Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8,129, for John Perry, New York
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New York
CONTENTS
Perry, John
of
Perry
Pare
Johannes
Elizabeth
NUMBER
R. 8, 129
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 Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of
the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836
State of New York
Greene County ss
On this twenty fourth day of December in
the year one thousand eight hundred and forty one personally appeared before me S. Nichols one of the Judges
of the County Court in and for said County Elizabeth Perry or Pare a resident of the town of Athens
County of Greene and State of New York aged Eighty
two years, who being first duly sworn according to
law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision
made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836
That she is the widow of John Perry who in the 
Dutch language was commonly called Johannes Parie
& who in the revolutionary resided in the same town
where she now lives, it was then in the town of Coxakie
That from her own recollection and from the frequent
declaration of her husband in his life time her husband
the said John Perry or Pare was more or less every year
from the commencement to the conclusion of the revolution
as a private Soldier and that he performed his full proportion of Military duty as such which she is positive
would in all amount to more that twelve months
as a private Soldier
She further declares that owing to the length of time
since the death of her husband and and the consequent
loss of memory, and that she knows of none living to strenghten her recollection except John Out whose affidavit is hereunto annexed
the will however endeavour to give a few particulars
which according to the best of her knowledge and belief is
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as follows
Her husband the said John belonged to Colonel Anthony Van Bergens Regiment of Militia under whose officers, he
frequently was called out the first time of which she has any
recollection he was drafted for three months, under Capt
Witbeck or Benjamin Dubois of the same Regiment and was ordered out with
said company up the Hudson River to Saratoga or stillwater where the American Army was embodied and remained
there untill after the Surrender of Burgoins (Burgoyne) army and was
discharged and returned home late in the fall of the same year
She further declares that he afterwards was frequently out
on a shorter or longer tour of duty sometimes as a guard
to protect the frontier of his own or neighboring
Counties also up and down the Hudson river and was 
often drafted drafted and placed under  the command of other officers and
at one she believes he served two or three months under
a Captain by the name of Hopkins - and that they
were stationed at or near a place called Fishkill in Dutchess County where he remained untill he was discharged late
in the fall of the year one thousand Seven hundred &
Seventy nine the same year he was married in
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She further declares that her husband the said John
Perry was frequently called out on alarms for short periods under diffirent officers of the Regiment to which
he belonged but mostly under the comand of Captain
Witbeck and Dubois. and were either scouting or stationed
for the defence of the frontier of Albany County (now Greene)
untill discharged, but how long each tour does not know
She further declares that she beleives the last time her
husband the said John Perry was out for the term
of four or five months, at which time he was a substitute
or volunteered out of class and was placed under the 
command of an officers by the name of Wysevelt and
was stationed on the frontier untill discharged that due
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ing said time he was from home her oldest child
was born and was baptized a few days after his return
home and was named Nicholas
She further declares that she is unable to give any 
particulars except those already stated, which may not be 
correct as to names of officers-- but she is however satisfyed
that her husband the said John Perry during the revolutionary war served as a Soldier not less than the already
mentioned period of twelve months
She further declares that she was married to the said
John Perry the fifteenth day of June in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy nine
That the ceremony was performed by the Reverend John
Schuneman Clergyman of the Protestant Dutch Reformed
Church
That her maiden name previous to her marriage was
Elizabeth Buskirk
And that her husband the said John Perry or Parie
died twenty eight day of March in the year one thousand eight
hundred and five and that she has ever since remained 
and is still the widow of the said John Perry or Perie
as will more fully appear by referance to the proof
hereto annexed
She further declares that she has no documentary
evidence neither does she know of any living witness
to prove her Statement except those hereto annexed

Elizabeth her x mark Perry

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and
year aforesaid before me and I do further
certify that said applicant from bodily
infirmity is unable to attend court
S. Nichols one of the Judges
of the Court of Common pleas
in & for said County of Greene
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State of New York
Greene County ⎬ SS
Caroline Hollenbeck widow of William Hollenbeck
deceased being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is
Seventy three years of age and is well acquainted with Elizabeth widow of John Perry deceased
That the said Elizabeth was legally married in the
town of Coxakie to the said John Perry in the Revolutionary war in the Summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy nine. the ceremony was performed by the Reverend Mr Schuneman Clergyman of the
Dutch Reformed Church in said town of Coxakie and
that her maiden previous to her marriage was Elizabeth Buskirk-
Deponent further saith that the said John and Elizabeth
lived together as man and wife (and had several children,) (untill the day of his death) which took place more than
thirty years since and that his widow the said
Elizabeth is still living and is now an applicant for
a pension and further this deponent saith not

