Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13485, Oliver Humphrey, New York
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24.200
New York

Oliver Humphrey

of Phelps Co. in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Comp. commanded by Captain Frakdenfer Regt. commanded
by Col,_______,______ _____ in the New York line 10 months, 16 days.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at a rate of 36 Dollars 00 Cent per annum 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of Nov.
1833_______ and [unreadable] D. McNeil
phelps

Arrears to the 4th of Sep '33 $ 87.50
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 [unreadable] 17.50
$105.00

Revolutionary Claim
June 7, 1832
Recorded by Go. Stiles Clerk
Book E. Vol. 4. Page 104
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N. 7980

Oliver Humphrey

Admictest 10 mns 16 days
10.14
18 Sep 1832
22 Nov
Page 83.
David McGeil
Agh
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[Handwritten] No. 7980
[Printed] BRIEF in the case of [handwritten] Oliver Humphrey of Philps County
[printed] of [handwritten] Ontario [printed] in the State of [handwritten] New York
[printed](Act 7th June, 1832)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
[handwritten]Before a Court
[printed]2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
[handwritten][long line]
[printed] 3.How old is he?
[handwritten] 74 years
[printed]4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[Table] Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank. | Name of General and field Officers under whom he served.
| Years, Months, Days. | As a |[crossed out]Gen
[print]In 17[handwritten]76 Apl | {blank] 1 [blank] | private | Capt James Humphrey
Dec | [blank] 1 [blank] | in the | Capt Wm. Tillford
1777 | [blank] 1 [blank] | minute | Capt. Cutteback
1778 | [blank] 3 [blank] | service | Capt. Faulkendin, Capt. Tillford
1779 | [blank] 2 [blank] | [blank] | Capt. Tillford, Lt. McBride
From 1779 until the close of the war was continually in the minute service.
[printed] 5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
[handwritten]New Windsor New York
[printed] Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence,
by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
[handwritten] 1 living witness and traditionary evidence
[printed]Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
[handwritten]They appear to be correct
[printed]Certify that the forgoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case
above mentioned.
[Signature]James Ord [printed
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State of New York
Ontario County

Personally appeared before me the [illegible] one of the Judges of the County Courts, for Said County Charles Humphry, who being duly sworn in posits and says- that Oliver Humphry, whose declaration is herewith annexed is a Brother of this deponent. That he reccollects that [illegible] the time he entered Service in Capt. Tilfords Company, although this deponent, was not then in the Service, (being to young) He Oliver entered Service in the year 1776, and was Oout during the Revolutionary War in every year, the precise time he does not reccollect, but his Declaration has been made in my presence, and the time set forth in said Declaration, according to the best of my reccollection, is no more than he actually served, I was out with him in the years 1778.79.80.81. and 82, on several alarms, and was at the Times a member of the same Company (viz Capt. William Selfords) in the year 1778. He recollects of his serving one month on fultime at West Point. Also one month at [illegible] was with said Oliver in the Service at [illegible]. That he knows well and reccollects distinctly, relative to his Service from the year 1779 until the close of the War, and he is positive his service was not less than four months in each year to the end of the year 1782.
Charles Humphrey
Sworn to and [illegible] by this 11th day of December 1832
David McNeil 
Judge of the County Courts
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Charles Humphry, who has signed the above certified, that I have been personally acquainted with him for a number of years, that he is a credible person, and always sustained a good character and that his statement is entitled to the utmost credit
David McNeil
Judge of the County Courts
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State of New York
Ontario County

I, Charles Crane, Clerk of said County do hereby certify that David McNeil, whose name is subscribed to the within certificates was, at the dates thereof, a Judge of the Courts of said county; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the said signatures to be his proper act and deed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, at [illegible] this 31st day of December A.D.
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Oliver Humphrey
Declaration
7977980
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[printed top left] 
STATE OF NEW YORK,
Ontario COUNTY [parenthetical] ss.

