Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43495, Jacob Deland, Mass.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass.
CONTENTS
Deland, Jacob
NUMBER
S. 43495
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Notification sent Nov 4 1820 to Ths Palmer
Ballston Spa N. Y
Date of Death not rc

8186
New York
Jacob Deland
 of Hadley in the State of N York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel M. Jackson of the Massachusetts
line, for the term of three years 1781
Inscribed on the roll of New York
at the rate of 8
Dollars per month, to commence on
the 18 of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Mar 1819
and sent to John Prior Esq.
Greenfield, Saratoga Co N.Y.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819
84.49
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48
10 /- $132.49
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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State of New York
Saratoga
County ⎬

Be it remembered that on the Sixteenth day
of Febuary 1819 personally appeared before
me John Prior one of the Judges of the Court
of Common pleas in and for the County of Saratoga
Jeremy Rockwell late one of the Judges of the
Court of Common pleas in and for the said
County of Saratoga who being by me duly sworn
Saith that the Certificate of this deponent made
to the Declaration and affadavit of Jacob Deland
hereunto annexed was made and subscribed to
by the said Jacob Deland before this deponent on
the Eighteenth Day of April, and not on the
Eighteenth Day of March as is stated in said
Certificate, and that the word (March) in said
Certificate was written by this deponent by
mistake in here of (April)
Sworn the sixteenth day of Jeremy Rockwell
February 1819 before me
John Prior Judge

State of New York Saratoga County ss
on the 18th day of February 1819 personally appeared before me
John Prior one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas
of said County William Stilwell late Clerk of said County who
being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the within certificate
purporting to have been by him made & Subscred was made by his
Clerk in his absence and that he has no doubt that there was a
mistake in the date and that it ought to have been dated on the 18
day of April instead of the 18th day of March
Sworn and subscribed by me the 18th
day of July 1819 John Prior judge
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State of New York
by
Saratoga County ⎬
the County of
Thomas Palmer Clerk of
Saratoga in said State do hereby
certify that John Prior before whom the within
affidavits are made was at the time of making
the said affidavits and now is a judge of
the Court of Common Pleas of the County of
Saratoga acting under the authority of the
said State and that the within are his signatures
In
Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Seal of the said County
this Eighteenth day of February
1819.
Thomas Palmer Clerk
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Presuant to an act of Congress of the
United States of Americk, Entitled An act to prove
for certain persons engaged in the land and
naval service of the United States in the revolutionary
War passed March the 18th 1818-

