Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,092, for George Tiebout, New York
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SERVICE: New York
Tiebout, George (Margaret)
NUMBER: W. 20,092
B.L. Wt. 11.084-160-55.
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Left side, crosswise:
April 18/59. Let to A.D. Ditmars, No 61 William Street, New York -
notice of the reference of his letter of the 15th ult. together [with?] the warrant in the Comr[?] Gen Land Office - [initials illegible]

Bottom left:
Vol. T Page 92

Right side:
13264 Act Mar 3}
Ap 28} '55

Margaret Tiebout wid 
George Tiebout Private 
New York mil: 
Ent. [?]
Dir. [?] 
Rev War 
Revy Pensioner 
N.Y. Feby 48-363 
Ad: 160 Acres Nov: 24" 1855. 
Boynton

V. B. Livingston, Jr. 
New York City

Across right side:
No.11.084  iss. Nov 28/85
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363.
New York (city)
Margaret Tiebout 
widow of George Tiebout 
who served in the Revolutionary war, 
as a private. 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
20 Dollars -- Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 
21 day of June 1848, and sent to
Hon. H. C Murphy
H of R

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 225 Vol. 4

Reported
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[SEAL]
County of Kings 
and State of New York 

On this tenth day of March eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas for county of Kings in the State of New York being a court of record Margaretta Tiebout a resident of the town of Bushwick county of Kings State of New York aged seventy two years and ten months who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July the seventh eighteen hundred and thirty eight entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows- That she is the
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widow of George Tiebout who was a private and volunteer in the army during the entire term of of the revolutionary war (see Testimony of J.W. Lent & Mrs De la Montagnie) That deponent was married to the said George Tiebout on the third day of January seventeen hundred and ninety one at Flatbush in the County of Kings State of New York By the Rev Martinus Schoonmaker of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church (for proof see testimony of Jacobus Calyer who was present at the marriage and witnessed the ceremony - see also the Testimony of Peter Calyer as also the certificate of marriage by the Rev Mr. Schoonmaker attached hereto =
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The Rev Dr Strong present Pastor of the Flatbush Church informs me that the church records during Mr Schoonmakers life are lost) The deponent further testifies that the said George Tiebout and husband of the deponent died on the seventeenth day of September eighteen hundred and twenty six = (for testimony of which see the testimony of William J. Crolius and Charles Tiebout) = The deponent further testifies that deponent was not married to the said George Tiebout previous to his leaving the service = That the marriage took place previous to seventeen hundred and ninety four. 
That the deponent is at this time a widow and has not been married
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since the said George Tiebout died - for proof see testimony of Jane Thorn Charles Tiebout & Wm Crolius = That the said George Tiebout was in the Battle of Long Island, That he was in the army at White plains - and the day before the Battle he was ordered to New York and during the night he assisted in dragging several pieces of cannon to Stuyvesant's Landing otherwise called Stuyvesant's Point = That he assisted in throwing up a breast work and being fired upon by the Brittish vessels in the East River - that he returned to the White Plains the day after the Battle
The Deponent further testifies that the said George Tiebout was in
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the Battle when Stony Point on the Hudson River was taken by the American Army at that time the said George Tiebout was accustomed to come at intervals of about three mo[n]ths from the American army to the house of Mr Thorn and that Mr Thorn lived about three quarters of mile from Stony Point during the revolutionary war -  (see testimony of Jane Thorne) - The deponent further states that the night on which Stony Point was taken was a dark Stormy night That the counter sign was "Peory" [i.e. Paoli] (That Wayne cried [R]emember Peory, Boys) and that the solders had a piece of white paper fastened in front of their hats that they
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might distinguish one another from the enemy  That the said George Tiebout accompanied some troops sent against the Indians as far as the Genesee river = 
The deponent further states that George Tiebout was in the Malitia during the revolutionary war under Captain Garet Akerson the 3rd of October 1779 Colonel not known.  that he was under Capt. John Gardner January 20th 1780 = (for "Proof See Testimony of the Comptroller" "taken from Book No [4?] signed G" the deputy Comptroller) 
The deponent further testifies that
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her husband George Tiebout joined the 
Independent Veteran Corps of Artillery 
of the city of New York - The certificate of which was signed & sealed October the 6th 1813 "one thousand eight hundred and thirteen" and thirty eighth year of American Independence = 
See the certificate of Capt George W Chapman and James W Lent's 
[Signed] Margaretta Tiebout
Subscribed and sworn in open Court} 
this 10th day of March 1843.} 
[Signed] Thos. W. Chadwick 
Dep Clk Kings Co Com Pleas 

