Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22572, Jacobus Wells, New York
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(3-1776) 

SERVICE 
New York 
Wells, Jacobus 
Elizabeth 

NUMBER 
W.22572 

CONTENTS
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New York 5.439 
Elizabeth Wells widow of Jacobus Wells 
N. Y. 
[crossed out: who was a pension under the Act of]
and who died on the 2d September 1798 of Ulster Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Cantine of the regt. commanded by Col Pawling in the N.Y. line for 10 ½ months 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 35 Dollars - per ann to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of May 1840 and sent to H. Wynkoop, Catskill N. York
Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 140.00 
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep 1840  17.50 
$157.50
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book A.  Vol. 2.  Page 110
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Elizabeth Wells
Explanation


5760
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State of New York 
Ulster County Clerks Office } Ss. I John Ferguson Clerk of the County of Ulster do hereby certify that Jacob Snyder Esq. before whom the annexed Declaration of Elizabeth Wells purports to have been sworn & subscribed and before whom the affidavits annexed, of Peter Backer Henry Ostrander, Hezekiah Wynkoop & William Myer purport to have been subscribed & taken, was at the respective dates of the same a Judge of the Common Pleas in & for the said County And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe his signatures to said Declaration and affidavits are genuine – 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 14th day of January 1839 –
[signed] John Ferguson Clerk 

Saugerties Ulster County State of N. Y.
June 15th 1839 
Sir
The accompanying application will appear by reference to the date was made sometime since and kept back in order to obtain record proof of marriage I have after a diligent search not been enabled to find any record kept by the minister who is alledged to have married them at the date refered to I have therefore substituted a record of Baptism and which I hope will be satisfactory 
The annexed evidence in relation to her husbands services is all that can reasonably be obtained in the case, you will therefore with your accustomed
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liberality dispose of it according to its merits and please direct your answer to me 
I am respectfully your most obedent 
Servant 
[signed] Henry Wynkoop

Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Comr. of pensions 
Washington City
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows 
State of New York 
Ulster County } ss 
On this Sixth day of October in the year one thousand Eight hundred and thirty Eight personally appeared before me Jacob Snyder one of the Judges of the County Courts in and for said County of Ulster Elizabeth Wells a resident of the town of Saugerties County of Ulster and State of New York aged Eighty Seven 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 provission made, by the act of Congress passed July the 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows 
That she is the widow Jacobus Wells who to the best of her knowledge and belief in the Summer of 1776 volunteered as a private Soldier in a company commanded by Captain Moses Cantine in Colonel Levi Pawlins Regiment that said company was stationed at Kingsbridge White plains and the Hudson River untill late in the fall of said year of 1776. when he returned after an absence of five months or more, 
That immediately after he was called out in the Militia Service and was stationed in the State of New Jersey for the term of about one month, that said service was either under the command of Captain Mat- [Matthew]
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[Matthew] thew Dederick or Captain Jeremiah Snyder or Captain John L. Dewitt.
The said Jacobus Wells in the Summer of 1777 again volunteered in a company commanded by Captain Philip Swart that the said Jacobus Wills served one half of the term of three months the other half was performed by one of his neighbors named Hezekiah Wynkoop who was his near neighbor That said company was stationed at and near a place called Stillwater and was under the command of General Gates 
That the said Jacobus Wells during the revolutionary war has at several different times and under different officers in Colonel Johannes Snyders Regiment, at short periods for the defence of the frontier of the County for the term of at least three months during said war 
She further declares that her husband the said Jacobus Wells resided in said town of Saugerties during the revolutionary war that he served not less than the period above mentioned viz 1776 in Capt Cantine’s Company 5 Months, in the winter of 1777 in the State of New Jersey about one month, in the summer of 1777 one and a half month in Captain Philip Swarts Company and three months in the Militia Service in Colonel Johannes Snyders Regiment making in all about ten and a half months, of Service during the revolution which is all she can at present recollect 
She further declares that she has no document[ary]
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[documentary] ary evidence nor any living witness to prove her Statement except those hereunto annexed She further declares that she was married to the said Jacobus Wells the thirtieth day of October in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty seven that her maiden name was Van Slyck and that her husband the aforesaid Jacobus Wells died on the second day of September in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Ninety Eight 
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service, but the marriage took place previous to first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated 
[signed] Elizabeth Wells X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid before me and I certify that in consequence of age and infirmity the said Elizabeth Wells is unable to attend Court. 
[signed] Jacob Snyder One of the Judges of the County Courts of Ulster County
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State of New York 
Ulster County ss
Peter Backer of the town of Saugerties County and State of said being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is fifty three years of age that he is well acquainted with Elizabeth Wells that she is the widow of Jacobus Wells who died the Second day of September in the year one thousand seven hundred and Ninety Eight and that Elizabeth Wells has ever since that period remained and is still the widow of the said Jacobus Wells and that she is now an applicant for a pension for the revolutionary service of her husband and further this deponent saith not 
[signed] Peter Backer
Sworn and subscribed before me the 6th day of October 1838. and I certify that I am personally acquainted with said Peter Backer a respectable citizen entitled to credit – 
[signed] Jacob Snyder one of the Judges of the County Court of Ulster County
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State of New York
Ulster County } ss
Henry Ostrander of the town of Saugerties County and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth that he is the present Clergyman of the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church in said town that it appears by the records of said church that “Catharine” daughter of Jacobus Wells and Elizabeth Van Slyck was baptized the Seventh day of January in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Ninety two which is expressed in said record in fair legible figures and letters as follows viz  Gedoopt 1792 d. 7. Jan.   “Kinderen” "Catharine"  “Onders” Jacobus Wels Elisabet Van Sluick  “Gelongen” Henrikus Wels  Margert Burham 
I  Henry Ostrander above named do depose and say that I hold the office of Clergyman in the above mentioned Church that the above is a true extract from the records of said church and I further certify that the marriage of Jacobus Wells with Elizabeth Van Slyck does not appear on any of the Records of said church and further this deponent saith not 
[signed] Henry Ostrander
Sworn to and subscribed before me the 5th day of September 1838 by Revd. Henry Ostrander known to me as the Clergyman of the Dutch Church of Saugerties aforesaid- 
[signed] Jacob Snyder one of the Judges of the County Courts of Ulster County
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State of New York 
Ulster County } ss Hezekiah Wynkoop of the town of Saugerties County and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is Eighty Eight years of age that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and was well acquainted with Jacobus Wells (now deceased) who was also a Soldier 
That in the Summer of 1776 this deponent volunteer in the military service of the State of New York for the term of five months in a Company commanded by Captain Moses Cantine in Col Levi Pawlins Regiment, that deponent served one half of the said term of five months. that he joined the said corps at White Plains previous to the battle at that place and continued in said corps untill the close of the said campaign 
That said at the time deponent joined the company as above stated the said Jacobus Wells was a private Soldier and continued untill deponent with said company were duly discharged and believes that the said Jacobus Wells served the full term of five months in said year of 1776 And this deponent further saith that in the Summer of 1777 he again volunteered in the Service as aforesaid in a Company commanded by Captain Philip Swart as a private Soldier for one half of the term of three months The other half by the said Jacobus Wells, that deponent with said company was stationed on the Hudson River at and near a place called Stillwater and
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the widow of the said Jacobus Wells and as deponent is informed is now an applicant for a pension and further this deponent saith not 
[signed] William Myer
Sworn and subscribed before me the sixth day of October 1838. And I further certify that I am personally acquainted with said William Myer a respectable citizen entitled to credit 
[signed] Jacob Snyder one of the Judges of the County Courts of Ulster County
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State of New York 
Ulster County } ss   I Joseph H. Tuthill Clerk of the County of Ulster aforesaid do certify that at a Court of Common pleas and general Sessions held in the village of Kingston at the Court house on the tenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four. Satisfactory evidence was adduced in open court before the Judges there of. That Elizabeth Wells (widow of Jacobus Wells, deceased) late of the town of Saugerties in said County was a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 at the yearly rate of thirty five dollars. 
That she died in said town of Saugerties on the Seventeenth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three and left her surviving one child viz Catherine Backer (wife of Peter Backer) who is her only child and who is over twenty one years of age 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 10th day of December 1844 
[signed] Joseph H Tuthill Clerk
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5760 
V New York 
Act July 7. 1838 
Elizabeth Wells - Married 30 Oct. 1787 
Husband died 2 Sept 1798 – 
let to H. Wynkoop 11. Oct. 1839 
Papers returned 
Col Pawling }
Capt. Cantine } N.Y.

