Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,741, for John Staring, New York
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SERVICE: New York
Staring, John (Jane)
NUMBER: W. 16,741
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Albany 1142  
Jane Staring 
widow of John Staring 
who died on the 19 Feb. 1832 
of Montgomery Co, in the State of N. York 
who was a Private & Sergt in the Company commanded 
by Captain Gardinier of the Regt. commanded 
by Col. Fisher in the N.Y. line 
for 14 months & 2 days Pr. 46.88
1 " 23 " Sergt 8.83
[=] $55.71

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany 
at the rate of 55 Dollars 71 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of July 1837 
and [sent to] Thos Sammons, Present 

Arrears to the 4th of March '37.. 334.26 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep "..  27.85 
[=] $361.11 

{Revolutionary Claim,} 
{Act July 4, 1836,} 
{Section the 3- } 
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, 
Book A.  Vol. 1 Page 142
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State of New York}
Montgomery County} ss. on this 2" day of May 1837 personally came and appeared before me John Hand one of the Judges of the County Court for the County of Montgomery aforesaid Jane Staring a resident of Glen in the said County of Montgomery & State of New York, And states that she is aged 78 years, who being duly sworn by me According to Law doth on her Oath make the following Declaration, In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 and that of March 3rd 1837, that she is the Widow of John Staring and was Married to the said John Staring on the 18th day of Febuary [sic] 1781 by the Reverand Ephraim Damster, in the Revolutionary War, John Staring the Lawful Husband of Jane Staring as by her oath says that her Husband served as a private under Collonel [sic] Fisher & Collonel Veeders Regiments and under the command of Capt Jacob Gardinier & Lieutenant Abraham Quckinbush [sic] during the Revolutionary War, down to the year 1778 or 1779 I am not Positive the serviss [sic] of her Husband John Staring is in part traditionary or such as was related to her at different times during the War, and at different times since by her Husband and from persons that said that they was with him at the following places, as near as my memory will serve in the year 1776 - at Fort Hunter one Month, Scotch Bush [?] in the same year 10 days, and in the Oriskany Battel [sic] 1777 - one Month, the same year 42 days at Saratoga before Borgine [sic] Surrendered, Cobels Kill [sic] in 1778 - 10 days the same year at Stone Rabia [sic] 17 days, the same year at Cherry Vally [sic] 7 days at Sockendago [sic] Block House the same year 1 Month, in 1779 at the German Flatts 16 days, After 1778, she knows he did serviss from information but dos [sic] not particularly Know to describe it. She Also states the he was Inlisted in the Boating serviss and was present when he Inlisted and saw him pass & repass the place where they lived in Boats during the War and was Inlisted for 9 Months Under Capt Dickerson or Capt Simon DeGraff and believes that he served the whole of his time, and that her Husband John Staring Dyed Febuary 19th 1832 and that the said Jane Starin[g] remained his Widdow ever since 
[Signed Jane Staring

Sworn to and Subscribed} 
the day and year aforesaid}  
[Signed] John Hand a Judge of the Montgomery County Courts 

I further Certify that the words "as" on the 12 line - "one month" on the 20th line - "in boats during the war" on the 28th line from the top - were interlined - and the figure Six wrote on an obliteration - before the above was sworn to.  I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Jane Starin[g] who has taken the above declaration and know him [sic] to be a Creditable person and that his [sic] Statements above made are entitled to Credit. [Signed] John Hand a Judge of the Montgomery County Courts
(see other side)
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I further Certify that the figures & words - "1779 I am not positive" on the 15 line from the top of the within declaration and the words "or Capt Simon Degroff" on the 29 line from the top of said declaration were all interlined before said Declaration was Sworn to [Signed] John Hand a Judge of the Montgomery County Courts
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State of New York}
County of Montgomery} ss.
 I, John Hand a Judge of the County Courts of the County abovenamed (the Same being Courts of record) do hereby declare my opinion after examining the declaration & affidavits hereto annexed -- That Jane Staring the applicant for a pension named in the Said declaration & affidavits is the widow of John Staring deceased named in said declaration and who was a private (and also a boatman) in the War of the Revolution - and has Served in Said war as therein Stated - and that the Said Jane was lawfully married to the Said John Staring at the time mentioned in Said declaration - and that her husband the Said John Staring died at the time mentioned in the Said declaration - and that she the Said Jane Staring has remained a widow ever Since the day of his death and Still remains a widow - and I further Certify that the Said Jane Staring Cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court (or any of the Courts of record) In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand at Glen in Said County this 9th day of May 1837 - the word attend was interlined by me- [Signed] John Hand a Judge of the Montgomery County Courts
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State of New York} 
County of Schenectada} ss. 
Daniel S. DeGraff of the City of Schenectada, in said County, aged forty nine years, being duly Sworn and examined, doth depose & say, that his father Simon DeGraff departed this life about sixteen or seventeen years ago - that his Said father Simon De Graff often informed him this Deponent that he said Simon was a Captain in the revolutionary army, of a Company of Batteaumen, & showed him this Deponent his papers appertaining to his said service, and he this Deponent has also often heard his said father Simon DeGraff converse with others relative to his said services, and also as to his other services in the militia of this State. That he this Deponent after the decease of his said father, several times saw the aforesaid papers, but was not careful to preserve them, or carefully to examine them for the reason that he did not believe they would ever be of any service - That he this Deponent recently searched for said papers, some of which are now lost - of those lost among others, he remembers the Commission of his said father - that he has found and examined two papers purporting to be pay rolls -  from which it appears that among others the following named persons were members of the Company of said Simon DeGraff and that their time of service expired on the 31st December 1778, to wit, Nicholas Gardinier, Adam Miller, Abraham Philips, John Staring, Adam Staring & Nicholas Van Slyck - and further this Deponent was informed & verily believes the fact to
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be so, that the time the men of said Company were enlisted for was one year - and this Deponent further saith that he is well acquainted with the hand writing of his said father, and that said pay rolls are in the own proper handwriting of his said father, and are the same which he showed to this Deponent & represented to him this Deponent as Such.
[Signed] Daniel S. DeGraff
Subscribed & Sworn this} 
9th day of May 1837} 
before me } 
[Signed] J. D. Harman Justice of the peace

