Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11415, for Aldert Smedes, New York
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New York

Smedes, Aldert

NUMBER
S. 11415

carded

CONTENTS
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[illegible--cut off]

Aldert Smedes
[County of] Dutchess in the State of N.York
who was a Private of Drs [Dragoons] in the Comp[any] commanded by Captain Salisbury of the Reg. commanded by Col. Clinton in the N. York line for 20 months

Inscribed on the roll of N. York at the rate of 83 dollars 20 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2[nd] day of Aug 1832 and Smith Clt.
Rhinebeck

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '33   $166.40
Semi-annuit allowance ending 4 Sept '33  41.60
                                                 $208.00

Revolutionary Claim,}
Act June 7, 1832,}
Recorded by Go. C. Stiles   Clerk
Book E.   Vol. 3.  Page 79
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2 affidavits for Aldert Smedes

Aldert Smedes
pension papers

Admd [admitted]
20 mo. Dragoon

20
  416
8320
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th 1832

State of New York
Dutches [Dutchess] County }Ss
On the fourth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty three be personally appeared before me Stephen Thorn one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Dutches having a clerk & seal of their own Aldert Smedes aged Eighty two years a resident of the town of Rhinebeck in said Couty of Dutches who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832
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that he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein after stated
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To wit.  That on or about the middle of December in the year 1776 he the said applicant was [struck out:  called] ordered out in the Militia service of the State of New York in revolutionary war as a private soldier in a company of Cavalry commanded by Captain Silvester Salisbury, Lieutenant Cornelius Newkirk, that he with the said company of cavalry rendezvoused in the Town of Marbletown in the County of Ulster and marched through the Counties of Orange and Rockland into the State of New Jersey to a place called Kakiat and Joined the army of General Clinton stationed near the lines of the British Army and continued there and its vicinity until on or about the middle of February following in the year 1777 when he with the said company of Cavalry where [were] discharged and returned after a Service of two months or more received no-
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written discharge.

And this applicant further declares that on or about
the first of April in the year 1777 he the said applicant 
volunteered in the capacity of a private
soldier in the militia service of the State of New York
in the company commanded by Captain
Salisbury. Lieutenant Cornelius Nukirk of Calvary
called the Governor's guard rendezvoused 
in the town of Marbletown in the County of
Ulster aforesaid and marched to the residence of
General Clinton in the County of Orange and continued
there as said guard untill about the
first of January following and was with the
said company of Capt James Salisbury, discharged
 after a service of nine months or
more received no written discharge.
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And this applicant further declares that in the
spring on or about the first day of April in the
year 1778 he the said applicant again volunteered
in the capacity of a private soldier in the militia
service of the State of New York in the Revolutionary
War in the aforesaid company of cavalry
commanded by Captain Sailsbury Lieutenant
Nukirk aforesaid and that he with the said
Company of Cavalry was stationed on the frontiers
of the County of Ulster at different places
to protect the inhabitants from the Indians &
tories and continued in said service scouting
untill about the first of January in the year
1779, and was duly discharged after a service
of nine months or more believed no
written discharge and knows of none alive
who were with him in said service.
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And this applicant further declares that by reason of old age and infirmity and the consequent loss of memory he is unable to state the precise lenght [length] of time he served in the revolutionary war but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below viz. in a cavalry company as a private soldier One year and eight months and for such service I claim a pension--

To the interrogatories he answers
1st  That he was born in th eyear 1750 in the town of Marbletown in the Count of Ulster
2nd That he has a record of his age in his family bible
3rd That he lived when called into service in the said town of Marbletown County of Ulster that he lived there since and that he now lives in the town of Rhinebeck County of Dutches [Dutchess]
4th That he was never drafted nor a substitute but always volunteered
5th  That [struck out:  he incor] in consequence of old age he recollects no officers save those stated above.
6th  That he never recived [received] a written discharge
7th  that in addition to those stated below he knows Peter R. Livingston Esqr. & John Armstrong Just. [Justice] Esqr. of his neighborhood who if called upon can testify as to his character truth & veracity & the general belief in the neighborhood where he resides relative to his services of the revolution--

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to an Annuity of pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state

Aldert Smedes

Sworn & Subscribed before me the Day & year above written
Stephen Thorn am of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the Said County
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We James B. Hardenbergh a clergyman residing in the town of Rhinbeck County of Dutches [Dutchess] and Aldert S. Hutton--of the same town do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Aldert Smedes who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be Eighty two years of age and that it is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion--
Jas. [James] B. Hardenbergh
A. S. Hutton

