Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16573, Nathaniel Fisher, New York
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3-1776
Service Number
Fisher, Nathaniel W16573
Jinne
or Jinney
Contents
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1122
New York
To
Jinnie Fisher
widow of Nathaniel Fisher
who died on the 27 November 1796
of Dutchess in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain C Sandington of the [illegible]
commanded
by Col Hakenington in the
line for [illegible] Private N.Y.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of July
1837
and sent to
Fredrick Stone Paterson
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $139.98
Semi-anl. allowance ending [illegible] Sept 
11.66
$151.64
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3d
Recorded by Daniel Boyd
Clerk, Book A Vol 7
Page 130

Rep 10 July 1837
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                                                   NUMBER
________.         Fisher, Nathaniel.        N.16573
_________.      ______Jinne. ___.        _________
_________.     _____or Jinney___.      _________

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State of New York
Putnam County

On this first - day of [illegible] in the year of our Lord 18[illegible], personally appeared before Daniel Kent, [illegible] Judge of the Court of Common [illegible] of said county of Putnam in the state of New York, Jinney Fisher, a resident of the town of Patterson in the county of Putnam and state of New York, aged eighty-three years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July  4th [illegible] she is the widow  of Nathaniel Fisher who volunteered as a Drummer under Captain   Comfort Ludington in Col Henry Ludington Regiment for the term of three months that the said Nathaniel Fisher  resided  in the town of Owing in the county of Dutchess when he entered the service as a Drummer  [illegible]  [illegible]  company in Col Henry Ludington's  Regiment in the town then called  Frederickstown in the then County Dutchess and now called  the town of Kent  on or about the first of of November 1775 for a term of  three months that he joined the company aforesaid at the said town of Kent and marched from [illegible] with said company for West Point and New York that he served out the said term of three months  and returned to the place where he first [illegible]   the service about the first of February 1776 also the said Nathaniel Fisher volunteered as a Drummer into  the service under Captain Cornelius Steenrod in Col. Thomas Thomas's regiment in the Spring of the year 1776 for a term of nine months. 
[illegible] [illegible] near [illegible][illegible][illegible][illegible] the first 

 April 1776 that the said Nathaniel Fisher enlisted  [illegible] Captain Cornelius Stewart at the said town of Kent in the County of Putnam and went from there to North Salem in the County of Westchester where he joined the said volunteer company the first of April 1776. That he marched from North Salem in the county of Westchester with said Captain Cornelius Steenrod’s company to the lower part of said county of Westchester to Fort Independence and also to New York. Was at New York when the enemy took position of New York, from there across into New Jersey and was there a while and from
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[illegible] up the north[illegible] Peekskill and  about there are from Peekskill to the town of Fishkill [illegible]  until the following [illegible] until he served out the said term of [illegible] that after he served [illegible] the time [illegible]  for he returned to the said town of Kent in the County of  Putnam on or about the first of January 1777 that the claimant   has no documentary evidence in support of the claims 
She further declares that she was married to the said Nathaniel Fisher on the fifteenth day of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy. That her husband Nathaniel Fisher 
aforesaid died on the 27th day of November seventeen hundred and ninety six at the town of Patterson in the county of Putnam and that she remained a widow ever since  that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto anexed sworn to and [illegible]  on the [illegible] day and year above 
written before

Jinney X her-mark Fisher 

[illegible]  of the said county of Putnam.

I certify that I am acquainted with the above-named Jinney Fisher and that she is a person of good character for truth and her statements entitled to credit and further that she cannot from bodily infirmity attend the court and the reason why the said Jinney Fisher made her mark is for want of education

Daniel Kent one of the Judges of the county 
[illegible] and for the said county of Putnam

State of New York
Putnam County

[ an illegible seal covers the following partial text ]

I Jonathan Morehouse clerk of the said county &  pf the county court of the said county do certify that Daniel Kent aforewhom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the time and date of the same one of the judges of said county courts duly commissions and sworn and that I am acquainted  with his hand writing and  [illegible] beli3eve his name sub[illegible]  to the fore going certificates as to the affidavit  and credibility of the witness to be the [illegible] hand writing and signature of the said judge Witness my hand and seal of office this 1st day of February AD 1837 J Morehouse Clerk
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 16573

Jinne Fisher
Widow of Nathaniel Fisher
New York

Act July 4, 1836

Index: Vol. A, Page 238

Arrangement of 1870
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Nath. Fisher
[illegible] 75 3mo drum? Ludington Ludington New York
[illegible] 76 9.  Stearnrod Thomas    Westchester
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Putnam N.Y.

