Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,315, for Azariah Ketchum, New York
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New York
Ketchum, Azariah  W16315
or Ketcham
Elizabeth
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Albany 4702

Elizabeth Ketcham, widow of Azariaj Ketcham
Who was a pensioner under the Act of June 1832
And who died on the 10 Dec 1832
Of Monrow Co N.Y. in the State of New York
Who was Pri & Corpl in the company commanded
By Captain Weimer of the right commanded
By Col. Hawthorn of the N. York 
Line for  10 months Pr  33.33
16 Months Corpl             51.33
                                               $84.66

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
At the rate of 84 dollars 66 sents per annum
Is commence on the 4th day of March 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Dec 1839 and sent to Hon Mathl Jones H.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 39       296.31
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March            42.33
                                                                                              $338.64
Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by D. Brown, Clerk
Book A   Vol 2    Page 86
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8239
New York
Azariah Ketchum
Of Warwick of the State of New York
Who was a Captain in the company commanded
By Captain Wisner of the left commanded
By Col Hatton in the New York
Line for 14 mos Corp
& 10 mos Private

Inscribed on the Roll of New Yorl
At the rate of 84 Dollars 65 Cents per anum
To commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of March 1833 and sent to N James Warwick
Arrears to the 4th of Sept ’33                                   $169.30
Semi-anl. Allowance ending 4 Sep ’37              $ 42.32
                                                                                              $211.62
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Geo. C Stiles, Clerk
Book _____    Vol 4   Page 23

Dead.   See letter to ______ agent  June 14, 1833
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20418
Azariah Ketchum
Admitted
Corporal 14 mo     51.32
Private  10 mo    33.33

Nathl Jones
Warwick N.Y.
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Brief in the case of Azariah Ketchum in the State of New York Act 7th June 1832
1.	 Was the declaration made before a Court of Judge?   Open Court
2.	2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3.	How old is he?  77 years
4.	State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period	Duration of Service		Rank		Names of General and Field Officers
                                                                                                                                under whom he served
April 1776		1 month		Private		Capt Jn Wisner & Col Hathorn  N. York
Summer 1776	2 months		Private		Cap JnMinthorn & Col Hathorn  N. York
1776		1 month		Private		Cap Blain & Col Nicholls  N. York
Winter 1777		3 months		Corporal	Cap Jn Minthorn  N. York
1777		5 months 		Corporal	Cap Dan Gore  N. York
1778		5 months		Private		Cap Jn Minthorn  N. York
Nov 1779		1 month		Private		not named
5.	 In wht battles was he engaged?   White Plains
6.	Where did he reside when he entered service?  Warwick  N. York
7.	Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls??  Traditionary evidence, and one living witness
8.	Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  And if so, in what respect?  They are duly authenticated
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Wm. Gordon, Examining Clerk

