Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,196, Jeremiah Drake, New York
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New York    Drake, Jeremiah  W. 19.196
Phebe
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New York 31,947
Jeremiah Drake
of Sullivan Co. in the state of New York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Boyd of the regiment commanded by Colonel Drake in the New York line for 9 months and 8 days

Inscribed on the roll of New York City at the rate of 30 dollars 89 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of May 1842 and sent to Alexander Elles, Bloomingburgh, New York
Arrears to the 4th of March 1842       $339.79
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept         15.49
                                                            $355.23

{Revolutionary claim, Act June 7, 1832}
recorded by D.D. Addison clerk, 
Book E2 vol. 4   page 18

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Letter to N.S. Perkins reported
19 Sep 1843
same person and order to pay 24th Oct 1843
Letter to Hon. A.C. Niven June 1, 1846
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Reported Dec 14/48
2392
New York City
Phebe Drake
widow of Jeremiah Drake  N.Y.
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 30 dollars 89.
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Dec 1848 and sent to Hon. D.B. St. John
H of R
recorded on roll of pensioners under act February 2 1848, page 59 vol 4
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State of New York
Sullivan County ss on this day of October in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the court of Common pleas (being a court of record) in and for the county of Sullivan in said state, now sitting. Jeremiah Drake a resident of the town of Neversink in said county and state, aged sixty nine years last May, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an 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. That  is to say. In the spring of the year 1778 he resided at Peekskill ( then called the Manor of Cortlandt) in the county of Westchester and state aforesaid and their and there in the month of April as near as he can recollect entered the service of the United States as a soldier in a company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Boyd, Lieutenant David Ferris and Sergeant James Sherk in a regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Drake. Lieutenant Colonel John Hyat and Israel Pennier as Major or adjutant. and continued to serve in said company and regiment during and until the end of the war as herein after described. He served during all this time in the said county of Westchester on and near the lines between the British and American Forces. That he well recollects that the day before Major Andree was captured early in the evening and as near as he can recollect about the 20th of September 1780. being in said time, he, the applicant being on guard at Andrew Miller's tavern, about half way between Peekskill and Crum Pond, discovered two men ride up on horseback who were hailed and stopped by him one of whom was afterwards ascertained to be
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said Major Andre, that on being thus stopped one of them addressing the applicant said " Boy why don't you hail the guard" which he did immediately when they dismounted and went into the house, where he was informed they showed a pass from General Arnold, but were prevented from proceeding farther that night by one Robert Crawford and old officer of the French war as applicant was at that day informed, he being on guard did not on that occasion go into the house. That the next day said Andrew was taken about sixteen miles below at Tarrytown under a Whitewood tree as applicant was informed a day or two afterwards. That he was much of the time of his service employed in crossing the lines aforesaid and taking from the British and their friends cattle, hogs and hay and other foraging articles, great quantities of which he assisted in taking, and served much of said time in the vicinity of Croton River. That one Van Renssalaer he thinks was at the time General of the militia but is not certain. That his services were rendered by order and command of his superior officers and he was then informed and believed under a law of the state putting said corps upon the same terms with Continental troops to the truth of which he cannot write certainty attest or declare. That the first year he was fifteen years of age and did duty ant served as aforesaid as a substitute for this father Jeremiah Drake but after that being sixteen years old and liable to military duty he served for himself. That he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service except one Isaac Brown of
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of Rochester whose affidavit applicant has procured as to a part of his services. That he was born at Peekskill in Westchester county aforesaid in the year 1763 according to the best of his knowledge and information. That he has no record of his age. That since the Revolutionary war he resided till the year 1793 principally in Westchester  county and since that time he has resided in said town of Neversink where he now resides. That he never received any discharge except a certificate given by the paymaster Garret G Beakman son in law of Governor Cortlandt which has long since been lost or destroyed. That he is known to Anthony Hasbrook and Hopkin Reynolds of Sullivan county who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. 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.
Jeremiah Drake
sworn and subscribed before me in open court the day and year aforesaid Jesse M Foster clerk of Sullivan Common Pleas
We Anthony Hasbrook and Hopkin Reynolds residing  in Sullivan county do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah Drake who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be sixty nine or seventy years of age: that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Anthony Hasbrook
H Reynolds 
sworn and subscribed before me this 10th of October 1833
A Martin clerk of Sullivan Com. Pleas
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion to be after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant Jeremiah Drake was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states: And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Anthony Hasbrouck and Hopkin Reynolds who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of Sullivan county and are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.
I Jesse M Foster clerk of the court of Common Pleas of Sullivan County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Drake for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 10th day of October AD 1832
Jesse M. Foster
16230
Jeremiah Drake
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State of New York
Sullivan County}ss  On the ninth day of June 1846 personally appeared in open court before  the court of Common Pleas held in and for the county of Sullivan being a court of record having a clerk and seal Philip Drake a resident of the town of Neversink in said county aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and provisions to certain widows and the act supplementary thereto passed August 23rd 1842 that she is the widow of Jeremiah Drake who was a private in the army of the revolution and a pensioner and in proof thereof she refers to papers on file in the pension office upon which he obtained a pension. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Jeremiah Drake on the twenty fifth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight. That her husband the aforesaid Jeremiah Drake died on the twenty third day of June eighteen hundred and forty five.
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated.    Phebe Drake
sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written in open court before 
H. W. Howell clerk of Sullivan County
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Rev. and 1812 Wars section
AWF
May 23, 1929
Mrs. William J. Robinson,
Peekskill, New York
Madam:  I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 19196, it appears that Jeremiah Drake (son of Jeremiah Drake) was born May 1763 at the Manor of Cortlandt, (afterwards called Peekskill) Westchester County, New York.
