Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,738, for Elijah Stansbury, New York
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New York

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Stansbury, Elijah
Mehitable

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NUMBER
W. 16.738

CONTENTS
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Stansbury, Elijah
NY W16738

Stansbury, Elijah
N.Y. W16738

[Vertically]
Stansbury, Elijah
NY W16738
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Let to G. Adriance  Sept 2. 1837

New York 126
Mehitabel Stansbury
widow of Elijah Stansbury, decd
who died on the 16 Sept 1823;
of dutchess Co in the State of N. York:
who was a private in the __  N.Y. commanded by Captain __ of the Regt commanded by Col. Van Cortlandt in the New York line for 2 years  private

Inserted on the roll of New York
at the rate of 80 dollars _ Cents per to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of August, 1837 and sent to G. Adriance, Pleasant Valley, N. York

Arrears to the 4th of March '37 $ 480.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept  40.00
[total] $520.00
{Revolutionary Claim Act July 4, 1836
Section the 3d}
Recorded by S.A. Elliot  Clerk,
Book A Vol. 2 Page 117
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10,236
New York
Elijah Stansbury
Clinton in the state of New York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel VanCortlandt of the New York [line]
for the term of 6 years
Transcribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd of May 1819
and sent to R. Randall Esq.
Cortlandt Village, New York
Arrears to 4th of march 1819 10m. $87.16
semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept $48
$135.16
Continued
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
The pension Certificate [illegible] was returned by R. Randall and on the 23 Nov 1819 forward to [illegible] [Emol?], Poughkeepsie, NY
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Not'fa [notification] sent to W. H. Bulkley Poughkeepsie, NY 20th July, 1820—Dead
see letter to G. Adriance June 24, 1837.
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In the matter of Elijah Stansbury, a Pensioner of the United States

10. 236.    May 1819
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At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court House in the Village of Poughkeepsie in and for the County of Dutchess in the State of New York on Monday the twenty sixth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty 
Present the Hon James Emott First Judge
Daniel O Ver Planck
Abraham D Van Wyck Esquires
Thomas Sweet Judges
Dutchess County Ss: Be it remembered that on the 6th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas in open Court the said Court being a Court of Record for the County of Dutchess and State of New York. Elijah Stansbury aged seventy one years resident in the town of Clinton in the County of Dutchess and State of New York who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as fellows to wit in July 1777 at Clinton town in Dutchess County he enlisted in a company commanded by James Rosekrants [Rosencrants] in the fifth regiment of the New York line of the Continental Army commanded by Colonel Lewis Dubois for during the war of the revolution that he served in the same Company & regiment until the army was reduced when he was attached to Captain Henry Vandenburghs company in Colonel Van Cortlandts regiment that he served in the same Company & Regiment until he was discharged on disbanding the Army at the close of the war near Newburgh in 1783 and that his original declaration is dated the eigth-day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that his pension Certificate is No. 10,286
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 time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby
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so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitiled "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 one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 to wit.
Real estate I have none
Personal Property wearing apparel & bedding excepted, as follows
1 Pot
1 Tea Kettle
1 Spider
1 Axe
6 knives & forks
4 spoons
1 Table
5 chairs 
6 Earthen plates
6 cups & saucers
Shovel and tongs
1 pair Andirons
3 Tea Spoons
The Defendant says his family consists of himself and his wife aged sixty-two years, that the defendant was a labourer by occupation but that from his age he is unable to labour that before he received his pension he was supported as a pauper by the said town of Clinton. 
Elijah X Stansbury
His Mark
Sworn and subscripted [subscribed] in open court this 26th day of June 1820 W Henry Bulkley Depy. Clerk
I John Johnston Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule are truly copied from the Records of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is five dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twenty sixth day of June in the year 1820. 
John Johnson Clerk
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New York
8 April 1816
Elijah Stansbury
Clinton Dss. Cy. 
Enlisted in 1777 in Colonel Lewis [illegible] Du Boys Regt N. Y. Line & Served During the War-
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To the Honorable James Emott Hs R?
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County of Dutchess which is a Court of Record of the State of New York