I, Joshua D. Harman before whom the foregoing affidavit of Daniel S. DeGraff has been taken, do certify, that said Daniel S. DeGraff with whom I am well acquainted, is a witness of credibility & veracity. May 9th 1837.
[Signed] J. D. Harman 
Justice of the peace

State of New York}
County of Schenectada} ss. 
I, Jonathan C. Burnham Clerk of said County, do certify, that Joshua D. Harman before whom the foregoing affidavit of Daniel S. DeGraff has been taken & who has signed the certificate of credibility annexed thereto was at the time thereof & is now a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly Commissioned & sworn, & that the signatures to the same purporting to be his are genuine. 
Given under my hand & Seal of Office this ninth day of May 1837.
[SEAL]
[Signed] Jon. C. Burnham Clerk
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Montgomery County} 
State of New York} ss.  George Stine of the town of Florida in the County Aforesaid says he was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war first being Duly sworn says he was Acquainted with John Staring served Together at Different times the first time I went on a Scouting party in the year 1775 Under the command of Capt MacMaster Col. Frederick Fishers Regiment wee went in the woods north of Groots Tavern about 12 Miles West of Schenectady to the Fish house and was on duty that time about 14 Days not less, in the year 1776 was also on duty One tour of Service in the Winter in the Month of January when Genl. Schuyler Disarmed Sir John Johnson 9 Days in the year 1777 I was with him to Oriskana Under the command of Genl. Herkimer I was in Capt. Hodges Company John Staring was in Capt. Jacob Gardiniers Company in Col. Frederick Fishers Regiment that time John Staring was not Less then One Month on duty in the service of the United States and in the fall of the Year before Borguine [sic] surrendered I served in Capt. John Lighels [?] Company Col. Frederick Fishers Regement the Col. was not their [sic] I believe wee or John Staring was then on duty in the service of the United States at Least Six weeks John Staring was a private and I Remember seeing him at Different other times in the Militia service of the United States but cant remember time of his service the Officers and some times the place where he was, and knows the Claimant Jane Staring to be the Widow of John Staring deceased above mentioned.
George (X mis mark) Stine
Subscribed and Sworn to this 13th 
day of May 1837 Before me 
[Signed] Myndert Starin} Comm of Deeds &c
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State of New York
Montgomery County ss. on the 13th day of May 1837 came before me George Stine, who subscribed the within Affidavit by making his Mark, it being read to him before signed and is a person to me well known and that he is a man of unpeachible [sic] entegraty [sic] and veracity 
[Signed] Myndert Starin} Com of Deeds &c.
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State of New York} 
County of Montgomery ss} Jane Gardiner being duly Sworn doth depose and say that She is Sixty Seven years of age, and she was acquainted with John Staring and Jane Wemple previous and during the revolutionary war and that the Said John Staring and Jane Wemple were married on the south Side of the Mohawk River oposite [sic] Caughnawaga in the County aforesaid, formerly the County of Tyrone [Tryon], on the Eighteenth day of Febuary [sic] Seventeen hundred and Eighty one, by the Reverand Ephram Demiles [?] and that this deponent was present at the wedding and saw the said John Married to the Said Jane by the Reverand Demiles as aforesaid. That the Said Jane Staring now Claims a pension under the act of July 4th 1836 is is the Identical Jane Staring who was married to the Said John Staring as above stated. And that the Said John Staring died on the Nineteenth day of Febuary 1832 and that the Said Jane has since remained his widow.
[Signed] Jane Gardiner