State of New York} 
Kings County} ss.  I Adrian Hegeman Clerk of the County of Kings and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county Do Hereby Certify That on this tenth day of March the said Margarra [sic] Tiebout Appeared in open Court and subscribed and swore to the foregoing deposition 
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court and County this 10th day of March 1843
[ribboned SEAL]
[Signed] A. Hegeman clk
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County of Kings and State of New York 
on this day of March eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before William Leaycraft one of the Justices of the Peace of the Town of Williamsburgh 
in the County of Kings in the State of New York Wm H Van Doren a resident of the village of Williamsburgh the county of Kings the State of New York aged thirty three years and three days who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration 
That he is the Pastor of the Reformed Protestant dutch Church of the village of Williamsburgh and that he is personally acquainted with Margaretta Tiebout = He further testifies that she is a member
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of his church in good and regular standing and that she is well known as the surviving widow of George Tiebout - and that there are hundreds who are living still and who personally knew George Tiebout and do believe without any doubt whatever that he served during the entire period of the Revolutionary war and that he was on principle apposed to applying for a pension as long as he could support himself without it = The deponent further is personally acquainted with Charles Tiebout her Son who is an officer in the church of Dutch denomination - he further testifies to the entire respectability and credibility of the following witnesses - 
Elizabeth Dela Montagnie 
Jas. W Lent
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Jane Thorne  of New York City
Jacobus Calyer of Bushwick 
Peter Calyer  of Bushwick
Wm J Crolius 
The deponent further testifies that any amount of Testimony in the City of New York among Clergy and Laity as to the entire respectibility [sic] of the witnesses and the veracity of their testimony
[Signed] Wm. H. Van Doren