On this twenty seventh day of August - 1832,
personally appears in open court, before the Judge,
of the Court of Comm Pensions for said county - now sitting
Oliver Humphrey resident of Phelps in the county of Ontario
and State of New York aged seventy four years, who being 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 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
Volunteered in the Revolutionary war in the month of April 1776 and
continued in the service until the close of the war. he served as a private under
Captain William Tillford, James Humphrey and William Faulkender in their
companies of minute men of New York militia in Col. James McCloughys Regiment
in the Brigade commanded by Genl. George Clinton, resided at this time in the
town of New Windsor (then Ulster County) in the State of New York - during his first year of service he assisted in making prisoners a party of Cow Boys. 36 in 
number which they took to Sussex jail in the State of New Jersey - Was also at Fort
Montgomery one month at one time under Capt. James Humphrey. That during this year he served one month (December) in Capt. William Tillfords company at 
Paramus Church in the State of New Jersey guarding against the enemy who then
lay in New York- Col. McCloughys Regiment was then stationed at Paramus Church, recollects well that Genl. George Clinton was there at that time during this year he served several times on alarms and scouts in the vicinity of Fort Montgomery and along the Hudson river- war on the opposite side of the
River from Fort Montgomery when that Fort was taken (in October) he was sent 
across the River in a detachment under command of Capt Cutteback to guard the
claim where they remained in sight of the whole action until the Fort was taken -
that the same evening after they marched up the river to the Continental Army and joined Col. James McCloughys Regiment. was out this campaign at least one month. That in the year 1778 he served three months on scout and alarms, was out one month during this year under Captain Faultender at West Point on fatigue- assisted in building the fort at West Point - Was also out one month at one time 
under command of Capt. Tillford at Nissinaugh in the State of New York guarding
against the Indians - That is the year 1779 he served, (besides his duty on scouts and alarms which consumed at least two months of his time) two months-
one month under Lieut. McBride of Capt. Tillfords company at Warsink in the State of New York (in the month of October) from the year 1779 until the close of the war he was continually in the minute service under the commanders aforesaid consuming at least one third of his time in actual service. His duty was generally guarding against the Indians and Tories along the line of the Hudson at Fort Montgomery and the Schunemunk Mountains- his duty was at times severe, as the Indians and Tories were very troublesome and needed vigilant watching -
was born in the town of New Windsor then Orange County State of New York in the year 1758 where he resided after the War until the year 1791 when he removed to Phelps; County of Ontario and state of New York where he has since resided -
That he has no documentary evidence [?] service but is well acquainted with Charles Humphrey who knew him awhile in the service and has since known him 
and will certify to the same and is also well acquainted with Charles Humphrey and George Humphy who resides in his neighborhood who will certify
to his character for [?] and their belief of his having served in the Revolution. He
served a private in the above times - He knows his age to be 74 years from a Record kept in his family Bible. 
[printed] 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[handwritten] 
in open court - Charles Crane Clerk   [signature] Oliver Humphrey
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[handwritten]
I Charles Humphrey, resident of Phelps in the County of Ontario
hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Oliver Humphrey whose name is embossed on the foregoing declaration. [?] even knew him when in the service during the Revolutionary War, was with him during most of his service, and believe the Declaration made by the said Oliver Humphrey to be correct -
Sworn to and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid -- 
In open court,                                      Charles Humphrey [signature]
Charles Crane, Clerk                George Humphry [signature crossed out]

[printed & handwritten]
We, Charles Humphrey [a clergyman [crossed out]] residing in the Town of Phelps, County of Ontario, and State of New York
and George Humphry residing in the Town, County and State aforementioned 
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Oliver Humphrey who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy four years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[handwritten] 
in open court,                Charles Humphrey [signature]
Charles Crane, Clerk      George Humphry [signature]

[printed]
And the said Court do herby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above nomed [sic] Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that [handwritten] Charles Humphrey and George Humphry who have signed the perceeding [sic] certificated reside in the Phelps, County of Ontario and State of  New York
[typewritten] and [is a [crossed out]] ^ [inserted] are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.  [handwritten] And that the said Charles Humphrey who has signed the two preceding [sic] certificates is one and the same person.

I, Charles Crane, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Oliver Humphrey -- for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty-seventh day of August A. D. 1832.
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13485

Invalid

File No. 13,485

Oliver Humphrey
Pens. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832
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1980
Oliver Humphrey
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   WAR DEPARTMENT,
                 Pension Office,
                                                               Aug 8th, 1833

Sir,
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On
comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus:) You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them, and you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

 A Statement, showing the Service of Oliver Humphrey
Period when the service was rendered. / Duration of the claimant's service. Years / Months / Days
Rank of the claimant / Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the 
service.
Proof by which the declaration is supported.

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of P
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                 REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted,” who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, & c., Teamsters, Boatmen, & c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
             Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1.	The Regular Troops.
2.	The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3.	Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4.	Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.
				DECLARATION,
 	In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832,					State, Territory, or District of } ss.
		    County of          }
 	On this                day of                   personally appeared (a) before
 A. B. a resident (b) of            in the county of              	 
                     and State, Territory or District of           aged (c)	        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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year, (d)                          
         with and served in the               (e) regiment of the                   line, under the following named officers:
	(Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers; the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This for, is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, & c.)
	He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only        on that of the Agency in the State of
	Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
	(And then will follow the certificate of the Court.)
	And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion,(g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
	I                                                                of the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of                                            for a pension.             
	In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this	     day of 
  &c
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of the applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
           If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material 
facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department.
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State of New York, Ontario County

On the 1st day of September 1833 before me Joseph Vandemark Jr. one of the Justices of the Peace for said county personally appeared Oliver Humphrey who being duly sworn according to law on his oath deposeth and saith that his first services in the Revolutionary War commenced on the first day of April 1776. On this day he enlisted a private in Captain William Tillford Company in Col. James McClougheys Regiment in the Brigade commanded by General George Clinton of New York Militia and that from that 1st day of April 1776 until the close of the war he was a private in said company and regiment, and served as a minute man in said company with the exception of some monthly duty which was performed at different times mentioned below under Captain James Humphrey and William Faulkinder in the Regiment & Brigade before mentioned.