Service ___ down		Months  			Officers
Goes back to 1777		about 2			Capt. Ketchum
Time not stated		1				not named
Time not stated		2				Cap Minthorn
Time not stated		3				Cap Minthorn
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Declaration of Azariah Ketchum
Pension papers Allowed
20418
Admitted
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State of New York
Orange County
On this Fourth day of
December 1832 personally appeared in open
Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County (being a court of...)
now sitting, Azariah Ketchum of Warwick
Orange County and said state aged seventy seven
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 7, 1832. That he entered the service of
the United States, under the following named officers,
and served as herein stated
Deponent saith
that he was born in Bedford in Westchester County
in said State, on the 15th day of February in the year
1755, as he believes, and as he has often read the same
in his father's family Record. That deponent was
living in said town of Warwick, when he first entered
the service of the United States Saith that in the month
of April as he believes in the year 1776 he volunteered
in the company of Militia commanded by Captain
John Wisner, Asa Wisner being Ensign, and belong
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ing to Colonel John Hathorn's Regiment and as a
Corporal in said Company was mustered for one
month, was marched to fort Constitution on the East
side the Hudson River, where his company was attached
to or on
manded by Colonel Newkirk: at this place
deponent employed with his company in building
said Fort, up to the end of the month. Deponent
further saith that he volunteered and served two months
at Fort Montgomery, in the same summer (1776)
under Captain John Minthorn Lieutenant Nathaniel
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Ketchum & George Vance – his regiment commanded by Colonel John Hawthorn.  Deponent further saith that in the same year he was a volunteer in the company of Captain William Blain in Colonel Micoll’s regiment and served one month at White Plains – saith that he was in the Battle and fought the British troops on the 28th of October of that year, was personally acquainted with and was there under the orders, at several times of Generals Putnam and George Clinton.  Deponent saith that in the winter of 1777, he served as Corporal three months under Captain John Minthorn – laying or being stationed at Chloster near the Hudson River.  During the same year deponent saith that he served as a corporal under Captain Daniel Gore – at the Susquehannah and along the Indian frontier for the space of five months.  Was a volunteer under the command of Captain Minthorn four months at West Point in the year 1778 and also one month at Ramapo was marched to and lay one month at New Windsor and Fishkill in the year 1779 being as deponent saith in the month of November.  Deponent further saith that in the year 1777 he was ordered under Lieutenant Nathaniel Ketchum and marched to New Windsor, thence to Esopus or Kingston and from thence went as an escort to Continental Wagons from Boston to Easton in Pennsylvania, this service deponent believes lasted about two months.  Saith that he was stationed one month at Goshen to guard the prisoners there, at the time the notorious Claudius Smith and his band were executed.  Deponent further
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saith that he served as Corporal aforesaid under Captain John Minthorn two months at different times on the Minidink frontier. Also under the samne Captain and in Colonel John Hawthorn’s regiment deponent served three months at other periods at Haverstraw and West Point.  Besides frequent excursions which he performed with his fellow soldiers in arms in uprising the depredation of Tories who haunted and robbed the Whig inhabitants along the river towns.  Deponent declares that the whole time which he faithfully served his country in the Revolutionary War and in the capacity of Corporal in the Militia, amounted to more than two years.  Saith that the deponent never received any written discharge from the service. Declarent further saith that he is acquainted with John C Murphy a clergyman who resides in his neighborhood and who will testify as to his belief of his having been a soldier of the Revolution, derived from general reputation and as to his credibility.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except for the present and declares that his name is not on a pension roll of the agency of any state.
Azariah Ketchum
Subscribed and sworn in open court the day and year aforesaid
Asa Dunning, Clerk
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State of New York
Town of Warwick in Orange County
I, John C Murphy, a clergyman in said town do certify that I am well acquainted with Azariah Ketchum who has subscribed and sworn in the foregoing Declaration, that I believe him to be of the age of seventy seven years and that he is a person of credibility that he is believed to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I fully concur in that opinion
John C Murphy
Sworn and subscribed this 4th day of December 1832 before me
Edward L Wetting, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Orange County
On this 4th day of December 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and in said County (being a Court of Record) now sitting Samuel Ketchum of Warwick in said County who being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say.  That he has known the within described applicant – Azariah Ketchum from said applicants infancy.  That he verily believes the said Azariah to be of the age he states in his declaration viz.  Seventy seven years.  That he, deponent, knows that the said Azariah endured many and various terms of Militia service in the Recvolutionary War and generally served as a Corporal.  That he was commanded by the officers and performed the terms of services, as set forth and mentioned in said Azariah’s Declaration, which deponent has heard read according to deponent’s best recollection and as deponent verily believes.
And deponent further saith that the said Azariah served as Corporal during the Revolutionary wat first and last, more than two full years.
Samuel Ketchum
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
Asa Dunning, Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations
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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 John  C. Murphy who has signed and sworn to the preceding Certificate, is a clergyman resident on the town of Warwick in the said county and that Samuel Ketchum who has signed and sworn to the preceding certificate is a resident in the town of Warwick and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Asa Dunning, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Azariah Ketchum for a pension and I further certify that Edward L Wetting before whom the proceeding application & John C Murphy was sworn were at the time a Justice of the Peace for said county and the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
The testimony whereofI have here unto set my hand and seal of office this fourth day of December 1832
Asa Dunning, Clerk
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6244

Col Hawthorn N.Y.
Capt Weesner N.Y.