Sworn before me this Tenth} 
day of March 1843} 
[Signed] William Leaycraft
Justice of the Peace
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State City & County}
of New York} 
On this tenth day of January Eighteen hundred and forty three, personally appeared before me William Inglis associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of Newyork which is a court of Record Jane Thorn a resident of the City and County & State of New York aged Seventy years - who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration 
That her maiden name was Jane Lamb and ^she is a cousin of Elizabeth De le Montagine of the city of Newyork and also of George Tiebout late of the said City deceased; deponents father & the mother of the said De La Montagine & Tiebout being brother & sister - That deponent at the time of the storming of Stony Point during the Revolutionary War lived with her parents about three quarters of a Mile from the said Fort on the old continental road & that deponent recollects very distinctly the taking of the said Fort by the American Troops under Wayne; that it was at night and during a heavy storm - That a few weeks before the taking of Stony Point Junis Tiebout the father of the said George Tiebout took deponent to his house at Kakiat now called Hempstead about Ten or Eleven
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Miles from Stony Point, where deponent staid a short time. That the said George Tiebout and his brother Henry were then absent from their said fathers house - That during the said revolutionary war & whilst deponent lived at Stony Point as aforesaid the said George Tiebout and Henry Tiebout used to come occasionally to deponents father's house from the American army in which they were serving at that time; That the said George Tiebout was a shipwright by trade & Henry was a Joiner & during the revolutionary war were attached to the gun carriages & wagons, which deponent supposes was owing to their being handy with tools - That deponent attended the funeral of the said George Tiebout, who died at Staten Island Twelve or thirteen years ago but he was buried in the
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city of Newyork. That he left him surviving his Widow Margaret, who is still living in the city of Newyork & is his widow - That deponents father served during the whole revolutionary war first in the Scows to row the soldiers from Stony Point to VerPlaancks Point & then at the close of the war in the commissary's department under Captain Keers - That he died more than forty years ago - That deponent knew the said Margaret Tiebout who is now applying for a pension, before she married the said George Tiebout. That deponent heard of her marrying the said Tiebout more than fifty two years ago, it having taken place before deponents marriage which will have taken place fifty two years ^ago next May the 22d of that month - That deponent was better acquainted with Henry Tiebout than with his brother George Tiebout -
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Henry Tiebout having been a [illegible- bachelor?] & lived with deponent a number of years in her house - That deponent used to talk much with the said Henry about the revolutionary war & of himself & his brother George being engaged in it on the American side - The deponent has always heard the said George Tiebout spoken of as a Revolutionary soldier - That he was a grown up man when deponent was a little girl. That deponent is a widow
Jane (X her mark) Thorn
Subscribed & sworn to before me 
this 10th Day of January AD 1843 
[Signed] Wm Inglis Assoc Judge &c
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State City & County}
of New York}
On this tenth day of January Eighteen hundred and forty three, personally appeared before me Thos. W. Chadwick Deputy Clerk of Kings County, in Open Court Charles Tiebout, a resident of the town of Bushwick in the County of Kings and State of New York, aged thirty eight years & eleven months, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration
that he has heard George Tiebout say he was in the Battle of Long Island and how the american army was cut off at Guawanus [sic] Creek, when they attempted to cross they stuck fast in the mud & was shot down by the Brittish when they were so deep in the mud that they could not extricate themselves - also he showed me where many could have crossed at the mouth of the creek without being mired had they knowed it, also his Elder Brother Henry Teibout, told me the said George Tiebout was in the Battle of long Island - And the said George Tiebout also told me he was in the army at white plains, and the day before the Battle he (that is the company he belonged to) was ordered to New York and when they came to Stuyvesant Lane they was ordered to leave their knap sacks, then marched down the lane & hauled several pieces of cannon over the Marsh by night to Stuyvesants Point (now called the dry dock in New York) and threw up breast work in the night, and early in the morning the Brittish shipping came down the east river when they fired upon them doing a considerable damage untill the order was given "Boys make the best of your ways" and had barely time to save them selves with out going after their knap sacks, as the Boats
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from the shipping was landing above them, & that he heard the Cannon at white plains, that night they encamped at Harlen heights, and then marched to white plains, where he learned the Brittish army had just left - his elder brother Henry Tiebout told me he went to ^the said George Tiebout and gave him a shirt at white plains, and told him if they could not find him in cloths he ought to go home but George said he would not go home. And the said George Tiebout told me he was in the Battle when the fort on Stony Point was taken, that it was a very dark night, that the counter sign was Peoly [Paoli] and they had a little piece of white paper stuck in front of their hats so that they would not destroy one another as they did at the Battle of Peoly, also the said George Tiebout told me he was sent out with two others to wach [sic the movements of the Brittish army when the Brittish was encamped on Statten [sic] Island and had not a woman warned then of their danger they would have been cut off in a few minutes, and that he went in the army against the Indians as far as the Genisee [sic] River and then returned. and when the aforesaid George Tiebout died deponent was present, that he died on Staten Island, and deponent brought the deceased from Staten Island to New York to the house of William Crolius in Allen Street which was also the residence of deceased's Sister Elizabeth De le Montagine, where the deceased's funeral took place - deponent further recorded deceased death which took place the seventeen day of September Eighteen hundred and twenty six - the deceased came to his death on this wise, viz - deceased was unwell and got up in the night time and fell down stairs which caused his death five days after the fall, and the applicant Margaretta Tiebout is the deceased widow & that she has never been married
[Signed] Charles Tiebout
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Subscribed and sworn in open Court}
this 10th day of March 1843.}
[Signed] Thos. W Chadwick Dep Clk
Kings Co Com Pleas

