Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45181, Samuel Akins, New York
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE [black star stamp]
NUMBER
[handwritten] New York. 
Akins, Samuel or 
Aikins
S 45181  [end handwritten]
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CONTENTS
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[handwritten]
19,186
New York 
Samuel Akins. [end handwritten]
of [handwritten] Schoharie Co [end handwritten] in the state of [handwritten] New York [end handwritten] 
who was a [handwritten] Private [end handwritten] in the [handwritten] company [end handwritten] commanded by 
Captain [handwritten] D. Van Ness, [end handwritten] of the regiment commanded
Colonel [handwritten] Dan Schaick [end handwritten] in the [handwritten] New York [end handwritten] 
line, for the term of [handwritten] 13 months to Feb. 1779 [end handwritten] 
Inscribed on the Roll of [handwritten] New York [end handwritten] 
at the rate of [handwritten] 8 [end handwritten] Dollars per month, to commence o[torn paper] 
the [handwritten] 8th [end handwritten] of [handwritten] September 1823. [end handwritten] 
tificate [certificate] of Pension issued the [handwritten] 28 [end handwritten] of [handwritten] Jan. 1824 [end handwritten] 
and [handwritten] sent to Hon I. Herkimer.
H. R. [end handwritten] 
[rears to 11th of crossed out]
Semi anl. all'ce ending [handwritten] 4 Mar 1824 $47 " 16
5 months
23/30 & 4/31
$47 " 16 [end handwritten]
[bracket] Revolutionary claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820. [bracket]
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[all handwritten]
17.779.
The Pension papers
of Samuel Akins
with additional proof
of his services by his
Captain -
addition proof being
required -
Hon. I. Herkimer, H.R.
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[all handwritten] 
State of New York [bracket]
County of Schoharie [bracket] 
P. Lamuel [Samuel] Atkins [Akins] - On this ninth
day of February 1821 personally appeared before the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid in open court
being a court of record for the said county having unlimited
Jurisdiction in point of amount and keeping a record of its
proceedings - aged seventy seven years resident in Sharon
in said County of Schoharie who being first duly sworn accor
cording [according] to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the
Revolutionary war on the continental Establishment as follows
that he enlisted in the continental service in the year 1777 for
thirteen months in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Van
Schoick and in the company commanded by Capt David [there was a word crossed out] 
Van Ness and at the Expiration of the time for which he
enlisted he was honorably discharged that he continued to
serve in the New York line in the said Corps until Febru
ary [February] 1779 when he was discharged from the said service in
Claverack in the State of
of New York - That he was in the
battle of Saratoga at the taking of Burgoyne and that
3.
he has no other evidence in his power, but what is contained
in this declaration
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of
the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that
I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner
disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent
thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provis
ions [provisions] of [illegible] [illegible] 
of Congress entitled " an act to pro
vide [provide] for ["a" is crossed out] certain persons engaged in the land and
navel service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 nor that
●
I have not nor has any person in trust for me any prop
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[all handwritten] 
erty [property] or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have &
any income other than what is contained in the schedule
annexed and by me subscribed - ^Scheopils Real Property I have 
none - Personal property- one bed and bedding worth $6.00
six cups and saucers $0-50 one pot $1.00 six chairs $2.50
one broken tea kettle $.-50 - six earthen plates $0- 37 ½
Two bowls $-18 3/4 one shovel and tongs $1.25 six
knives and forks $1-00 one pail $0-18 3/4
Six Spoons $0-50
a few fragments of kitchen furniture not worth more than
$ $5- that I am in debt for the house, I now
live in for rent about twenty dollars. that I am by trade
Carpenter and that in consequence of my advanced age
I can do but little labour that I have not[illegible] 
[illegible] in my family but my wife named Hannah
sixty six years of age who is also feeble and not able
to contribute to my support -that my property in
all amounts to $14-56¼
Samuel X Aikins
his X mark [flourish]

Sworn to and declared
in open Court on the ninth day
of February 1821 before me
John Swart Clerk
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[all handwritten]
Schoharie County
Clerks Office [bracket]
I John D. Lawyer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County afresaid, in the State of New York, Do 
hereby certify that the foregoing oath &
Schedule thereunto annexed are truly co
pied [copied] from the Records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the
said Court, that the total amount in value
of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Sche
dule [Schedule] does not exceed Fourteen dollars & fifty six
& an half cents.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of the said
Court this nineteenth day of July 1823.
John D. Lawyer Clerk
[flourish]
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COLUMBIA COUNTY,
CLERK'S OFFICE,
[bracket] 88.

I, JUSTUS McKINSTRY, CLERK OF THE
COUNTY OF COLUMBIA, do hereby certify that [handwritten] James
Barton [end handwritten] 
whose signature
appears on the annexed [handwritten] affidavit [end handwritten] ["Certificate" crossed out], was on the date of the
said [handwritten] Affidavit [end handwritten] a [handwritten] Judge [end handwritten] ["Justice" crossed out] of the [handwritten] court of Common Please [end handwritten] ["Peace" crossed out] in and for the County of Columbia,.... IN TESTIMONY
WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal
of the said County, the [handwritten] eighth [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] September [end handwritten] 
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-[handwritten]three[end handwritten] 
Justus McKinstry Clerk
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[all handwritten]
State of New York
Columbia County 
[bracket] [flourish]David VanNess of
the City of Hudson in the County aforesaid
this day personally appeared before me
James Barton a Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas in said County, and
being duly sworn deposeth & saith that
he was a Captain in the Revolutionary
Army in the year 1777 that he served
in the first New York Regiment Com
manded [commanded] by Colonel Hoya[?] Van Schaik
and that Samuel Akins Elisted [enlisted] and
served in his company but does not 
now recollect at what time he
enlisted in his company or at what
time he was discharged - but
verrily believes that he served more than
ten months [flourish] and further
saith not [flourish]
David Van Ness
[flourish]
Sworn & Subscribed
before me this 8th day
of September 1823 -
Before me -
[flourish bracket]
James Barton Judge
Col Court[?] Pleas
[flourish]
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[handwritten] Saml Akins 19.186
Sept. 8. 1823
Died July 18. 1826

45 181 [end handwritten] 
INVALID.
[handwritten]  Revy [end handwritten] ---
File No.
[handwritten] 45181
Samuel Akins
Priv Rev War [end handwritten] 
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Act: [handwritten] 18 March 1818 &
1st May 1820 [end handwritten] 
Index:-- Vol. [handwritten] 3 [end handwritten], Page [handwritten] 6 [end handwritten] 
[Arrangement of 1870.]