Sworn & subscribed before me the Day and Year above written
Stephen Thorn one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Said County

And I the said Judge do hereby certify after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
And I the said Judge do further certify that the above named James B. Hardenbergh who has signed the preceeding [preceding] certificate is a Clergyman residing in the said town of Rhinebeck and that Aldert S. Hutton wh has signed the same is a resident of the same town is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to full credit
And I do further certify that the above named applicant through infirmity is unable to attend court

Stephen Thorn   Judge
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STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Ulster County Clerk's Office,} Ss

I, Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, do hereby certify That Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior Esquire, was on the day of the
of the Certificate to the annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Ulster duly authorized to take affidavits, &c. and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the signature "P.H. Gasbeck Jr." subscribed to the Certificate of the said
annexed Affidavit to be genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this Sixteenth day of May  1833
Jacob Snyder
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State of New York
Ulster County ss.

Peter C Brink of the town of Kingston County of Ulster and State of New York aged 75 years a soldier of the Revolution, being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Aldert Smedes now of the town of Rhinebeck Dutches County and formerly of the town of Marbletown in Ulster County a soldier of the Revolution and now an applicant for a pension - that this deponent was in the militia service of the state of New York in the Revolutionary war, and was in the company of Cavalry commanded by Captain Salisbury Lieutenant Cornelius Newkirk, commandant and well know the said Aldert, that the said Aldert belonged to the same company with his deponent, that this deponent saw the said Aldert in the said service of New Windsor in Orange County in the year 1777 and 1778 for the term of 9 months, and knowns that the said Aldert continued to service in said corps in the capacity of a private until he was discharged and that the said Aldert together with the whole company were discharged at New Windsor in the winter of 1778 and further says not.
Peter C Brink X (his mark)

Subscribed and sworn this 30 day of April 1833
before me
P. N. Gaasbeck
Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Ulster County ss.

I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Peter C Brink who his signed the above affidavit, that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.

P. N. Gaasbeck
Justice Peace
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State of New York,
Ulster County Clerk's Office:} Ss.
I, Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and Clerk of the court of Common Pleas of Ulster county, Do hereby Certify That Henry Wynkoop Esquire, was on the day of the date of the Certificate to the annexed Affidavit, a Judge of the County--Courts of the County of Ulster in and for the said County of Ulster duly authorised to take affidavits, &c.; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe the signature "Henry Wynkoop" subscribed to the Certificate of the said annexed affidavit to be genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this Sixteenth day of May--1833
Jacob Snyder

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State of New York
Ulster County} Ss.

Simeon Depuy of the town of Marbletown County of Ulster being duly sworn deposes and says that he is 77 years of age that he is well acquainted with Aldert Smedes formerly of the same town now of the town of Rhinebeck County of Dutches that this deponent was in the Militia Service of the state of New York in the revolutionary war and knows that the said Aldert Smedes served in the same company to which deponent belonged that this deponent volunteered in a company of Cavalry commanded by Captain Salsbury [Salisbury] but that deponents horse was foundered on the march and was detailed to Captain Frederick Schoonmaker Company of Infantry that this deponent with the said company were stationed in the state of New Jersey at a place called Kakiat in the latter part of December in the year 1776 or beginning of the year 1777 and continued untill sometime in the beginning of the year 1777 and frequently saw the said Aldert Smedes in the said Service during that time in the said Company of Cavalry and believes that the said Aldert Smedes continued to serve untill duly discharged and this deponent further says that he believes [struck through:  that] the said Aldert Smedes was a member fo the said company of Cavalry during the revolutionary war and believes he kept a horse for said purpose and further believes him to be a man of truth and veracity

Simeon Depuy

Sworn and subscribed the 10th day of May 1833 before me 
Henry Wynkoop one of the Judges of County courts of the County of Ulster

I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Simeon Depuy that he is a man of truth and veracity and that his statement is entitled to full credit
Henry Wynkoop one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ulster
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State of New-York
County of Dutchess,}ss
I, Henry I. Traver, Clerk of the County of Dutchess, Do Hereby Certify, that Jacob Hermance Esq whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit on examination was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace and Commissioner of Deeds in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, duly commissioned and sworn to--
And Further, That I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice & Commissioner and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavit on examination is genuine.  In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said county, the seventeenth day of May A.D. 1833
Henry I. Traver  Clerk

