Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 20423, for Henry Lansing, New York
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New York

Lansing, Henry
Dolly

NUMBER
W 20423
B.L.Wt. 30757-160-55

CONTENTS
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Declaration  in order to obtain the benefit of the Act
of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

State of New York
Onondaga County Ss:  On this 11th day of September
in the year 1852, personally appeared in open
court before Daniel Moseby Esqr. Vice Chancellor
of the Seventh Circuit at a Court of [illegible......]
for the State of New York at Onondaga Henry
Lansing, aged 69 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 7. 1832.
That he first entered the service of
the United States under the following circumstances,
and served as herein after stated
That he first enlisted into the wagon
service in the Continental army for the Term
of 1 Year that he was enlisted by one
Paterson who was a quarter Master, and
thinks his christian name was Abijah, but
is not sure, that he drew pay as a private
soldier, that he thinks it was the third
year of the war of the Revolution, but
cannot be positive as to the year,
That he was stationed at Bennington in
the State of Vermont, except, where he was
in actual service, that his first service was
to go to Rutland with a load of Pork &
flour, and that he went with several
loads of provisions for the army to Skins
bourough, and also to Fort Pittsburgh [crossed out}
[crossed out] and that he served in said wagon
service during and until the end of the
year for which he enlisted, and that he does
not recollect of ever receiving any written
discharge, that he cannot state precisely the
month or years that he enlisted,
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and that sometime towards the close of
the war, and he thinks in the year 1782
he was drafted to serve in the malitia in
the State of New York. (at Half moon where
he then resided) for a Term of 9 months
that he joined the company at Saratoga
and that one Matthew Watson was Lieutenant 
of said Company and he thinks one
Abraham Livingston was Captain, and
the Col0nels name was R. Livingston and
that one Zadock Scribner Abram Scouton
& one Pollard were Soldiers with him,
that he marched to [smudged] and was stationed
there most of the time during the 9 months
and that he was  marched from there to
Schenectady and peace was then proclaimed
and he was discharged.  on the first of
January 1783. by Lieutenant Watson,
that he received a written discharge which
has since been lost.
And that he has no documentary evidence
by which he can prove any of his said services.
And that he was born in Water [illegible]
thinks it was then in the county of Albany
in the year 1763.  he thinks, that he has no
record of his age but thinks his brother
Abraham Lansing has, in the town of
Fabiers in said County,
and that he lives in the town of Hoosar
in Rensalier County where he first enlisted
and that since the Revolution he has mostly 
resided in the County of Onondaga and
that he now resides in the town of [illegible]
in said County, and state, and that he is
known by Palmer Doter As a Eastwood.  Judson Gage
[illegible] Heast Elijah Evans. & Elijah Loomis
in the vicinity where he now resides who