Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 28,958, Jeremiah Young, New York
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New York    Young, Jeremiah       S 28,958
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24,349
New York

Jeremiah Young

Albany Co. in the State of New York
who was a Corpl in the [illegible] commanded
by Captain DeWitt of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Snyder in the New York
line for Private 9 mos., 14 days
Corporal 4 mos.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 46 Dollars 21 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Nov.
1833 ----- and [illegible] J.B. Moore

Arrears to the 4th of Sep., '33     $115.52
Semi-anl allowance ending [illegible]  $23.10

Died Feb. 18, 1851                                 $138.62
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Geo. Stiles, Clerk,
Book E, Vol 4, page 127
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State of New York
Albany County

On this 15th day of July, A.D. 1833, personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Judge of the County Court, of  the County of Albany, in the State aforesaid, Jeremiah Young, a resident of the town of [illegible] in the County of Albany in the State of New York, aged 77 years, on the 2nd day of October last who first 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
He first entered the said service at the town of [illegible] (then called [illegible] or Kingston) in the County of Ulster in the State of New York in the month of May or June 1776, having been drafted and joined Capt. DeWitt's Company and Colonel Snyder's Regiment of Militia, and was marched under the command of Sergeant Peter Eigner to a place called Woodstock, near the Catskill Mountains about 8 or 9 miles back from the Hudson River and was there stationed and kept guard for the term of three months and was dismissed about the last of August or first of September, 1776 and then returned home.  He served at this time as a private soldier.
He again entered the said service  in the month of September 1777, the militia having been called for and marched to next camp on the Hudson River and from there to Catskill
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where he stayed a short time, then marched to Albany and there stayed a short time, then marched to Saratoga and was there engaged in putting up breastworks and fortifications and continued there until after the surrender of Burgoyne in October, 1777 and then was marched back to Albany and then down the river to Kingston, and was dismissed about the first of November, 1777, having served at this time as a private soldier one month and two weeks. He belonged to Capt. Snyder's Company and Colo Snyder's Regiment.  He  was marched to Saratoga under the command of Lieut. Backer who belonged to Capt. Snyder's Company.

He was again called into the said service about the middle or a little after the month of November 1777, the militia having been called out and marched in Capt.Snyder's Company of militia to a place called Rembought near New Burgh and was there stationed and kept guard to prevent the depredation of the Indians and served as a private soldier one month and was then dismissed and he returned home, thinks the whole Regiment commanded by Colo.. Snyder was called out at this time and knows that the whole of the Capt. Snyder's Company were ordered out and marched to the place aforesaid, under the command of Major Houghtailing.

He again entered the said service about the first of August 1778 having been drafted and joined Capt.