[along left margin, possibly on an underlying document: ]

-ant campaigns during the revolutionary war
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State of New York
Dutches [Dutchess] County } ss
On the third day of May in the year 1833 personally appeared before me Jacob Heermance one of the Justices of sd. [said] County John Radcliff Esqr [Esquire] who being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Aldert Smedes who has fo rthe last twenty years & now is a near neighbor of deponent in the town of Rhinebeck that this deponent frequently conversed with him about the revolutionary war in which the said Aldert Smedes was personally engaged that he has frequenly [frequently] stated particulars of his services that he was in actual [crossed out:  service] service in the state of New Jersey in which his said company were stationed near the British Army that he also has frequently heard the said Aldert Smedes say that he was in actual service in the County of Orange at or near the residence of Genl [General] Clinton and also in also in different places on the frontier of Ulster County in which he then resided? that he has frequently told deponent that he was in actual service during a greater part of the revolutionary war that he belonged to a company of cavalry and that during the revolution he had at all times a horse ready caparisoned at a moment's warning when not in actual service but that through infirmity whith [with] which he has been afflicted for a short time has scattered his ideas to such a degree that he appears to be unable to particularise his services of the revolution but verily believes them to be correct for deponent has frequently heard his father who was an officer in the Revolution say in his lifetime that he had seen the said Aldert Smedes in a number of differant [different] compaigns during the revolutionary war and that he was and now is a respectable farm in said town of Rhinebeck County of Dutches aforesaid

John Radcliff

Sworn & acknowleged before me May 3rd 1833}
Jacob Heermance
Commissioner of Deeds and J. P.

I Certify that I am personally acquainted with this deponent & believe him to be a man of truth & veracity
Jacob Heermance
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State of New York,
Dutchess County}ss
I Henry I. Haver Clerk of the County of Dutchess and of the County Courts of the same do hereby certify that Stephen Thorn Esquire before whom the annexed declaration and examination was made was at the time of taking the same a Judge of the County Courts and of the Court of Common Pleas of said County being a Court of record and having a Clerk and seal and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe his name subscribed to on annexed to said declaration as the genuine signature of the said Judge

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand under my seal of Office the seventeenth day of May, AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty three--
Henry I. Traver  Clerk
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
MEE/eel

May 15, 1929

Mr. William Kelly
317 West Brown Street
Iron Mountain, Michigan

Sir:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.11415, it appears that Aldert Smedes was born in 1750, in Marbletown, Ulster County, New York.

While residing in Marbletown, New York, he enlisted and served as a private in Captain Silvester Salisbury's New York Company of Cavalry as follows:
From about the middle of December, 1776, two months or more; from April 1, 1777, nine months or more; from April 1, 1778, until January 1, 1779.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 4, 1833, while a resident of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York.

There are no data concerning his family.

Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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March 13, 1929

Raymond E. Van Syckle
1729 Ford Building
Detroit, Michigan

Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.11415, it appears that Aldert Smedes was born in 1750 in Marbletown, Ulster County, New York.

While residing in Marbletown, New York, he enlisted and served as a private in Captain Silvester Salisbury's New York Company of Cavalry as follows:
From about the middle of December, 1776, two months or more; from April 1, 1777, nine months or more; from April 1, 1778 until January 1, 1779.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 4, 1833, while a resident of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York.

There are no data concerning his family.

Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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to your request of__, received ___
statement of the military history of Aldert Smedes a soldier of the Revolutionar War, you will find below the desired informatin as contained in his [struck through:  (or his widow's)] application for pension on file in thie Bureau.  Sen file 11,415  

Dates of Enlistment of Appointment  Dec 76
Length of Service  2 mos. 
Rank Pri. [private]
State  NY
Apl 1 77  9 mos.   Pri.
Apl 1 78   9 mos.  Pri.
Officers under whom service was rendered  Silvester Salisbury  Company of Cavalry

Battles engaged in, [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Marbletown, Ulster Co NY
Date of application for pension, May 4, 1833.  Cl allowed.
Residence at date of application, Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co. NY
Age at date of application [crossed out:  82]  Born Marbletown, Ulster Co NY in 1750
Remarks:  20 and. for last payment re:

Very respectfully,
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[obscured] can furnish the military [obscured]
Revolutionary soldiers [obscured] pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department.  Original rolls and other records
pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.

