Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 46069, James Van Schoonhoven, New York
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(8-1776)
Service
New York
Van Schoonhoven, James
Number
S 46069
Contents
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 120 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of November 1832 and Sent to J Van Ingen 
Albany N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 $180.00
[illegible] allowance ending 4 Mar 33 $60.00
$240.00
Revolutionary Claim, }
Act 7 June, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. [George] C. Stiles, Clerk
Book D Vol. 5 Page 148
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Serjeant [Sergeant] James Van Schoonhoven Declaration &c
No. 4,650
admitted
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congreſs [Congress] paſsed [passed] June 7th, 1832.
State of New York }
County of Albany } ss.
On the Twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared before Gerrit L. Dox, on of the Justice of the Justice Court of the City of Albany, James Van Schoonhoven of the fifth ward of the said city, he the said James not being able, in consequence of lameneſs [lameness] in both his feet, and other bodily infirmity and weakneſs [weakness] to attend in open Courth, and before the said Justice, he made the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congreſs [Congress] paſsed [passed] June 7th 1832. That in the year 1776 he was ordered out with the militia under Capt. Isaac Defreest in Col. Jacob Lansing's Regiment and marched to Schoharie, and after his return from that tour he marched from Albany to the northward as far as Saratoga, near the mills of General Schuyler and remained there on duty until he returned home to Albany -- that in 1777 he was ordered to march with the Company then under the Command of Capt. Gerrit Groesbeck, and went up the Mohawk River, as far as the German Flatts, and remained there and in the vicinity until the militia were ordered to return to Albany, the Campaign being ended-- In 1778 he was ordered and marched to Stone Arabia and habing served out the whole of that Campaign and returned to Albany-- In 1779 he was out on duty and marched to Fort Hunter and remained during the Capaign and until Discharged-- in 1780 he was out on duty and marched again to Fort Hunter and after serving out that Campaign, he was ordered home to Albany-- That all the remaining part of the Revolutionary War, he always turned out and did duty when ordered, and to the best of his knowledge, performed his Service faithfully, and in the whole of the same, he acted and Served under the appointment of his superior officers, as Serjeant [Sergeant] of the Company to which he belonged-- and that he is Confident and doth declare, that the whole period of his Services amounted to three years and upwards-- He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any penſsion [pension] roll whatever.
In testimony whereof I the
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Said Gerrit L. Dox, the Justice aforesaid, have. after the foregoing declaration, was read and subscribed, and sworn to by the aforesaid Declarer, hereunto Set my hand & seal on the day and in the year aforesaid-- that said James Van Schoonhoven having previously declare his age to be Seventy give years on the 10th day of July 1832.
James Van Schoonhoven
Taken & subscribed before me (written above) this 20th day July 1832
Gerrit L. Dox, on of the Justices of the Justice Court of the City of [page is crumpled]

We Jacob Lasing [illegible notation above] one of the Elders of the Reformed Protestand Dustch Church in the City of Albany, and Nicholas Jeroleman formerly a Captain of a Company in the Albany Regiment of Militia, do hereby certify that we are well and intimately acquainted with James Van Schoonhoven, who hath subscribed and sworn to the within declaration; that we are well satiſfied [satisfied] from his known and established reputation for truth and veracity, that the facts in the said declaration stated, are substantially true-- and the said Nicholas Jeroleman doth further declare, that having frequently seen the declarer when in Service on various occasions, he is confident and perfectly satiſfied [satisfied] of the truth of his declaration.
Jacob Lansing [illegible] 
and Elder of the 1st Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Albany
[illegible] Jeroleman 
Sworn and Subscribed in open Court before the Justice of the Justice Court of the City of Albany 20th July 1832
J. G. Waſson [Wasson] Clk

On the day and year aforesaid, in open Court before the Justices Court of the City of Albany, came Anthony Van Santvoord of the City of Albany, to the Justice of this Court well known as a person of truth and veracity, and on his Oath taken according to Law, deposed and said, tht he is intimately acquainted with James Van Schoonhoven, who hath Subscribed and Sworn to the within declaration, and that from his own knowledge, many of the facts therein Stated, and from his perfect knowledge of his established Character for truth & veracity he believes the statement of facts therein set forth to be true.
