Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10456, Matthew Clearwater, New York
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Service
New York

Clearwater, Matthew

Number
S. 10456
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during the whole of said Term.

And he further states that he does not recollect the time when the one months minute service was performed but that it was previous to the year 1777.  and that his service under Capt. William Faulkner will appear by an affidavit of said Faulkner hereto annexed.  and his service under Capt. Drake will appear by an affidavit of William Bodine also here to annexed.  And that said Bodine and Faulkner are both now dead.

And he further states that he has no documentary evidence of his service and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure wo can testify to his service.

And he further states that he has no accord of his age and that since the Revolutionary War he has principally resided in the Town of Montgomery County of Orange aforesaid and now resides there.

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.

And this deponent further says that he served as a private under the command of Capt. John Newkirk for one month at Hunk in the County of Ulster in the year 1778 - as will appear by the affidavit of said Newkirk here to annexed.

And further says that he served for three weeks at Ramapo[?] under the command of Capt. Matthias Felter on an alarm but that he does not recollect the year.
And further says not.

Matthew Clearwater

Sworn in open Court the day and year aforesaid 
Asa Dunning Clerk
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State of New York
Orange County Ss.

Abraham Crist of the town of Montgomery, Orange County, and State of New York being duly sworn says, that he is the person before whom the annexed affidavits of William Faulkner and William Bodine were taken.  that he was well acquainted with said Faulkner and Bodine in their life time and that they were both men of credibility and entitled to entire confidence and belief.

and further says that he is well acquainted with Capt. John Newkirk whose affidavit is also annexed and that he is a respectable citisen(sic) of the Town of Montgomery aforesaid and a man of credibility,

A. Crist

Taken and Sworn this 18th day of June 1833 before me 
Asa Dunning Clerk of the County

Orange County Ss - This is to certify that on the 18th day of June in the year 1833, personally appeared before me Asa Dunning Clerk of said county of Orange, the above named Abraham Crist who being by me duly sworn, made oath that the facts contained in the above affidavit were true.  and I do further certify that the said Abraham Crist is a man of credibility.

Asa Dunning 
Clerk
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State of New York
Orange County Ss.

John Newkirk of the Town of Montgomery Orange County and State of New York being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is acquainted with Matthew Clearwater of said Town of Montgomery.

And further says that said Clearwater served as a private under the command of this deponent for one month at Hunk in the County of Ulster in the fall of 1778.  and further the deponent says not.

John Newkirk

Sworn in open Court the third day of December 1832 before me
Asa Dunning Clerk
of Orange Com Pleas