Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17284, Peter C Bloom, New York
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New York Bloom, Peter C. S. 17284
carded
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17284
INVALID
File No. 17.284
Peter C. Bloom
Pri Rev War

Act: June 1832
Index: -- Vol. 1, Page 432
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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24.369
New York
Peter C. Bloom
Orange Co. in the State of New York who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Westfall of the Regt. commanded by Col. Wasenfelt in the N. Y. line for 9 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Nov 1833 and sent to Claimant Monroe

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33  $75
Semi-ant. allowance ending [illegible]  15
$90
{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7 1832.}
Recorded by Go. C. Stiles Clerk,
Book E Vol 4 Page 91.

[on right side of document:] 
Sent. to Hon. G W Brown 24 June 1834
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Pension Paper of Peter C. Bloom
[illegible -- possibly ??? Benton]
Allowed
Admitted
Private 9 months
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State of New York
County of Orange
On this twelfth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas being a Court of records now sitting Peter C Bloom a resident of the Town of Monroe in the County of Orange and State of New York, aged sixty five who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the services of the United States under an enlistment for nine months as a private in the Company of Captain Abraham Westfall and in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wisenfelt. That he enlisted at Goshen in the County of Orange and State of New York in the spring of the year 1782 as near as he can now recollect -- he marched from Goshen aforesaid to Mimisenk on Pumpack on the frontiers where troops were stationed to guard against the invasions of the Indians on the frontiers. Detroit was the Major of the Regiment, Capt. Westfall commanded his deponents company at Pumpack and Albert Rose was the Lieutenant. Deponent remained on the same frontiers under the before named officers for the period of nine
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months which was the term of his enlistment; he was discharged and returned home having faithfully served out his time. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the Present and declared that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any state.
[1st] That he was born in the Town of Warwick in the County of Orange in the State of New York aforesaid in the month of December in the year 1767--
[2nd] That he had a record of his age at home in the town of Monroe aforesaid ---
[3rd] When called into service he lived at Goshen aforesaid -- That since the Revolutionary War he had lived in the town of Goshen (as near as he can now recollect thirty four years and the remainder of the time he has resided in the town of Monroe aforesaid where he now resides---
[4th] He enlisted for nine months
[5th] He cannot now state the names of any other officers than those already named. He is known to Ames Galawa Bobert Fowles John McGawan Charles Townsend all of whom reside in his neighborhood who can certify as to his veracity and their belief of his service.
[6th] He never had a written discharge Peter C Bloom
Subscribed & Sworn in Open Court this 12th day of Febry. 1833 before me Asa Dunning Clerk
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states -- and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jesse Rumsey and Abraham June whose affidavits are here unto annexed & who have subscribed and sworn to the said affidavits reside, the said Jesse Rumsey in the Town of Browningrove [sp?] and the said Abraham June in the Town of Monroe in the said County of Orange; that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. I Asa Dunning Clerk of the County of Orange and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county do hereby certify that the foregoing and annexed contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Peter C Bloom for a pension -- and I further certify that William W Burks before whom the annexed affidavit of Jesse Rumsey was sworn, was at the time thereof one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said county
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of Orange which is a Court of Record, and that his name subscribed to the said affidavit is his genuine signature: and that George Wilks before whom the annexed affidavit of Abraham June was sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, and that his name subscribed to the third affidavit is his genuine signature. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 18th day of February 1833 -- Asa Dunning Clerk
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Peter C. Bloom 
 Peter Bloom 
papers for Pension
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Orange County}ss Personally came before me George Willis one of the Justices of Peace in and for said county [next three words illegible] to me known who being duly sworn oath that he knows Peter C Blom & was well acquainted with him when a soldier in Colonel Hysenfelks Regiment in Captain Westfalls Company where he is certain the said Peter C Bloom served over nine months at one time of service & believes it was in the years 1782 & 3 on the Lines and that he knows the said Peter C Bloom served faithfully & honourably [honorably] during the said term of nine months or more & further deponent [illegible] not. Abraham June
Sworn & subscribed before me this 24th day of Sept. 1829. 
Geo. Willis Justice of the Peace
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Peter C Bloom
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Orange County State of New York ss Jesse Runze of the Town of Bloomingron in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn saith that he is well acquainted with Peter C Bloom, and that he said Peter Bloom and this deponent enlisted in the Company of Captain Abraham Westfall's of this State, and attached to Colonel Wisenfitz Regiment of Infantry in the year 1781 or 1782 -- and that from the time of the enlistment aforesaid he the said Peter Bloom faithfully served in the said Company and Regiment in the Revolutionary War for the term of  nine months, and was honorably discharged from the service. Jesse Runze
Sworn to this 12th day Sept. 1829 before me Wm. W. Brooks Justice of the Peace