Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6721, for Jacob Mc Ginnis, New York
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(3-1776) 

SERVICE 
New York 

McGinnis, Jacob 

NUMBER 
R. 6721

CONTENTS
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[left side]
1838 Jany 13. Maj J.R McGinness history except military   Prior 

[right side]
[crossed out: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.]
[stamp] REJECTED
6791
P.O.  Jacob McGinnis
Service: 
Enlisted:  , 18  .
Discharged:  , 18  .
Application filed:  , 18  .
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted: 
Attorney: 
P. O. 
Recognized.   Contract.
Cert. of Dis.   Searched for  , 18  .
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New York
Act June 7th 1832 
10 Nov.
letter to J. Rowley 
6721
Rejected   G.W.C.
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Power of attorney
case of 
Jacob McGinnis 
New York 

Filed 24th Sept 
F E. Hassler 
Present
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Suspended
Act 1832
New York
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c. 
STATE OF New York 
COUNTY OF Columbia } Be it known that before me George Decker a Justice of the Peace personally appeared Eliebeth MacGinnis aged 74 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the widow of Jacob McGinnis who was a Revolutionary Soldier in the State of New York and that he died on the twentieth [illegible] day of September 1845 and that they were married on the 28 day of October in the year 1798 and that they were residents of Claverack in the State of New York and that she resided there 32 years, and that she resides in Claverack and that furthermore she BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of substitution, F. E. HASSLER, of Washington City, D. C., as her true and lawful Attorney for her and in her name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U.S. Government and State officers her rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may be due her as widow of Jacob McGinnis who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law she may be entitled. 
In witness whereof, she has on this 15th day of September 1852, hereunto signed her name, and affixed her seal [signed] Elisebeth Macginnis  X her mark  {SEAL}
Witness: Michael McCallion
Witness John S [Millspaugh?]
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify, that Elisebeth McGinnis has always by the community been known as the widow of Jacob McGinnis 
Dated on this 15th day of September 1852 
[signed] George Decker J.P. 

Town of Claverack
COUNTY of Columbia } to wit:
State of New York
I hereby certify, That George Decker. Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signative above written is genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Columbia County Court, this Sixteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty two 
[signed] John R Currie Clerk. 
* If a widow applies, state “the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband." 
State under what act pensioned, or when pension commenced, if a pensioner - and amount of pension.
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Commanded part of the army. Said Applicant says that while he stood as one of the Night Watch as aforesaid, and at other times both before, and after the aforementioned and specified times he was frequently called upon, and marched and followed after the robbers and tories in the town of Claverack and the Manor of Livingston, as aforesaid, but does not recollect how long, only can say a few days at a time, & then at home, although considered, and held himself in readiness at all times at a minutes warning, from the spring of 1778 until the year 1780. 
Said Applicant never received any written discharge from the service, but Resided in the Town of Claverack in said County of Columbia until the year 1798 then moved into the County of Green in said State lived there two years then moved back to the town of Claverack aforesaid & lived there two years then moved into the Corporation of Hudson & lived there three years & then moved back into Claverack again & lived there four years & then moved, in 1809, into the State of Vermont near the Canada line & lived there four years, then in 1813, moved back to Claverack and resided there three years, then moved into the County of Green & stayed there four years then removed back into the town of Claverack and has resided there ever since. He will here state some of the persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood John P Miller first Judge of the Court of Common pleas for said County of Columbia, Stephen Storm Esqr Stephen Miller, Johoaikim. A. Van Valkenburgh Post Master Claverack, John M. Shoemaker and Richard Sluyter, Clergyman & Nathaniel Rowley all of whom can testify as their belief of the above statement & will say he is a man of truth & veracity 
And further said applicant says that Michael Hess now a resident of the town of Claverack, was with him a part of the time above mentioned & saw him doing duty as a Revolutionary Soldier in the Army - 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State 
[signed] Jacob McGinnis
Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year above mentioned
[signed] Hiram Wilbur Clerk 