The Declaration under oath of Elijah Stansbury of Clinton in Dutchess County formerly a soldier - engaged in the Service of the United States, during the Revolutionary War, and now a Citizen of the United States, and resident of the town of Clinton in Dutchess County & State of New York
 Respectfully Showeth that the said Elijah in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven enlisted for during the ear of the revolution in the army of the United States in a company commanded by Captain James Rosekrants in a regiment belonging in the New York line commanded by Colonel Lewis DuBoys and that the deponent was afterwards on the reduction of the regiment belonging to the said line was ha  ened to the regiment belonging to the new York line commanded by Coll Th   Van Cortlandt and that this deponent continued to serve as a private soldier on the continental establishment until the close of the war when he was honorably discharged
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and is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from his country for support; and that he has no pension herebefore granted to him
Therefore he conceives himself entitled to the benefit of the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, “An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the  United States, in the Revolutionary War,” approved March 18, 1818, and requests that your Honor will examine into the truths of the matters aforesaid, certify and transmit the testimony in this case, and the proceedings had thereon to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, to the end that such relief may be had in the premises, as is by law in such case provided. And in support of the facts above set forth, he refers to the affidavit of himself and that of Henry Schoonmaker hereafter set forth.
Dated, the 8 day of April 1818
[signed] Elijah Stansbury  + his mark
[signed[ James Emott

New York
County of Dutchess ss.  Elijah Stansbury being duly sworn says, that the matters by him set forth in the foregoing Declaration, are in all respects just and true.
Sworn the 8 day of April, 1818 before me,
[signed] James Emott

Dutchess ss.  Henry Schoonmaker of Poughkeepsie in the said County being duly sworn says that he knows Elijah Stansbury the above declarant that the said Elijah to the knowledge of this deponent served as a private in the war of the revolution on the continental establishment and in the New York line for five years and upwards and that during part of the time this deponent served as a sergeant in the company to which the said Elijah belonged and that the said Elijah remained in the service when this deponent quit the army in the year One thousand seven hundred & eighty two.
[signed] Henry Schoonmaker
Sworn this 8th of April 1818 before me
[signed] James Emott
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State of New York
County of Dutchess } ss.  Be it Remembered, That on the eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me, James Emott first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County of Dutchess which is a Court of Record of the State of New York personally appeared the aforesaid Elijah Stansbury the Applicant, within contained who in my presence took & subscribed the affidavit hereunto annexed and enjoined me to certify the same in pursuance of the act of Congress for providing for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war
Whereupon I being satisfied that the said Applicant did serve in the army of the United States, on the Continental Establishment, in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and longer, to wit, for the term and manner stated in the declaration of the said Applicant; and that he is fairly and justly entitled to the benefit of the Act aforesaid.
Therefore, I do hereby Certify and transmit the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, as before set forth, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the said Court, the day and year last above written.
[signed] James Emott

State of New York Dutchess County Clerks Office ss
I certify that on examining the Rolls and Records in this Office I find that the above named James Emott has been duly commissioned as a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Dutchess County and has taken and subscribed the oath of Office and the oaths by Law required and that he is now and has been since the first day of April Instant a Judge of said court
In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said court and subscribed my name this eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
[signed] Jacob Van Ness Clerk of Dutchess County N.Y.
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Dutchess County ss  Henry Dodge of Poughkeepsie in the County of Dutchess being duly sworn says that on or about the twenty first day of November in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six he received a commission as Lieutenant in a company commanded by James Rosekrans in the fifth New York battalion commanded by Lewis DuBoys and served in the army as an officer during the war, that it appears from papers now in the possession of the deponent & which he has informed [illegible] the war that Elijah Stansbury in or about the month of May in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy nine [illegible] during the war in Capt Rosekrans company in Coll Lewis Du Boys regiment, that on May 1780, the said Elijah was mustered in the company to which this deponent was attached, as appears by the muster rolls [illegible] held by this deponent and continued to serve therein for a year thereafter at least, that the said Elijah on the reduction of the New York regiment was transferred to the regiment commanded by Coll. Philip Van Cortlandt.
[signed] Henry Dodge
Sworn this 22 Sep 1818 before me
[signed] James Emott
First judge of Dutchess Co