State of New York}
Kings County} ss.
I Adrian Hegeman clerk of the County of Kings and also clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county Do Hereby certify that on this 10th day of March 1843 Charles Tiebout appeared in Open Court and subscribed and swore to the foregoing deposition.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court and county this 10th day of March 1843.
[SEAL]
[Signed] A Hegeman clk
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State of New York,}
New York City and County} S.S. 
On this 20th day of April 1855, before me a Notary Public, in and for the State and County of New York, personally appeared Margaret Tiebout, a resident of the town of Greenpoint in the County of Kings, and State of New York, aged 85 years, who on her oath declares, that she is the widow of George Tiebout deceased, who was a private in the Revolutionary War; that her said husband, continued in actual service in said war, for fourteen days and over, as will appear from the evidence already produced, and on file at the Pension Office at Washington; that she now receives a pension of twenty dollars per annum, under the act of Congress of February 2d 1848, on account of the services of her said husband, in said war. She makes this declaration in order to obtain the bounty land, to which she may be entitled, under the act approved March 3d 1855, and further declares, that she has never before applied for nor received any bounty land, under this or any other act of Congress, for the said services of her said husband. She furthermore declares that she is now a widow. 
[Signed] Margaretta Tiebout 

We Geo: W. Tiebout and Margaretta J. Tiebout residents of the said town of Greenpoint, on our oaths declare, that we are personally acquainted with the above affiant Margaret Tiebout; that know her to be the same person she represents herself to be, in the foregoing affidavit, to
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which she has subscribed in our presence and that she is now a widow.
[Signed] Geo. W. Tiebout
[Signed] Margaretta J. Tiebout

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year before written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and I have no interest in this claim.
[SEAL]
[Signed] M Clarkson Jr
Notary Public
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Act March 3d 1855.
Bounty land claim
Margaret Tiebout.
93264
presented by
V.B. Livingston Jr.
New York City.
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I hereby certify that Margaret Tiebout, who has signed the foregoing declaration, is a pensioner on the roll of this agency, under act February 2d 1848.
New York City Pension Agency
April 20th 1855.
[Signed] Van Brugh Livingston Pension Agent
Pension Agent
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State City and} 
County of New York} 
On this tenth day of January Eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before me William Inglis Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City & County of New York- Jacobus Calyer a resident of the Village of Williamsburg in the County of Kings and State of New York aged Seventy five years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration 
That he is a brother of Margaret or Margrietye Callyer who married George Tiebout late of the city of Newyork, deceased; that deponent was present at the marriage of the said Margaret Calyer and George Tiebout which took place more than fifty years ^ago; that they were married in FlatBush, Kings County state of Newyork by the Reverend Mr Schoonmaker of the Dutch Reformed Protestant Church ^who is now deceased; that deponents family then resided at Bushwick in Said County of Kings - that the said Tiebout was a ship carpenter by Trade - that deponent is by occupation a farmer. That said George Tiebout has been dead a number of years but deponent does not recollect how many. It is more than ten. That said Margaret deponents Said Sister survived the said George Tiebout & is his widow - that deponent from his first acquaintance with the Said George Tiebout has always understood from him & his acquaintances & verily believes that he served in the Revolutionary War in the American war 
Jacobus (X his mark) Calyer

"ago" & "who" interlined 
Subscribed & Sworn before me 
this 10th day of January 1843 
Wm Inglis Assoc: Judge &c
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No. 93264
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr. 23, 1855
George Tiebout
Rev. War

Warrant 11084-160-55

V.B. Livingston Jr.
New York City
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This is to all Whom it may Concern That Jorge tiebout and Margrietye Colyer are intered in the State of matrimony the 3 day of jenuary 1791
[Signed] Mattinus Schoonmaker V.D.M.
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Left side:
rep 12 July 44

Right side:
5833
New York City
Margaret Tiebout
widow of George Tiebout
who was a Private
in the Revo. War.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
12 day of July 1844 and sent to
Chs. Tiebout
Williamsburg
New York

