Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6101, for Simon Lambertson, New York
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New York
Lambertson, Simon
Laura
NUMBER
R 6101
CONTENTS
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New York 30,800
Simon Lambertson
of Ulster Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Riker of the Regt. commanded by Col. Cortlandt in the N. York line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 120 Dollars ___Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of August 1836 and sent to James Mitchell, Shawangunk, N. Y.
Arrears to the 4th of March 36  600.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep "  60.00
$660.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E.2 Vol. 4 Page 42
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Simon Lambertson
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Northern District of New York
Ulster County ss
On this 5th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court in the Court of Common Pleas it being a Court of Record for the said County of Ulster Simon Lambertson aged sixty two years and nine months resident in the said County of Ulster who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows
Enlisted March 13th 1776  in the State of New York in Capt Henry Rikers Company Coll. Richmans Regt New York Troops in the line of the  State of New York served untill 1777 when he was discharged in Orange County NY. then enlisted 1777 in Fishkill in the State of New York in Captain Jonathan Hallets Company Coll Phillip Cortlands Regt. New York Troops for during the war and served untill the 9th June 1783 when he was discharged in the Town of New Windsor in the County of Orange NY.  And has received a pension under the Act of March 18th 1818 one hundred and thirty one Dollars and seventy three cents on the 4th September 1819 and $48 on the 4th March 1820 - and that he is a [illegible]
And I do 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
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time 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 this Act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval Services of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed 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 following inventory and by me subscribed except necessary Cloathing & Bedding viz no Real Estate.  two Hogs worth $5 each 3 Pigs worth $1.50 no other property except household furniture  One son [illegible] aged nine years one Daughter Maria Catherine aged six years one daughter Elizabeth aged 4 years and one Daughter Hannah aged 3 years my wife is 48 years  Deponent himself is unable to support himself from age and infirmity and that he was in the Battle of White Plains Battle of Monmouth and the Battle of Saratoga and in battle in which Com Wallis was taken
Simon Lambertson
Sworn to and subscribed on this day of July 1820 in open court before me
Lucas [illegible]
Judge of the Court above mentioned
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I Christopher Tappen Junior Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Ulster in the State of New York do certify that the foregoing oath with the schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the originals on file in the office of said Clerk And that it is the opinion of said Court that Simon Lambertson is dependent on the aid of his Country for support And that the Total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is sixteen Dollars fifty Cents 
Witness my hand and the seal of said court July 5th 1820
Ch. Tappen [illegible]
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[illegible] original [illegible]
[illegible] [illegible] 2 years
N. Y. role [illegible]
Shawangunk N.Y.
7th July 1836               Free
[? NY July 11 written vertically]
To the Honorable the Secretary of War
Pension Office
Washington City
[illegible]
[illegible] 2 years $170
James N. Mitchell
Esq. [illegible]
Shawangunk 
N. Y.
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To the Hon the Secretary of War.
Dear Sir being a Pensioner of the United States under the Act of March 1818 I beg to state to your Honor that I am set forth in my certificate as a private in the army of the Revolution having lately learned that a sergeant is entitled to more pay and having always served as such in the army I beg leave to explain a mistake must have taken place in my application originally for a pension (my application was made by Bunaly Kain Esq in the year 1819.  and a certificate forwarded to me bearing date 30 April 1819.  Signed J. C. Calhoun N 10.034. I expect from the fact that the said certificate so recd and by me now held My application must have been made as a private when in fact I was a sergeant and could not have understood that part of my affidavitt which sat me forth as a private (if it did so).  I will briefly set forth my enlistments and officery and if there is any record in the department it will be so found 
I first enlisted for one year under Capt Riker as a sergeant in the militia in the Regiment of Col Richmon.  I think it was in the Spring of 1776 and was Marched to Quebeck and from there back to Long Island and was in the engagement at Brooklin & crossed into New York from there to [illegible] Heights - then to White Plains at which engagement I was in then to I think to Peekskill where the Company of Captain Riker joined the Regiment of Col Courtland (I think it was late in the fall of 1776 in the latter part of December about the same time General Washinton took the Hessian prisoners at Trenton)  where I then enlisted in Colonel Courtlands Regiment for 7 years or during the war and still continued in the Company of Captain Riker who was transferred to the Regiment of Col Courtland by the reducing of the 5 New York Regiments to 3 - and still continued in the Company of Capt Riker untill his death when Capt Hallet took the command of said Company I was in all the Engagements of said Regiments of Col Courtland from its first organization to the peace under Capt Ricker & Hallet as a Sergeant - and was discharged at New Burgh at Washingtons Head Quarters and recd a written discharge which I gave to a merchant at New Windsor to whom I sold my bounty land - and cannot tell what he done
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with it but presume he left it at the Land Office at Washington or the Capitol of this state N. Y. 