I the above named James Emott first judge of Dutchess County in the state of New York do certify that Henry Schoonmaker and Henry Dodge the persons testifying within are [illegible] and are entitled to credit and Elijah Stansbury (whose name I have seen on the muster roll in the possession of Capt Dodge) is in indigent circumstances.
Sep 22, 1818
[signed] James Emott
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State of New York
Dutchess County} Ss. On this 8th day of July 1837, Personally appeared before me Obadiah Titus one of the Judges of Dutchess County Courts aforesaid Mehetebel Stansbury a resident of the town of Pokeepsie [Poughkeepsie] in the County and State aforesaid aged eighty 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 Elijah Stansbury, who was a private in the Revolutionary War, that he served therein six years and nine months, that he also was a pensioner and received it for five years before his death regularly eight dollars per month and that the Certificate of War department hereto anexed [annexed] has remained in her possession ever since the death of her said husband, the aforesaid Elijah Stansbury, further says that shen her husband, the aforesaid Elijah Stansbury first enlisted in the Army, they resided in the town of Clinton and by a division of towns is now called Pleasant Valley, in the County and State aforesaid. She further declares that she was married to the said Elijah Stansbury on the nineteenth day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy three, that her husband, the aforesaid Elijah Stansbury died on the sixteenth day of September in the year one thousand Eight hundred and twenty three. And that she has remained a Widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto anexed [annexed] - - -
   Mehetebel Stansbury her X mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
 Obadiah Titus one of the Judges of Dutchess County Court

I certify that the above named deponent is unable from age and infirmities to appear in open court - I am not personally acquainted with her but am informed by individuals with whom I am well acquainted and know to be individuals of respectability & integrity that they have
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been acquainted with said deponent for many years and that she has sustained and now sustains a good character as regards credibility and moral integrity and I believe the same to be True
 Obadiah Titus  Judge &c
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State of New York
Dutchess County } ss  On this 6th day of July 1837 Personally appeared before me Henry Tallmadge one of the Justices of the Peace of the town of Stanford in the county and state aforesaid Silas Bullis of the said town county and state aforementioned aged seventy seven years, who, being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath say that he knew Elijah Stansbury before he was married, also Mehetebel Stansbury, that he was at the wedding when they were married, that her name before marriage was Mehetebel Landers. That they were married in the year seventeen hundred and seventy three by Esquire Humphrey. Otherwise called Judge Humphrey (and is now deceased) does not recollect the month of the year they were married, and that the said Elijah Stansbury died about the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty three, and his widow, Mehetebel Stansbury has never since remarried as he knows of
[signed] Silas Bullis
Sworn to, and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me Henry Tallmadge Justice of the peace And I also certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Silas Bullis who made the above affidavit, and that he is a person of credibility
[signed] Henry Tallmadge Justice of the peace
I certify that words “I am” in the last line of the above certificate was erased by me
[signed] Henry Tallmadge Justice of the peace.
Stanford July 6, 1837
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State of New York
Dutchess County } ss.  On the 8th day of July 1837 Personally appeared before me one Silas E Haight one of the Justices of the peace of the town of Pokeepsie in the County and State aforementioned Garret Adriance a resident of the town of Pleasant Valley in the County and state aforementioned, aged fifty nine years, who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath declare and says that he knew Elijah Stansbury and Mehetebel Stansbury upwards of thirty years, that they Resided together as man and wife in the town of Clinton and by a division of towns is now the town of Pleasant Valley in the said County of Dutchess and state aforesaid that they resided together as such untill the death of the said Elijah Stansbury which was on the 16th day of September 1823 – since which time the said Mehetebel Stansbury has resided in different places with her Children and a part of the time received support from the County, and she now resides with her grandson in the town of Pokeepsie. He further says that the said Elijah Stansbury was a pensioner, that he usually drew powers of Attorney and took the acknowledgement to obtain his semiannually payments, which he did receive regularly and which was eight dollars per month, further says that the certificate of war department hereto annexed he did receive of the said Mehetebel Stansbury and hereto annex and which certificate he had often seen in the Possession of the said Elijah Stansbury previous to his death, and he further says that the said Mehetebel Stansbury has remained a Widow ever since the death of the said Elijah Stansbury, and the said Mehetebel Stansbury is a person of credibility
[signed] Garret Adriance
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me
[signed] Silas E Haight
Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Dutchess
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State of New York
Dutchess County SS: I Silas E Haight the Justice of the Peace before whom the within deposition was taken Do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the deponent Garrett Adriance and know him to be a person entitled to credit
[signed] Silas E Haight
Justice of the Peace