To the Honorable the Secretary
of the Department of war of the
United States
Jacob Deland of the Town of Hadley in the County of
Saratoga and State of New York, being duly sworn
doth depose and say that he this deponent enlisted
in the Revolutionary service on the Continental establishment, in the Massachusetts line for the term of
three years some time in the month of January in
the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and
Eighty one, and this deponent further depose and says
that Immeditly after his enlistment as aforesaid in
the Town of Bruntrey in the said State of Massachusetts
he this deponent passed muster, and further this deponent
says that in the Month of May in the year last aforesaid he this deponent joined the Continental army
and was placed in and annexed to the Eighth Massachusetts
Regiment, then commanded by Colonel Michael Jackson
and was then placed in the First Company in said
Regiment commanded by Captain Amos Cogswell
and this deponent further says that at the time he this
deponent join the said Judgment as aforesaid that the
said Eighth Regiment together with the Second, and
the Fifth Regiments which constituted the Second Brigade then lay in tents on West Point in the State of
New York, and this deponent further says that under
his Inlistment afforesaid he this deponent
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Continued in the said Massachusetts line, in the said
Second Brigade, in the said Eighth Regiment and
in the said First Company doing duty as a privet
Soldier against the Common enemy of our Country
untill Sum time in the month of October in the year
of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty two
(to the best of this deponents recolection) he this deponent
was advanced to a Corporal in the Company aforesaid
where this deponent continued doing duty as a Corporal
untill some time in the month of May or June
in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred
and eighty three when the said Massachusetts line was
Reduced to two Regiment at which time this deponent says he was placed in the First Rigement of the
said Massachusetts line, (to the best of this deponents recolection, Commanded still by the said Colonel Michal
Jackson and in the Company commanded by the
said Amos Cogswell as Captain doing duty as afforesaid
untill on or about the Twenty fifth day of December
in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred
and Eighty Three at which time at the garison on
West Point in the State of New York this deponent was
Honorably Discharged from the service of the United States
by a Discharge Signed by General Knox, and
this deponent does not recollect by what Agent his
discharge was countersigned or Rigested by
And the said Jacob Deland Further deposeth and says
that he is now an actual resident of the United States
and has continued so to be ever since the time of his being
Discharge from the said Revolutionary Service - And this
deponent further deposits and says that by reason of his
advanced age and bodily infirmities he this deponent
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is in a great measure unable to labor, and this deponent
further says that he has for some years back been subject
to Fits which has in some measure impared his health
and mind, and this deponent further says that he has a wife
and formerly to provide for, and further this deponent says
that he this deponent has no real property not but very
little personal property, and is at this time much incombered with Debts, and is in Reduced Circumstances so
as that this deponent verily believes that he comes
within the provision of the act aforesaid
And further this deponent says that he this deponent
as a Revolutionary soldier for the term of
three years on the contenant establishment in
the Massachusetts line in the Sixth Regiment
commanded by Colonel Thomas Vision and
in Captain Thomas Barnes Company and was
honorably discharged from the same previs to
the time stated in the First part of this affadavit
and further this deponent says not
Sworn before me 18th March land
to of New York 1818
Jacob Deland
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State of New York
Saratoga County
I Jeremy Rockwell one of the Judges of the
Court of Common pleas in and for the County of
Saratoga of record do certify to the Honble
the Secretary of the department of war that
in the person named in the foregoing affadavit appeared before me and
after being duly sworn according to law subscribed and testified the foregoing declaration and
it appears to me on examination that the said
he has served in the Revolutionary war as stated in the foregoing declaration
for against the common Enemy of our
County
Jeremy Rockwell
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Saratoga County Ss. J. William Stilwell Clerk of the said
County do certify that Jeremy Rockwell is a Judge of
the Court of Common pleas of said County and then the
within an his Signatures
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed the seal of the said Court this 18th March 1818
Wm Stilwell

State of New York
Saratoga County
I John Prior one of the Judges of the Court of
Common pleas in and for the County of Saratoga
do hereby certify that Jacob Deland the person
named in the foregoing Declaration is in
Reduced Circumstances and stands in need of
the Benefit of the act of Congress Entitled an act
making provisions for certain persons engaged in
the land and Navel Servise in the Revolutionary
Army
passed 18th March 1818
 John Prior one of Judges of the court of the county of Saratoga


Jacob Deland
Affidavit
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An Inventory or Scedule of the following Pensonal
(Jacob Delands), Property

Real property none
One cow and one calf 16.00
one plough 25
one buush hook 50
two old sythes 1.00
one rake 6
one chain 1.00
live [illegible] .5
one small cag and two chests 50
one basket table 31
two [illegible] 1.00
one bason 25
one tea kettle 25
two small skillets 25
two basons and tin cup 12
one tin coffee pot four plates 1.3 1/2
one utinsel 2 tumblers 18 1/2
one soap cup two stove pots 50
one small tub one dye tub 37 1/2
one candle stand 37
two old wheels 1.00
one chamber pot 20
one soap plate 7
one iron spider 12 1/2
one small table 25
one razor 12 1/3
one iron tramel 25
one poach book 25
several small books 37
one cutter for a plough 25
two [illegible] of corn now growing 5.00
11 [illegible 2.00
34.99 1/2

one pitch fork 25
one hog 2.00
2 pigs 1.00
1 grain chest 25
2 meal chests 50
one salt turen 25
three small casks 37 1/2
[illegible] 50
6 chairs & [illegible] plates 95
three pewter plates 37 1/2
three brown earth plates 18 1/2
two earthen milk pans 25
one tine mil pan 12 1/2
one glass bottle one mug 40
one earthen pott 3
one set knives & forks 25
six table spoons 12 1/2
one [illegible] 12 1/2
one [illegible] 12 1/2
one [illegible] 50
one board and an old [illegible] 62 1/2
one old hoe one graple 37 1/2
[illegible] 25
one fine shovel 25
one hymn book 12/1/2
1 letter box 22
one [illegible]12 1/2
one large barn 1
one kneeding through 25
several small tin things 12 1/2
one small [illegible] 12 1/2
[illegible] fourth acres potatoes growing 1.50
12.39 1/2








