Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10621, Jonathan Elmendorph, New York
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New York
Elmendorph [Elmendorf is the spelling used elsewhere in the document], Jonathan
NUMBER
S.10621.
Carded
CONTENTS
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[column 1]
20.176
New York
Jonathan Elmendo[rf]
of Hurley in the State of N. York
who was a dragoon in the Comp. commanded
by Captain Salisbury of the Regt. commanded
by Col Paulding in the N. York
line for 9 mo Dragoon
8 mo private }

___________________________________________
Enscribed on the Roll of N. York
at the rate of 64 dollars 16 cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
___________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of Aug
1822 [illegible] Hon. J.C. Preston

___________________________________________
Arrears to the 4th of Ma. ' 21                $128.32
[illegible] allowance ending 4 Sep '21      32.05
                                                                   _________
                                                                    $160.40
                                                                    ________
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Go C Stiles clerk,
Book E Vol 3. Page 18


Sent to H. Wynkoop 29 June 1835 [Written vertically down the center of the page separating the two columns]

[Column 2]
[illegible] see letter to P. agt [agent] Feb. 24. 1835
do. [abbreviation for ditto] to N.Y. and Alby [Albany] agts [agents] March 24. 1835
do. to N.Y. Agt  [from] L [Lucas] Elmendorf
November 18. 1837
to Henry Wynkoop Apr 6 1837
Pen. Affect -May 22 1837
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed the 7th June 1832
State of New York
Ulster County SS

On the thirteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for Ulster County being a course of Record for said county proceeding according to the course of common law with a jurisdiction [illegible] in point of account. Keeping a record of their proceedings having a clerk and seal of their own
Jonathan Elmendorf a resident of the town of Hurley in the county of Ulster aged Eighty One years 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 the 7th of June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated

That he was born in Hurley Ulster county in the year 1751-
That he has a record of his age in his Bible. That he has lived and still lives in the said town of Hurley and has not lived anywhere else

That in the spring of 1776 he volunteered in the service of the state of New York in the company commanded by Capt Moses Cantine in Colonel Levi Paulding's [Pawling] regiment. for Five months rendezvoused at Kingston. went from there to New York City and was there untill the British took New York and retreated to White Plains was there at the battle.
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and went from there to Peekskill and from there to a place called Murders Creek Near New Winsor on the West side of the river and was there discharged about the first of August following the the full term of five months (received no written discharge)

And he further says that in the spring of the year 1777 he again volunteered in said service in the company commanded by Capt Salisbury (of Light Horse) Lieutenant Newkerk for Nine Months and was principly stationed at NewBurgh and New Winsor, and continued in that service the full term of Nine months and was discharged some time in the winter following (1778) (received no written discharge)

And he further declares that some time in the year 1778, he again volunteered as aforesaid as an express in the Company under the command of Lieutenant Newkirk and was stationed along the line of the frontiers for the purpose of caring information and dispatches, but was most of the time at the house of one Wynkoop in the Town of Saugerties - and continued in said service the full time of three or four months and was then discharged (received no written discharge)

And he further declares that in the year 1779
1780, he again volunteered as aforesaid in the Same Company of Light Horse under the command of Lieutenant Newkirk and was a few days after Wawarsing was burnt. Sent as express
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Jonathan Elmendorf
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to Colonel Van Cortlandt, and continued convey information and despothes for the Term of three month and was then discharged - (received no written discharge)

and finally he also declares that he has [scratched out] he positively served the full term of Twenty Months and even more, but yet he thinks it possible that through age and
infirmity he may not be correct as to dates
and some/source of the officers, yet he believes it to be true-

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present. and declares that his name is not on [scratched out] the pension Roll of any agency in any State Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.
Jonathan Elmendorph [spelled elsewhere Elemendorf]
A G Hardenbergh, John Jansen Abm A Deyo } Judges
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State of New York
Ulster County SS

