
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ponent belonged
Deponent again entered the service on the first day of September in the year 1779. He was drafted for a tour of three months, as a sergeant, & put into Captain Hugh Van Kleecks company in Colonel Graham's regiment. The Major's name was Hill, but deponent does not remember the name of any other officer
except Lieutenant Hugh Montgomery, Adjutant Bailey & Quarter Master Hunt. Captain Ostrom was also in the regiment. Deponent marched
with his company to Fishkill Flatts & by there about a month in tents & were drilled every day-- Other troops lay there, some regiments of militia from the West side of the
river lay near deponent does not remember the names of their officers except Lieutenant Neely who was an acquaintance of deponent.
There were some nine month men, deponent believes, regular troops lay there also they had been on a tour against the Indians at the
West as deponent understood, but he does not remember the names of their officers except Major Van Benschoter
After the troops, had lain there about one month when deponent was detailed out on a party for fatigue duty under Major Hill & marched under him to Verplanks point where they remained some two weeks in felling wood for winter supply of the army. they then returned to Fishkill where they remained until the expiration
time of deponent's service, when he was discharged on the heights South west of Fishkill village.

Deponent again entered the service in the month of May in the year 1780 as a Substitute for one John Rogers who was drafted for a term of two months service, in Captain Elijah Herricks Company. Deponent does not remember the name of other officers of the company or regiment except Lieutenant
Silas Weeks Deponent immediately marched with the company to Fishkill into the highlands to the river and opposite West Point & crossed at the Continental ferry over to West Point within one or two days after deponent reached West
Point.   Three or four days after deponent entered upon this tour of duty, he was appointed a Sergeant in Captain Herrick's, company &officiated as Sergeant for the residue of the term of service of two months, although the said Rogers was drafted as a private. The Regiment to which deponent belonged lay in tents for about two weeks & then went into barracks-- They were engaged during this time principally in cutting [illegible], & building breast works-- Deponent remained until the expiration of the
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said term of service was then discharged - General Arnold at this time had command of this post, there were other troops there but deponent does not remember the names of any officer of other regiments except that of Colonel Putnam where Regiment then lay on the heights then called Point Redoubt.  Deponent
does not remember the day of the month on which he entered upon or was discharged from this term of Service, but he understood while he was at West Point that General Washington
crossed the Hudson from Stoney point to Verplanks point with an army of several thousand men
Deponent again entered the service about the first of October in the year 1780 in the militia by enlisting as a Sergeant in Captain Wilson's Company (thinks his name was
James Wilson), for the term of forty five days. Deponent was enlisted by Lieutenant Van Benschoten for this term for the sum
of twenty seven dollars & a half & a pair of Shoes for the special service of taking the women & children composing the families
of the Scotch tenants of Sir William Johnson from Albany to Lake George, & driving a drive of cattle from Albany to Fort Stanwix
Deponent understood at the time that the heads of these families went to the enemy in Canada with the said Johnson, that there afterwards been supported at the Continental expense & were by some agreement with the enemy to be sent to Fort George & thence to be sent under a flag of truce from Fort George to their husbands,
and parents in Canada. But one company was enlisted for this
service. For Benschoten did not go on this expedition, the Lieutenant was Frances Nelson, & Ensign Andrew Miller
ponent does not remember the names of any other officers.  Deponent marched from Hyde Park under Lieutenant Nelson through Rhinebeck & Red Hook up to Major Johnson in Johnston, now  Columbus County, where the whole company came together &
marched thence under Captain Wilson the Claverick & Kinderhook to Albany - there took charge of the families before mentioned & marched by the most convenient & direct route to Lake George the there met the British lay & delivered these families over to the British party & returned to Albany - at Albany they
were obliged to wait two weeks before the drove of cattle came, & then drive them to Fort Stanwix up the Mohonk for supplies for the troops there deponent then returned to Albany
and was there discharged after serving on this expedition about
two months
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Deponent again entered the service sometime in the summer of 1781, in Captain Reuben Spencer's company, inColonel Frear's Regiment, the whole Regiment or deeds
in an alarm & deponent was warned out, & marched to Fishkill
with the regiment under the same officers before named
belonging to this regiment so far as he can recollects land
there in house & barns for about a month, & wa s there dis
charged at the expiration of said time. Deponent went on
this tour acted as Sergeant, but does not recollect any thing
more preticularly about this tour nor the troops that were there
if any were there be give this regiment nor the day or month
when this service was examined & performed
This deponent from the commencement of the revolution in
the close of it was engaged the principal part of his time
in the service of his country, he has in the foregoing affidavit
set forth such entry as he has suffered he could diture in fact
manner as to be satisfactory to the department in addition to
his declaration on file in the department & the services
herein set forth are deluded with the dates & periods & with
the circumstances in as full & ample a manner as it is now
in his power to detail the same-- He never received a writ
to discharge, & has no documentary evidence to
my other evidence to support his application for pen
tive other than that which has heretofore been is now by
this his supplemental affidavit presented to the depart ┃
not--
by certify that on this 14th Fredrick Banche
June in the year 1833-
ick Banker personally
before me & subscribed
to the foregoing affidavit.
the margin of such leaf of
I have written me &
a descriptionof

