Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,355, William English, New York
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New York
English, William
NUMBER
R. 3,355
CONTENTS
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State of New York
Washington County
On the Fourth day of July 1836 personally
6
John Sonone of the


Judge of County Courts in and for the County
of Washington William English a resident of the
of the Town of Easton in the County of Washington
aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to
law on his oath doth
in her vain, with make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That
he entered the service of the United States under the
following named officers and served as
therein stated
That in the month of March 1777 he enlisted
for six months at Kinderhook in the County of
Columbia in the State of New York in a company
of Infantry commanded by Captain Rosburghof
which one Hanks was Lieut in Col Abram
)
Van Alstine Regiment of which Daniel Halse was
Major, that at the time of his enlistment he under
at Kinderhook afraid that he entered immediately
on duty and did Gammon duly a few days at
Kinderhook, and on or about the first day of
April 1777. Marched with his company to endure
by the way of Albany, Saratoga and Lake
George he anned at Ticonderoga in the month of
April in the same year and remained the day
Harrison duty in Captain Corburghs company until the
Fort was evacuated on the night of the 5th day of July 1771
he then situated with the coming on the east side of Lake
Champlain, through Calton Vermont to Fort Edward
in New York when he arrived about the 12th of July
and remaned at Fort Edward about three weeks
doing Gammon duty, and then situated with the Army
to Saratoga, was Stillwater and then remained in
Gunson until the battle of Saratoga at Bemas
Hught, on the 7th of October 1777 was in that battle
and after the fight at Saratoga, he continued in the
Army doing duty until the surrender of Burgoyne
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on the 17th day of October, 1777, immediately after the surrender of General Burgoyne he was discharged at Saratoga [illegible[ served out the full period of his enlistment. In this tour of service he signed [illegible] least six months and fifteen days, for which he claims a pension, that he received a written discharged [illegible] has captain, which was commissioned in his [illegible], which was [illegible] That he now has no documentary evidence and knows of me one whose testimony he can provide who can testify to his services. 

In [illegible] to the questions put by the Judge he says
1st That he was born in the year 1754 at [illegible] in the State of Connecticut.

2nd He has no record of his age he has been informed that there [illegible] record of his age when [illegible] in the office of the Town Clerk. 

3rd He was living at Kinderhook in the County of Columbia in the State of New York when he entered the Service. Since the Revolution he has lived at a place called New Button in Columbia County and at [illegible] in the County of Washington and for the last forty years in the Town of Easton in the County of Washington and State of New York where he now resides.

4th He entered the service by Enlistment as before stated.

5th  He recollects the name of General Gates and General Arnold and the names of his [illegible] officer [illegible] stated, but his memory is so impaired by old age that he cannot recollect the continental and militia regiments [illegible] his [illegible].

6th He received a discharge from Capt Vosburgh which was [illegible] in his [illegible] above stated
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7th The name of the persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood, and who can testify to his veracity and [illegible] belief of his service, as a soldier of the Revolution in Worthy Waters and Benjamin Wood. 

There is no clergyman at present in his neighborhood with whom he is acquainted, [illegible] at present in his neighborhood with whom he is acquainted have [illegible] then but a short time. 

The family [illegible] has every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the [illegible] and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 

William English [his mark]

Sworn and Subscribed
the day and year aforesaid.
John McLean

We Worthy Waters and Benjamin Wood residing in the Town of Easton in the County of Washington and State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William English who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and we believe him to be 82 years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood, when he [illegible] to have been a soldier of the Revolution and [illegible] in that [illegible].

Worthy Waters
Benjamin Wood

Sworn and Subscribing
the day and year aforesaid
John McLean
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And I the said Judge do hereby declare my opinion after the [illegible] of the matter and after putting the Interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above record application was a revolutionary soldier and served [illegible] States and I do further certify that it appears to me that Worthy Waters and Benjamin Wood who signed the [illegible] certificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and I do [illegible] there certify that the applicant cannot from bodily infirmity attend Court.

John McLean

State of New York
Washington County

I Edward Dudd Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County Washington do certify that John McLean before whom the above declaration and certificate were sworn to, was at the date of the same one of the Judges of County Courts in and for the County of Washington on the date aforesaid and that his signature  [illegible] [illegible] is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas and fore the County of Washington this [illegible] day of July 1836
Edward Dudd, Clerk
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WIDOWS OF THE REVOLUTION

[Illegible] Now Receive Pensions From the Government War Department

Nearly 125 years have passed since the Revolutionary war came to an end. The last survivor of the thousands of men who took part in that great struggle for liberty died more than thirty years ago. Yet, there are on Uncle Sam's pension rolls the names of seven persons, each of whom has been granted a small sum of money monthly on account of it. 

Three of the seven are the only surviving widows of Revolutionary soldiers. The other four are daughters and are pensioned by special act of congress.

The widows are Rebecca Mayo, aged 89 years of Newburn, VA.; Nancy Jones, aged 88 years of Jonesboro, Tenn., and Esther S. Damon, aged 88 years of Plymouth Union, Vt. 

Rebecca Mayo, whose maiden name was Rebecca Dawson, is the widow of Stephen Mayo, whom she married in Fluvanna County, Va., on November 24, 1834 when she was 26 and he 77 years of age. Her husband who then lived in Abelmarle County, Va., enlisted as a private in a Virginia regiment in 1776 and served three or four months. He enlisted again in February, 1777 and served for one year. He participated in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. In 1832, at the age of 75 years, he made application for a pension, which was allowed. He died in 1847 and the same year application was made by his widow and her claim was allowed. 