Caroline her x mark Hollenbak

Sworn and Subscribed on this 27th day
of December 1841 before me and further
certify that she is a respectable witness
and her statement entitled to credit
State C. Collier Justice of
the peace
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State of New York
Greene County
 
Jeremiah Searle of the town of Coxakie
County of Greene and State of New York being duly sworn
deposeth and saith that he is the present Clergyman of
the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church in said town of
Coxakie, that it appears by the record of Baptism
of said Church that   Nicholas Son of John
Perry and Elizabeth Perry was Baptized the tenth day
of December in the year one thousand Seven hundred
and Eighty one which is expressed on said record in
the Dutch language in fair legible figures follows
viz
Anders
Gdopt 1751 Decemb 10
Johannes Pare Nicolas
Elizabeth Pare
Jannetze Pare
Kenderen
Nicolas Pare
I Jeremiah Searle above named do depose and say that
I hold the office of Clergyman in the above mentioned
church, that the foregoing is a true extract from the records
of said church, and I do further depose and say that no record of
Marriage Exist in said church earlier than the year 1798
and that the marriage of said parties above named does
not appear in said church and further this deponent saith
not.
Note an obliteration before Nicholas also the words and let
interlined farther interlined before execution

Jeremiah Park, Pastor

Sworn
and subscribed before me this 25th
December 1841 and further certify
in deponent is a clergyman as
stated
Anthony M Van Bergen  one of the Judges
Greene County

State of New York Greene County ss. Jeremiah Seale the above named deponent
do further depose that on a further Examination
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of the records of said church it appears that
Perry or Pare and his wife Elizabeth Buskirk were
admitted members of said church 2nd day of June 1787 that said
Elizabeth his widow is still a member in full communion
Note 2nd day of June 1757 interlined
Sworn and subscribed the 28th day of ⎬ Jeremiah Seal
Pastor
December 1841 before me
Anthony M Van Bergen one of the
Judges of Greene County
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State of New York,
Ulster County
Ss
On this fourth day of August 1847
before me came John Smith an aged and respectable citizen to me well known, who after being duly
sworn deposeth and saith that he is ninety one
years of age was a soldier in the revolutionary war
and was well acquainted with John or
Johannis Perry who was also a Soldier
That near the close of the war & he believes it was
in the year 1781, deponent was a private Soldier
in the Levies of the State of the State New York
for the term of 8 or 9 months and was principally
engaged in defence of the Counties of Ulster and Green and the said John Perry was a private Soldier
at the same time in a Regiment commanded by
Col Wynefelt but for what length of time deponent cannot now recollect.
deponent has also seen the said John Perry engaged as a Soldier in the Continental line &
also in the Militia of Albany County now Greene 
under the command of Col Anthony Van Bergen
in whose beat the said Perry resided.
Deponent further saith that among the dutch inhabitants
of his neighborhood he was called Parie ┃
Parry or Paries but generally called Perry
Deponent further saith that he was partially acquainted with
the wife of said Perry whose maiden name was
Buskirk, that they were married during the war but
at what time deponent does not know, that said
Perry died more than forty years since & was informed
that his widow was still living and was an
applicant for a pension for the revolutionary
Services of her deceased husband the said
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John Perry and further this deponent saith not
Subscribed and sworn before me
 me the day & year first above
 written by said John Smith after
having duly read said affidavit to him
John P. Foland Justice of the peace in &

John his x mark Smith

State of New York
Ulster County
 
I Benjamin M. Hasbrouck Clerk of the
County of Ulster do certify that John P. Foland Esqr
before whom the foregoing annexed affidavit of John Smith
purports to have been subscribed and sworn was at
the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in & for
said County duly Elected and qualifyed and that his
name subscribed to the Jurat of said affidavit purporting to be his I believe is his genuine signature
In testimony
whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed
my seal of Office this 11th
day of
1847
B M Hasbrouck Clerk
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5516
Elizabeth Perry
NY
July 4, 1836.
Eliz Perry
 