Heermance
Justice of the peace
---
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

BY
MYRON H. CLARK,
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.
●
It is hereby certified that Philip Phelps whose
name is signed to the annexed paper, is Deputy Comptroller of the State of New York
and that said signature is in his proper hand writing and is genuine and that full faith
and credit may be given to his official acts.
---
In Testimony Whereof, The Great Seal of the State is hereunto affixed.
Witness my hand, at the city of Albany, the first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty six,

Myron H. Clark
Passed the Secretary 's Office, the
1st day of March 1856
G. Headley
Secretary of State
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Certificate in the
case of F Banker
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I Edmund H Pendleton First Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas of Dutchess
County do hereby certify that I am well
acquainted with Frederick Bancker &
have resided for many years in the same
township with him
I hereby further certify that the said
Frederick Banker has always been
reputed in the neighbourhood to have
served in the Revolutionary war & from
what I have heard in my own family
of him I have no doubt that he did.
I further certify that he is a man
of veracity & that his character is
irreproachable-
Washington Decem 14th 1832
Edmd H Pendleton
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House of Rep
Decr 14. 1832
Mr J. L. Edwards
Sir
I recd the inclosed papers this
morning & agreeably to request
enclose
them to you together with
a certificate of my own in relation
Frederick Bancker who is my near
neighbour

Your Obed. Svt.
Edm. H. Pendleton
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Hyde Park
Dutchess Co. New York

J L Edwards Esq

Sir. 
Enclosed I send you the
application, (and evidence to sustain the same) by Ellen Banker, widow of Frederick Banker lately deceased, a Revolutionary Pensioner, for the pension due to her as such widow-
If you can cause the application to receive early attention, we will be much indebted to you, the old Lady is very old, infirm, and poor, entirely dependent on others for support. 

Hon.E.H. Pendleton, Judge Woodworth, Rev. Dr. Sherwood & others take great interest in the matter & permit us to refer you to them for any information you may desire.  If there be any imperfection or omission in the accompanying papers I will endeavor to cause the same to be remedied promptly, although our services are rendered
gratuitously
Very Resp'fully Your Obed Svt
Reply Address
J.A.Stoutenbaugh
Post Master
Hyde Park
N. Y.
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Hyde Park N.Y. May 23, 1849
J.L. Edwards Esqr, 
Dear Sir
I herewith send to you some additional
evidence of the marriage of Frederick Banker decd & Ellen Banker his widow who is now an applicant for a pension  in his right-- on the 18th July last the evidence of several
persons was taken in this County Court, from which evidence the court was satisfied that the above parties here married [illegible]
18, 1781, and so certified, which certificate I thereupon sent to you. The evidence of Rev. Dr. Sherwood and of Isaac Stantenbaugh, who were among the witnesses then examined
which was taken at that time, is contained in the accompanying depositions, I herewith send to you-- I could have sent the full evidence but Judge Rowly who then presided, advised me that I must said merely a certificate, under the seal of the Court that satisfactory legal
evidence had been adduced &c, and that it would not be proper to said the depositions themselves which I accordingly did not-- If you can give this case an early examination
you will say much oblige all who are acquainted with the circumstances or of the applicant, she has no other dependance, except the public charity. Judge Pendleton & Woodworth farmer members from this place, and with whom are acquainted respectfully solicit your kindness in this matter, and will gladly acknowledge it
Judge Woodworth also requests you to send to him if convenient, a copy of the Pension Laws & regulations, rec