[Acts of March 3, 1843 & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 263
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8311. 
New York 
Margaret Tiebout 
widow of George Tiebout 
who was a pensioner under the Act of ---
and who died on the 17th Sept 1826 
of Kings Co in the State of New York 
who was a Private in the Company 
commanded by Captain Akerson of the
Regt commanded by ---- in the 
Revolution line for six Months 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York City 
at the rate of 20 Dollars -- Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of April 1844 
and sent to Hon. H. C. Murphy Hs of Reps 
Total amount $100. 
[Act July 7, 1838.] 
Recorded by Tho Lumpkin Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1. Page 183. 
Reported
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Crosswise: 
93264

FREE [postage]
NEW YORK APR 34 [postmark]
L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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11,084
160 Acres
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Pen[?] 2d Feb 48,
N. Y. City
Boynton
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New York April 21st 1855. 

Sir,  Enclosed herewith, I transmit to you, the applications of Maria Brower, Jane Gilmore, & Margaret Tiebout, for bount land, under the late act. 
Should the same be found in due order, please direct to me at this city. 
I am
very respectfully 
your obedient servant 
[Signed] Van Brugh Livingston, Jr. 

L. P. Waldo, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Revy 
WIDOW, &c. 
No. 20092 
Margaret Tiebout 
Widow of 
George Tiebout 
Pri Rev War
Act Feb 2d 48 
Index: Vol. M Page 276 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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6036 No. Act 1844- 22
M. Tiebout
acts '43 '44
$20 per an

Chs. Tiebout
Williamsburg 
N. York

Upside down:
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.

Crosswise:
6136[?] July 6 '44
Williamsburgh N.Y. JUL 4 [postmark]
NYork
Mar 3d 1843
Marg't Tiebout

Faintly:
act '43
'44
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James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.

Upside down:
6036 No. Act 1844- 22
M. Tiebout
acts '43 '44
$20 per an

Chs. Tiebout
Williamsburg 
N. York

Crosswise:
6136[?] July 6 '44
Williamsburgh N.Y. JUL 4 [postmark]
NYork
Mar 3d 1843
Marg't Tiebout
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James L Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions 

Sir 
Enclosed is a Declaration of Mrs Tiebout in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the acts of Congress passed on the 3d of March 1843 & 17th of June 1844 - I respectfully, ask an early consideration of this claim & remain 
Sir
With Great Respect 
Your Obedient Servt 
[Signed] Charles Tiebout 
Williamsburg July 3rd 1844
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House of Representatives
June 17, 1848

Sir
In complying with the forms and regulations transmitted to me by you on the 30th ult. in relation to the claim of Mrs Margaret Tiebout under the act of 2d Feby 1848, I enclose you the affidavit of Mrs Tiebout.
Yours resply
Hen: C. Murphy

Jas. L. Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
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admitted

Hon. H.C. Murphy
H of R
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State of New York}
County of Kings}  on this fourteenth day of June ^1848 personally appeared before the Justice of the Peace of the town of Bushwick Margaret Tiebout a resident of Bushwick in the County of Kings, aged Seventy Eight years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d day of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who ^served during the Revolutionary war that she is the widow of George Tiebout who was a private under Capt Garret Ackerson in Col. Gilbert Cooper's Regt., and the amount She received under the act of June 17th 1844 was twenty dollars per annum, up to the fourth day of March last 1848. 
She further declares that She is still a widow 
[Signed] Margarett Tiebout
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before }
[Signed] David Provost 
Justice of the Pence
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STATE OF NEW YORK,}
County of Kings} ss.
I,  JOHN M. HICKS, Clerk of the County of Kings, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that David Provost whose name is subscribed to the Affidavit ^or instrument, and thereon written, was at the time of taking such affidavit, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, dwelling in the said County, elected and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice, and verily believe the signature to the said Affidavit is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County, this 14th day of June 1848 
[SEAL]
[Signature cut off]
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Declaration 
State of New York} Town of Williamsburgh 
County of Kings SS 
On this Second day of July Eighteen hundred & forty four appeared before the subscriber a Commissioner of Deeds for the Village of Williamsburg County of Kings & State of New York Margaret Tiebout a resident of bushwick in the County of Kings aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Acts of Congress, passed on the third day of March, 1843, and the 17th of June, 1844, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That She is the widow of George Tiebout who was a private under Capt Garret Ackerson, & Capt John Gardner, that she received a pension of 20 dollars per annum under act of July 7th 1838. She further declares that she is still a widow 
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before 
[Signed] Margaret Tiebout
[Signed] William Leaycraft Justice of the Peace 
[Signed] W V Nichols 

