Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43249, David Waters, New York
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
New York

Waters, David
or Warters [written under Waters]

NUMBER
S. 43249

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17175
New Yorker

David Waters
of Hamburg in the State of N. York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Van Schark of the N. York
line, for the term of One year

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Inscribed on the Roll of N. York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 13 of April 1815.

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Certificate of Pension issued the 26th of May 1820.
and sent to Charles Townsend Esq
Buffalo, NY.

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Arrears to 4th of March 1820 —            | 181.83
Semi-anl. all'ce ending [illegible]           |   48. -
22nd [illegible] 4/81                                            $ 229.83

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

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[illegible]. 11th. 18 Date [illegible] Lawrence
Buffalo, New York
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The testimony of two credible & disinterested witness as to the service of the applicant , will required in this case. The Judge must 
confess that the claimant is in indigent circumstances.
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State of New York
Magara County ss Be it remembered that on the thirteen day of April in the year One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen before me Charles Townsend one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county
of Niagara personally came David Waters of the town of Hamburg in the county of Niagara
and being by me duly sworn on the Holy evangelists of Almighty God deposed and upon oath say that he is aged infirm and is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life that he is in [added by a caret] need of
assistance from his country for support. And this deponent further on his oath aforesaid says that he enlisted into the continental line of troops on or about first day of February in the year 1776 for the term of one year, that he [added by a caret]  belonged to Captain Job
Wrights Company in Col Van Schaicks regiment
of continental troops, that the place of his enlistment was Saratoga in the State of New York, that he faithful served as a private soldier in the said company for the one year, the period of his enlistment and was at the expiration of the term honorably discharged from the service at the
City of Albany in the State of New York - that this deponent long since lost the discharge what was given to him at that time and has no further or other proof of his aforesaid service than is contained in the foregoing affidavit and the said depo