Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,573, Stephen Freeman, New York
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Service 
New York 

Freeman, Stephen 

Number 
S. 43,573
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13,174     4
New York 

Stephen Freedman of Easton in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Van Schaick  of the New York  line, for the term of one year 1776
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 of May 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 of July 1819 and [illegible] Henry C Martindale Sandy Hill New York 

Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819             79.22 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sep. 1819   48.00 
QM 28/31                                      ----------
                                                     $127.22

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818. 

 Continued - [illegible] H.W. Palmer, [illegible], 23 October 1820

Next Page-  Nov 30th 1833 - ipso dup:
 certif: and sent it to 
Hon. Jno. Craver, M.C. on the 3rd December 1833 -
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Stephen Freeman  Copy
13174
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State of New York
County of Saratoga 

On this twenty-second day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, in the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, the same being a Court of Record for the said County, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Stephen Freeman of the town of Saratoga aged sixty one years, resident in the said County, in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: in the regiment commanded Colonel Goose Van Schaick, Captain Job Wright's company. 1776 served as a pilot under General Gates in 1777.

That this original declaration was made on or about the eighth day of August 1818 and that his Pension Certificate is numbered 13.174 
and I solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. 
Schedule: 
One pot and one frying pan worth $ 1.50 has a wife aged sixty years both able to labor reasonably for persons of their age.  No trade works as a common labourer.  

[Signed] Stephen Freeman

Sworn to and declared on the twenty second day of August 1820 before me in open court

[Signed] Thomas Palmer, Clerk

I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one dollar and fifty cents.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty second day of August 1820.

[Signed] Thomas Palmer
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga
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State of New York
Washington County

Holtum Dunham of the Town of Stillwater in the County of Saratoga and State aforesaid being duly sworn saith that sometime in the month of January or February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six he was commissioned as Lieutenant in the service of the United Stated in the Revolutionary War to serve against the Common enemy on the Continental Establishment as such officer during the Pleasure of Congress.  That he immediately entered into said service in a Company Commanded by Captain Job Wright of the first New York Regiment Commanded by Goosen Van Schaick Colonel. That he is now and was then well acquainted with Stephen Freeman in the annexed Affacavit named, and well remembers that he enlisted as a Private into his Company sometime in the month of March in the war aforesaid to serve for one Year against the Common Enemy as stated in his the said Stephens Affidavit. He also knows that he served in the said Company and Regiment until the Expiration of that war, and until the said Company and Regiment were dismissed, and for more than Nine months - and further saith not. 

[Signed] Holtum Dunham

Subscribed and sworn this 17th
day of February 1819 before me
Mr. HC Martindale one of the Washington Comm Pleas Judges.
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I am satisfied that the
afore named Holtum Dunham
is a disinterested and Credible Witness
Henry C Martindale
Judge
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State of New York
Washington County

Be it Remembered that on the twenty Seventh day of August Eighteen hundred and Eighteen Personally Came John Cooper in the
preceding affidavit and being duly sworn saith
and on his oath declared that he the deponant
belonged to Capt. Edmondston Company in the first New York Regiment commanded by
Colonel Goosen Van Schaik and he this deponent saith that he was acquainted with Stephen Freeman in the year Seventeen hundred seventy-six and further saith that he the said Freeman belonged to Capt. Job Wight's Company in said Van Schaick's Regiment and this deponent further saith that the said Freeman is poor and needy and wants the assitance of Government
[Signed] John Cooper
Subscribed and Sworn before me this
27th day of August 1818
[Signed] Daniel Mosher Justice Peace
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State of New York
Washington County 

 I Daniel Shepherd Clerk of the County of Washington Do certify that Daniel Mosher Esq. is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Washington acting under the authority of the said state and that I believe the name Daniel Mosher subscribed to the within affidavit to be his handwriting.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of the said Court. 
the 28th day of August 1818
D. Shepherd Clk
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State of New York
Washington County [illegible} 

Joshua Brownell of the town of Easton in the County of Washington of lawful age being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has been personally acquainted with Stephen Freeman of the town of Easton aforesaid more than ten years last past and knows that he is poor and needy - and this Deponint further says that the said Stephen Freeman is reputed to have been a soldier in the revolution - and further this Deponint saith 

[Signed] Joshua Brownell

Subscribed and sworn this 29th day of August 1818 before me
[Signed] Anthony Blanchard First Judge of the Court of Comn Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York
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State of New York
Washington County