His services during the year 1776 were as follows in the month of May of this year he served as a private two weeks, in the month of June three weeks, in the month of July one week, in the month of August two weeks, in the month of September three weeks, in the month of October one week in the month of November two weeks. This service was performed in the company commanded by Captain William Tillford  in Col. James McClougheys Regiment of New York Militia at Fort Montgomery on the Hudson River. In July of this year he also served a private one week in taking prisoner a party of Cow boys (36 in number, took them prisoner near New Windsor (then Ulster County) carried them to Sussex Court house in the State of New Jersey). This duty was performed under command of Lieut. Beathe who was  also a member of Capt. William Tillfords company in the Regiment aforesaid - served also, a private one month during the year (December) in Captain William Tillford Company and Regiment aforesaid of New York militia at Paramus Church in the state of New Jersey guarding against the enemy
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who then lay at New York. Col McCloughey Regiment was then stationed at Paramus Church. General George Clinton was there at the time. left the Regiment on the first of January 1777 by permission from Col. McCloughey in consequence of ill health and returned home. That during the year his services were as follows. In the month of April, a private one week, in the month of May one week in the month of July three weeks in the month of August three weeks - all of said services were preformed at those times at Fort Montgomery on the Hudson river and in Capt. William Tillford Company in Col. James McClougheys Regiment of New York Militia aforesaid. He also served during this year a private one month under Captain James Humphrey in Col. James McClougheys Regiment and in the Brigade  Commanded by Genl. George Clinton of New York Militia these services were done in the month of September and October at Fort Montgomery before, at the time, and after the Fort was taken by the enemy - was on the opposite side of the Hudson river with a detachment of men under Captain Cutteback to guard the chain across said river when the fort was taken and witnessed its surrender. That during the year 1778 his services were as follows, one month May a private in Captain William Tillford company in Col. James McClougheys Regiment in Genl. Clintons Brigade of New York Militia at Nipenaugh (?) on the west side of the Shawangunk Mountains in the State of New York guarding against the Indians. Two weeks in the month of June of this year a private at a place called Forest of Dean on the Hanestraw Road (thinks Rockland County in the State of New York) at which place a furnace used for casting cannon ball ?? The enemy lay at this time with their shipping in the Hudson river below the ruins of Fort Montgomery and it was expected they might march across the cove and attack Fort West Point. He (this deportant) with the whole of Col. McClougheys Regiment was stationed at this place for the purpose of preventing an attack by the enemy at Fort West Point. He also served during
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This year a private one month [in July] at West Point doing fatigue duty in building Fort West Point, was under command during this months service, of Capt William Faulkender in Col. James McCloughys Regiment of New York militia aforesaid - That during the year 1779 his services were as following -- in the month July one month a private at Nissenaugh on the West side of Shawangunck Mountains aforesaid in Capt Wiliam Tillfords company Col. James McCloughys Regiment and Brigade commanded by General George Clinton of New York Militia guarding against the Indians - in the month of September after the middle of this month he served a private two weeks in Capt William Tillfords company in Col. James McCloughys Regiment of New York Militia at a place called Rim Peak (thinks Ulster County) the whole of Col. McCloughys Regiment was there - at this time the Indians and Tories [?] Rim Peak - in the month of October of this year he served the whole month a private in the company and Regiment last mentioned at a place called Warsink (thinks Ulster County) guarding against the Indians - after this period during the years 1780.81+82 he was still a private in Capt William Tillfords company in Col. James McCloughys Regiment in the Brigade commanded by General George Clinton of New York Militia and was out several times on scouts and alarms along the line of the Hudson river but he cannot recollect clear enough as testify to it the length of each term of service or the particular places where said service was performed, for the [?] last mentioned years. he will therefore claim nothing - but for his other services before mentioned
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[handwritten]

he claims a pension -- His services were all performed with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority and for the time during which the service was performed he was not employed in any civil pursuit - He is now able to furnish the certificate of Benjamin Farley a clergyman who resides in his neighborhood who will certify to his character for veracity + his belief of his having served in the Revolution-

Sworn to + subscribed}            Oliver Humphrey [signature]
Before me, the day year}
Aforesaid - 
Joseph Van Demark Jn Justice of the Peace

I Benjamin Farley resident of the Town of Phelps, County of Ontario + State of New York, do hereby certify, that I am now acquainted with Oliver Humphrey Who has subscribed + sworn to the above deposition that the said Humphrey resides in my neighborhood and is a man of veracity and good character. He is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution + I concur in that opinion- I also believe his age (at this time) to be seventy five years

Sworn to + subscribed before me this       Benjamin Farley [signature]
2nd day of September 1833-
Thomas Smith Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Benjamin ^[inserted] Farley is an officiating clergyman in the said town of Phelps
Thomas Smith Justice of the Peace
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State of New York,
Ontario County S S [or I I]
I, Charles Crane, Clerk of said county,
do certify, that Joseph VanDemark [..], and Thomas Smith, whose names are subscribed to the foregoing certificates, to this sheet attached were, at the respective dates of the said certificates both justices of the peace in and for the said county; and that I am well acquainted with the hand writings of the said justices, and believe the said signatures respectively to be their proper acts and deeds.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto let my hand and seal, this 23rd day of September, A.D. 1833.

Charles Crane.