Kellan
H. Wynkoop, Esq
son
Present
Jan 1842
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State of New York
Greene County ss
John Out of the town of Athens County of Greene &
State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that
he is Seventy nine years of age was a Soldier in the revolutionary war and was well acquainted with John Perry
who in the Dutch language was commonly called Johannes
Parie who was also a Soldier
That deponent and the said John lived near neighbors
during the whole of the revolutionary war
Deponent further saith that although deponent and the
said John did not belong in the same Militia Company 
and was no more than two or three times out in the same 
corps with the said John Perry, yet from the conversations had with and the report of his neighbors deponent
always understood and verily believes that said John
performed his full proportion of Military duty from
the begining to the end of the revolutionary war and
which as deponent now believes would in all amount
to more one year as a Soldier- but owing to lesse
of time deponent cannot remember any particulars
Deponent further saith that the said John Perry die
ring the revolutionary war was legally married to
Elizabeth Buskirk with whom she lived and had
Sixteen children and that said John died in the latter
part of March or beginning of February in the year one
thousand Eight hundred and five in said town of
Athens and that his widow the said Elizabeth
has ever since that period remained and is still a
widow and is the same person who is now on
applicant for a pension for the revolutionary services of her husband the said John Perry deceased
and further this deponent saith not
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John out
Sworn and Subscribed before me
this 24th day of December AD. 1841
and I further certify that I am personally acquainted with
the above deponent and that he is a respectible citizen

and that his affidavit is entitled to
of the Judges of
Nichols one ┃
the Court of Common
Pleas of the said County of Greene
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State of New York
Secretary's Office
I certify that it appears by the Military Register in this Office
that on the 5th day of May 1778 John Parry
Enlisted as a Soldier in the Second New York
Regiment Captain Ten Eyck Company for nine
Months and was discharged on the 13th of February
1779
Archd Campbell
Albany July 15 1846
Dep. Sec. of State
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PENSION OFFICE,
Nov 5th
1855.
Sir:  Please report service from the rolls
Very respectfully,
B. Hove.

For COMMISSIONER.
3d Auditor. Sale

C R M Crain
[illegible]
31 Aug
5 Dec 14
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[crossed out] Act of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1879.
Enlisted:
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REJECTED
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Elizabeth Perry
wid of John
charged:
lication filed:
eges:
enlisted:
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Recognized.
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Cert. of Dis. Searched for
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Contract
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N5516
Elizabeth Perry
 NY

Hon R McClellen
Hon P H Silvester

8129

Act 4 July 1836
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Free
Prasitasten NY

Oct 28 47

Elizabeth Perry

JL Edwards Esqr
Commr of Pensions
Washington
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J.L. Edwards Esqr
Coxsackie 25th Oct 1847
Dear Sir
Will you be so good
as to give the enclosed papers your attention
have you read the papers that I forwarded
to you some time since when you have come
to a conclusion in relation to them, please
to advise me of it.
very truly
Yours
P H Silvester
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Washington January 17th 1842
Sir
The annexed application of Elizabeth Perry widow of John 
Perry under the act of 4th July for a pension. I have the honor
to say that only a few days before my departure from home 
was requested to prepare by the applicant
Personally I have had no opportunity to acquire any knowledge
in relation to the merits of the case, but from an examination of the case and the good character the applicant Sustains
in this neighborhood where she resides, which by referance to
the annexed certificate your honor will perceive is fully cooborated by the annexed affidavit of the Clergyman
of the Services of her husband no evidence is in existance
as none of his associates are now living who served with him
except John  out a very respectable citizen whose affidavit is
also annexed and although he was not a member of the same
Militia company-- and therefore is unable to give
particulars, but fully sustains her declaration in point of time
living in the same neighborhood.
-
I sent to the Comptroller at Albany for the proof in his
possession, which I received by last nights mail which is also
annexed
Although that does not exactly correspond with all the Services alledged, yet from the imperfect State of this
as full as could be expected-- And as I have often had
occasion to remark, that none as yet are known to be in Existence of the early period of the revolution. And of
course nothing to rebut that part of her statement.
The proof of marriage is as perfect as the case will admit.
And whatever may be your decision you will please
direct to Hon Robert McCleland house of Representations &
by so doing oblige
Col J. L. Edwards
Respectfully Your most obedient
Servant
Henry Wynkoop

