Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6564, for Thomas Mab, New York
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Sate of New York
Montgomery County
Clerk's Office ss:

I, George D. Ferguson, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County aforesaid do hereby certify that Henry I. Diefendorff before whom the annexed affidavit of Richard Smith purports to have been sworn was on the date thereof one of the Judges of the Court of Common please of said county.  And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that his name subscribed to the said affidavit & to the annexed certificate of character of said Richard is Genuine.
And I further certify, that Abraham Mudge before whom the annexed affidavit w Cornelius Eckerson purports to have been sworn was on the date thereof a Justice of the peace in & for said county  And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe that his name subscribed to said affidavit & also to the annexed certificate of Character of said Cornelius is Genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of my office this 17th day of September 1835.
Geo. D. Ferguson, clerk
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State of New York
Montgomery County ss:

Cornelius Backerson of [illegible] & county of Montgomery aforesaid being duly sworn saith, that he is a bout eighty years of age __that he is well acquainted with Thomas Mabb of Sharon & county of Schoharie __ the applicant in the annexed application for a pension named__that he has been acquainted with him ever since the Revolution__ & was also acquainted with him during the revolution __& saw him in the militia service at various times & places in actual set vice__in  the Revolutionary War.  That he went by the name, among the soldiers of Toma Mabb__  The deponent saith that the first time he has a recollection of him in the Revolutionary service was in the year before the surrender of Burgoyne.  He [illegible] the said Thomas Mabb in the fall of the year in the [illegible] at Fort Edward Fort George & at Scotts [illegible].  Does not recollect nor did he ever know how long he served at those places__but [illegible] his name was familiar among the soldiers at those places __ this deponent served in other militia companies & he saw him only by occasionally [illegible] the circumstances of the tories fleeing from Scott [illegible] & of our bringing away some cattle & [illegible] the [illegible] of an ox at the [illegible] __ does not recollect that Mabb was present at that this __  except that he states the incidents inside [illegible] into them happening which he could no know until he was there & which this deponent recollects as well as if it was yesterday to wit:  that from our cover of a tory house they took out sour bread