Admitted 
Private 10 ½ months 

H. Wynkoop Esq
Catskill N.Y
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Dec 31 44 
N.Y.
Mar 3d 1843 
Eliz Wells decd
Nb papers act 38
In this case the service proved was short of the time for which the allowance was made No claim under the act ‘43 we be paid to her children

Hon J Russell  HR

J Russell M C

Hon J. L. Edwards Comr. of Pensn
Pension Office
Washington City D. C.
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Rev WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 22.572 
Elizabeth Wells Widow of Jacobus Wells 
Pri Rev War 
Act July 7th 38 
Index: Vol. M , Page 323 
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Free 

Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Pension Department 
Washington D.C.

[postmark] SAUGERTIES N.Y. 28

Mar. 31. 1840
Sev. No, 5760
Eliz Wells
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Saugerties March 26th 1840 
Sir
Enclosed I return the application of Elizabeth Wells widow Jacobus Wells an applicant for a pension under the act of the 7th July 1838
By the report of the department in this case of the 11th of October 1839 it appears that six months and fifteen days is all that can be allowed, which barely comprises the two tours of services in the drafted Militia in 1776 & 77 
For the short tours of services stated in her declaration in the Militia in Colonel Johannis Snyders Regt I take the liberty to refer the department to the pay roll of that Service now in their possession 
The mistake of the date of the marriage refered to in the report I would advise a reexamination and perhaps it may only exist in imagination 
Whatever may be your decision you will please direct to me and oblige 
Respectfully your most  obedient humble Servant 
[signed] Henry Wynkoop 

Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Washington 

P.S. If the Pay roll of Col Snyder is not soon returned I shall be compelled to resort to some other channel to effect it   yours &c 
H. Wynkoop
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H. R. Washington City D.C. 
Dec 30 1844 
Hon J.L. Edwards 
Dr Sir  Inclosed I send you a Certificate from J. H Tuthill Clerk of Ulster County NY. Certifying that Catherine Backer is the only living Heir of Elizabeth Wells Decd. a pentioner and from which it appears there is a pension or Bal due from March 4 1843 to July 17/43 under the act of March 3 1843. Please send me a certificate of that Small Balance
I also Inclose you a Pension 
[side note] (given to Mr Evans)
Certificate of Thos. H Hardenburgh to be Exchanges for one Payl. in NY as pr letter of Mr Otis. in which I most Respectfully refer you 
and am very Respectfully 
Yours 
[signed] Jeremiah Russell