Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26939, for James Pride, New York
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE                      NUMBER
New York    Pride, James    W. 26939
Mehetable or
Mehitable

CONTENTS
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Notification sent the 14 Dec 1820 As from J
Decent 42 R. N. Y.

2563
New York
James Pride, Sergt
New York line,
1776, 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York,
at the rate of 8. Dollars per month, to commence
the 17 of April, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of Sept. 1818
and sent to Abraham Hoffman,
Esq. Kingston, Ulster Co. N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818      $36.80
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March  48
18          1819
4 Mar 30                                     $84.80


{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.
Conto
New Paltz
Ulster Co
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James Pride
Sergt
5th  New York Regt
to be delayed
Ap 17.  [illegible]

Admitted
New York role
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State of New York
Ulster County ss: On this seventeenth day of April 1818 before
me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common 
Pleas for Ulster County personally appears James Pride
aged 73 years resident in the Town of Newpaltz in said
County of Ulster who being by me first duly sworn according
to said, doth on his oath make make the following
declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the
late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for
certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of
the United States in the revolutionary war"" That he
the said James Prise enlisted in New Marlbough
County of Ulster in the State of New York in the year
1776 for three years in the company commanded
by Captain  Hutchins of the fifth New York
Regiment, that he continued to serve in the said Corps
or in the service of the United States until the 16th
August 1779 when he was discharged from service in
Onaquashire  in the State of New York, that he was in
the Battle of Fort Montgomery & in the expedition
with General Sullivan against the Indians, and that
he is in reduced circumstances and lands in need
of the assistance of his country for support and
that he has no other evidence now in his power of
his said services except the two Certificate annexed
Sworn to and declared before
me the day and year aforesaid
James Pride
Abm Hoffman
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Hon. J. C. Brodhead
AR
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Richard Green of East Haddam in Middlesex County and state of Connecticut deposes and says that in the year AD 1774 he lived in said East Haddam, where he was born and still lives that
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Mahitable Pride
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Duplicate of prior page with added printed certification as follows

State of New York
County of Ulster
I, Charles W. Chipp, Clerk of the County of Ulster do hereby certify that Johnel Pride  H. Coe whose name if subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed deposition of Mehetabel Pride and thereon written, was at the time of taking such proof or acknow- ledgement a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in said County, commissioned and authorized to take same; And further that I [portion of page blacked out] handwriting of such Justice and verily believe that the sign... [portion of page blacked out] of proof or acknowledgement is genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have set my hand and [portion of page blacked out] County, the 23rd day of Dec.   
Charles W. Chipp
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State of New York
Ulster County
Town New Paltz
Mahetible Pride of New Paltz said County and State being duly sworn says that her late husband James Pride was in the revolutionary army and was in the five months service and was on Long Island when the British drove them off, he was next stationed in New York and was there until the British took that place, next he was stationed at fort Montgomery at which place this deponent and Lieutenant Furmans wife went to see their husbands, while we were at the fort there was an alarm that the British were coming and we left the fort and this deponent further says that in all probability her husband would have been taken prisoner had he not just before the British came been ordered out with a detachment of men to guard a weak place about the fort, he then came home to see his family, a few miles up the Hudson River and  continued in the service of his Country in all five years or more after he left fort Montgomery and had seen his family, he was then out after the Indians along the Susquehanna river says further that the names of the officers he served under a part of the time were General Clinton and Col. Lewis Dubois. 
Mahetable Pride
Subscribed and sworn before me November 25th, 1837  John H. Coe  Jus. Peace.