My family consists of my self aged fifty seven years my wife aged fifty six
years, Two daughter aged fourteen and fifteen years, one Boy aged six years, I am
a labour but unable for a number of years to support myself by my labour
about seven years I was attacked with the Rheumatism which still
continues unabated and render me incapable of supporting myself my
wife has been affected with schropulous complaints for better than four
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State of New York
County of Saratoga
ON this twenty second day of August
1820 personally appeared in open Court, in the
Court of Common Pleas of the said County, the same being a Court of Record for the said County, proceeding
according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record
of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Jacob Deland late a
private in the army of the Revolution
aged fifty seven years, resident in the said County, in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn
according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: that in the
with of March 1777 he enlisted for the term of three years in the town of
Brookfield in the State of Massachusetts under Peter Wood or Harwood
from there went to Peekskill in the State of New York and served under
Capt Thomas Barns in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col
Nexon for the term of three years and was honorably discharged
That his original declaration was made on or about the eighteenth day of April 1818
and that his Pension Certificate is numbered eight thousand one hundred eighty six (1186
AND I solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March
1818; and that I have not since that me, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part
thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress,
entitled ""An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in
the Revolutionary war,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in
trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what
is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. and he further saith that after
discharge he enlisted in a company commanded by Capt Coburn in a
regiment of Light infantry commanded by Col Jno Ge Mott under whom
he served six months and was honorably discharged. He again enlisted for
three years and served under Capt Amos Cogswell of the eighth Massachusetts
regiment commanded by Col Jackson under whom he received an and honorable discharge signed by Genl Knox at West Point in the
winter of 1783. was at the capture of Burgoyne and at the taking of Stoney Point and other small engagements
Sworn to and declared on the Twenty second day of August 1820 before me in open court.

Thomas Palmer
Clerk
 $50-
I, Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify
that the foregoing Oath
and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record
of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value
of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is fifty dollars dollars
cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said
court, on this twenty second day of August
1820
of
Thomas Palmer
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the
County of
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years and instead of aiding me in procuring a subsistance increases
my wants and necesities my two daughters although in the distressed
situation of my family are a help but not able to lend any
and towards supporting the necessaries of life
Jacob Delarn

Return
to Benah P Rogers. Coventh
N. York. Saratoga
County
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Jacob Deland Copy 8186 Sept 1819
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February 21, 1988
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JACOB DELAND
S. 45495
BA-J/MLR

Bishop Frederick D. Leet
780 Cherokee Avenue
University Terrace
Deland, Florida

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of recent date, in which you
request the Revolutionary War record of Jacob Deland who served in
the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment.

You are furnished herein the record of Jacob Deland as found in pension claim, S. 43495, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth and names of the parents of Jacob
Deland are not shown in the claim.

Jacob Deland enlisted in Brookfield, Massachusetts, early in
March, 1777, served as private in Captain Thomas Barnes' company,
Colonel Thomas Mixer 6th Massachusetts Regiment, was at the
capture of Burgoyne and in the battle of Stony Point and some small
engagements, and was discharged after having served three years for
which he enlisted. After being discharged, he again enlisted and
served six months as private in Captain Coburn's company, Colonel
John G. Mott's regiment of light infantry. He enlisted in Braintree,
Massachusetts, January 1, 1781, served as private in Captain Amos
Cogswell's company, Colonel Michael Jackson's 4th Massachusetts
Regiment, until sometime in October, 1782, when he was advanced to
corporal and continued to serve in that company and regiment until
discharged December 25, 1783.

The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed
April 18, 1818, while a resident of Hadley, Saratoga County, New York,
where he was still living in 1810 aged fifty-seven years.