He resided, with his father at the Manor Cortlandt, and served as his substitute in Captain Ebenezer Boyd's Company, Colonel Samuel Drake's New York Regiment, for two days each week, from the middle of April 1777, until the first of December;  and that he enlisted every April and continued to perform his own and his father's services every year ( until the end of the war) under Captain Ebenezer Boyd and Colonel Samuel Drake, as follows: in 1778, four months; in 1779, six and one half months; in 1780, eight months; in 1781, seven months; and in 1782, five months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 10, 1832, while a resident of Neversink, Sullivan
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County, New York. He died there June 23, 1845.
Soldier married December 25, 1788, Phebe Reynolds or Runolds. She was allowed pension on her application executed June 9, 1846, while a resident of Neversink, New York, aged seventy five years.
There are no further family data on file, and no claim for pension on file on account of any service this soldier's father may have rendered. 
Respectfully, 
E. W. Morgan,
Acting Commissioner.
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1907 Apl. 15 History to Mrs. F.H. Rees
1919 Mch. 4, 20' Mrs. V.C. Lowe
1926 June 9 20' Mrs. O.P. Sprague
1929 May 23 20' Mrs. Wm J. Robinson

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Rev
WIDIW, &c.
File No. 19196
Phebe Drake  Wid of 
Jeremiah Drake
Pri. Rev. War
Act: Feb. 2nd /48'
Index: Vol. A, Page 196
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V M 12867
Phebe Drake
Nov it C. NY July 1, 1846
to same Mar. 21 46'
Rejected
act July 1838
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31.904
New York
Revol.
Jeremiah Drake 
Rejected
see letter to A.C. Niven
20 August 33'
to same 8th Sept 34'
to Jeremiah Drake Aug 4 1841
to Hon John Van Buren
August 27, 1841
Let to Jeremiah Drake Oct 20, 41'
Act 7 June 1832
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STATE OF NEW YORK, 
Ulster County Clerk's Office, }ss.
I, Jacob Snyder, clerk of the county of Ulster, and clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, do hereby certify, That George W, Lynch Esquire, was on the day of the date of the certificate to the annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Ulster, duly authorized to take affidavits, &c. and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the signature "Geo. W. Lynch" subscribed to the certificate of the said annexed affidavit to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this third day of October 1832
Jacob Snyder
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We certify that Isac Brown the maker of the foregoing affidavit is well known to us and is of good character for truth and veracity.
Geo. W. Lynch Justice
James Dumon
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State of New York, 
County of Westchester, } ss
I, Munson I. Lockwood, clerk of he county aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Philip Clapp Esquire
whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed Instrument, and endorsed thereon, was, on the day of the date of the said certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, residing in the said county, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorised to take the same. And, furthre, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said county, the sixth day of October 1845
Munson G. Lockwood clerk
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Jeremiah Drake, N.Y. act 7 June 1832  $30.89
To what time was he last paid
G.C.A.
Paid to 4th Mar. 1845
BLB
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New York 397
Phebe Drake
widow of Jeremiah Drake
who was a private in the New York Line for 9 mo 8 days.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of thirty dollars eighty nine cents per annum, to commence on the 23rd June 1845
Certificate of Pension issued the third day of July 1847 and sent to Pensioner care of Henry R. Drake Poughkeepsie
Dutchess Co. NY
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844]
Recorded in Book A
vol 2 page 83

Reported
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Phebe Drake's Declaration D.B. St. John. agent
Monticello
Sullivan Co. N.Y.
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STATE OF NEW YORK, Sullivan county }ss
Be it known, that on this 31 day of August 1848, personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Sullivan, in said state, Phebe Drake a resident of the county of Sullivan, aged about 78 years, who being first duly sworn according to law and doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 24th of February, 1848, granting pensions to certain widows of the persons who served during the Revolutionary War, that she is the widow of Jeremiah Drake who was soldier and served as a private during the war of the Revolution, and that she was a pensioner and drew a pension under the Act of 1844, at the rate of $30.80 per annum under said act. Phebe Drake
Sworn and subscribed this 31 day of August
Joseph Ellis JP
I, the said Justice, do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Phebe Drake and that I knew her to be in the receipt of a pension at the rate of $30.89 per annum, as stated by her in the above affidavit.
Joseph Ellis Justice of the Peace
I certify that Joseph Ellis is an acting Justice of the peace in and for Sullivan County New York and that the above is his signature Sept4th 1848 D.B. St. John
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State of New York
Sullivan county}ss
On the sixteenth day of June 1846 before me Jonathan W Dubois a Justice of the peace in and for said county personally appeared William Peirce a resident of the town of Neversink in said county and being by me duly sworn doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with Jeremiah Drake and that the said Jeremiah Drake died on the twenty third day of June in the year eighteen hundred and forty five. And that his widow Phebe Drake has not intermarried but remains  the widow of the said Jeremiah Drake
Wm. Pierce
sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above mentioned
JW Dubois J. Peace
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I certify that I am acquainted with the within deponent William Pierce and believe him to be a man of truth and veracity
JW Dubois J. Peace
I am acquainted with the above named JW Dubois and know him to be a justice of the peace of Sullivan County N.Y. and that the above signature is genuine.
