Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20426, for Abraham Quackinbush, Connecticut
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(3--1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Quackinbush, Abraham

NUMBER
R 20426

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CONTENTS
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Rejected
_________Ex'r.  OLD WAR.
File No. 20.426

Act of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.(crossed  out)

Abraham Quackinbush
Pri.
Capt Billing.
Ct Line
Revy War
[    ]ied at 
Rejected
1-0 other claim.
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                                                                  Clerk.

Application filed:______________________, 18   .
attorney: ____________________________________
P. O. _________________________________________
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Not allowed
Act 1828
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Revolutionary Claims.
Treasury Department.
9 Dec 1828.

Abraham Quackinbush of Waterford in the County of Saratoga in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Billings's company, in Col Swifts regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
F. A. Dickins.

Treasure Department,
Third Auditor's Office,
12th December 1828

It further appears that Abraham Quackinbush is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3rd March 1826
The name of Abraham Quackinbush cannot be found among those of the Connecticut line to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued - It appears from the Muster Rolls of the Connecticut line that a man by the name of Abraham Quackenbush, enlisted in Capt Billings's Company of Col. Swifts Regiment, in the month of January 1781, for the War, and that he Deserted

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#20.426
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"Revolutionary Claims"
The Honb Richard Rush
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington City.

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Abraham Quackenbush - Pvt.
Conn line -
Ref File No 8537 [marked out]
Don't file

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New York
Not allowed Act 1828

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#16.681 Privt [marked out]
Don't file
No card
[illegible]
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To The Honb R. Rush
Secy of the Treasury
Sir,
By the desire of Abraham Quackinbush of this village, I take the liberty of enclosing to your Department, his application &c for a pension, under the act of Congress of May last -
In addition to the general proof required under the order from your Department, and to render (as Quackenbush hopes) the success of his application perfectly certain, an affidavit of Wm Buell of this county (whose credibility is vouched by the Justice before whom he was sworn) is annexed, establishing the fact of enlistment and service -
The age, necessities and destitute circumstances of the applicant, will I trust secure an early decision upon his application, which by his request, I would beg, may be communicated to me, as soon as made.
I have the honor to be
yr With the highest respect
Obt Servt
Joshua Bloore
Waterford, Saratoga Ce N. U. 
December 5th 1828.
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828 I Abraham Quackinbush of the Town of Waterford in the County of Saratoga and State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination, at which period I was a private in Captain Billings' company in Colonel Swifts Regiment of the Connecticut line - And I do also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the rewards of Eighty Dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of congress passed the 15th of May 1778 - And I further declare that I was not, on the fifteenth day of March 1828 on pension list of the United States -
Witness my hand this 21st day of November 1828
Abraham X his mark Quackinbush

In Presence of Henry Edson

Be it known that before me Henry Edson one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Saratoga, in the State of New York personally appeared this day John C. Broeck and David Melick of the said County who severally made oath that Abraham Quackinbush by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed to them severally known, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated.
John C. Broeck
David Melick
Sworn & subscribed before me this 21st day of November 1828 Witness my hand the day & year aforesaid }
Henry Edson
Justice of the Peace
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I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga in the State of New York do hereby certify that Henry Edson Esquire before whom the within affidavits were sworn, was at the time, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Saratoga and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 27th day of November in the year 1828.
Thomas Palmer Clerk by
John A Bradley Dept Clerk

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State of New York
Saratoga County } Ezra Buel of the town of Stillwater in the County of Saratoga and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was personally acquainted with Abraham Quackinbush both to have known as the applicant named in the annexed declaration and affidavit previous to and during the war of the Revolution. That he well and perfectly recollects that the said Abraham enlisted as a private Soldier in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner in the continental line of the army of the Revolution, at an early period of the Revolutionary war as this deponent verily believes for and during the war, and continued in its service as this deponent also believes until its termination.
Exra Buell

Sworn and subscribed before me this 27th day of November 1828 and I do hereby certify that the Deponent Ezra Buel is a very respectable and credible man and that his affidavit is entitled to full confidence & belief
George Palmer Jus Peace of said County of Saratoga.
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I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Saratoga in the State of new York do hereby certify that George Palmer Esquire before whom the within affidavit was sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Saratoga and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 27th day of November in the year 1828.
Thomas Palmer clerk by
John A Bradley Dep Clerk

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