In 1820, Jacob Deland referred to his wife aged fifty-six years.
two daughters aged fifteen and fourteen years, respectively, and one
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boy aged seven years, but did not state the names of any of them.
and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name
the soldier, you should write to the Comptroller General, General
Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the
following data:
Jacob Deland
Act of March 18, 1818
Certificate is
Issued March 22, 1819
Rate $8.00 per month
Commenced April 18, 1818
New York Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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August 4, 1935

BA-J/KEL
Jacob Deland-S.43495

Florence Walker
2417 Castillo Street
Santa Barbara, California
Dear Madam:

Reference to your letter in which you request the same
and address of person to what the last payment of pension was made
in the case of Jacob Deland, of Hadley, New York, a Revolutionary War soldier, and if the soldier's middle name was held.
in the pension claim of Josh Deland(S.48428), it is not show
that he had a middle name.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the
name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of
the Revolutionary War pension, Jacob Deland (S.43495), you should
address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records
Division, this city, and cite the following notes
Jacob Roland, Certif
No. 9056, issued March 22, 1819, rate
per month, commenced April 18, 1818, Act of March 18, 1818,
York Agen
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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August 17, 1935
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Jacob Deland-S. 43495
BA - J/AWF

Florence G. Walker
637 S. Monroe Avenue
Green Bay, Wisconsin

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the Revolutionary War record of Jacob Deland
of Brookfield, Massachusetts, and the records of
Worthing Walker and Daniel Carr.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office
are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land
made to the United States, based upon service in that
war. A search of the records fails to show such claims
on file on account of the Revolutionary War service of
either Worthing Walker or Daniel Carr.
If you desire the name Daniel Kerr searched on
service.
death and places of residence at enlistment and after
the Revolutionary War records of this office, you will
please furnish as much as possible of the following data
relative to that soldiers approximate dates of birth and
The Revolutionary War record of Jacob Deland which
follows was obtained from the papers on file in pension
claim, S. 43495, based upon his service in that war.
The date and place of birth of this soldier are
stated.
not found in the claim, nor are the names of his parents
Jacob Deland enlisted in Brookfield, Massachusetts
March 2, 1777, served three years as a private in Captain
Thomas Barnes' company, Colonel Thomas Nixon's 4th Massa-
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chusetts regiment, during this service he was at the
taking of Burgoyne, battle of Stony Point. He
again enlisted and served in Captain Coburn's company
and in Colonel Jno. G. Mott's Regiment of
Light Infantry, length of service six months. He
enlisted in Braintree, Massachusetts, January 1, 1781,
served as a private in Captain Amos Cogswell's company,
Colonel Michael Jackson's 4th Massachusetts regiment;
he was made a corporal in October, 1782 and continued
to serve in same company and regiment until discharged
December 25, 1983.
Jacob Deland was allowed pension on his application executed April 18, 1818, then living in Hadley,
Saratoga County, New York. His residence was the same
in 1820 and he was then aged fifty-seven years; he
referred to his family at this time as follows: wife,
fifty years of age; two daughters, aged fourteen
and fifteen years; one boy aged seven years. He did
not give the names of any of them.
In order to obtain information in regard to the
last payment of pension, name and address of person
paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner,
you should write the Comptroller General, General
Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C.,
and cite the following:
Jacob Deland
Certificate #186
Issued March 22, 1819
Rate $8.00 per month
To commence April 18, 1818
Act of March 18, 1818
New York Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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July 20, 1936.

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C

can you tell me the
name and address of the person to whom
the last pension
payment of Jacob
Deland, Hadley, N.Y., Revolutionary
soldier was made. was this Jacob
De Land's middle name Hatfield.
am very anxious to secure some
trace of this family
Yours truly
Florence Walker
2417 Castillo St.
Santa Barbara, Calif

[stamp] RECEIVED JUL 24 1936 MAIL SUB-DIV. VETS ADM READER #8
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Green Bay, Wisc
Aug. 7, 1935
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: Can you give me any
information as to one Jacob Deland who served
in the Revolution. I think he was
from mass, probably near Brookfield.
would also like information as to
Worthing Walker and Daniel Carr Kerr
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Yours truly,
Florence G. Walker
637 So. Monroe Ave.
Green Bay Wisc
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CODE ADDRESS -- ECUMETH, DALLAS
Ecumenical Methodist Council
WESTERN SECTION

BISHOP FREDERICK D. LEETE, President
790 CHEROKEE AVENUE UNIVERSITY TERRACE
DELAND, FLORIDA


BISHOP W. N. AINSWORTH, VICE-PRESIDENT
379 COLLEGE ST. MACON, GA.