June 22, 1846
AC Niven
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To all whom it may concern this may certify that my father the Rev'd Silas Constant settled in Hanover now called Yorktown in the county of Westchester and state of New York in November 1785 as is stated in his journal in his hand writing and to my knowledge he was pastor of the Presbyterian congregation for near forty years. In a book kept by him as a journal and record of marriages I find in the year 1788 the marriage of Jeremiah Drake and Phebe Runolds recorded the date is omitted. I find the marriage recorded previous to said Drake was the 22 of December 1788 and the one next after said Drake was the 29th day of December 1788.
Peekskill 6th October 1845 St. John Constant
Westchester county and state of New York, ss  Personally came before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace for the county of Westchester St. John Constant who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the above certificate signed by him is just and true to the best of his knowledge and belief
this 6th day of October 1845 Philip Clapp J. Peaser
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I certify that I know the said St. John Constant and have examined the records that he states to be his fathers and believes they are the same and also the the said St John Constant is a man of truth and veracity
Philip Clapp J.P.
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12867
Phebe Drake 
Widow of Jeremiah NY
act 7 July 1838
Rejected husband died 1845, 23 June
married 1788
9 mo 8 days pri
$30.89 per annum 
from 23rd June 1845
Phebe Drake 
cin of Henry R Drake
Poughkeepsie
Dutchess Co
Act 7 July 1838.
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State of New York
Sullivan county ss} Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Sullivan Jeremiah Drake of the Town of Neversink in said county who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grade for four months as a private and a substitute for my father Jeremiah Drake and served as follows about the first of April 1778 I was enrolled and commenced duty in a company of militia command by Capt. Ebenezer Boyd in Col. Samuel Drake regiment at Peekskill in Westchester County my father resided upon the manner of Cortlandt about seven miles above Croton River a stream which run through the manner nearly from Northeast to Southwest and which was considered to be the American lines at least our civil jurisdiction extended to it. The lines which were maintained by the British were about twenty miles below ours leaving a large space of country between principally inhabited by people friendly to the British where the refugees and Tories from New York and below the lines could find places of concealment when they went over the lines for the purpose of plundering the property of the Whigs this space of country between the two lines was at that time Vulgadess known by the name of the old Hunting ground and the surplus produce raised upon it was generally sent to the British if not prevented by the militia the regiment to which I belonged was principally employed in patrolling and guarding such posts as the Tories might be suspected to pass when out for the purpose of plunder and also to detect and bring off from the Old Hunting Ground such property as would be likely to fall in to the hands of the Tories each militia man belonging to the regiment served two tours each week I generally left home about noon and arrived at the lines a little before night and joined my company we were generally divided in parties of twelve or fifteen men and put under command of a Sergeant to patrol through the night I was generally
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discharged the next morning with orders where to return again to duty would arrive home sometime in the course of the day and retire to bed for the purpose of rest. my service for this season consumed full half of my time or at least prevented me from following any other employment for full half the time my duty in the militia ended this year a few days before Christmas in the month of December. In the year 1779 about the 20th of May I was enrolled as a private in the same company and regiment in which I had served the year before to do duty for my self being sixteen years of age I joined the regiment at Krum Pond about four miles from home immediately after being enrolled the British at that time occupied Verplank's Point on the Hudson River 10 miles from Krum Pond the enemies scouting parties become more numerous and stronger below the lines than the year before which required our regiment to remain in a closer body than formerly and the system of small patrolling parties was principally abandoned by us the fore part of the season there were however large scouting parties sent out by the commanding officers who went near the enemies lines to watch their movements and also to prevent their plundering of property I was several times ordered out in those scouting parties but never had any engagement with the enemy. in the month of June the regiment left Krum Pond on account of the enemy advancing with a superior force commanded by a Col. by the name of Abercromby if my recollection serves right the enemy burned the meeting house at Krum Pond and a house belonging to Major Strang  they then returned to Verplank's Point and our regiment resumed its former position at Krum Pone in a few days after and continued there til  the last of August frequently sending our large scouting parties to guard such plans as the enemy were suspected to pass. I never left the regiment from the time I joined it in May until the last of August except one week I went on furlow (sic) to see my parents who had went to Fredricksburg thirty miles back in the country on the account of the enemy being likely to overrun Peekskill and the surrounding country when I returned to the regiment I was informed that one of our scouts had been engaged with a party of British light horse and several of them taken prisoners
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and carried to New York one of the British Dragoons was shot in the engagement by a man by the name of Lent. the last of August the principal part of the regiment were allowed to return home on my return. I found part of my fathers family returned to their residence at Peekskill. we were called out again the first of September in a very few days after our return the regiment was employed for the residue of the season in the same manner as they were the year before that is each man served two tours in a week standing guard and patrolling I served my own tours and my fathers also which occupied my whole time til we were discharged about the 10th of December making my service six months and a half this year. In the year 1780 in the month of April what time in the month I do not exactly recollect but presume about the middle I entered the service for myself and my father Jeremiah Drake in the same company and regiment as the year before and under the same officers although I was not so much under the immediate command of Captain Boyd as the previous years then being some different arrangement made by which the patrol to which I belonged was put more immediately under the command of Lieutenant Ferris for the whole season our duty was standing guard and patrolling upon the lines I served four tours each week two for my self and two for my father. In the month of November the whole regiment was ordered out with the foraging team to scour the old Hunting Ground I was ten days on this expedition  we beat off with us 120 fat hogs 70 head of cattle and over 100 load of corn oats and hay on our return the regiment was discharged except a draft from the same (of which I was one) who were detained to guard the property taken, to Col. John Hyots which delivered me five or six days longer I returned home the first of December and remained two or three days when the company were called out again on the old patrolling business and continued for several tours my whole time for this season was devoted to military duty, and amounted to very near eight months, about the 20th of the next April 1781 I entered upon duty in the same regiment as before serving four
