Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,536, John P Becker, New York
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State of New York
County of Jefferson Ss.
On this 11th day of September 1832 personally appeared ^in open court^ before the court of Common Pleas now sitting John P Becker a resident of the town of Brownville in the county of Jefferson and State of New York, aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to the 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 entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated, 
That he was first enrolled in the Militia in the service of the United States in the company commanded by Captain Ryghtmier in Colonel Vrooman's Regiment Peter Swart was Lieutenant Colonel in said Regiment and a considerable part of his time had the Command of the Regiment, that in the year 1775, the Indians and Tories commenced their murders on the in habitants of this vicinity and that Colonel Vrooman's Regiment, was called out to [illegible] a Fort, this Fort was situated on Schohari [Schoharie] now called Middleburgh, about this time there were two other Forts erected one six miles above and the other six miles below there even called upper and lower Forts, that Captain Ryghtmier's company was called into the service in the year 1775, they were called "Minutemen" and that this deponent remained in the service during the war in said company aforesaid, after the expiration of the first years' service those of the company that had family where they could be spared were allowed to be absent and go home to there [their] famalies [families] sometimes for the night and other times untill there should be an alarm fired, but as this deponent was a young man and
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and had no family was kept in the service a greater part of the same in garrisoning the Fort and going on expresses to Albany, Schenectady and other places to carry and receive inteligence [intelligence] and to procure Ammunition for the use of ^the^ Fort &c this deponent further states that in the year 1777 he was appointed a Sergeant in the Regiment aforesaid, the Regiment was then commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Peter
Swart aforesaid in the abscence [absence] and after the death of Colonel Vrooman, the Sergeants warrant he received was signed
by Lieutenant ^Colonel^ Peter Swart Commandant of said Regiment, as will more fully appear from the affidavit of Hiram Steele Esqr hereto annexed, and he served as such Sergeant untill [until] the close of the
War, that he was born on the 9th day of May in the year 1762 that he was born in Middleburgh in the County of Schohanie when he resided untill [until] he was about thirty eight years of age from thence moved to the town of Sharon
in said County when he resided about twenty years from thence moved to the of Brownville in the County of Jefferson at which place he now resides and has resided then for the last twelve years and further this deponent saith not-
He hereby relinquishes every claim 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
John P Becker
Sworn to and subscribed the day
and year aforesaid