I, W.V. Nichols, do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Margaret Tiebout widow and that I identified her as the same Individual who subscribed her name to the above Affidavit whereupon I subscribed my name as witness to the same and to the identification. 
[Signed] W.V Nichols
Witness Present 
[Signed] William Leaycraft Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK}
COUNTY OF KINGS} ss. 
I, JOHN M. HICKS, Clerk of the County of Kings, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said county, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that William Leaycraft whose name is subscribed to the certificate of Proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, dwelling in the said county, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice, verily believe the signature to the said proof or acknowledgement is genuine. 
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said court, this 2nd day of July 1844
[Signed] John M. Hicks Clerk.
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STATE OF NEW-YORK}
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK} ss. 
I, ANDREW WARNER, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New-York, being a Court of Record and the County Court, DO CERTIFY, 
That William Inglis whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment Associate Judge of said Court dwelling in the said City, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same; and I FURTHER CERTIFY, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of such Judge and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court, the 29th day of August 1843 
[Signed] Andrew Warner Clerk.
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8738
Margaretta Tiebout
N.Y.
act 7. July '38

Chas. Tiebout Esqr
Wmsburg N.Y.
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State City and County} 
of New York} 
On this tenth day of January Eighteen and forty three, personally appeared before William Inglis Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City & County of Newyork, in the State of Newyork, Peter Calyer, a resident of the town of Bushwick in the County of Kings in the State of New York, aged about Sixty one years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration 
That his sister Margaret or Margaretta Calyer married George Tiebout late of the City of Newyork deceased and is now his widow;  that the said Marriage took place at FlatBush in Kings County State of Newyork when deponent was about ten or eleven years of age; that deponent has always understood & believes that the said Tiebout was a Soldier during the revolutionary war on the American side - that deponent's said widow is still unmarried 
[Signed] Peter Calyer 
Subscribed & Sworn to this 10th day of January AD 1843 before me 
[Signed] Wm Inglis
Assoc Judge
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State City & County} 
of New York} 
On this tenth day of January Eighteen hundred forty three, personally appeared before me William Inglis Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City & County of Newyork 
William J. Crolius, a resident of the City County & State of New York aged sixty years -who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration That he was well acquainted with George Tiebout late of the City of Newyork, ship wright, deceased; that he died about sixteen years ago & his funeral took place from deponents house. That he was deponents uncle by Marriage - That deponent has always understood & believes that he was a revolutionary Soldier - That he left him Surviving his widow Margaret Tiebout, who is Still living 
[Signed] Willm J Crolius
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 10th Day of January A D 1843 
[Signed] Wm Inglis Assoc Judge
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4. March 1844
Margaret Tiebout
Act 7 July 1838