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tours each week two for my self and two for my father through the whole season our duty was on the lines and principally of the same kind as formerly considerable of property were taken from the enemy below our lines this season, in the month of August three companies Capt. Boyers Kroncks and Strangs were detached from the regiment to scour the old Hunting Ground and being of such foraging articles as could be obtained on our return from this expedition near the White Plains we routed and drove of a company of Col. Delanses refugee Tories. the principal part of the regiment were discharged about the first of December at which time I returned home my time this season was so fully occupied in the militia that I seldom went home through the season and amounted  to over seven months. In 1782 the middle of April I joined the regiment for my self and father performing four turs a week on the lines as usual patrolling and standing guard. early in the month of June the country between the White Plains and New York was occupied by a strong force of the American and French armies which prevented the part of the country to which I belonged from being harassed by the Tories and refugees from New York and the company to which I belonged was not called to duty until the first of September where we were called out again on duty as before and continued until the last of December which made my service this year  over five months and for the above services I claim a pension I do not recollect that the regiment to which I belonged ever done duty or was engaged with any other corps on any expedition I have seen Col. Nixon's and Col. Sheppard's regiments they were encamped at Peekskill on David Lents farms what year I do not exactly recollect but I believe in 1780 or 81. if any recollection serves me right they were from New Hampshire. I have seen Col. Swift's Col. Hazeus, Col. Scammuls, Col Meigs, Col. VanLeorks, Col. Van Cortlandt's, Col. Webs, and many other regiments march through Peekskill General Green Miflin Pomeroy and many inferior officers have quartered at my fathers house I have frequently seen  General Washington at Peekskill I saw him also when the
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grand army left Verplanks Point to go into winter quarters in the Highlands. I have seen General Lafayette and a considerable part of the French army
I further state that the reason why I have not procured the evidence of a clergyman before the court in the matter of my application for a pension is that I do not know of any one in the county where I reside or its vicinity who is sufficiently acquainted with me to testify to anything in relation to my military services either from actual knowledge or from reputation for which reason the evidence of Anthony Hasbrouck and Hopkin Reynolds two of my neighbors with whom I have long been acquainted and who were well known to the court were procured
Jeremiah Drake
Sworn and subscribed before me the 13th day of May 1833. Nathan Grant J. Peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with Jeremiah Drake the above named deponent and that he is credible for truth and veracity and his foregoing statements entitled to credit May the 13th 1833  Nathan Grant J. Peace
State of New York
Sullivan County clerk's office} ss I Jesse M Foster clerk of the said county of Sullivan do hereby certify that Nathan Grant Esq. before whom the above affidavit was sworn
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and also who subscribed his name to the proceding certificate was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for Sullivan county and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavit and the preceding certificate is genuine "whom" interlined.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county the 22nd day of May 1833
Jesse M Fasten clerk
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31.904
Jeremiah Drake
NY
act 7 June 32
admd
9 mo, 8 days pri
$30.88
Alex Ellis
Bloomingburgh  NY
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NY  May
Monticello NY
May 25th
Rejected
free
Pension office 
Washington City
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any answer in reference to the within papers may be sent to AC Niven Monticello Sullivan County New York
ACN
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NY Sept 8
free
Pension Office
Washington
Wurtsboro NY
Sept 5

Jeremiah Drake
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The papers of Jeremiah Drake, an applicant for a pension under the late law have not been returned nor answered in any way
W Drake is desirous of having the papers returned or copies of them if insufficient that he may take such steps as shall be thought expedient for the purpose of procuring other or further proof
very respectfully yours
AC Niven
Monticello Sullivan Co.
NY    Sept 3
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Pension office Washington
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Hall of Rep.
22nd June 1846
Col Edwards is respectfully requested to examine the enclosed papers and issue the proper certificate.
AC Niven
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Neversink July 31
D. 191
3 August 1841
free
Pension Office
War Department
N.Y.
NY
Jeremiah Drake
Sus 7 June 1832
City of Washington
D.C.
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Neversink Sullivan County New York
July 28th 1841
To the Com. of Pensions
Sir I formerly made application to the War Department for a Pension under the law of 1832 I thought at that time my claim was sufficiently made out it was however suspended for reasons which are unexplained to me I have recently obtained the affidavit of James Mandavill of Westchester County who served in the same regiment to which I belonged I herewith send you the same in further support of my application for a Pension are respectfully solicated to reexamine my claim and the papers and proof in connection therewith and return your answer to me as soon as convenience will present
If there should be any remaining difficulty in the case please to explain it to me in as full a manner as is consistent with established rules of the Department
yours respectfully Jeremiah Drake
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Pension Office
N.Y.
Addefiff
Jere. Drake
Oct 7
Woodbourne NY
Oct 20
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Department
City of Washington  D.C.