L. W. B.
I. 11415.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
January 16, 1899.

Sir:
In response to your recent communication you are advised that Aldert Smedes made an application for pension on May 4th, 1833, at
which time he was 82 years of age and residing at Rhinebeck, N. Y., and his pension was allowed for twenty months' actual service as a
private in the New York troops, Revolutionary war. He enlisted at Marbletown, N. Y., and served under Capt. Salisbury and Col. Clinton.
Very respectfully,

Commissioner


Mr. B. Smedes,
Raleigh, N. C.
Commissioner.
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Michigan Society 
Sons of the American Revolution

President Lee M. Hutchins
Grand Rapids

Vice-President Francis C. Campbell
Detroit

Vice-President Milton E. Osborne
Lansing

Secretary Raymond E. Van Syckle
Detroit

Registrar Clarence M. Burton
Detroit

Chaplain Rev. John Dysart
Flint

Historian  Cr. Wilbert B HJinsdale
Ann Arbor

Treasurer Frank G. Smith
Detroit

Office of the Secretary
1729 Ford Building
Detroit, Michigan

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
In re Aldert Smedes.

Dear Sir:
Please advise family data and revolutionary service of Albert Smedes (bn 1750 d. 1844) Ulster Co. N.Y.  Wife Elizabeth married 1770.

Yours Truly
Raymond E. Van Syckle
Secretary

Application of descendant William Kelly.

[Stamp:]
U.S. Pension Office
Dec 21 1928
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William Kelly
817 West Brown Street
Iron Mountain, Michigan

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Nov. 7th, 1928.

Dear Sir:

I am informed that in "New York and the Revolution" on page 263, Aldert Smedes is given as a private in the New York 3rd Regiment.
Aldert Smedes, one of my great grandfathers, was born 1750, married Elizabeth Mancius 1770 and died 1844. I would like to have such information as is available in regard to him for the purpose of establishing credentials for membership in the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

Yours respectfully,
William Kelly

WK:AR
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U.S. Pension Office
Aug 9 1915
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Rec Sec [Recording Secretary]
[illegible]

[Seal:]
Daughters of the American Revolution

802 Sherman St.
New Decatur Ala.
Aug 6th

The Commisioner [Commissioner]

Dear Sir
I am searching for the war record of one Aldert Smedes of New York State who drew a pension quite late in the last century I hear.  The Adjutant Gen. of the War Dept. says his records  only give a bounty of 19.00 dol. paid him in 1781 as a member of Cantine's Reg. And he refers me to you as likely to have more infor-
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mation of him in your records.  I will be most grateful for any information you have concerning him as I have been on his trail some time.

Mary Blount Shepard
Stephins [Stephens] Chapter
D.A.R.
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[ink stamp #1:]

W. & N. Div.
Apr 23 1907
Files

[ink stamp #2:]

U.S.
Pension Office
Apr 22 1907
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[illegible]

Commissioner of Pension:
Dear Sir
Please give me record of Services in Revolutionary War of Aldert Smedes of Dutchess County, N.Y. and dates of his birth and death, also names of his children--
By giving this your attention you will greatly oblige.
Yrs. truly,
Annie Smedes Root
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211415

Please address--
Mrs. Charles Root
Raleigh, N.C.

April 19.
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St. Mary's School
Founded 1842
Rev. Bennett Smedes, D.D.
Rector

Raleigh, N.C.  Dec 26 1898

Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir,
Aldert Smedes of Dutchess County New York was pensioned by the U.S. Government in 1833 for services performed during the War of the Revolution.  As a record of his services is on file in your Department I would be glad to have a copy of the same.

Very Respectfully
B. Smedes
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11415

Revtion [Revolution]

Invalid

File No.  14415
Aldert Smedes 
Pri [Private] Rev [Revolutionary] War

Act:  June 7th '32
Index:  Vol. A, Page 348

{Arrangement of 1870}
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Jany [January] 16 '99
B. Smedes
Raleigh N.C.

1907 May 8 Hist [History] to Mrs. Chas. Root. c
1915 Aug. 16 to Mary B. Shepard. c
1929-Mar. 18, Hist to Raymond E. Van Syckle M.E.E.
1929--May 15, Hist to Mr. William Kelly

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