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace of Ulster County. Jonathan Elmendorf, who being duly shown, disposeth, and saith, that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of Memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades
1.* In the year 1776 I served as a private and volunteer for the time of Five Months in the Company of infantry commanded by Captain Moses Cantine and served as more particularly mentioned in my said declaration hereunto appended-
2. In the year 1777 I served as a private and volunteer for the term of Nine Months in the company of Captain Salisbury, commanded by Lieutenant Cornelius Newkirk, that this was a company of cavalry in which I was enlisted and to which I belonged as a private and more particularly detailed in my said declaration hereunto appended.
3. In the 1778, I served as a private and volunteer for the term of Four Months under the command of Lieutenant Cornelius Newkirk as a cavalry express stationed with a horse furnished by myself for the purpose of carrying orders from the house of Tobias Wynkoop in the town of Saugerties. That Captain Hendrick Shoonmaker then commanded the infantry at this post, to which company I was at this time attached as more particularly set forth in my said declaration hereto appended.

4. In the year 1779 I served as a private of cavalry stationed at Wawarsing in Ulster County, attached to the Company Captain Bevin of infantry for the term of Three Months, that this service was like the one immediately preceding. That I kept my own horse and was employed during the whole of this term
carrying dispaches from one frontier post to another
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as more fully detailed in my said declaration hereunto appended -

And lastly for five months I served as a private of infantry. For one year and four months I served as a private of Cavalry and for such service I claim a pension-

Jonathan Elmendorph

Subscribed and sworn this 22nd day of April 1833 
Before Me 
P.V. Gansbeck
Justice of the Peace

State of New York }
Ulster County }

I do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Jonathan Elmendorph more than 20 years, that he always has and now does, bear a good character, that in the above statement of his services when employed as an express he declared that he was employed by the military commandant and not by any curl authority, that most of not all the frontier ports had a cavalry private attached to the station. His statement has been confirmed to me from so many of the old soldiers that I have not the last doubt of its truth.

P.V. Gansbeck Jr
Justice of the peace

State of New York }
Ulster County Clerk's Office }

I, Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, do Certify that Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior Esquire, was on the day of the date of the Certificated to the annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Ulster, duly authorised to take affidavits; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the signature P.V. Gansbeek Jr. subscribed to the certificate of the said annexed affidavit to be genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and appered the Seal of the said Court and County, this twenty ninth day of April 1833.

Jacob Snyder
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144.91
Jonathan Elmendorf

[illegible]

/4 16
P. 293

Hon
K. C. [illegible]

[illegible]
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Brief in the case of Jonathan Elmendorph of Hurley county of Ulster in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? 

Court.

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he? 

81

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period 
[] Spring 1776
Spring 1771
in 1778
in 1779 or 1780

Duration of Service
5 Months
9 Months
3 Months
3 Months
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Rev War
10621
INVALID.
File No. 10,621
Jonathan Elmendorff
Dragoon Rev. War
Act: June 7th,1832
Index:-Vol. A, Page 113

[Arrangement of 1870]
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State of New York
Secretary's Office
I certify that it appears by the records of the provincial Congress of new York that the following persons were appointed and commissioned as officers of a Company of Horse in the town of Kingston in the County of  Ulster on the 25th day of October 1775 viz:
Phillip Hooghteeling Capt
Silvester Salisbury first Lieut. 
Petrus Myndertse Second Lieut.
Cornelius C. Newkerk Cornet
Cornelius J Dubois first Quarter Master
James Roe Second Quarter Master

Given under my hand and the seal of this office at the City of Albany the thirteenth day of October 1835

- Arch'd Campbell, Dep. Secretary
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State of New York
Secretary's Office
I certify that it appears by the Minutes of the Council of Appointment, held at Poughkeepsie
in Dutchess County pursuant to Summons on the
16th day of June 1778, of the State of New York
that the following persons were appointed and Commissioned as officers of a Company of Horse in a Regiment of Militia in the County of Ulster, viz:
Silvester Salisbury Capt.
Cornelius Newkerk first Lieut.
James Roe Second Lieut.
Abraham Van Gaasbeck Cornet.
Given under my hand and the seal of this
office at the City of Albany the thirteenth day of October 1835.
Arch'd Campbell
Dep Secretary
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J. L. Edwards
Commissioner or Pensions
Washington City