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Neversink Sullivan County N. York
Oct 2nd 1841
Sir yours of the 4th August last in relation to my claim to a pension has been received your letter was in answer to one which I sent enclosing the affidavit of James Mandeville in support of my claim you inform me in your letter that Mandeville states in his affidavit that he served with me in Capt. Boyds company from the spring of 1777 to the close of the war I do not understand him to say that he served in Boyds company with one but that he served in Captain Kronk's company in the same regiment he might have served in Boyd's company in 1776 that year I done no military service to my recollection the first duty of the kind I ever done was in 1777 as a substitute for my father as will be said by the affidavit here with sent. Your letter states that at that time I was not liable to be called on it is here I was not and therefore I only done substitute duty for my father. The affidavit herewith sent will show the time when I entered the service and how long I continued with some particular incidents varying are usual kind of service which was patrolling a reference to my statements formerly made and on file in the war department will be a more full specification of my services than are contained in the enclosed affidavit to which you are respectfully referred yours respectfully
JL Edwards Esq Com. Pensions
Jeremiah Drake
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Apl 15 1842
Bloomingburgh NY
April 11th
Jeremiah Drake 
sus '32
Com J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Bloomingburgh NY April 11th 1842
Dear Sir, 
I send you the enclosed certificate of the comptroller of New York as additional proof to prove the services of Jeremiah Drake who applied for a pension under the act of 1832. I am well satisfied that M'd Drake served the greater part of there years during the Revolutionary War it is his misfortune that the record of his whole services are not to be found to entitle him to full pay. you will find by the enclosed certificate that he done some services in the year of 1782. you will likewise find by the proof now on file that he done services in 1780 and 81 which will give him a small pension. he is destitute of the comforts of life at his advanced age he is old and feeble and not able to labor but little it will be very gratifying to the old gentleman and to his aged companion. If he can receive but a small pension please answer the papers in their tre(?) and forward the answer to me.
Yours with respect
Alexander Ellis
Hon. J.L. Edwards
11.14
22
5.50
1.50
29
90.29
./. 26.20 3,130
4.10
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Mar. 12 1846
Adal to case
Phebe Drake
AC Niven
J.L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions Washington
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Monticello Sull: Co NY
Nov 7, 1840
J.L. Edwards Esq
Sir, the enclosed affidavit is sent to supply a defect in the papers of Phebe Drake applying for a pension and which you decided was insufficiently without the proof. May I ask your immediate attention to it. 
Your obedient servant,
AC Niven
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June 26, 1847
[illegible] card
Phebe Drake
to the Commissioner of Pensions 
Pension Office
Washington City
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My dear sir
Herein is enclosed the additional evidence required in my case to obtain pension, in your last letter to A.C. Niven Esquire.
I trust upon the receipts of this there will be no delay as I am in circumstances which give rise to anxiety in this matter Mr. Niven applied for me as he lived near my last residence in Neversink Sullivan Co. N.Y. but I have take up my temporary abode at this place, where I wish you to address me until further notice.
Judge Constant of Peekskill, Westchester Co. son of Rev. Silas Constante who formerly gave a certain certificate in this matter died last winter and owing to the sickness of the judge last fall I was then prevented from obtaining from him this enclosed paper and Judge White named in the enclosed paper is the son in law of said Rev Silas Constante
Direct your letter to me to the care of Henry R. Drake (my son)
Yours truly
Phebe Drake
Poughkeepsie Dutchess Co.  N.Y.
To Commissioner of Pensions
June 22nd 1847
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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.:
1782, March 21
Jeremiah Drake
11 14 5
4 mo. 10 days
STATE OF NEW YORK, 
Comptroller's office, Albany, April 9, 1842
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Pay Roll 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. Ebenezer Boyd
Philip Phelps
Dep. Comptroller
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled " An act for the settlement of the pay of 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:
1780 July 1 35049 Jeremiah Drake private 1-10-2
1780 July 1 35112 Jeremiah Drake Private 1-8-5

STATE OF NEW YORK,
Comptroller's office, Albany, August 21 1841}
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 7 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. Ebenezer Boyd in Col. Samuel Drake's regiment
second under Capt. Ebenezer Boyd in Col. Samuel Drake's regiment
Westchester County
WW Tredway Dep. Comptroller
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the pension commissioners is referred to records in their department at Washington for further proof which they may find
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A pay roll of Ebenezer Boyd Capt Commseroring (sp?) July 1 1780 a guard on the North River in Westchester County
L 10=6=2
   2-18-7
   13. 4.9
4 mo, 28 days
Jeremiah Drake private
State of New York
Comptrollers Office Albany
August 21, 1841
I certify the above to be true extracts from an original paper now remaining on file in this office
W.W. Tredway
Dep. Comptroller
26
8
34
20.90.34
          90
2962
148
4.28 ds
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Mr. Henry R. Drake
Poughkeepsie
Dutchess County
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Westchester County ss
I certify that I am well acquainted with James Mandeville who made the within affidavit and know him to be a man of truth and veracity
Benjamin Ward Justice of the Peace
Peekskill April 24th 1841. I fully accord with the above certificate of Benjamin Ward Esq.
Pierre Van Cortlandt

State of New York, County of Westchester, I  Charles A. Purdy, clerk of the 
county aforesaid, DO HEREBY certify that Benjamin Ward Esq whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument and therein written, was, on the day of the date of said certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, residing in the said county, and sworn and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said county, the 23rd day of June 1841
Charles A Purdy clerk
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Westchester County ss
I certify that I am well acquainted with James Mandeville who made the within affidavit and know him to be a man of truth and veracity
Benjamin Ward Justice of the peace
Peekskill April 24th 1841. I fully accord with the above certificate of Benjamin Ward Esq. 