Subscribed & sworn to this 20th day of February 1837 before me  
[Signed] John S Quackenboss - a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Montgomery 
I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Jane Gardiner who has Subscribed & Sworn to the above affidavit & that I know her to be a creditable person & that the statement by her made in the foregoing affidavit an Entitled to full Credit 
[Signed] John S Quackenboss Justice
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State of New York} 
County of Montgomery} ss. 
Isaac Covenhoven of the town of Glen County Aforesaid says that he is now of the Age of 76 years that he was a Soldier of the Revolution and was Acquainted with John Staring wee both served in Col. Frederick Fishers Regement [sic] Capt Jacob Gardiniers Company That in the year 1776 I was at the German Flaats in Capt Jacob Gardinier Company and the said John Staring was with us served during that Tour of Service as a private at Least three weeks That in the year 1777 I went together with the said John Staring in Capt. Jacob Gardeneir Company to Stonearabia in the town of Palatine and at the Nose at the Mills of Major Giles Fonda in the town of Palatine in this Tour we were out more then two weeks that I have also been Out Together with the said John Staring Under the command of the said Capt. Jacob Gardineir to the Village of Johnstown and the Saconadago Blockhouse in these Tours which I cant perfectly remember part of the time we were at Stillers in Albany [illegible] some part of this service was performed in the year 1776 and some part in the year 1777 in these Towers [Tours] where [were] not Less then one Month service done and also that they were both Under the Command of the said Capt Jacob Gardineer in Battle of Oriskana this Tour of Service from home was About One Month and further says he seen said John Staring in the Militia Service in the Year 1775 but cannot recollect the perticular [sic] times or place, but in General did his Duty he believes did Duty in Col. Frederick Fishers Regement Under Other Officers which he cannot recollect at present both himself & John Staring 
[Signed] Isaac Covenhoven
Subscribed & Sworn to this 12th day of May 1837 before me 
Myndert Starin} Com of Deeds &
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State of New York 
Montgomery County Ss. on the 12th day of May 1837 personally appeared before me Isaac Covenhoven the within named who took and subscribed the within Affidavit who is a person to me well known and that he is a man of impeachable integerty [sic] & Veracity
[Signed]] Myndert Starin} Com of Deeds &c
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75. V 2050
Jane Starings papers

Mr Luce [?]
Jon Atten [?]

In Vol 6- [Yr?] 74 - $1.33 Serg - 1780
2.00 " 1779
75 - 4.33 "  1780
" - 1.00 - " "
76 - 3.33 - 1779
" - 3.66 - " 1780
[=]
$16.31 pay
23 days Serg
13.26 private 
[=] 15.19 [mo.days]
Apl [?] 6 1781 - $1.70  8 [days]
[=] 15.27

Tho Sammons
Present
Admitted
Sergt 1m & 23 days
Priv - 14 m 4 "
[=] 15.27
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State of New York 
Montgomery County 
Clerks Office, ss: 
I, George D. Ferguson, clerk of the County of Montgomery do hereby certify that John Hand before whom the annexed declaration of Jane Starin[g] purports to have been sworn & whose name is thereto subscribed & Also subscribed to the Annexed certificate of Interlinations & opinion of said John Hand, Was on the date of the same a Judge of the County Courts of said County: And that I am Well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge & Verily believe his name subscribed as herein before stated is his Genuine Signatures. 
And I further certify that Myndert Starin before whom the annexed affidavits of Isaac Covenhoven & George Stine purport to have been Sworn, & whose name is subscribed to said affidavits & also subscribed to the annexed Certificates of Character of said Deponents, was on the date of the Same a Commissioner of Deeds in & for said County & duly authorized by Law to administer Oaths & take affidavits; and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Commissioner & verily believe that his name subscribed as herein before Stated in his Genuine Signature. 
And I further certify that John S. Quackenboss before whom the annexed affidavit of Jane Gardinier purports to have been Sworn was on the date of the Same a Justice of the Peace in & for said County; And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe his name subscribed to Said affidavit and to the annexed certificate of Character of said Deponent is the proper signature of said Justice.
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In testimony of all which I
have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of my office that
31st day of June 1837.
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16,741
Jane Staring
widow of
John Staring
Sergt Rev War
Act Jul 4th 36
Index: Vol. M, Page 246
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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New York
Jane Staring
Suspended Let to Tho Sammons -
June 27 1837