Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,320, for John Pickard, New York
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State of New York County of Chautauqua ss Surrogates Office February 10 1852 I certify that satisfactory evidence was addressed to me to prove that Pickard died at Ellery in said county on the 30 day of August A D 1824 that he left a widow named Margaret who died in Ellery forsaid on the 26 day of March 1857 and that the said John and Margaret left children only now living whose names are Charity Stom Peter Pickard Sylvanus Pickard Henry Pickard and Abraham Pickard and that they are the only surviving children and heirs at last infer to the sid John Pickard who ws a private in a Regiment of New York Troops under Col. Klock in the War of the Revolution It is further satisfactorily proved that since the date of the original declaration in this case two of the children of the aforesaid John and Margaret Pickard have died. viz Albert Pickard at St. Omer Decatur County in the State of Indiana on the 14 day of June A. D. 1852 leaving no widow but the following names of children viz John M. Pickard Porter Pickard Philena Seller and Margaret Pickard and Nancy Ludden died at Ellery in the County of Chautauqua aforesaid on date herewith produced and that should the means of pension be allowed herein claimed that it be paid to Peter Pickard Charity Stom Sylvanus Pickard Henry Pickard and Abraham Pickard who are now the only living children of the aforesaid Margaret Pickard Sylvanus Pickard Subscribed and sworn before me at Sinclairville in said county and I further certify that I have been acquainted with the said Sylvanus Pickarf for the period of about twenty years last past and that I know him to be the industrial person mentioned in a pension certificate as another heir of loss of John and Margaret Pickard said certificate bearing date of 26 August 1852 and that the statements of said Sylvanus Pickard are entitled to full credit Witness my hand and seal of office this day and year first above written E. F. Warren Surrogate
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The 5 day 0f November A.D. 1852 leaving no children Witness my hand and seal of office at Sinclairville in said county the day of or first above written E F Warren Surrogate