State of New York, County of Westchester, I  Charles A. Purdy, clerk of the 
county aforesaid, DO HEREBY certify that Benjamin Ward Esq whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument and therein written, was, on the day of the date of said certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, residing in the said county, and sworn and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said county, the 23rd day of June 1841
Charles A Purdy clerk
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Westchester County ss
James Mandeville of said county being duly sworn in due form of law before the undersigned one of the Justice of the peace in and for said county says that he is about eighty one years of age that he is acquainted with Jeremiah Drake of who now resides in Sullivan County state of New York that said Drake is about eighty years of age and that said Drake resided in the county of the Westchester during the Revolutionary War that this deponent knows that said Drake was enrolled and belonged to Capt Ebenezer Boyd's company of militia which company belonged belonged to Col. Samuel Drake regiment that this deponent belonged to Capt. Cronk's company which belonged to the same regiment and that this deponent knew said Drake during the whole of the time that he belonged to said company which was from the spring of the year 1777 to the close of the war that the deponent is certain that they performed from 3 to 4 months actual services in the field du each and every year and that Captain Boyd's company performed a longer time of services than any other company owing to the fact that he was considered the most spirited man in the regiment and that he has seen said Drake often in actual service and that who ever the company to which they belonged was on duty to gather he used to see him owing to the fact that they were intimately acquainted and from his knowledge of the the fact that he belonged to Capt. Boyd's company which company performed the greater share of duty of any company belonging to the regiment find from the times he has seen him in the service. this deponent thinks that said Drake must have performed more than three month services each and every year from the spring of 1777 to the close of the war
James Mandeville
Sworn and subscribed to April 22nd 1841 before me 
Benjamin Ward Justice of the Peace
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Superior Court
certificate in the case of Phebe Drake
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State of New York City and County of New York. ss
I Jesse Oakley clerk of the Superior court of he City of New York a court of record having a clerk and seal, do certify that on the sixteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven, Henry White Esq one of the judges of the court of Common pleas in and for the county of Westchester appeared in the said Superior Court, in the city of New York. the said court then being in open session and being duly sworn testified that the book which he then produced was the book of original records of marriages performed by the Rev. Silas Constant late of Yorktown in the county of Westchester deceased, that he the witness had known the said book for forty years and upwards and that all the entries therein were in the handwriting of the said Reverend Silas Constant. And that upon examining the said book the judges of the said court found and an entry therein bearing date November one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight of the marriage of Jeremiah Drake to Phebe Reynolds by the said Rev. Silas Constant and he further testified that the widow of Jeremiah Drake now applying for a pension is the Phebe Reynolds mentioned in the said original record, as so married to Jeremiah Drake, and the judges of the said Superior court upon a full
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examination of the said book and a careful inspection thereof were satisfied of its genuineness and its ancient appearance and the said judges did thereupon determine that the said book was an ancient and genuine book of the original records of marriages performed by the Reverend Silas Constant and that the entry therein of the marriage of Jeremiah Drake to Phebe Reynolds was an original entry in the handwriting of the Rev. Silas Constant and sufficient proof such of marriage being performed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said court the 16 June 1847
J. Oakley    clerk
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Affidavit of James Frost
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State of New York
Westchester County ss}
On the sixth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Westchester affirmed James Frost a resident of Cortland Manor in said county aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according  to law doth on his oath make the following declaration I James Frost was present in the town of Yorktown over about the 25th day of December in the year seventeen hundred eighty eight when Jeremiah Drake late of Sullivan county in the state aforementioned a pensioner was married to Phebe Reynolds now living then a  widow of the said Jeremiah Drake by the Reverend Silas  Constant then of the town of Yorktown dec'd  and this deponent on oath further says that he has this day examined a private record on diary kept by the said Silas Constant [illegible] during his lifetime in which the deponent [illegible x 2] as also many others within his knowledge  and recollection are recorded and that of Jeremiah Drake and Peter Reynold is therein entered without date but the next record of marriages on the say paper is that of Henry Rich on the 29th of December 1788 from this circumstance and in accordance with the best recollection of this deponent the service Jeremiah Drake and Phebe Reynolds then married about the 25th October 1788 at which marriage was personally present as above stated
James Frost
sworn and subscribed this fifth day of October 1846
Ward B Howard Justice of the Peace
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State of New York, County of Westchester, ss
I MUNSON I. LOCKWOOD, clerk of the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that Ward B Howard Esq whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and endorsed thereon, was, on the day of the date of the said certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, residing 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 the said justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said county, the sixth day of October 1846
Munson I Lockwood clerk
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Peekskill 5 Oct 1846
To an whom it may concern
this may certify that I have been personally acquainted with the within named James Frost for the last thirty five years and know him to be reputable, and a man whose character for truth and veracity is unquestionable and impeachable
Ward B Howard
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[Print is very faded. will leave blanks where unable to read]

State of New York
Sullivan county ss
On the 24th day of September _______ 1841 personally appeared before me the uindersigned one of the justices of the peace in and for the county of Sullivan aforesaid Jeremiah Drake of New ____ ____ ____ 
and     according to law deposeth and saith that from old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot state precisely the ___ ____ ____ of his services
___________________
his memory he served as follows I served in 1777 in Captian Ebenezer Boyd's company, Col Samuel Drake's regiment as a substitute for my father Jeremiah Drake being then old __ years of age I consigned about the middle of April and served two days as each week until the first part of December following in April the next spring I even enrolled to do duty for my self Captain Boyds company was divided our part command by himself and he other part by Lieutenant David Ferris of the same company that is such was the evert while our duty was confined  to partoling my duty fell in one of those divisions herein done my own duty one that of my fathers also except when the whole regiment was called upon to turn out and go supply the lines and in this case my father was employed as a substitute we never left the service this year nor any subsequent years until winter set in which was generally in December and continued to serve in this manner for my self and father until the close of the year I served four months or more each term except the first the year
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Stoney Point was taken which this was in 1779 I commenced duty in April as usual serving 4 days each week until the last of May about this time the British  came upon the Hudson River and commenced fortifying Verplank and Stoney Point we received in the first Constantly from this time until Stoney Point was taken from the British which was in July of the same year. I think on the 1st of the month immediately after the Capture of Stoney Point a British Col by the name of ____ came upon the lines with a squad of light horse which kept us in service continually until the last of August but this time until December I did duty four days as ____ as usual making mostly six months service this year
Jeremiah Drake
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above stated
State of New York, Sullivan County, ss
I Hervy W. Howell, clerk of the county of Sullivan, do hereby certify, that Wonton Gorton whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and endorsed thereon, was on the day of the date of said certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Sullivan, dwelling in the said county, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized by law, to take the proof and acknowledgement of Deeds and Discharges of Mortgages, and C. And further, that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said county,
this  25th day of September 1841
Hervy W. Howell clerk
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Monticello Sept 4th 1848
Dear Sir
I send the declaration of Phebe Drake was with you to forward to me a certificate as soon as convenient
amt. oblige yours
D.R. S John
To J.L. Edwards
Will you be so kind as to send me the m_ pay form and instructions for making application for bounty lands
D.B.S. J.