m91-

admd
6 mo pri
$20

Hon H.C. Murphy
HR
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State of Newyork
City and County of Newyork ss:   I William Inglis, associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the city and County of Newyork, which Court is a Court of record, do hereby certify that from inquiries that I have made and from my personal acquaintance with James W. Lent herein after named I am satisfied that Jane Thorn, Jacobus Calyer, Peter Calyer and William J. Crolius, who respectively made depositions before me on the tenth day of January last past in the Matter of the Application of Margaret Tiebout for a pension and James W. Lent who made a deposition before me in the same matter on the fourth day of February last past, which depositions are hereto annexed, were at the time of making such depositions& Still are persons of truth & veracity, of good character in the community where they reside & where they now reside and to whose depositions full credit may be given.
And I further Certify that from the like inquiries I am satisfied that Elizabeth De La Montagnie who made a deposition before me in the said matter on the tenth day of January last part, which is hereto annexed, and who has since died, was at the time of the making of the Said deposition, a person of truth &
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veracity, a person of good character in the Community where she resided & to whose deposition full credit May be given. 
In witness whereof I have to these presents set my hand this Twenty ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & forty three 
[Signed] Wm Inglis 
Assoc Judge Nyork Com Pleas
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STATE OF NEW-YORK}
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK,} SS. 
I, NATHANIEL JARVIS, CLERK of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said City and County, being a Court of record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That William Inglis, Esqr before whom the annexed depositions were taken, was, at the time of taking the same, Associate Judge of said Court in and for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by the laws of this State to take the same; and that I believe the Signatures of said Judge thereunto subscribed are genuine. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 2d day of March 1843 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Nath'l Jarvis Clerk.
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State of Newyork 
City and County of Newyork ss.
On this tenth day of January one thousand Eight hundred & forty three personally appeared before me William Inglis associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the city & County of Newyork, which is by Statute a Court of Record 
Elizabeth De la Montagnie a resident of the said City aged eighty Eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration 
That her maiden name was Elizabeth Tiebout and that she is the sister of George Tiebout late of the city of Newyork deceased; that her said brother was in the american army at the time the battle of Long Island & of the taking of Stony Point; that he was in the army during the whole of the revolutionary war & came home only occasionally during the said war; that deponent was born in the city of Newyork & left with her father when the British entered the city of New York and that She resided between Haverstraw and Kakiat for Eight years During the said War; that whilst the deponent lived there her said brother George used to come home from the army and deponent used to stand sentry & see whether any Tories or British were coming &
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give him information so as to escape. That deponent used also to make clothes for her brother during that time That deponent recollects that her said brother married Margaretta or Margaret Calyer - and this deponent further saith that the ground on which Stony Point Fort stood was on the land of an uncle of deponent named Lamb.
Elizabeth (X her mark) De La Montagnie
Subscribed & sworn to this 10th day of January 1843 
before me
[Signed] Wm Inglis Assoc Judge &c
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Crosswise:
For Mr. Charles Tiebout

12 1/2 [?]
[Postmark illegible]
Rev'd W.H. Van Doren
Williamsburgh
Long Island N.Y.
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D Wyckoff
In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:   
3d Oct 1779  George Tiebout  £2.13.4
20th Jany 1780 George Tiebout 8.0.0
3 mo. 25 ds