Admitted
Corporal 14 months
Private  10 months
Two years

Hon Nathl Jones
House Reps
NY
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State of New York
Monroe County

On this eighth day of October in the year 1839 personally appeared in and before the Court of Common Pleas, held in and for the County of Monroe, Elizabeth Ketchum a resident of the city of Rochester in said county aged eighty two the fifth March last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth in her oath makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of a pension made by Act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled on Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.  That she is the widow of Azariah Ketchum who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution.  That the said Azariah Ketchum, her husband, obtained a certificate for a pension for his services in the war of the revolution, sometime in the year 1832.  This declarant further says that her said husband died on the tenth day of December 1832.  She further says she has no other evidence of the service of her said husband, than such as is in the files on record of the War Department, and upon which her husband obtained his certificate for a pension.  She further says that her said husband at the time of his receiving his pension certificate and at the time of his death resided at the town of Warwick, County of Orange, state of New York.
She further declares that she was married to the said Azariah Ketchum on the eleventh day of September One thousand seven hundred and eighty one, in the town of Warwick aforesaid
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by one James Benedict a Minister of the Baptist denomination and that her husband the aforesaid Azariah Ketchum died on the tenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, at Warwick aforesaid, that her marriage took place previous _ first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four to wit at the time above stated
The words “year” says once she interlined before signing
Elizabeth Ketchum (her mark)

State of New York
Monroe County
I certify that on the eighth day of October 1839, Elizabeth Ketchum the subscriber to ther above declaration appeared in open court in the County Court for Monroe County, State aforesaid and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration and I further certify that said County Court is a Court of Record
Witness my hand and seal of officer this ninth day of October 1839
Ephriam Goss, Clerk
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State of New York
Orange County

On the 1st day of October in the year 1839 personally appeared before me Joseph Roe a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Samuel Ketchum of Warwick long known by me, (and whose reputation for truth and veracity I do certify to be good) who being by me duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say:  That he resides in Warwickin Orange County aforesaid where he has resided for seventy five years, that he is eighty one years of age and was a soldier of the Revolutionary Was and is now a pensioner, that he has been acquainted with Elizabeth Ketchum ever since she was a toung girl that said Elizabeth’s name before marriage was Tharp whose father resided in the said town of Warwick.  That he deponent and his wife (together with others) were present at the marriage of said Elizabeth Tharp and Azariah Ketchum which marriage was celebrated at the house of said Elizabeth’s in said town of Warwick by Reverand James Benedict of said town, then pastor of the First Baptist Church in Warwick, in the month of September in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one. (1781)  Deponent further saith that he well knew the children of the said Azariah and Elizabeth vis- John, Patty, Philip, Hannah, Jesse, Maria and Richard.  Patty and Richard being the only children now living as deponent believes and with the latter of whom, the said Elizabeth now resides at Rochester in said state where she has resided two years past.  Deponent further saith that the said Azariah Ketchum was a private in the Militia during the Revolutionary war and performed his
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Duly as such in the field and at different parts along the Hudson River at Ramapo Hackensack and others, as stated in deponents affidavit on file in the War office and that the said Azariah was a Pensioner under the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1832 but died soon after receiving his certificate from the War Department to witt about the 10th day of December in the year 1832.  That deponent saith that said Elizabeth had remained a widow of said Azariah Ketchum up to the period of removing from Warwick aforesaid to Rochester and has no doubt but she still remains such widow and further deponent saith not.
Samuel Ketchum
Sworn & subscribed to before me the first day of October 1839
Joseph Roe, Justice of the Peace
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Has been personally acquainted with Elizabeth Ketchun who is the widow of Azariah Ketchum ever since and some time previous to her marriage; that said Elizabeth’s father’s name was Tharp and resided in Warwick when he died.  That deponent was present and witnessed the solemnization of marriage of the said Azariah & Elizabeth at the house of said Tharp by James Benedict a Baptist clergyman and Pastor of the Baptist church in said town – which marriage occurred in the year 1781 and as deponent believes about the eleventh of September in that year although she cannot swear positively as to the day of the month.  Deponent further saith that she is informed and believes that said Elizabeth has not intermarried but remains the widow of said Azariah Ketchum.  That deponent is now seventy nine years of age and has resided in said town of Warwick from her childhood.  That she has understood and believes that the said Azariah Ketchum was a private in the Militia during the War of the Revolution and was pensioned in the year 1832 and that he died in the month of December of the last named year.
Phebe Ketchum (her mark)
Sworn and subscribed to before now the first day of October 1839
Joseph Roe, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Orange County
I, Albert S  Benton, clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange do hereby certify that Joseph Roe Esq before whom the written affidavits of Samuel Ketchum & Phebe Ketchum were subscribed and sworn was at the time of writing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and he further was well acquainted with the the writing of the said Benton and he hereby believes that the signature to the said affidavits is Genuine