Pensioner: Ellen Bancker
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recently compiled by Congress, and the form of an assignment of a soldier's land warrant a claim thereto at his residence at this place for which he will return you his acknowledgments

Very Respectfully
Yr Obedient servant 
J A Stoutenburgh
Post Master
Hyde Park, N.Y.
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House of Representatives July 6. 1848

J. L. Edwards Esqr

Dear Sir I wish you to inform me
in relation to a claim for a pension. Frederick Banker of Hyde Park Dutchess Co N.Y. a revolutionary pensioner died
Lately at the advanced age of 90 years leaving his wife but four years younger they were married in the year 1781
by a Justice of the peace named Abraham Dickinson and there being no record of the marriage to be found and the magistrate and all the persons present at the marriage being
dead its not possible to prove the fact-- they have always been highly respected in their neighborhood. I wish you to inform
me how the widow must proceed to get a pension which no doubt she is entitled. Your early answer to this Community
will much oblige yours 
Respectfully
Cornelius Warren
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Hon "
Abraham Bookee
M C.
Washington D. C.
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Hyde Park Decem 11th 1833

My Dear Sir
when I took the liberty of requesting you to deliver from me a message to Gales Heaton, I knew that you said them every day in the House & therefore, as the personal trouble was slight, I had no scruple upon the subject
you will think me, I fear, a very troublesome
person, but I must address you in relation to a subject, which excites in our neighbourhood & among your most decided political friends here, a great deal of interest.
Frederick Bancker, a revolutionary soldier has sent his papers to the Pension Office and
as yet has received no decision or satisfactory answer.
The old man is a universal favorite perfectly honest & sober of highly esteemed character and very poor
There is not a doubt of his claim to a pension
He is a warm & decided friend to the administration & as one of your constituents, my dear Sir, I hope you will interest yourself with to Edwards to procure a
speedy decision upon his claims & to let me know in New York what the objections are, with precision, of objections there be.
you could not, in a small
matter render a more grateful service to this entire vicinity, than by procuring a successful [illegible] to this matter, which has attracted a good deal of attention
as much as men have already received pensions
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in this very town, who are not so much entitled
to it as Mr Bancker
very sincerely
Edmund H Pendleton
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James L Edwards
of the Pension
Office


F. Bancker
cont'd.
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Dec 17
Mr James L. Edwards
I was mistaken this morning when I called at the Pension office in the name of the
applicant of whom I intended
to enquire-- it was not Ackerman, as I supposed- It is Frederick Banker
of I think of Hyde Park Dutchess County
N. Y. of the fate of whose
application I wish information
the enclosed letter relates to his Case
which I submit to your examination
I would be highly obliged if you return
the second letter with information
of the State of Banker's application
the difficulties if any which
have prevented his receiving a
certificate-
Yours
Abraham Bockee
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Frederick Banker, Dutchess Co. NY act of [illegible]
$91.40 per annum 
To what time was he last paid?
[illegible initials]
Pension Office
Nov. 5 1849 as far as appears by our books
he has been paid to 4 March 1848.
W Tyson
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Dutchess County town of Hyde Park
Be it remembered that this day appeared Before
me Peter H. Schryver one of the Justices of the Peace of said County, Herman Vanbenschoten Well known to me who says on oath that he well knew and now knows that Fredrick Banker now of the town of Hyde Park served in the Revolutionary War as Sergeant
for the term of three months at or near the place Called Napenock

Herman Vanbenschoten 

 - subscribed and
Sworn to before me this 3d day
of February 1834-
Peter H. Schryver
Justice of the Peace
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Peter A. Schryver Justice of the Peace of the
town of Hydepark hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Herman Van Beerston who took the within affidavit before me that he is a man of truth and veracity that his statement is 
entitled  to credit
Dated February 4th 1834
Peter A. Schryver
Justice of the Peace
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Sent Genl Lnd. Office
Copy of the Warranties Afft in case of No 18.219
160 Acres.
Ellen Banker wid. of Fredk.