JAMES R. JOY, LITT. D. LL.D. TREASURER
29 PERRY AVENUE NEW YORK CITY
 
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

REV. A. J. WEEKS, D.D. SECRETARY
COKESBURY BUILDING
1910 MAIN STREET
DALLAS, TEXAS

2, 10, 1938.
The Veterans' Administration,
Washington,
My dear sirs:-
I am anxious to get facts about the residence,
age, family and any other items concerning Jacob Deland, whose
record in the Revolutionary War I have. He enlisted Mar. 4, 1777,
for three years, and his name appears on the muster roll for
the last time Sept., 1779. He was in the 6th Mass. Regt.
If you can give me some personal knowledge of this
man, I will be happy to get it.

Very Sincerely Yours
Frederick D Leete

[stamp] RECEIVED FEB 11 1938 MAIL SUB-DIV VETS ADM READER #8

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43495
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 42,495
Jacob Deland
Pri Rev War
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$3.495
Act: 18 March 18
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 126
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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1935 Aug. 17 Hist to Florence
eg walker Aug

1936 - Aug 4. A. Florence
Walker to ap to C.Y.

for date of last payment
etc. el

1938 Deb 21 Hist. to Bishop
Fredk D. Leete MLB
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State of New York
Saratoga County
Be it Remembered that on the Ninth day of December
in the year & 14 personally appered before me John
Prior one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas
in and for the County of Saratoga Ebenezer Harriet of
the town of Hadley who being by me duly sworn
saith that he is well acquainted with Jacob Deland
Now of the Town of Hadley in the County of Saratoga and
State of New York that he this Deponent first became
acquainted with the said Jacob Deland in the
four part of the year 1782, and it that time the
said Jacob and was a soldier in the Eighth
Regiment in the Marssachusetts Line in the
Revolutionary service, that he this Deponent
continued acquainted with the said Jacob Delend
untill
abut the twenty fifth day of December 1783
when this Deponent took his discharge at the
Garrison Without together with this said
Jacob Deland and this Deponent for the says
that
During the said time he always understood
that the said Jacob Deland was a faithful Soldier
Elmer Harraits
Subcribed and sworn to and declared
Before me the day and aforesaid
John Prior

State of New York
Saratoga County
I John Prior one of the Judges of the Court of Common
pleas in and for the County of Saratoga do hereby certify
that I am personly acquainted with Ebenezer H
the within Named Deponent and believe him to be
entitled to credit-
Jame for
one of the Judges of the
Court of Said County
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E Harraits affidavit
Service of J. Deland
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State of New york
Saratoga County ss
Be it remembered that on the Ninth day of December
in the year of our Lord 1818 personally appeard before
me John Gray one of the Judges of the court of common
pleas of the County of Saratoga John Johnson 
being by me duly sworn saith that he is well
acquainted with Jacob Deland Now of the town
Hadley in the County of Saratoga and State of
New York. that he this Deponent first became
aquainted with the said Jacob Deland some time
in the month of March or April in the year 1782
that he this Deponent continued acquainted with him
the said Jacob Deland until on or about the twenty fifth day of December in the year 1783 that during
that time the said Jacob Deland was a soldier
the Eighth Regiment of the Massachusetts line
in a company commanded by a Capt Cogeil
and that this Deponent during all this time
aforesaid was a soldier in the Sixth Regiment in
the Massachusetts line and always understood
that the said Jacob Deland was a faithful
soldier and was honorable Discharged
 subscribed and sworn to and declared
Before me the day year above
John Johnson
John Prior
---
State of New York
Saratoga County ss
I
John Prior one of the Judges of the Court of Common
pleas in and for the County of Saratoga, do hereby certify
that I am personally acquainted with John Johnson
and believe him entitled to credit and that the said
John Johnson is the same person who testified and subscribed the above affidavit
John Prior one of the Judges of Saratoga County
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State of New York
Saratoga County Clerks office
I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the
said County Do Certify that John Prior whose name is subscribed
to the within affidavits and the certificate, was at the
respective dates thereof a judge of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for the said County, acting under the authority of this
State, duly Commissioned and sworn, and that the
name of John Prior "subscribed thereto are in his own proper
hand writing In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed the
County Seal this 14th December
in the year
1818
Thomas Palmer Clerk

In the Matter of Jacob Deland private 81 to 83 M Jackson's Mass Regt

The declaration cannot have been made on the March 1818 - the same day on which the law passed

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