Nancy Jones is the widow of Darling Jones, who served for nine months as a private in a North Carolina regiment and was in the battle of Monk's Corner and also in some skirmishes with the Cherokee Indians. Her maiden name was Nancy Huff. She was married in Carter county, Tenn., at the age of 25 years her husband being 69 years of age. Mr. Jones was drawing a pension at the time of his death in 1848. Her claim was allowed in 1853.

Esther S. Damon, who was formerly Esther Sumner, married Noah Damon, at Bridgewater, Vt., in 1835, when she was 22 years of age and he 75. Mr. Damon enlisted at Milton, Mass., in 1775, as a private, and served nearly two years. He was wounded at the battle of Long Island, and was granted a pension in 1848. He died in 1853 and she was pensioned as his widow.
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in most cases by the overuse of spices.

The genuine English plum pudding is never heavily spiced. Coarse spices like cinnamon should never be used in a fruit pudding, because their flavor is certain to predominate and destroy the finer flavor of the fruits and candied peels. Neither milk nor cream must be used in an English plum pudding. Eggs and brandy will do all the moistening necessary. Flour will certainly make the pudding heavy if it is used. Use instead moist bread crumbs taken from a stale loaf from which the crust has been removed. The crumbs should be grated fine, but not dried. 

It is not necessary to make a difficult talk of boiling. The English housewife usually boils her pudding in a blain basin with a rim which fits firmly over the [illegible] cloth. The pudding basin is well buttered and sugared and the buttered pudding cloth is tied closely over it. The pudding should fill the basin. It is said that the giving of the cloth leaves room enough for it to swell. Bring the corners of the pudding cloth over the top and tie them together in knots, and plunge the pudding into a saucepan of boiling water. Let [illegible] boil for eight hours, keeping the saucepan well filled with boiling water. The water will not [illegible] into the pudding. 

This pudding is hung away in a cold place until it is needed. On Christmas morning it must be boiled for two hours longer. When it is taken out of the mold set it in the oven for ten minutes and it will turn a dark, rich color. Have ready a few blanched Jordan almond cut in lengthwise strips and form a crown of them on top of the pudding putting a sprig of holly in the center. Just before placing the pudding on the table pour a wineglass of brandy around it, not over it. Set it on fire and bring it to the table in a fragrant cloud of flames. 

It is interesting [Illegible] this pudding is [illegible] was served, so tradition and sentiment record, the "Doomsday Book" says to William the Conqueror on his [illegible] by his cook, who was regraded by being made a nobleman of the realm. 

A good-sized Christmas pudding calls for one pound of Malaga raisins, stoned and cut in half, one pound of the best currants, carefully cleaned and dried after washing them one pound of sugar, three
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3355 Rej

3-068
(Old No. 3- 649)

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Wm. English
Jul. 4, 1836 /born 1754
Easton, NY/ N. Haven, Conn

[illegible] Kinderhook, NY
Capt Vosburgh
Col. Abram Van Allen

[Illegible] 6m
Bemus Heights
Rej. no proof
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New York
Revo

William English
Suspended 
see let to C.F. Ingalls July
16th 1836

3355
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J.J. Smith, Mayor
Geo. W. Tuthill, Collector
M.D. Jackson, Marshal.
T.H. Andrew, Clerk
M.F. Ehlers, Treasurer

Board of Alderman
J.A. Cayton
H. Renken, }1st ward
L. Grother
C.M. Hagan } 2d ward

SWEET SPRINGS, MO Jany 8 
[stamp: Jan 14, 1903 files]

Hon. E. F. Ware
Pension Commissioner
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir: The reading of the enclosed flip which I found in a late issue of the Kansas City Journal, prompted me to ask if your Bureau has any record of soldiers of the Revolution, outside the brief list herein mentioned or if there is such record in any other Department. Kindly permit me to give my reason for this inquiry. In doing this, I will state the case as it was told to me by my mother who was born and grew up near Ithaca, N.Y. 

Her father was William English (or Inglis) and he was a soldier in the Revolutionary army; was a captain and was wounded by a ball which struck one side of his face and passed through leaving him toothless or partly so. His wife (my grandmother) passed her last years (as
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a widow) at our home in Alton, Ill. and died there in 1845 as our Bible records shows. It is within my memory that she received a pension from the Government. My mother died in 1865 but a younger sister of hers, Mrs. Jane D. Smith, is still living, a very old woman, at Burlington, Iowa. This aunt of mine may be one of the four "daughters" referred to in the enclosed article; if not doesn't she belong to that class or group?

My own interest in the matter is for this good old lady- nothing further, except that I have often through of asking somebody in Washington for information from the record (if any) as to my grandfather's service in the war of the Revolution. If you can and will kindly furnish me this with information also as to my aunt's status, it will be a great favor, and never forgotten.

Very Respectfully,
Go. W. Tuthill
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January 17, 1903
Geo. W. Tuthill
Sweet Springs, MO

Rejected

3355
P.O.  William English

Service:

Enlisted: __________, 18
Discharged:_______, 18
Application Filed_____, 18
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O. 

Recognized 
Contract
Cert of Dis. Searched for ______, 18
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Greenwich, NY
July 12

FREE

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
District of Columbia
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Greenwich, July 11, 1836

Dear Sir- 
Inclose within the case of William English a militia man, who served in the militia. 

Hon. JL Edwards

Yours
C.F. Ingalls

P.S. Please direct your communications to Charles F. Ingalls, Greenwich, Washington County, NY