Dr Makins (?)
[illegible]
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State of New York
Dutchess County

Frederick Banker of the town of Hydepark in the County and State aforesaid in pursuance of the instructions of the Commissioner
of Pensions in further support of his application for a Pension being duly sworn says. That in the Summer of the year 1776 he was drafted for the term of two months as a private in Captain Isaac Conklin's Company in Colonel John Frears Regiment in General
Ten Brooks brigade and served two months under Lieutenant Peter Schulty in guarding the frigates building at Poughkeepsie
---
That in the Autumn of the year 1776 this deponent still being a private in the same company regiment & brigade went into the service with his regiment, which regiment was then all ordered out in mass for no fixed period or term of service that this deponent
recollects that this deponent continued with said regiment in the performance of field and garrison duty until March 1777 when he was
discharged after having serving for the full period of four months upon this tour of duty-- This deponent served as a private in the
last mentioned tour of duty until as nearly as this deponent can now recollect the month of February 1777 when he was appointed Sergeant of General Ten Brook's life guard and from that time until the expiration of said term of service he performed the duty of Sergeant of said life guard-
That in the month of May in the year 1777 this deponent was drafted for a term of one month as a Sergeant in the same company, then commanded by Captain Josiah Barton and served as Sergeant for the said term of One Month -
That deponent again entered the service in the month of September of 1777 as a Sergeant in Captain Hagaman's company in the same
regiment and Brigade. He was a volunteer for the term of two months-- and served as a Sergeant for the said period of Two Months
In the year 1778 deponent performed three tours of service of a month each as a Sergeant in the same Company and Regiment
The two first terms he served under Captain Hagaman and the third of the said term he served under Captain Reuben Spencer
who was promoted to the command of the Company. In these three tours of duty deponent served as Sergeant for the full term of Three Months
-
Deponent again entered the service in October in the year
1778 as a substitute for Wright Skinner who was drafted for
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the term of One Month in Captain Ostrons Company in Colonel Cantines Regiment and served as a private in said Company for the said term of One Month as a substitute
for said Skinner
Deponent was drafted for the term of one month in the spring of 1779 as Sergeant in Captain Reuben Spencer's Company
in Colonel Frear's regiment and served as Sergeant for the said term of One Month
Deponent was again drafted for a term of three Months as a Sergeant in September 1879 and put into Captain Hugh
Van Kleecks Company in Colonel Graham's regiment and served there for said term of three months as Sergeant
In the month of May 1780 deponent entered the service as a substitute for one John Rodgers who was drafted for a term
of two months as a private in Captain Elijah Herricks Company-- Deponent entered upon this service as a private and substitute for the said Rodgers, but in three or four days after his service commenced he was appointed as
Sergeant in Captain Herricks Company and served for the full period of Two Months all but three or four days of which deponent served as a Sergeant
Deponent in October 1780 enlisted in Captain Wilsons Company as a Sergeant for the term of forty five days and served for the term of two months as Sergeant-
Deponent in the summer of 1781 then being a Sergeant in Captain Spencer Company in Colonel Frears regiment was ordered out with the regiment which was ordered out in mass and served as a Sergeant upon this call
for the period of one month-
Deponent further says that a supplemental affidavit taken before Jacob Hermance Esquire and forwarded to the department in support of his application for a pension contains a full and detailed a statement of the periods terms and circumstances of deponents service upon the tours, terms of service herein before stated as deponent is able at this late period to give
From the foregoing statement it will appear that this deponent served for the period of twenty months of which deponent as he verily believes served as a Sergeant for
the period of Sixteen - Months - and the residue of said period as a private
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Deponent further says that other services were performed by him during the Revolutionary War and for other terms be sides those enumerated and which he is not now able
to detail with the precision required at the department and which are alluded to in said affidavit taken before Jacob Hermance Esquire all of which together  with those periods hereinbefore enumerated were
entirely of a military character