STATE OF NEW-YORK,}
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, Jany 30th 1843.}
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 4. now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz: 
First- under Capt. Garret Akerson in Col. Not Known Regt. 
Second,  " " John Gardner in  "  " Regt.
[Signed] Philip Phelps
Dep Comptroller
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City County &} 
State of New York} ss. To all thoes to Whom these Presents May in Anywise Concern That I the subscriber Whose signature &c is Affixed Do say that Applications have been Made to me by the friends & Relatives of Mr George Tiebout now said to be deceased for the Purposesses [sic] of Ascertaining my Knowledge & Acquaintance with Him in his lifetime by way of Coroberating [sic] Evidence For the furtherance of An Application of his Now Old Widowed wife with the vew [sic] to obtain a pention from our Genl Goverment on Account of his (George Tiebout) Having been in our old Continentle [sic] service during or Any part thereof of Our Revolutionary War with the Brittish King for the liberties & Independace of our Beloved Country & to all which Enquiries I will state as briefly as the Nature of the Case or Cases will Admit & my Old Mind and Memory as well as Recollection will Serve 
Therefore in the first Instance I say that I now am Conciderably [sic] over Eighty & sloly [sic] Crawling on to ninety Years of my Age & that I am now one of the few Nay very few Remaining old native Residents of this City & County of New York And also that I am One of the few Nay Mighty few now Left living of those Citizens who was like myself In our Continentle American Service during or Any Part of the time of our Revolutionary War from 1776 to its final Close in the Spring of the Year 1783 And I further state That I was personally and well acquainted with Mr George Tiebout (and his brother Henry) In our Youthfull and Boyish Days That at the commencement of ^our Revolutionary Troubles I Know him (and them) to be real and True blue Reble (as the Tories called all of us) Whigs And Supporters of the Cause of our Country That In consequence of the Repeated Repulsesses [?] ^of our American Army Met with on Long Island in the
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Fall of the year 1776 Genl George Washington (Heven bless Him) Vewing [sic] as he did the Greate superiority in Numbers as well as their means of the Brittish Army Over that of our Continentle Troops together with the Powerfull aid of their Tory American Frie[n]ds Wisely Nay Very Wisely tow [?] ^ordered that our troops Retreate as silently as possable & abandon the Island & in like manner & way Recommended The Inhabitants of the City of New York who Could And Choose to Seek Refuge in other Parts of our Country to Avoid the fanges & blessings of the Brittish Troops & their Clemencies to do so as speededly as posessable In consequence of all which Caused Much & Greate Confusion Which Caused the Seperation of Connections Friends & Acquaintances Untill that ever to be remembered Crisesses was Terminated by the Conclusion of Peace in the Spring of the Year 1783 at which Period all those who was in our Continentle service in Any way as Well as the Greater Part of Troops were discharged Except a Portion As a Corps de reserve for the Purpose of Escorting Genl George Washington into And Again take posession of our City of New York And Which was done on the 25th of Novr 1783 And the (bloody) Brittish forces abandoned our Beloved County Tho not without leaving Marks of their Barbarous & Cruel Savage Enmities During all which Awful Periods as aforestated of our Revolutionary Strugle it so Happened That I did not fall in With or saw Mr George Tiebout (as was the Case of many others of my Old Acquaintances & fellow towns Boys) Altho I was in our Continentle Service Nearly During the War) untill some time after the Peace when I was Informed that he had been in our army & was one of them who made (amongst others) his Escape ^with other Troops at the Retreat from Long  (over)
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Island And After Which he (George Tiebout) and that ^he had afterward served in our Continentle service in the Remainder of that War And as ^a Confermation of which he was Elected & Chosen A Member of the Company of Old Vitern [Veteran] Artitery of '76 of this City of Which at its first Orginiseation ^of which I was One of its members And by ^the Rules & Bylaws (which was Strictly Adhearto & Inforced ) One of which was that none Could or should be Admitted A member thereof who was not well Known to have served in our Continentle Army in our Revolutionary War or produce Good and Satisfactory Evidence of his having so served therefore By his (George Tiebout) being of the above Classesses was Admitted a Member thereof as will more fully appear & shew by his Certificate of Membership Under The Hand & Seal of Captain John Warren Chapman now Commodant of said Corps on Core of Artilery From and by All which facts taken together it is Confidentionally hoped & prayed will have all their Full-weight with those in whose hands & powers the Granting of Pentions Rests & that they will do all the Justice to the Claim of the Widow of Mr George Tiebout (now deceased) Their cannot be the least doubt Further I say Not other then Pray my bad Writing &c &c may be Excused when Old Age is taken in Consideration 
New York City Jany 24th 1842 
[Signed] JW Lent
Sworn before me the fourth day of February one Thousand Eight hundred & forty three by the said James W. Lent 
[Signed] Wm Inglis Associate Judge Newyork Common Pleas
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George Tiebout
W. 20,092
New York
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PRO DEO ET PATRIAE.
The Independent Veteran Corps of Artillery, of the City of New-York, reposing full confidence in the abilities and patriotism of George Tiebout have constitutionally elected him as Member of this Corps, and do hereby authorize and enjoin upon him, to assume an fulfil all duties appertaining to said station, as Member of said Corps.
Attested under my hand and seal this Sixth day of October in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirteen and thirty-eighth year of American Independence.
[SEAL]
[Signed] George W. Chapman Capt. Comdt.