Col J. L. Edwards
Comms of Pensions
War Department
Washington
D. C
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the
Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned, the following certificates
have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:
1781 Decr 1 / 3298 John Perry x 4mo.1  10-13-4
1779 Novr 22 /13494 John Perry / 3-4-0
1779 Octr 14 / 17023 Johannes Perry /[crossed out] 2-6-2
1779 August 31 /36011 John Perry /0-16-2
1779 Novr 6 / 36. 160 John Parrie /1-0-0
1780 August 5 /36. 168 John Parrie / 0-8-4
1780 Sept 25 /26196 John Paree /0-8-4
1780 Oct 27 /36210 John Perre /1-2-2
1780 Nov 12 /36220 John Parrie/1-5-0
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STATE OF NEW-YORK,
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, January 13
1842
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 1. 3.4 & 8 now remaining in this office, and
that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:
First - Under Capt. Andrew Thompson in Lt Col. Fredk Wiessenfels Regt
Second, " " Azor Barnum " " Roswell Hopkins "
Third, " " Johannes Blauvelt, " " Anthony Van Bergen "
Fourth " " Benjamin Dubois " " Anthony Van Bergen "
Fifth " " John A Witbeck " " Anthony Van Bergen " 
Sixth " " John A Witbeck " " Anthony Van Bergen "
Seventh, " " John A Witbeck " " Anthony Van Bergen " 
Eighth " " John A Witbeck " " Anthony Van Bergen " 
Ninth " " John A Witbeck " " Anthony Van Bergen 
Tenth

W.W. Tredway  Dept Compl
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State of New York
Greene Co
I William Pearson Clerk of the County
of Greene aforesaid do hereby certify Sylvester Nicholas
Esquire before whom the annexed declaration of Elizabeth Perry
and the affidavit of John Out purports to have been sworn and
subscribed was at the date of the said declaration & affidavit one of the
Judges of the County Courts of Greene aforesaid and duly
commisioned and qualifyed and that Anthony M. Van Bergen
before whom the annexed affidavit of the Reverend Jeremiah
Searle purport to have been sworn and subscribed was at the
date of the same one of the Judges of the County Courts of
said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the
several signatures of the said Judges thereto are genuine

And I do further certify that Isaac C. Collier Esquire her
fore whom the affidavit annexed of Caroline Hollenbeck purport to have been sworn and subscribed was at the date 
of the same of the same a Justice of the peace duly elected
and qualified and that his signature thereto subscribed is
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the 
said County this 29th day of December 1841
William Pierson Clerk
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled ""An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein
the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent. per annum, viz:

14th Oct 1919. / Joahannes Perry Pirv /L2-6-2

27th Sept / John Perry Corpl / 1-11-4

4th Apl 1780 / Jno Perry   Do/ 1-9-6

4th June Do / Do Do /1-9-6
 
22d Mar Do / John Perry  Priv /1-12-5

22d Novr 1779. / Do Do / 1-6-8

31st Augt Do / Do Do /  - 16-2
 
6th Nov do / John Parrie  Do / 1-0-0

5th Augt 1780/ do  do / -8-4

25th Sept do / do  do/ -8-4

29th Oct do / John Perre  Do / 1-2-2

12th Nov  do / John Parrie do / 1-5-0

1st Dec 1781 / John Perry do / 10-13-4

 
STATE OF NEW-YORK,
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, 15th July 1846
 
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, now remaining in this
, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:
First- under Capt. Johannes Blanvelt in Col. A. Hawk Hay
Regt.
Second " " John Whiteside ""Lewis Van Woert "
Third " " Wm Brown " " do "
Fourth " " Do " " Do "
Fifth " " Comr Doty " " Do
Sixth Lt Benj Guile " " Comr Van Veghten
Seventh " Capt Benjm Dubois " " Anthy VanBergen
Eighth " John A Witbeck " " Do "
Ninth " " Do " " Do "
Tenth  " " Do " " Do "
Eleventh  " " Do " " Do "
Twelfth  " " Do " " Do "
13 Andrew Thompson " Fredk Weissenfels