Circa
Jenney Fisher
[illegible] [illegible]
[illegible] [illegible] 36
[illegible]

James L Edward 
Commissioner
of [illegible]
Washington City

Nos 1179 1180
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Patterson 2 Feb 1837

Dear Sir

I have to deport the answer to the within to the Post Master Bettimon Putnam County New York.

Frederic Stone
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1180
Jinney Fisher
widow of Nathaniel
N York

75-2.mo.
76 5. - 
7.

7mo $23.33 no deduction  died 1796
Frederick Stone
Patterson
New York
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State of New York
County of Dutchess ⎬ ss. Stephen Turner of the town of Pawlings
in the County of Dutchess and State of New York Revolutionary
Pension aged Seventy five years personally appeared
before John Holmes Jnr a commissioner of deeds of said
County of Dutchess, who first being duly sworn according to
law, deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with
Nathaniel Fisher (illegible) of the town of Patterson in the County
of Putnam and State of New York and have been for more than
seventy years, whose widow Tinney Fisher a resident
of the town of Patterson in the County of Putnam an applicant
for a Pension, that he was knowing to the said Nathanial
Fisher entering into the service as a Drummer in Capt.
Comfort Ludington & in Col Henry Ludington's Regiment
for the term of three months, and was present when the
said Nathaniel Fisher enlisted as a Drummer in said
Captain Comfort Ludington's Company for the said term of
three months at the dwelling house of Col. Henry Ludington
then called Frederickstown in the County of Dutchess but now the
town of Kent in the County of Putnam in the fall of the
year 1775, and as near as deponent can recollect in the
month of November 1775, and was knowing to the said
Nathaniel Fisher marching from the said town of Kent
with the said Capt Comfort Ludington's company as a
Drummer into the service to go to west point and saw
no more of him untill he returned after the three months
expired at the said town of Kent in the County of Putnam
the place where he first enlisted on or about the first
of February 1776. This deponant further saith that he
was knowing to the said Nathaniel Fisher volunteering
into the service as a Drummer under Captain Cornelius
Steenrod in Col Thomas Thomas's Regiment for the term
of nine months that he enlisted at the house of Col
Henry Ludingington's in the town of Kent in the County
of Putnam on or about the first day of April 1776, as near
as deponent can recollect, and that the said Nathaniel
Fisher left the place of enlistment to join the said Capt
Cornelius Steenrod's Company then at or near North Salem
in the County of Westchester, where he joined the said Col
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Thomas Thomas's Regiment and saw no more of him
untill the following winter when he returned home
to the place where he first enlisted about the first
of January 1777.  This deponant further saith that
he was personally present at the marriage of the said
applicant Tinney Fisher to the said Nathaniel Fisher at
the town of Pawlings in the County of Dutchess in the
spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy
and have no doubt but it was on the 15th day of April
1770. and that the said Nathaniel Fisher died on the
27th day of November 1796, and that the said Tinney
has remained a widow ever since that period.
Subscribed and sworn this 24th
day of January 1837 before me
John Holmes Jnr a Commissioner of and
his
Stephen X Turner
mark