Cornelius Meuller
Jonathan Elmendorf
June 23
NY
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Cornelius Meuller
Jonathan Elmendorf
June 23
NY

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Saugerties June 18th 1835

Sir

I was in the city of New York a few days since and was informed by the agent there for paying pensions that payment was suspended on the pension certificate of Jonathan Elmendorf please inform me without delay the circumstances that have produced the unlooked for result. 

I am respectfully your most Obedient Servant

Henry Wynkoop
_________________________________________
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of pensions
P.S. Is the Examination of the claim of bond [Illegible] Muckler deceased for his widow soon to take place or not

- H. Wynkoop

20.176- [illegible]
8,685 John Elmendorf
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of 
Jonathan Elmendorff

further proof or explanation.

1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? 
Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? 
Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? 
Yes
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?
Yes. His service of express not military & disallowed-
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? 
Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? 
Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? 
No
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? 
Yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? 
Yes
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? 
No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For [blank] year [blank] months, and [blank] days, I served as a [blank] For [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions
merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration
of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate
must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly
attached to the certificate. In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the
certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Jonathan Elmendorff, N. York.
Act 7 June, 1832
To what time last paid
[illegible] to the 4 Sep 1834
JH
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Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington

Pension papers
Return cases H Wynkoop agent
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State of New York Ulster County
Kingston May 2nd 1833

Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War

Sir

Enclosed I return the pension application of Jonathan Elmendorf amended agreeable to the requisitions contained in the brief herewith returned

I am respectfully
Yours &c

Henry Wynkoop
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WE, John Gorman, a Clergyman, residing in the town of Kingston in the County of Ulster and State of New-York, and Abm G. Hardenburgh of Marbletown hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Elmendorf who has subscribed and sworn
to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be eighty one 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,
[illegible] the day and year aforesaid. }

John Gorman
Abm Hardenburgh

in open Court
A G Hardenburgh
John Jansen
Abm A Deyo } Judges


CERTIFICATE OF THE COURT

The Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ulster in the State of New York, sitting this thirteenth
day of September in the year 1832 at the court-house in Kingston in said County, do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as the states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that John Gorman who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Kingston in
the County aforesaid, and that Ab G Hardenbergh
who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Marbletown and a creditable person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

AG Hardenbergh
John Jansen
Abm A Deyo } Judges

Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the in the State of New-York, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Jonathan Elmendorf for a Pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this thirteenth day of September 1832
-
Jacob Snyder
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Jonathan Elmendorf } [illegible] 5 mo
by Wm Myer

William Myer
Pensioner
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State of New York
Ulster County

William Myer of the town of Saugerties County of Ulster aged 74 years a soldier of the Revolutionary War being duly sworn deposes  and says that he is well acquainted with Jonathan Elmendorph of the town of Hurley of the same County a soldier of the Revolutionary War and now an applicant for a pension by the State of New York and was in the Company of Capt Moses Cantine in Col. Levi Paulings Regiment line well knows knows that the said Jonathan Elmendorph belongs to and served in the same Company as the deponent saw the said Jonathan Elmendorph in said service for Five Months in the year 1776 was well known.

State of New York
Ulster County Clerks Office, } ss.

I Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, Do Hereby Certify, That Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior Esquire, was on the day of the date of the Certificate to the annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the
said County of Ulster, duly authorized to take affidavits, &c.; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice; and verily believe the signature "P.V. Gaasbeck Jr" subscribed to the certificate of the said annexed [illegible] to be genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this twentieth day of September 1832

Jacob Snyder

P. V. Gaeesbeck
Justice of the peace

State of New York
Ulster County } ss: 

I Do Hereby certify that a personally acquainted with William Myer that he is a credible person and that his statement is Entitled to credit.