 I Cornelius Baldwin of the town of Fort Edward in said County being duly sworn saith that he well knows Stephen Freeman  named in the annexed affidavit and knew him well in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six [1776] in the revolutionary war and that he was then a private soldier in Captain Job Wrights Company of the New York  Regiment Commanded by Colonel Goosen Van Schaick in the Years Service.  That this deponent served as a Corporal in that Company during the Years Service for more than nine Months, and until the Regiment was dismissed, the time he does not certainly remember but the said Stephen Freeman served in that Company and Regiment during all the time this deponent served, and was dismissed at the same time with him--and further saith not 
[Signed] Cornelius Baldwin

Sworn this 29th day of Aug. 1818 before Me 
[Signed] Henry C Martindale
one of the Wash. Com. Pleas Judges

Washington County 
I Alpheus Doty of Jarsey Hill in said  County being sworn saith that he has for many Years been well acquainted with Cornelius Baldwin named in the above Affidavit and who signed the same and knows that his reputation for truth and Veracity is good and that he is a credible Witness--
[Signed] Alpheus Doty

Sworn this 29th day of August 1818 before me
[Signed] Henry C Martindale One of the Wash. Com. Pleas Judges
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In the matter of 
Stephen Freeman
a Revolutionary Soldier

Afft & Certificates

Proves a Years Service in Col. Van Schaicks Regiment  Year 1776

Direct to Judge
Martindale
J. Savage
at Sandy Hill 
N. York
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Stephen Freeman 
Private
76 - Van Schaick
N. Y. Regt.

Admitted
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State of New York
Washington County

Stephen Freeman of the Town of Easton in the County of Washington and State of New York being duly sworn saith that on or about the last of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six at Still-Water in the State of New York aforesaid he Enlisted into the Army of the United States to serve against the Common Enemy as a Private in what was called the Years Service under Captain Job Wright of the first New York Regiment Commanded by Goosen Van Schaick, Colonel. That he served in that Company and Regiment through the residue of that year for which time he enlisted and was discharged at Albany with the whole Regiment by general dismission on or about the first day of January one thousand seven Hundred and seventy seven.  That during said service he was stationed at Fort George where and on the Lake he was principally employed during the Service from where he was marched to Albany and dismissed as aforesaid, but was engaged in no battles.  That he has no evidence in his power to produce of his service and discharge aforesaid but the Testimony of his brother Elijah Freeman who was in the service with him and whose affidavit is subjoined.  That he is now and since his said service has been a resident Citizen of the United States and now lives in the Town of Easton aforesaid.  That he is now fifty eight years of age and is destitute of property and by reason of his reduced Circumstances in life needs the Assistance
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of his Country for support.

Stephen Freeman

Sworn this 8th day of May 1818 before me Henry C Martindale
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington

State of New York
Washington County
Elijah Freeman of the town of Easton in the County of Washington and State of New York being duly sworn saith that he has heard the affidavit of his Brother Stephen Freeman which precedes read and knows the facts therein set forth to be true.  That he enlisted into the same Company and Regiment on the same day with him and served through the said campaign with him.  and knows him to be old and poor.  

Elijah Freeman

Sworn this 8th day of May 1818 before me 
Henry C Martindale
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington

State of New York 
Washington County
Be it remembered that on the eighth day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before Me Henry C Martindale one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington
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thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Henry C. Martindale one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington. 

 Personally came Stephen Freeman and Elijah Freeman in the preceding Affidavits named and each subscribed the one to which his Name appears and both being by Me duly sworn each on his Oath declared that the facts set forth in his Affidavit were true.  And I further Certify that I am satisfied that the said Stephen Freeman served in the revolutionary War on the Continental Establishment against the Common Enemy for nine months as stated in his Affidavit and that the facts therein set forth are true, and that he is in indigent circumstances.  

Henry C. Martindale

State of New York
Washington County

I Daniel Shepherd Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington do certify that Henry C Martindale Esq by whom the above certificate was made is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County axting under the authority of the State of New York and that the above is his Signature.
In testimony whereof I have have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court the 8th day of May 1818. 
D. Shepherd Clk
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF

April 21, 1930

Mrs. Maude F. Forbes
100 Falconer Street
Jamestown, New York

Dear Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 43573, it appears that Stephen Freeman enlisted at Stillwater, New York, in March 1776 and served as a private in Captain Job Wright's Company, Colonel Goose Van Schaick's New York Regiment, until discharged January 1, 1777.  In 1777 he served as a pilot under General Gates.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 8, 1818 at which time he was a resident of Easton, Washington County, New York, and was aged fifty-eight years.

He had a wife, who was sixty years old in 1820, her name is not given.  It is not stated whether they had children.

Very truly yours,

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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October 8, 1928

Mrs. Ella Freeman Oswald,
179 St. Johns Place
Brooklyn, New York.

Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 43573, it appears that Stephen Freeman enlisted at Stillwater, New York, in March 1776, and served as a private in Captain Job Wright's Company, Colonel Goose Van Schaick's New York Regiment, until discharged January 1, 1777.  In 1777 he served as a pilot under General Gates.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 8, 1818 while a resident of Easton, Washington County, New York, at which time he was fifty-eight years old.  He had a wife, name not stated, aged sixty years in 1820.  

It is not stated whether they had any children. 

Owing to the very large number of inquiries similar to yours and the lack of clerical force available for the purpose, only two histories of soldiers of the Revolution are furnished each person.

Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

December 17, 1923

Mrs. Ralph E. Gardner
815 1/2 Eighth St.
Greeley, Colo.

Madam:  

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 43573, it appears that Stephen Freeman enlisted at Stillwater, New York, in March 1776, and served as a private in Captain Job Wright's Company, Colonel Goose Van Schaick's New York Regiment, until discharged January 1, 1777.  In 1777 he served as a pilot under General Gates.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 8, 1818 while a resident of Easton, Washington County, New York, at which time he was fifty-eight years old.  He had a wife, - name not stated, - aged sixty years in 1820.  

It is not stated whether they had any children.

Respectfully,

Acting Commissioner.
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S Freeman affidavit

Jno Cramer
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State of New York
Saratoga County

On this twenty eighth day of October 1833 before me the subscriber, a Justice of the peace for the said county of Saratoga, personally appeared Stephen Freeman, who on his Oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company Commanded by Captain Job Wright in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Van Schaick in the service of the United States.  That his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of New York, that he received a certificate of that fact, under the Signature and Seal of the Secretary of War, which Certificate, on or about the seventh day of September last at the Village of Saratoga Springs he the said Stephen Freeman had in his possession and rolled it up in a silk handkerchief, with another certificate, and has never since seen the same or the said handkerchief; that on reaching his home which was about seven miles distant from the place above mentioned he discovered for the first time that the said handkerchief & papers were missing - that he has made enquiry for them since, and has never been able to find them.  The said Stephen Freeman further says that he is the Committee of his brother Elijah Freeman, appointed by the Court of Chancery of the State of New York, that he had a like Certificate of the Revolutionary services of his said brother, at the time aforesaid, which was also rolled up in the handkerchief above mentioned and is the Certificate about referred to which is also lost in the manner above mentioned.  

Stephen Freeman

Sworn and subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid.

A. Goodrich Justice

I certify that know Stephen Freeman to be the same man described in the above affidavit. 

Jno. Cramer
Washington Cty N 29 1833
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State of New York
Saratoga County

I Alpheus Goodrich clerk of the county of Saratoga do certify that Alpheus Goodrich before whom the written affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said county and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Writing my hand and seal of office the twenty eighth day of October 1833

A. Goodrich Clerk
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Personal request for 
Stephen Freeman
S. 43573
Apr 7 - 1930
Send to 

Mrs. Maude Fenton Forbes
100 Falconer St.
Jamestown N. Y.
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179 St. Johns Place
Brooklyn,N.Y.
December 10, 1927

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

I am preparing a family history for the Freeman family to which I belong, and I find my records of the following persons incomplete, viz;

Gideon Freeman, who served in the 13th Regiment, Albany (N.Y.) Militia, Col. Van Veghten.
Elijah Freeman, who served in the same regiment.
Elisha Freeman, who served in the same regiment.
Stephen Freeman, who served in the same regiment.
James Freeman, who served in the same regiment.
Isaac Freeman, who served in the same Militia, but in the 14th Regiment, Col Yates.
and
Ezra Freeman, who served from Vermont (I believe in the Militia) He was a sergeant in ----------White's Company.

Is it asking too much to have you give me the names of the wives and children of these men, as you have them? I am not sure that all received pensions.

Respectfully yours,

Mrs. Ella Freeman Oswald  [handwritten signature]
(Mrs. C. E. C. Oswald) [handwritten]

stamped with PENSION OFFICE DEC 12 1927 U.S.

All in War of the Revolution [written on side of letter next to names]
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Ralph E. Gardner, Proprietor
812 1-2 Eighth Street

Greeley, Colorado Nov 3, 1923

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sirs -

Would you please give me the name of the military service of which my ancestor Stephen Freeman of New York gained his pension during the Revolutionary war? I have information that he was a scout under General Gates.

Very respectfully - 
Mrs Ralph E. Gardner or
Mrs Emma Freeman Gardner
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43573

Revy INVALID

File No. 43573
Stephen Freeman
Pri Rev War

Act 18 March 18
Index: - Vol 3 Page 179

1923 Dec 17 - Hist. to Mrs Ralph E. Gardner

1928 Oct 8 - Hist. to Mrs. Ella Freeman Oswald

1930 Apr 21 - Hist. sent to Mrs. Maude F Forbes