Anthony Van Santvoord, one of he Elders of the 2nd Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Albany
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court, 20th July 1832
J. G. Waſson [Wasson] Clk
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and the said Court do hereby declare this opinion, after  the investigation of the matter, and after purring the [illegible] persons by the War Department to the within declares by Gerrit L Dox Esquire of of the Justices of this Court, and taking the depositions of the witneſs [witness] in open Court that the before named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier -- and the Court further certifies that the witneſses [witnesses] who have also signed their depositions are residents of the City of Albany and are credible persons.
J. G. Waſson [Wasson] Clk
City of Albany ſs [ss]. On this 29th Augt. [August] 1832] before the Justices Court of the City of Albany in open Court, personally appeared John Brower, to this Court well know is a person of Strict truth and veracity, who being dully sworn, saith that he is well acquainted, and has been for fifty five years last past with James Van Schoonhoven who hath made the declaration herein before written and by him sworn to and subscribed, and that he always has sustained and still doth, the character of a strictly honest, [illegible] man, and a man of truth and veracity; and that I am myself knowing to many of the fact relative to his Services during the Revolutionary Way, having been performed by him as Serjeant [Sergeant], and that I have no doubt whatever that all the facts by him stated are true.
Sworn and subscribed on the day & year aforesaid
J. G. Waſson [Wasson clk.
John [illegible]
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The supplementary Declaration of James Van Schoonhoven, in addition to, and explanatory of this former declaration [illegible] to by him before Gerrit L. Dox Esq. one of the Justice of hte Justices Court of the City of Albany, to wit:
That he was born in the City of Albany and has resided therein until the present day, and that on this tenth day of July last, he was Seventy five years old-- That he is very deaf and unable to hear the loudest ordinary commotion; and when spoken to, so as to make him understand what is said to him, he has to be spoken to with a more than ordinary voice- that he does not attend divine Services, in consequence of his great deafneſs [deafness]-- That in the month of January last, he unfortunately had a severe fall on the Ice, by means of which, he has been deprived of the use of he feet and the use of he lower limbs, as to be wholly unable to walk, without the aid of crutches, and lately, not even by the help of crutches without the aſsistance [assistance] of other persons-- That he has performed verious Services in the Revolutionary War, as Serjeant [Sergeant] in a militia company in the Albany Regiment, & that all his Services in the militia, excepting perhapsfourteen days, was in the grade of Serjeant [Sergeant] - No Clergy
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men has been called on to Certify as to his belief of his age, nor as to the representation and belief of his services because of his not going to Church for a great many years past, in consequence of his deafneſs [deafness] - He does not promise himself much longer continuance in life, & therefore respectfully submits that if any thing is to be given to him under the laws of Cognreſs [Congress] of the 7 June 1832 - it may come to him before the curtain drops & he shall be numbered with thoſe [those] who have lived.
James Van Schoonhoven
Subscribed [illegible] to the 12th November 1832 before me Gerrit L Dox, one of the Justices of the [illegible] of the city of Albany
Albany County ſs [ss] I Gerrit L. Dox one of the Justices of the Peace [illegible] of the city of Albany do hereby certify that the above named appeared for a pension under the act of Congreſs [Congress] paſsed [passed] on 7 June 1832, cannot, from bodily infirmity attend the [illegible]. Given under my hand this 12th day of Nov. 1832
Gerrit L. Dox
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Albany Justice [illegible] I, John G. Waſson [Wasson] Clerk of said court do certify that the
Gerrit L Dox is one of the Justices of said court and that the signature annexed is his genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have affix [page is crumpled] the seal of said Court this 12th
day of Nov. 1832
John G. Waſson [Wasson] Clk
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J. Van Schoonhoven Albany
Sergeant Defreest Lansing N.Y.
3 years
J.V. Fugen
[signature illegible]
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Invalid
[illegible]
File No. 46069 
James Va Schoonhover
Sergeant
N. Y. Vol
Rev. War
Act June 7 1832
Index: Vol. 5, Page 148
Arrangement of 1870