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of this said County the 2nd day of October 1839
A.S.Benton, Clerk 
[illegible] A Dunning Depy Clerk
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section

[illegible handwriting in upper right corner]

August 20, 1924

Mrs. C. L. Stewart
Wellington, Kansas

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 16315 it appears that Azariah Ketchum, or Ketcham, was born February 15, 1735 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York.
While a resident of Warwick, Orange County, New York he enlisted in April 1776 and served at various times during the Revolution, about twenty-six months in all, as Corporal under Lieutenant Nathaniel Ketchum, Captains John Wisner, John Minthorn, William Blain, and Daniel Gore, Colonels John Hathorn, Newkirk, and Nicoll in the New York Troops and was in the battle of White Plains.
He applied for pension December 4, 1832 while living in Warwick, New York.  His claim was allowed.  He died December 10, 1832, in said Warwick.
Soldier married September 11, 1781 in Warwick, New York, Elizabeth Tharp of Warwick, born March 5, 1757 and who was allowed pension on her application executed
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October 8, 1839 while living in Rochester, Monroe County, New York with her son Richard.
Their children were:  John, Patty, Philip, Hannah, Jesse, Maris and said Richard.  Richard and Patty were the only surviving children in 1839.

Respectfully,
Commissioner
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Wellington, Kans
July 31, 1924

Dept of Interior
Wash. D.C.

Dear Sir-
From your records can you tell me as to whether Azariah Ketchum who was a private in the Rev War, ever received a pension?  And if he did
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Where was he living at the time he received it?  He died in Dec 1832 and as he fought from Orange Co, N.Y. and he had a son who was a merchant in Rochester N.Y. I am first guessing that he died in N.Y. State.  So hope that you have something for me about him.
And another name, Jacob Miller of Va.  Did he ever receive a pension or land for his services and if so where was he living at the time he received it?  Jacob Miller died 1833.  When were the first pensions paid?
Again Thanking you
I am very truly
Mrs. C.L. Stewart
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File No 16315
Elizabeth Ketcham
Widow of Azariah Ketcham
Corpl Rev War
July 7th 38
Index Vol A  Page 393
1924 Aug 20 – Hist to Mrs C.L. Stewart
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Warwick N.Y.  18th Oct 1839
Hon J. L. Edwards
Comsr of Pensions

Sir,
  I enclose the papers of Mrs. Elizabeth Ketchum of Rochester N.Y. (formerly of this place) widow pf Azariah Ketchum who was pensioned under the provisions of the Act of 1832.  The applies under Act of July 7, 1838.  The Pensioner resided for many year a few doors from me where he died in Dec 1832 about the time his certificate for a full Pension reached him.  The widow applied for and received the amount due at the time of her husband’s decease.  She removed to Rochester a few years since & is residing with the only child she has living in this state.  Both the deceased and his surviving widow I know to have been highly respectable.  Please give her application attention early as the business of your office will allow.
I remain with much regard
Your [illegible] servant-
Nathl Jones