P.V. Gaeesbeck Jr Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Ulster County }

William Myer of the town of Saugerties County of Ulster aged 74 years a soldier of the
Revolutionary war being duly sworn deposes
and says that he is well acquainted with
Jonathan Elmendorf of the town of Hurley of the same County a Soldier of the Revolutionary war and now an applicant for a pension that this deponent was in the Militia
service of the State of New York and was in the Company of Capt Moses Cantine in Col Levi
Paullings Regiment line well knows knows that the said Jonathan Elmendorf belonged to
and Served in the same Company and this upon saw the said Jonathan Elmendorf in said service for five months in the year 1776 and well known that the said Jonathan Elmendorf continued to serve in said corps as a private soldier untill this deponent with the said Company were discharged and that this the said Company was stationed at Kings Bridge,  White Plains, in at Peekskill and was last stationed at a place called Murders Creek near New Windsor on the west side of the Hudson River and was there discharged about the first of January following or 1776 -

William Myer

Subscribed & Sworn this 12th day
of September 1832 before me
P.V. Gaeesbeck Jr
Justice of the peace

New York 
Ulster County ⎬ ss. 

I Do Hereby certify that a personally acquainted with William Myer that he is a credible person and that his statement is Entitled to credit

P.V. Gaeesbeck Jr 
Justice of the peace
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Jonathan Elmendorf } afft 9 month
by
Peter C. Brink


Peter G. Brink
Pensioner
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State of New York,
Ulster County } SS 

Peter C. Brink of the Town of Kingston County of Ulster aged 73 years a Soldier of the Revolutionary war being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Jonathan Elmendorf of the Town of Hurley of the County of Ulster a Soldier of the Revolutionary war and now an applicant for a Pension that this deponent was in the Militia Service of the State of New York in the
Revolutionary war and was in the Company of
Capt Salsbury Lt Conls Nakink of light horse and well knew that the said Jonathan Elmendorf [illegible] to and served in the same Com: [illegible]

STATE OF NEW-YORK.
Ulster County Clerks Office } ss.

I, Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, do hereby certify That Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior Esquire, was on the day of the date of the Certificate to the annexed affiant, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Ulster, duly authorized to take affidavits, &c. 
and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily before the signature P.V. Gaasbeck Jr" subscribed to the Certificate of the said annexed Affidavit to be genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this twentieth day of September 1832

Jacob Snyder

[illegible]
day of September [illegible]
ME P.V.Gaasbeck Jr
Justice of the peace

State of New York Ulster SS: I Do Hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Peter C. Brink, that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit

P.V. Gaasbeck Jr
Justice of the peace
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Peter C. Brink of the Town of Kingston County of Ulster aged 73 years a Soldier of the Revolutionary war being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Jonathan Elmendorf of the Town of Hurley of the County of Ulster a Soldier of the Revolutionary war and now an applicant for a Pension that this deponent was in the Militia Service of the State of New York in the
Revolutionary war and was in the Company of
Capt Salsbury Lt Conls Newkirk of light horse and well knew that the said Jonathan Elmendorf belonged to and served in the same Company that this deponent same the said Jonathan Elmendorf in said Company for Nine Months or more in the year 1777 and knows that the said Jonathan Elmendorf Continued to serve in said corps as a private soldier until this deponent with the said men discharge and that the said Company was stationed at Newburgh and New Windsor in the County of Orange and was discharged in the County of Orange and was discharged sometime in the winter of 1778

Peter C Brink 
his X mark

Sworn & Subscribed having [illegible] its contents to him this 12th day of September 1832 before me P.V. Gaasbeck Jr
Justice of the peace

State of New York Ulster ss: I do Hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Peter C. Brink, that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit

P.V. Gaasbeck Jr
Justice of the Peace
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Wilhelmus France
for
Jonathan Elmendorf }
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Jonathan Elmendorf
Pension Papers

14491

[illegible]
9 mo Dragoon
8 mo pri. [illegible]
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State of New York
Ulster County } ss.