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State of New York
Ulster County ss}
On the third day of October 1832 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid Isac Brown of the town of Rochester in said county and being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Jeremiah Drake who now resides in the town of Neversink Sullivan county as he understands and believes that he was also acquainted with said Jeremiah during the war of the revolution that in the year 1788 said Jeremiah done military duty under Lieutenant Farris in the company commanded by Capt Boyd in the regiment of militia commanded by Colonel Samuel Drake and continued to so such duty for the term of two years as a patrol near Croton river in Westchester County. That he the said deponent is of the age of seventy one years and further this deponent saith not.
Isac  Brown
sworn and subscribed this day and year above written before me
Geo. W. Lynch, Justice of the Peace
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To J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Pension Office
Sep 19th 1843
Sir, Before an order can be given for the payment of the arrears of Pension of Jeremiah Drake the clerk of the court should certify under his seal of office, that J.M. Dubois is a Justice of the peace and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
The papers are herewith returned.
I am Sir, Very respectfully your Obedient servent
JL Edwards
N.S. Perkins Esq
Sacharrach
Ulster County N.Y.
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Jme 1A
see Jere. Drake NY Mil
Fr AC Niven 
Hon Al. Niven  HR 
Jas. L Edwards Com of Pensions
Washington
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Washington May 30, 1846
JL Edwards Esq. Sir, In answer to a mem. left by me at your office, I rec.? an answer dated March 20th in which you say " In answer to your memorandum I have the honor to inform you that it appears that a Jeremiah Drake applied in 1833 from the State of New York but his claim does not appear to have been admitted".
I am assured by his widow that he was a pensioner, and I wrote to ascertain whether the proof given in his case would entitle her to a pension if she appeared in court and gave evidence of his death, her intermarriage that time when and 2
Will she have to prove his services de novo or will the proof in his case be sufficient on that point
very Res. yr. obt. servt. 
AC Niven
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Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
I have the following data 
Zachariah Lowe- Aug 25, 1794- Sept 9, 1870
married Jan. 2, 1815 at Neversink, Sullivan Co.
Jane Drake June 19, 1792
Jane Drake was the daughter of Jeremiah Drake and Phoebe Reynolds who was the daughter of Henry Reynolds.
I think Jeremiah Drake served as Private in the 3rd Regt. Westchester Co. militia
Henry Reynolds died in 1830 at Neversink
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at the age of 90.
Can you give me any further military history of either Henry Reynolds or Jeremiah Drake pertaining to the Revolutionary War?
An old Orange Co. "Juris" gives an account of Henry Reynolds joining the "minute men" and " as one of these brave citizen soldiers, he participated in the storming of Stoney Point, under Gen. Wayne, in 1779."
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If you can give me any assistance I shall be greatly obliged as we are direct in line, Respectfully 
Mrs. V. C. Lowe
340 So. Geneva St.
Ithaca, N.Y.
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National Society
Daughters of the Revolution
State of New York
Van Cortlandt Chapter
Organized May 6, 1895
Peekskill NY
Feby 10, 1929
Office of the Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen, 
Have you any record of a pension being paid to a Jeremiah Drake 3rd manor of Cortlandt regiment, Private Col. Samuel Drake's regiment. Capt Ebenezer Boyd's company served from 1778 to 1781. Guard on North River 1781
Paid 10-6-2. Record N.Y. Rev. Vol. XIII folio 176.
He was of VanCortlandtville NY
Westchester Co. Born 1726 died May 6 1784
Wife Mary Fowler.
Children Elizabeth Benjamin Gilbert, Polly and Martha.
I shall be very grateful for this record and the other that sash for as a question has arisen regarding the
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validity of this record of Jeremiah Drake and the claim being made that he was a Captain.
Have you a record of a pension given a Jeremiah Drake Jr. for himself and his father? the son having done service for both. I am told that such a record exists as of the Revolution. Or was this Jeremiah Jr. and Sr. of the War of 1812. Here is a record of Two Jeremiah Drake's in the war of 1812 in the minutes of the comcils of appointments N.Y. State and this record I give of Jeremiah Drake is official and further he is the only Jeremiah Drake recorded in the New York State troop in the American Revolution/ 
Thanking you in advance for your courtesy.