I wish you to inform me whether from the Records & from the above Statement of facts it will be sufficient for me to send your Honor my certificate that I now hold to entitle me to the benefit of the Act of June 7th 1832 and the pay of Sergeant or whether I must support my present related story by prooff - which I am abundantly able to do by 5 living witnesses who served with and knew me in said Regiment of Col Courtland - I am well satisfied that my present application will conflict with my original application in 1819 - but rely upon the truth of my case for explanation - and as for the original application I could not have understood it - there were a number of other (applications) made out by Esq Kain on the same day and they were hurried off - be [illegible] to address your answer to me at the Shawangunk Post Office Ulster County N. Y.  and confer a favor upon a Honorable but thankful individual 
Simon Lambertson
Shawangunk N. Y.
7th July 1836
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Laura Lambertson
an aplicant for a pension under the [illegible] act of February 3 aproved of 1853
Justice Baker Attorney
Bloomingburg
Sullivan County 
State of New York
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State of New York
County of [Sullivan crossed out] Orange] ss
On this 8th day of March A. D. One Thousand Eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me James W. Fowler Surrogate in and for the County of Orange in the State of New York aforsaid Laura Lambertson a resident of said county aged 81 years who being duly sworn before me the Surrogate in open Court and on her oath states that she is the widow of Simon Lambertson deceased a late resident of the county of Ulster in said State who was a Soldier and served in and during the war of the Revolution and that she makes this declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress approved of February 3rd 1853 Entitled an act granting pensions to certain widows of Soldiers who served in and during the war of the Revolution.  She further declares that she was married to her husband the said Simon Lambertson in the county of Ulster in said State on or about the fifth day of July 1810 by Moses Tenley who was then a pastor of the Shawangunk church, and that her said husband died on or about the 23 day of June 1845, and that he was in the Receipt of a Pension at the time of his death at the rate of $120 per annum under the act on Congress passed March 18th 1818, and that she has not [illegible] married since the death of her said husband, and that she is still a widow.  She further states that her name was Laura [illegible] before her marriage to her said husband the said Simon Lambertson deceased
her
Laura X Lambertson
mark
Sworn to & Subscribed on this day and year above written beforehand 
James W. Fowler
Surrogate
State of New York
County of Orange] ss
I hereby certify that foregoing declaration was made subscribed and sworn to before me.
James W. Fowler, Surrogate of
Orange County in open court.
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In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed my seal of office this eighth day of March in the year 1855.
James W. Fowler
Surrogate
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Orange County
Clerk's Office] ss:
I, NATHAN WESTCOTT, Clerk of said county, and of the County Court of said county, (a Court of Record,) do hereby certify that H. W. Elliott whose name is subscribed to the annexed certificate affidavit, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace of said county, duly elected and qualified and having full power to take the same; and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice, and verily believe that the signature H. W. Elliott subscribed to the said affidavit is genuine.  In witness whereof, I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court and county this 25 day of March 1853
N Westcott Clerk
State of New York County of Orange] ss
personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace within and for said county Joseph Ellis a resident of Sullivan County in said State and made oath in due form of Law and on his oath states that he was personally acquainted with Simon Lambertson deceased & that he died in or about the 23 day of June 1845 & that he was in the receipt of a pension at the time of his death under the act of 1818 he thinks at the rate of $120 per annum and that he left his surviving Lawrey Lambertson his widow and that she recd the ballance of pay due her since her late husbands death and that she the within named  Lawrey Lambertson still remains a widow 
Joseph Ellis
Sworn & subscribed the 25th of March 1853 & I further certify that I am acquainted with the deponent & believe him to be of undoubted veracity
H W Elliott Justice of the Peace of said county
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No 1030
Laura Lambertson
widow of Simon
N. Y.
Let to J Baker
June 14/53
6101
Act Feby 8/53
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[crossed out Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.]
6101
P. O. 
Laura Lambertson 
Service: widow of Simon 
Enlisted: REJECTED, 18  .
Discharged:           , 18  .
Application filed    , 18   .
Alleges:
Re-enlisted: 
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.         Contract.
Cert. of Dis.          Searched for    , 18  .
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Payable semi-annually, The first
payment on this Certificate will be
made on the 4th of September nest, in New York at the Branch Bank of the [illegible] 
Recorded
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War Department
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March 1818, 
Simon Lambertson late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the 20th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 30th day of April one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. 
J C Calhoun 
Secretary of War.
[cancelled - written vertically across the document]
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State of New York
Ulster County Ss.
I Simon Lambertson of Shawangunk in said county after being duly sworn according to law depose and say that I am 80 years age, that I am the identical individual described in the within attached pension certificate that I have drawn the pension at the New York Agency set forth in said Certificate from the issuing [illegible] up to the [illegible] th day of March last.