Wilhelmus France of the Town of Kingston County of Ulster aged 77 a Soldier of the Revolutionary war being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Jonathan Elmendorf of the Town of Hurley Ulster County a Soldier of the Revolutionary war and now an applicant for a Pension that this deponent was in the Militia Service of the State of New York in the Revolutionary war and was in the Company of Capt John D. David Lt Buchans and that the said Jonathan Elmendorf served at the same time under the
command of Lt Buchans that this deponent
[illegible]

STATE OF NEW-YORK.
Ulster County Clerk's Office, } ss.

I, Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County do certify, That Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior Esquire, was on the day of the
date of the Certificate to the annexed affidavit, to Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Ulster, duly authorized to take affidavits, to and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the signature P.V. Gaasbeck Jr subscribed to the Certificate of the said annexed Affidavit to be genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this twentieth
day of September 1832
Jacob Snyder


State of New York, Ulster ss: 
I Do Hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Wilhelm France, that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.

P.V. Gansbeck Jr
Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Ulster County } ss. 

Wilhelmus France of the Town of Kingston County of Ulster aged 77 a Soldier of the Revolutionary war being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Jonathan Elmendorf of the Town of Hurley Ulster County a soldier of the Revolutionary war and now an applicant for a Pension that this deponent was in the Militia Service of the State of New York in the Revolutionary war and was in the Company of Capt John L.
David Lt [illegible] and that the said Jonathan Elmendorf Served at the same time under the
command of Lt [illegible] that this deponent
saw the said Jonathan in service for there or four months in the year 1778 and well knows
that the said Jonathan Elmendorf continued to serve as a private Soldier under the command of the above named officers as an express for said Company during the said term above mentioned that the said Company was stationed at the house of Tobias Wynkoop in the town a Saugerties Ulster County as a frontier guard untill duly discharged

Wilhelmus France his X mark

Sworn and Subscribed this 12th September 1832 having read defense to him before me
J.V. Gansbeck Jr
Justice of the peace

State of New York, Ulster ss: I Do Hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Wilhelm France, that he is a credible
person and that his statement is entitled to credit.
P.V. Gansbeek Jr
Justice of the peace
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James L. Edwards Esquire
Pension Office War Department
City of Washington

[Printed vertically]
[illegible]
Jona Elmendorf
NY [illegible] '32
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James L. Edward Esqr
At the request of Jonathan Elmendorf who has drawn a pension for revolutionary services under the last general Provision made by Congress about 3 years ago. I write you to be so obliging to inform me of the cause why this pension has been of late withheld from him. For the purpose of ascertaining whether he will have to obtain new Testimony before he can be restored. He is 85 years old and the amount he has heretofore drawn, if he could be restored to the pension he has once proved himself invited to it would greatly benefit him. He says he knows of no cause for this new decision, but has heard that it was owing to a change in the spelling of his Sirname that Henry Wynkoop who assisted him in preparing his application that he wanted him to sign his power different from his former accustomed mode of spelling his sirname, that he had always wrote his sirname, with a ph instead of f. That is Elmendorph instead of Elmendorf. The first way of writing was the way that the whole family wrote it before & during the revolution since that time I myself as well as all the other [British] men of the whole family have dropped the ph and adopted the f end thereof. And that when he last wrote his name to the power given to Henry Wynkoop, he was requested by him to spell his sirname with an f. Now sir of this is all permit me to assure you that he is the very person who spelt his name in the revolutionary with a ph. That there is no other Jonathan Elmendorf than the very person of that name, and he is a first cousin to me of this explanation may tend to remove the obstacle to his claim I hope it will not be withheld from him for that variances. In as much as his restoration will be of so much benefit to him I must ask you to explain to me what will be required to be done by him to recover his pension, having no doubt myself that he has performed the services, for which he has been considered to a pension to the proofs he has heretofore obtained.
Kingston Ulster County
March of 7th 1837
yours & Lucas Elemendorf