Fredrick Bancker

Sworn & Subscribed before me October 28, 1833
William P. Williams
a Justice of the peace
State of New York
Dutch County SS ⎬ I Henry J Traver Clerk of the said County do hereby certify
that William P. Williams Esquire before whom the preceding affidavit purports to
have been sworn was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for
the said County duly commissioned and qualified and that I am well acquainted with
his hand writing and verily believe that the signature annexed to the said affidavit
is his proper hand writing and signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of Office this twenty Eighth day of October A.D. One thousand
Eight hundred and thirty three
Henry J. Traver
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Frederick Banker of the State of New York
who was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary Army
[obscured] ninety one
dollars and [obscured] 
during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March, 1831 and payable semi-annually
on the 4th of March and 4th of September in
every year

Given at the War Office of the United States
, this 11th day of February one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-four

[illegible]
Secretary of War

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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State of New York
Dutchess County ss. 

I Joseph T. Adriance, Clerk of the County
Court of the County of Dutchess, holden at Poughkeepsie in & for said County. Do Hereby Certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court, now sitting at the
Court House in the Village of Poughkeepsie aforesaid, that Frederick Banker was a pensioner of the United States
at the rate of Ninety one Dollars and sixty six cents, per annum; that he was a resident of the term of Hyde Park in the County of Dutchess aforesaid, and that he died at his residence in the aforesaid town of Hyde Park on the Sixth day of June in the year one thousand Eight
hundred and Forty Eight and that he left a widow Ellen Banker, now living and still unmarried. 

And I do further certify that legal and sufficient evidence according to the laws of this State, has been exhibited to said Court, by witnesses & otherwise, duly sworn & examined in
open court of the Marriage of said Frederick Banker deceased, with Ellen Banker, his aforesaid widow, in the State
aforesaid, on the Eighteenth day of March in the year One thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty one and while the said Frederick Banker was engaged in the service of
the United States in the war of the Revolution; and that the said Ellen still remains his widow & unmarried

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of the aforesaid County Court, being a Court of Record of the State of
New York, at Poughkeepsie in the County of Dutchess aforesaid,
this Tenth day of July in the year one Thousand Eight Hundred & forty Eight

J T. Adriana
Clerk of the County
of Dutchess and
of the County County
thereof
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No 13855
Ellen Banker
wid of Frederick
NY
act of 7 July 1838
Married 1781
[illegible] husband death June 48
Adm. act 2 Feby 48
$91.66 per annum
Mar 4 June 48

J. A. Sturtenburgh
Post Master
Hyde Park
NY
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State of New York
Dutchess County 

I Joseph T. Adriance, Clerk of the County
Court of the County of Dutchess, holden at Poughkeepsie in & for said County, Do Hereby Certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court, now sitting at the
Court House in the Village of Poughkeepsie aforesaid, that Frederick Banker was a pensioner of the United States
at the rate of Ninety one Dollars and Sixty Six cents per annum; that he was a resident of the town of Hyde Park in the County of Dutchess aforesaid, and that he died at his residence in the aforesaid town of Hyde Park on
the sixth day of June in the year one thousand Eight hundred and Forty Eight and that he left a widow Ellen Banker now living and still unmarried. 