Philip Phelps
Dept Compt
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Know all men by these presents that
I Nicholas Perry of the Town of Athens
County of Greene State of New York
Lawful Heir Legitimate child of
Elizabeth Perry Widow of Johannas Perry
(now both deceased) whose application
for a Pension is now in suspended
file in the Department at Washington
on account of the Service of her husband the aforesaid
Johannas Perry in the Revolutionary War
do hereby constitute and appoint John
Edwards of the City of Washington
my true and Lawful attorney for me
and in my name to examine the
said papers now on file as aforesaid
and to do all the business thereto required
in the prosecution of said claim
Nicholas Perry
---
Signed sealed and delivered in the
presence of
This 28th day of
November A.D. 1853
William Comm Justice
of the peace
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State of New York
Green County
On this Seventh
day of July in the year
One thousand eight hundred and forty six personally
appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace Elizabeth Perry an aged and highly respectable citizen to me personally known and who
after being duly sworn according to law doth
depose and say that she is eighty six years of age
and is the widow of John or Johannes Perry
deceased
that four or five years since she made application for a pension for the revolutionary services
of her deceased husband. That she now repeats
that she then stated that she believes her husband
the said John Perry was a private soldier more
or less every year from the beginning to the
end of the revolutionary war; and although
she is unable to detail the particulars yet
she is satisfied that his services as a Soldier
would amount to more than twelve months
The first service according to her present recollection he was drafted for three or four
months and was stationed with the
Northern Army on the Hudson River
until after the Surrender of General Burgoynes
army and returned home late in the fall
of the same year
He was after frequently called out on various
kinds of duty under different officers and was
either scouting or Guarding the frontier of
the County of Albany (now Green) sometime
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for a few days only and sometimes for three or
four weeks or more
She further says that the last time he was out as a
Soldier he volunteered or was drafted for three
or four months and was stationed on the frontier
of Ulster & Albany Counties, during which time
the eldest son Nicholas was born as was
baptized a few days after her husband returned home from duty as a Soldier
she further says that her husband the said
John Perry resided in the Beat of Captain
Whitbeck's Company in Colonel Van Bergen's
Regiment of Militia and although she is
unable to give the names of all the officers
under which her husband the said John Perry
served yet she has a distinct recollection of
the names of Van Vechten, Hopkins, Dubois
Whitbeck, Van Bergen and Wisenfelt and
Courtland
She further says that she was married to 
said John Perry on the fifteenth of June
one thousand seven hundred and seventy
nine that he died on the twenty eighth of
March One thousand eight hundred and
five and that she has ever since remained
a widow, and hopes she may be awarded
a pension to which she believes she is honestly entitled

Elizabeth her x mark Perry

Sworn to before me on the
day and year first above
written after having duly read
the foregoing affidavit to her
John Van Vechten
Justice of the peace
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I certify that I have for nearly thirty five
years been a practicing Physician in the
neighbourhood of the residence of Elizabeth
Perry widow of
John or Jahamus Perry
deceased with whom I am intimately acquainted and from my own knowledge and the reputation of the neighbourhood
where she resides she is considered a very 
respectable citizen. I understand she is
an applicant for a pension.
And any statement she may have made
under oath may be relied on
I further certify that among the Dutch
inhabitants of her neighbourhood she
is sometimes called Paree or Paries but
her sons are only known by the name of
Perry among the English inhabitants
Dated Leeds April
1846
H. Dewey
I fully concur in the statement above made
by H Denry
John Van Vechten
J P
I certify
that I have been intimately acquainted with the above
named H. Dewey and John Van Vechten for more than twenty
years past, residing about four miles from them, and that they
are highly respectable, and entitled to full credit Catshill
N. 1. June 2, 1847
John Adams
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STATE OF NEW YORK.
GREENE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. ┃
I, Isaac Van Schaack, Clerk of the County of Greene, do hereby certify that
Jno Van Vechten Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of
of acknowledgement of the annexed instrument in writing, and thereon written, was at the time
taking such proof or acknowledgement a Justice of the Peace
for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, and duly authorised to take the same.
And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice
and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate or proof of acknowledgement is genuine
, and duly executed according to the law of the State of New York.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County
the 9th day of August
1847
J. K. Cooke Dep Clerk
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Hon. Peter H Sylvester MC
Coxsackie
Greene County
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Catskill April 1847

Dear Sir
A Son of Elizabeth Perry called at our office
last summer and requested us to assist his mother
in obtaining a pension and stated that Judge Wynkoop a few years since had drawn her papers and
since which she had heard nothing from him
Not conversant in pension matters our Clerk drew
of her papers as she dictated him and which
were sworn before Esquire and Richton Van Vechton and about the same
time we wrote to the State Department at Albany
and obtained a copy of the services
accredited
to John Perry which as by examination we discovered the name differently spelled and in order to
remove the difficulty we have since obtained
a certificate from Doctor Dewey who resides in
the same vicinity which we think accounts
satisfactorily for the difference in the spelling
pronouncing of the name Perry Parry or
Parree you will perceive that the Doctor's Statement is endorsed by Esquire Van Vechten and
whose integrity is also verified by the Hon John
Adams A member of Congress. The parties
.
reside near your vicinity if you know them
& presume you will fully corroborate the above
statement of the poor widows Character at [illegible] we are satisfied her case is a meritorious one you will please the papers
thus sent to the pension office War Department
Washington

and oblige your Obed
Servant
Van Vlick & Pruyn Attys
PS we also enclose the afft of John Smith