I am very truly yours, Mrs. Wm J. T. Margaret McCord professor
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In reply to your request of ____, received_____ for a statement of the military history of Jeremiah Drake a soldier of the Revolutionary War; you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's ) application for pension on file in this Bureau.   W19,196
Enlisted from April to December 1777 for 2 days each week
April 1778 for 4 months
1779 for 6.5 months
1780 for 8 months
1781 for 7 months
1782 for 5 months
all as a private under Ebenezer Boyd, Samuel Drake New York
served as a substitute for his father Jeremiah Drake
Battles engaged in, 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Cortlandt Manor, Westchester Co. N.Y.
Date of application for pension, Oct 10, 1832, His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Neversink, Sullivan Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application, born in May 1763, at Cortland N.Y.
Remarks: soldier married Dec. 25, 1788 Phebe Reynolds He died June 23, 1845 and she was allowed pension on her application executed June 9, 1846 while seventy five years of age and a resident of Neversink N.Y.    afterward called Peekskill
There is no further family data on file. 
Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
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Rev. and 1812 War Section.
June 9, 1926
Mrs. O.P. Sprague
Roscoe N.Y.
Madam: I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 19196, it appears that Jeremiah Drake ( son of Jeremiah Drake) was born in May 1763 at the Manor of Cortlandt, (afterwards called Peekskill Westchester County, New York.
He resided, with his father at the Manor of Cortlandt, and served as his substitute in Captain Ebenezer Boyd's Company, Colonel Samuel Drake's New York Regiment, for two days each week, from the middle of April 1777, until the first of December; and that he enlisted every April and continued to perform his own and his father's services every year ( until the end of the war) under Captain Ebenezer Boyd and Colonel Samuel Drake, as follows in 1778, four months in 1779, six and one half months; in 1780, eight
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months; in 1781, seven months; and in 1782, five months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 10, 1832, while a resident of Neversink, Sullivan County, New York. He died there June 23, 1845.
Soldier married December 25, 1788, Phebe Reynolds or Runolds. She was allowed pension on her application executed June 9, 1846, while a resident of Neversink, New York, aged seventy five years.
There is no further family data on file, add: and no cl. for pension on file on acct. of any set this soldiers father may have rendered. 
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
Commissioner.
(I think the father is the one described in Letter of Margaret Robinson)
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April 18, 1907
Mrs. F. H. Rees,
512 W. Church Street,
Elmira, N.Y.
Madam: In reply to your letter without date, received on the 16th ultimo, you are advised that a careful search of the records fails to show claims for pension filed on account of the services of Colonel Sam Drake and Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert Drake of the War of the Revolution.
Jeremiah Drake, who was the son of Jeremiah Drake, was allowed pension (file No. 19,196) ON an application executed October 10, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Neversink, Sullivan county, New York. He stated that he was born at Cortlandt (afterwards called Peekskill), New York, in May, 1763, and resided with his father at the Manor of Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York, and served as his substitute in Captain Ebenezer Boyd's company, Colonel Samuel Drake's regiment, for two days each week from the middle fo April, 1777, until the forepart of December, and that he enlisted every April and continued to perform his own and his father's services every year (until the end of the War,) under Captain Ebenezer Boyd, Lieutenant David Ferris, and Colonel Samuel Drake, as follows: in 1778, four months; in 1779, six and half months; 1780, eight months; 1781, seven months; 1782, five months.
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19,196: Drake: 2.
It is further alleged that soldier married December 25, 1788, Phebe Reynolds. (Runolds)
He died June 23, 1845, and she was allowed pension on an application executed June 9, 1846, at which time she was seventy five years of age and a resident of Neversink, New York. No further data as to family.
Very respectfully, 
Acting Commissioner.
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Ex. AVB Div. RECORD
Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. Mar. 24, 1928
The attached letter is respectfully returned with the information that the data furnished is not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below as the information in your possession will permit, and return to this Bureau.
No. of claim, Apr 1, 1926
Name of Soldier, Abel Spragg
Mrs .P. Sprague P.O. address of claimant, Roscoe Sullivan Co. New York
Company Dutchess Co. militia (land bounty rights)
Regiment Third Reg't
State where enlisted not sure
Date of enlistment ____
Date of discharge ______
If unable to furnish company and regiment give names of commanding officers.
( second Reg't and officers Adjutant Isaac Crane- Capt John Brinkerhoff, Brown and John Bunschoten from Roberts New York in Revolution
No other officer given for 3rd Reg't
Winfield Scott 
Commissioner
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612 W. Church St
Elmira, N.Y.
Dear Sir: 
Have you a record of an application in your office of the name of Col. Sam Drake which would give the name of his parents or name of wife.
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he was brother of my ancestor Jeremiah Drake and Lieut. Col. Gilbert Drake all served from Westchester county during Revolutionary war.
Mrs. F.H. Rees
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Mrs. Orrin P. Sprague
Roscoe
Sullivan Co. New York
Mar. 22, 1926
Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.
Please send me extracts concerning Abel Spragg (Sprague)
and Jeremiah Drake, would like names of wives or to whom pensions were paid, if any 
thank you
Mrs. (O.P.) Bertha J. Sprague.
Have written in pencil, my address, so it may ne erased in case it was not what was mailed there
I'm sorry I can't give more information at this time, as that is what we are after.  B.J.S.
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Jeremiah Drake Page 211, Roberts N.Y. in Rev.
Westchester Co. militia
Third Regiment.
supposed to have enlisted from Peekskill N.Y.
Beginning of War. (Stoney Point)
Please send me a few of the accompanying blanks and bill for same, if permissable (sic)
Thank you,
(Mrs. C.P.) Bertha J. Sprague