[written vertically] 
2261.
Mehetebel Stansbury widow of Elijah deceased admd 2 years pri
80$
No deduction
Died in 1823
G, Adriance 
Pleasant Valley N.Y.


I Henry J Traver Clerk of the County of Dutchess in the State of New York do hereby certify that Silas E Haight and Henry Tallmadge were severally Justices of the Peace in and for the said County and Obadiah Titus was a Judge of the county Courts of the same dwelling in the said County commissioned and qualified and authorized to take the preceeding affidavits and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting often said Judge and Justices and verily believe that their respective signatures to the said affidavits are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county this 11th day of July AD 1833
[signed] Henry J Traver Clerk
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J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Pleasant Valley July 8th 1837
Sir   Yours of the 24th of June I received in safety together with the guidance of the rules of Evidence in preparing the papers to substantiate the Claim of the Widow of Elijah Stansbury. I enclose you such papers in relation thereto which I believe to be sufficient for her to obtain what her husband was entitled to, and the proof of the said Elijah Stansbury's services is in the possession of the war department, and if any more is required please inform me.
  Yours Sincerely    Garrett Adriance

J L Edwards Esqr
Comr of Pensions
Washington City }
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A? 6435
23 June 1837
Pension office
referred for information
 J.R.P.
[Canes?]

[upside down]
[stamp] FREE
To the Secretary of War
City of Washington
[stamped] PLEASANT VALLEY
[?] JUNE 19th
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Pleasant Valley June 16th 1837
To his honour the Secretary of War
There is a Case here which I and many of my Constituents wish your decision upon a revolutionary soldier by name of Elijah Stanbury received a Certificate under the Act of Congress passed March 18th 1818, entitling him to receive eight dollars per month to Commence on the eight day of April 1818 given at the war office of the United States the third day of May 1819. Signed J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War  the old man died September 16th 1823, and has left a Widow and she is now living, he received his pension regularly semiannually, now is his widow entitled to receive anything under any Act passed since 1818 – is what we wish to know there are different opinions on the subject. My own however is that there is no provision for her in the Law of 1836 nor any other Act since 1818 – yet I hope there is as the Old Lady went into the service and accompanied the Army about eighteen months and done the washing and mending for the Officers. Please be so good as to give me a line On the subject, and Direct to me, Pleasant Valley Dutchess County N.Y. and oblige a number of good Democrats
Yours Sincerely
[signed] Garret Adriance
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Elijah Stansbury

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September, next, in New York at the United States Branch Bank.

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,
Elijah Stansbury ~ 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 eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this  third day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

J C Calhoun.
Secretary of War.
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Sept 1
Mr. Stansbury
N York
[stamped] PLEASANT VALLEY
N.Y. [stamped] AUG. 29th
1269
[stamped} FREE
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Pleasant Valley Aug ' 26.^th 1837
D Sir
I received yours with the certificate
enclosed in behalf of the widow of Elijah Stansbury. granting to her eighty dollars per 
annum from the 4.th of March 1831 &c. the old lady is somewhat disappointed. she expected to have received Ninety six dollars per year, which was the sum that Elijah Stansbury received. be so good as to inform me for her satisfaction and others the cause of her not receiving the latter sum
yours with due respect. 
Garret Adriance
To  J. L. Edwards Esqr
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2261 July 14
N.Y.
4 July '36
3d Sec.
Mehitabel Stansbury
Elijah
Dutchess Co N.Y.
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
Garrett Adriance
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N.Y.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File no. 16738
Mehitable Stansbury
Wid of
Elijah Stanbury
Priv Rev War
Act: July 4^th '/36
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