Simon Lambertson
Sworn and subscribed before me this 21st day of July 1836
Samuel Johnston Justice of the Peace
I Samuel Johnston one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Ulster do Certify that I am well acquainted with Simon Lambertson named in the above affidavit  That I know him to be the same person described in the enclosed attached pension certificate that he has [illegible] before me with the same certificate [illegible] issued [illegible] pension [illegible] said 21st day of July 1836 
Samuel Johnston Justice of the Peace 
State of New York
County of Ulster Ss] I Rodney A. Chipp Deputy Clerk of the County of Ulster aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel Johnston Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Ulster duly commissioned and qualitied:  and that his commission is dated on the first day of January 1833 - and will expire on the first day of January 1837 - and that his signature above written is genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county thisi twenty ninth day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty six.
R A Chipp Deputy Clerk
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Aug 8
[illegible]
NY.
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Shawangunk N. Y. 2nd Aug 1836
J L Edwards
Respected Sir  
Enclosed by request of Simon Lambertson I forward you his papers for the Exchange of Certificates agreeably made and executed as for your direction which I also [illegible]
Direct your answer to my [illegible]
Yours with high [illegible] 
James N. Mitchell [illegible]
Shawangunk
Ulster Co
N. Y.
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Bloomingburgh March 31st 1853
Dear Sir
Two leters was directed to Mr McCleming to the pension office as it was suposed that Mr. McCleming was the present Commissioner of pension pleas Get those 2 leters and take Charge of their contents for they were intended for you  The one has a declaration of Widow Lambertson enclosed for a pension under the late act of February 3d 1853 and Justice Baker [illegible] and the other is a [illegible] of Elizabeth Parsons to Daniel Corwin her attorney to ]illegible] her claim for a pension under the act of 1853 
pleas direct to Justice Baker Bloomingburgh Sullivan Co N. Y. and inform me wether the Leters has come to hand that I may know that they have not gone astray 
[illegible] Justice Baker
[illegible] Commissioner of Pensions
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10,034
New York
Simon Lambertson
of NY in the State of
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel [illegible] Cortland of the N York line, for the term of [cross out] 6 years 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of [illegible]
and sent to Berrel Kain Shawangunk Ulster Co.
Arrears to 4th of Mar 19            83.96
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept 19. 48.
                                                $131.96
[Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818]
[illegible]
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Notification sent to Charles Tappen [illegible] Esq
6 October, 1820. Kingston, Ulster County, N York.
[illegible] to pensioner July 13, 1836
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Simon Lambertson
20 Apr 1818 privt.
Richmores N Yk Regt
1776 to 1777
Van Cortland NY Regt
1777 to 1783
Wanted the [illegible] certificate of the recorded circumstances of the claimant. 
{illegible]
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State of New York
Ulster County Ss
On this twentieth day of April 1818
before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Ulster in the State of New York personally appeared Simon Lambertson aged Fifty Seven years a resident in the town of Shawangunk in the said county of Ulster who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath 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 with Land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war that the said Simon Lambertson enlisted at the city of New York in the year 1776 in the company commanded by Capt. Riker in Col. Richmores Regiment for one year and continued in the said corps until his time of service was expired when he received his discharge which is lost - that afterwards he again enlisted in the year 1777 in the company commanded by Capt. Hallet in the 2nd New York Regiment commanded by Col. Phillip Van Cortland, that he continued to serve in said corps until the ninth day of June 1783 when he was discharged from service at New Windsor in the State of New York at which time he received his discharge from General Washinton which he hath since lost - that he was in the Battles of White Plains, Saratoga or Bemis heights, Monmouth
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York Town and in the detachment under General Sullivan sent against the Indians and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his county for support.
Simon Lambertson
Sworn and declared before me the day & year aforesaid
James Kain
I James Kain Judge [illegible] as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Simon Lambertson did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceeding & testimony had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant the directions of the aforesaid act of congress.
James Kain
Ulster County
Clerks office Ss:
I certify that the above named James Kain is duly commissioned & qualified as a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said county of Ulster and that the above signature of his name is of his own proper hand writing with which I am well acquainted.  Witness and seal of the said court of which court I am the clerk.  dated 21st April 1818.
Cn. Tappen [illegible]
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I Jonathan Dubois Judge [illegible] do hereby certify that the said Simon Lambertson is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Jonathan Dubois
State of New York
Ulster County Clerk's Office Ss
I certify that the above named Jonathan Dubois is duly commissioned & qualified as a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Ulster & that the above signature of his name is his own proper hand writing as I truly believe I being acquainted with it.  Witness the Seal of Said Court of which I am clerk
Dated April 7th 1819.
Ch. Tappen Judge