And I do further certify that legal and sufficient evidence according to the laws of this State, has been exhibited to said Court, by witnesses & otherwise, duly sum & examined in
open Court of the marriage of said Frederick Banker deceased, with Ellen Banker, his aforesaid widow, on the Eighteenth day of March in the year One thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty one, and while
the said Frederick Banker was engaged in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution; and that the
said Ellen still remains his widow & unmarried -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of the
aforesaid County Court, being a Court of Record of the State
New York, at Poughkeepsie in the County of Dutchess aforesaid,
this tenth day of July in the year one Thousand Eight hundred & forty
Eight -
Jos T. Adriance
Clerk of the County
of Dutchess and
of the County Courts
thereof
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State of New York
Dutchess County SS. 

The Reverand Reuben Sherwood D.D.
of the town of Hyde Park in the County & State aforesaid, being duly sworn in open Court, deposes & says that he is Rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church in said town of
Hyde Park, that he has been personally acquainted with Frederik Banker deceased, late a Revolutionary pensioner, residing in said town from about the year 1835 to the time of his death, and with his widow Ellen Banker
from that time to the present. 
That said Frederick Banker died, at his residence as aforesaid, on the Sixth
day of June in the year one thousand Eight hundred and Forty Eight- that he was interred in the Burial Ground connected with the aforesaid Church, and that this deponent attended, and was the officiating Clergyman
at the burial of said Banker on the Seventh
day of June last past.-
This deponent further says that said Frederick Barker & Ellen his wife were communicants
in good standing of said Church, and have been so for about ten years last past. That since this deponent has had any
knowledge of them, they here respectively borne an unblemished reputation and have uninterruptedly lived together as man & wife, that they are reputed and believed to have been married during the Revolutionary War, and have since lived together in the marriage State: That they have reared a large family of children and that this deponent has never heard their  marriage denied or in any manner doubted-
This deponent further says that he has examined and original entry of Record of said Marriage, reputed to be, and as this deponent verily believes, in the hand writing
of said Frederick Banker, in a book, and in the family Bible of said Banker, which record (except that
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the figures in the dates thereof are herein written out fully) is as follows: "Frederik Banker was born August the thirteenth Seventeen Hundred and Fifty Eight in the State of New York, County of Dutchess in Clinton
([illegible] Hyde Park) and was married to his wife Ellen Banker in the year one thousand Seven hundred & Eighty one
March Eighteenth, which Record this deponent believes to be authentic and true-
This deponent further says that said Ellen Banker is now living and remains the widow of said Frederik Banker deceased. That she is poor, and entirely dependent on
the charity of Government or the public for support and that she is of an estimable and worthy character
and further this deponent saith not

Reuben Sherwood
Rector of St. James' Ch
Hyde Park

the words concont enterlined we
18th line & the and cohabed erased
in the County the line before executor
Rector of H Smith
J. A. Stoutenburgh
Hyde Park
Dutches County SS.
Sum, examined, and the were deposition subscribed
to by the apins Rev. Reuben Sherwood, in open Court
in the County Court of Dutchess County being a court
of Record, before his Honor John Rowley, Judge
this tenth day of July in the new one thous
and Eight hundred & forty Eight
Asse
Jos. Adriana Clerk
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The within papers
were mislaid and
New papers furnished
on which the certificate was issued 11
Feby 1834
18.219
160 acres.
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No 13855
Ellen Banker
NY
Sent to J. A. Stantenburgh
May 19 49
Sent to same 7th September 1849
act 7 July 1838
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Additional Evidence
69,365
Ellen Banker
Boynton
J. Frederick
[postmarked]Poughkeepsie, NY Dec 3
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
[postmarked] Poughkeepsie, NY Apr 12
3 Applications for Bounty Land
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Additional Evidence
69,365
Ellen Banker
[postmarked]Poughkeepsie, NY Mar 5
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
Boynton

Application
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for Bounty Land
2
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Commissioner of Pensions
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Application for Duplicate
Warrant for Bounty
Land Act Mar 3 1855
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, DC

Ellen Banker
18219-16
[postmark date illegible]
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23506

Ellen Banker
Wid, of
Frederick Banker
Sergt Rev. War
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Act Feb 2d 1848,
Index: -- Vol. A
Page 39
Arrangement of 1870.]
1907 Nov 20. Hist. to
H. J. Banker & L.M.
(See letter in S.F. 28637)