Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,689, Christian Brant, New York
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

State of New York
COUNTY OF Columbia
TO WIT:

In conformity with the provisions of the Act of the Congress of the United States of America, passed March 18th, 1818, entitled ""An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States, in the REVOLUTIONARY WAR," the following DECLARATION, in writing, is made under oath, by Christian Brant of the Town of Canaan in the County of Columbia -- in the State of New York
before the Honorable Jonathan Warner
Esquire, one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for sd County
in the said State, which Court is a Court of Record of the County and State, in which
the said Jonathan Warner doth reside, that is to say:

DECLARATION.

I, Christian Brant aged Sixty Six years of the Town of Canaan in the County of Columbia in
the State of New York
on this third day of April--
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen--Do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear and declare, that I served against the common Enemy in the Army, in the War of the Revolution,
five years and that I am a resident Citizen of the United States, to wit, in the Town County and State aforesaid; and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support. I do
further swear and declare, that I served in the said Revolutionary War, in the capacity of, and being a private Soldier that I belonged to the Army, to wit, I belonged to Col. Cornelius Johnson's Company, Colonel Van Schaacks Regiment and New York Line -- That I entered the said service [inserted text: for pursuing the war] the beginning of the winter in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and Seventy Eight and left it in 1783 & was discharged at [Snakehill?] in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty three June in the manner following, to wit: I left it by reason of my enlistment being Expired
that I received a document concerning the same service and discharge, which which I have
unfortunately lost
and that there is no other evidence in my power to my knowledge, concerning the matters deposed by me 

And I further declare, that in pursuance of the requisitions of the aforesaid Act of Congress, I do hereby freely and absolutely, and to all intents and purposes, relinquish all claims to any Pension, under any of the Laws of the
United States, except the Pension contemplated to be allowed me under the Act of Congress aforesaid mentioned,
and under which this Declaration is made.

IN WITNESS of the truth of this Declaration, I have subscribed the same in presence of the said Judge, and have solemnly deposed to the truth thereof, on the day herein before, for that purpose, specified.

Sworn before me, this third
day of April 1818

Christian [his X mark] Brant

Jonathan Warner Judge as abovesaid