I Michael Hess Residing in the town of Claverack in the County of Columbia aforesaid, hereby certify that I am 79 years of age and am well acquainted with Jacob McGinnis who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration and knew him before the Revolutionary War and saw said McGinnis doing military duty, in the Service of the United States during part of the above mentioned time in the Revolution, and further believe him to be a man of truth and entitled to credit – The Statement made in relation to the Robbers & Tories I certify is Correct.
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having been engaged in the same service with said McGinnis 
The Robbers and Tories in this part of the Country were very troublesome and required constant watching nearly the whole of the time, for four or five years. 
[signed] Michael Hess X his mark
Sworn & subscribed the Day & year first of above mentioned before me 
[signed] Hiram Wilbur, Clerk 

I, John J. Miller, first Judge of the Court of Common pleas in and the County of Columbia, Do hereby certify that I reside in the town of Claverack in said County of Columbia, and that I am well acquainted with Jacob McGinnis, the within named applicant and have been for upwards of forty years past, that the Statement made and sworn to by said McGinnis, as to his being 66 years of age I believe to be correct, also he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Revolutionary Soldier and that I concur in that opinion, and his statement altogether entitled to credit 
[signed] John J Miller
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court this 5th day of Sept 1832 
[signed] Hiram Wilbur, Clerk 

I Richard Sluyter, Clergym, Do hereby certify that I reside in the Town of Claverack in the County of Columbia, and that I am well acquainted with Jacob McGinnis, the within named applicant, and believe him to be 66 years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Revolutionary soldier and that I concur in that opinion – 
[signed] Richard Sluyter V.D.M
Sworn & subscribed the day & year first above mentioned before me 
[signed] J. McCagg one of the Justices of sd Court
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Application of Jacob McGinnis
7425 
James Rowley Esq
Hudson agent.
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State of New York County of Columbia, ss. On the twenty fifth day of August 1832 personally appeared before the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Hudson now sitting, Jacob McGinnis, a Resident of the Town of Claverack in the County of Columbia and State aforesaid aged sixty six - years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he was born in the town of Claverack in the County of Columbia aforesaid in the month of November 25th day in the year 1765. This said applicant knows from his having it Recorded in his Family Bible now in his possession. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That in the Winter of 1777 and 1778. Said Applicant volunteered as a teamster to go and carry the Stores and ammunition from the Old Hudson Dock in said County of Columbia to Fishkill, and some to West Point, and carrying flour to albany, in the service of the United States, this time in the Winter was about one month, the Stores and ammunition at this place was under the command of Major Hale United States officer – Then in the Spring of 1778 he enlisted into an organized Night Watch in the town of Claverack aforesaid for the purpose of watching & hunting the Robbers and Tories under the command of Lieutenant Peter Wiesmore, who was Lieutenant under Capt Jacobus Philip, and left at this place for the purpose of Commanding said Night-Watch, this Service commenced in or about the middle of May and said applicant continued in such service from the middle of May until about the 25th of September following. Then said applicant went as a substitute for Christean Philips who was drafted as a Militia Man, and Marched under the command of Capt Jacobus Philips to Greenbush & stayed there 3 or 4 days then went on through Albany to Schenectady & from thence, A number were detached from the Army that lay at that places of which said applicant was one, and Marched under the same Capt. Philips, and Major Richard Esselstyne, as the Commanding officers, and went to Warrens-Bush. at which place the Indians were burning & destroying the Inhabitants & property, absent from home on this Tour one month then came home and stayed at home until the Spring of 1779 when he again was called upon and ordered out, and Marched in pursuit of the Robbers and Tories, again out about two months on this Tour. Said applicant says that he never was in any engagent – Col. Waterman from New Canaan was one who commanded at Schenectady, also Col Abraham Van Alstyne, Militia Collen [illegible]
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the 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 he States. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that John P Miller who has signed the preceding certificate of the first Judge of the Court of Common pleas in the County of Columbia, and that Richard Sluyter, who has also signed the last preceding certificate is a clergyman - both well known to the Court to be resident inhabitants, of the town of Claverack, and that their statements are entitled to full credit. Also Michael Hess who signed the first certificate is a resident inhabitant of said town of Claverack and a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit – 
[signed] J. McCagg
Wm R Macy  Justices of the Court

I Hiram Wilber Clerk of the Justices Court of the City of Hudson in the County of Columbia & State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Jacob McGinnis for a Pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office the twentieth day of September 1832 
[signed] Hiram Wilbur, Clerk 

Application of Jacob McGinnis for a pension

Application of Jacob McGinnis 
7425
James Rowley Esq
Hudson agent.