I certify that I am personally acquainted with the
above named Stephen Turner and that he is a person
of good character for truth and that his statement is
entitled to credit, and the reason of his makeing
his mark was for want of education
John Holmes Jnr Commissioner of deeds
State of New York
County of Dutchess J Henry Graves Clerk of the County
of Dutchess do hereby certify that John Holmes Jnr
Esquire before whom the preceeding affidavit was taken
was at the time of taking and certifying the same as
Commissioner in and for the County of Dutchess duly
commissioned and qualified and authorized to take
affidavits to be read in Courts of record of this State
and further that I am well acquainted with the
hand writing of the said Commissioner and verily 
believe the signature of his name affixed to such affidavit
to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have subscribed my
name and affixed my official seal the 28th
day of January
1837
Henry Graves Clerk
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State of New York
County of Dutchess | ss. Elisha Turner of the town of Pawlings
in the County of Dutchess and State of New York a Revolutionary
Pensioner, aged eighty one years, personally appeared
before John Holmes Jnr a Commissioner of deeds of said County
of Dutchess who first being duly sworn according to law,
deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with
Nathaniel Fisher Sr. of the town of Patterson in the County of
Putnam and State of New York and has been for more than
seventy years, whose widow Tinney Fisher a resident of the
town of Patterson in the County of Putnam an applicant
for a Pension, that he was knowing to the said Nathaniel
Fisher entering into the service as a Drummer under Capt
Comfort Ludington in Col Henry Ludington's regiment
for the term of three months, that the said Nathaniel
Fisher volunteered into the service on or about the first
day of November 1775, at the House of Col Henry Ludington
at the town of Frederickstown in the County of Dutchess
as it then was and is now the town of Kent in the
County of Putnam and saw the said Nathaniel Fisher
start from the said Col Ludington's with the said
Captain Comfort Ludington's company for west point
or near that place and saw no more of him untill
after the said term of three months expired, after that the
said Nathaniel returned to the place where he first
enlisted on or about the first of February 1776.
This deponent further saith that he was personally present
at the Marriage of the said Nathaniel Fisher Sr. to the
said Tinney the widow of the said Nathaniel an applicant
for a Pension, at the town of Pawlings in the County of
Dutchess in the spring of the year seventeen hundred
and seventy and do not recollect the day of the month
but do think that it was the 15th day of April 1770 and
well recollect that the said Nathaniel died the 27th day
of November 1796 and that the said Tinney widow of
the said Nathaniel has remained a widow ever since
that period. Sworn and Subscribed this 24th
day of January 1837 before me
John Holmes Jnr Commissioner of deeds
his
Elisha X Turner
mark
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I certify that I am personally acquainted with the
within named Elisha Turner and that he is a person
of good character for truth and that his statement
is entitled to credit, and the reason of his making
his mark was for want of education
John Holmes Junr. Commissioner of deed
State of New York
County of Dutchess
I Henry Graves Clerk of the
County of Dutchess do hereby certify that
John Holmes Junr Esq. before whom the preceeding
affidavit was made was at the time of taking
the same a Commissioner in and for the said
County Commissioned and sworn and duly authorized
to take affidavits to be read in evidence in
any Court of Record of said State and further
that I am well acquainted with the hand
writing of the said Commissioner and verily
believe that the signature of his name affixed
to said affidavit to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of the said
County the 25th day of January 1837
Henry Graves Clerk
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New York
Fisher, Nathaniel
Jinne
or
Jinney
NUMBER
W.16573
CONTENTS
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State of New York
Westchester County [illegible], Silvanus Townsend
of the town of North Salem in the County of
Westchester a Revolutionary Pensioner of the
United States, Personally appeared before
Knapp Remmington Justice of the Peace
in and for said County of Westchester
who first being duly sworn according to
law deposeth and said that he was well
acquainted with Nathaniel Fisher decd of
the town of Patterson in the County of Putnam
and has been for more than sixty years
whose widow Jinney Fisher a resident
of the town of Patterson in the County of
Putnam an applicant for a Pension
This deponent saithe that he was knowing
to the said Nathaniel Fisher Decd being in
and with a volunteer Company under Capt
Cornelius Steenrod in Col Thomas Thomas
Regiment as a Drummer [illegible] this deponent will recollects that  the said  Nathaniel Fisher Decd and also this
deponent went both together under this sd [said]
Captain Cornelius Steenrod's company in
Col Thos [Thomas] Thomas Regiment in the spring
of the year 1776. and as near as deponent
can recollect the first day of April 1776
or thereabouts deponent was with Capt
Berrona [Benonia] Platt in the same Regiment and
often saw the sd [said] Nathaniel Fisher Decd in
the said Volunteer copany [company] during the said
summer of 1776 and was with him at Fort
Independence and about that place at
Kings bridge while we were together
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until some time in the fall of the year 1776 and deponent thinks that he saw the said Nathaniel Fisher [illegible] as late in the fall 1776 as the month of November or December, deponent was under Captain Cornelius Steerrod in Col. Thos. Thomas Regiment in the spring of the year 1776 and part of the summer after that the deponent was under Captain Benona Platt in the 2nd Col. Thomas Thomas's Regiment and the last that deponent can recollect of seeing the [illegible] Nathaniel Fisher [illegible] was at Peckskill as drummer late in the fall 1776 deponent will recollects that it was very cold weather, and deponent now thinks it must be in the month of December 1776.

[illegible] the word "Drummer" interlined and the 
words "Fifer for the term of nine months [illegible] before sworn or signing.

Subscribed and sworn this 17th day of January 1837 before me
Knapp Remington Justice of the peace
Sylvanus Townsend

This is to certify that I am well acquainted with the above named witness and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Knapp Remington Justice of the peace 
State of New York
West Chester County 
I John H Smith Clerk of the said county of West Chester & clerk of the Court of Court of Common [illegible] in and for the said county 

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Hereby certify that Knapp Remington Esqr whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificates was on the [illegible] the date of the said [illegible] a Justice of the Peace and on and for the said County of West Chester duly commissioned and sworn and further that the [illegible] signature [illegible] to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto let my hand and affixed the seal of the said county this [illegible} day of January 1837.
John H Smith [illegible]