Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16174, for Cornelius Keator, New York
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New York
Keator Cornelius
or
Keaton
NUMBER
S. 16174
carded
CONTENTS
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New York No 24.772
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Cornelius Keaton of Delaware Co. in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Schoonmaker of the Regt commanded by Col. Pauling in the N. York Troops line for 10 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Feby 1834 and sent to Matthew Halcott, Halcottsville, N.Y.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1833
83.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1834 16.66
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$99.98

Date of death Aug. 29, 1855 on A.B.

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E. Vol. 4 Page 92
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Sir:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
17th May 1833
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }).
You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.

A Statement, shewing the service of Cornelius Keaton
Delaware County State of N York
Period when the service was rendered.|Duration of tthe claimant's service|Years.|Months| Days|Rank of the claimant.|Names and rank of the Field officers under whol he served.|Age at present., and place of abode when he entered the service.|Proof by which the declaration is supported.|

[illegible] 1778|1 month|pr.|Capt S Schoonmakar| [illegible] years Marbletown Ulster County State of N York|Traditionary Evidence 1 Living Witness for 3 Mo Service Witness not Certified as being Credible No Colonel given in Several Tours

" 1778| 1 Month| Scouting" Lieut. Westbrook|
1778| 2 months| Capt Westbrook Col Pauling|
" 1779| 1 month| Col Camline|
"1779| 1 month| No Officers
 1780|1 month| Capt Westbrook [illegible]
1780 or 1|3 Months|Col Pauling

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted : 
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers." all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in the law: 
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned-officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION, 
 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
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State of New York
Delaware County Ss

On this ninth day of October 1832 Personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of common Pleas in & for the County of Delaware & State of New York now
sitting Cornelius Keaton - a resident of the town of Roxbury in the County of Delaware and State aforesaid aged 71 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated In the month of April 1778 he resided at Marbletown in the County of Ulster and State of New York and belonged to the Militia which was divided into Classes Sometime in the aforesaid month of April the Class to which he belonged was called
upon to go to the fort in Shandaken and this Deponent went with the Class and he remained there one month under the Command of Captain Jehaikim Schoonmaker the first part of the time but after being there a short time Captain Schoonmaker returned home and left the command to Sergeant Moses Desey after the expiration of the month he was Discharged and returned home where he remained untill about the 10th of August of the same year-when he was again ordered to march to Shandaken  or Parhatcken (now Middletown) which he Did under the command of Lieutenant Fredrick Westbrook near Parkataren the party found the body of a man by the name of Kidder who had been killed and scalped by the Indians and Tories the party buried
him and after scouting one month they were Disharged and returned home to Marbletown, the same fall after his return from Shandaken or Parkatarken he was added to the place Called Lackawaxen where he remained two months under the command of Captain Derick Westbrook Colonel Pauling being Chief in Command often serving the
two months at Lackawaxen - he was Discharged and again
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Returned home to Marbletown and remained there untill August 1779 when he was ordered to march for Parkatarken with the regiment under the command of Colonel Cantine but he is not positive what Captain Commanded the company to which he belonged at that time when the Detachment arrived at Parkataken they found the lady of Flemoners
Demand who had been killed and buried it and after serving one month at this time he was again discharged
and returned home after the timing from Parkatanken he was again the same fall ordered out for one month
the place in the town of Wanuasing called [illegible] Manor where he removed one month - when he was again Discharged and returned home the next year 1780 he was again called out for one month and stationed at Moris Depeys in Warwasing where he remaind one month under the the Command of Captain Westbrook after which he was discharged and again returned home either the same year 1780 or 1781 and which this Deponent Does not now distinctly recollect he was again ordered out into the service of the United States and stationed at [illegible] Hardenbergh in the town of Wawarsing where he remined three months in which time he in company
with one Timothy Tillson made a prisoner of one Peter Helm a tory who harbored the Indians who were Skulking about the Shanongunk mountains and this Deponent and said Willson Conveyed the prisoner to
Poughkeepsie Sail &Delivered him to the Jailor Colonel Pauling was Commander in Chief of the detachment and Captain Westbrook commanded the company in which he
Served -after serving the three months he was discharged which was the last of his Services in the revolutionary war - except some scouting parties that he occasionally 
went with but how many he does not now recollect he does not know that in any of his services he acted or was
in company with any of the officers or soldiers belonging to the regular army he was born in the town of Marbletown County of Ulster and State of New York he has
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In reply to your request of
- - - received --- for a statement of the military history of Cornelius Keator
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his  application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. F. 16,174. pensioned as Keaton
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.|LENGTH OF
SERVICE.|RANK.|OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
|CAPTAIN.|COLONEL.|STATE.
Apr. 1778.|1 mo. | Pri.| Jochem Schoonmaker|[check mark]| N.Y.
Aug, 10, 1778|1 mo.| Lieut. Fredk. Westbrook| [check mark]
Fall, 1778| 2 mo| Capt Derick Wesbrook| Pawling
Aug. 1779| 1 mo| [check mark] |Cantine
Fall, 1779|1 mo| Saml. Broadhead|Pawling
1780|1 mo|Westbrook|[check mark]
1780 or 1781| 3 mo| Westbrook|Pawling

Battles engaged in, [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Marbletown, Ulster Co. N.Y.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 4, 1832. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Roxbury, Delaware Co., N.Y
Age at date of application 71 yrs B at  Maroletown, N.Y.
Remarks: There is no data relative to family.
Soldier died Aug. 29, 1855 (From Agency book)
Aug. 5, 1913 F.M.

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.
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16, 174
INVALID.
File No. 16, 174
Cornelius Keaton
Pri & Scout Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: -- Vol. 1, Page 204
[Arrangement of 1870.]


1913.
Jan. 7. History to Adelaide B. Henderson  F.M.

1913. Aug. 5. To above-Date of death. F.M.

1932 Apr 19 Hist. to Mrs
Harriet Keator Wedge (see ltr in
case of John C. Keator, W. 26174) MLB.