Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,471, Abraham Vosburgh, New York
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(8-1776)
Service
New York
Vosburgh, Abraham
Number S. 23471
Contents
b. 1755 in Albany N.Y. [illegible] always resided there up to July 21, 1832.
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5021 
New York
Abraham Vosburg of Albany in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Lansing of the Regt. commanded by Col. Schyler in the New York line for 10 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of February 1833 and sent to Hon. G. Y. Lansing Ho. Repres.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 $49.99
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar. 33 16.66
$66.66
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Jno [John] Cromwell Clerk, 
Book D Vol. 5 Page 148
[written perpendicular along the right side of the document]
[illegible] on A. B.
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Albany July 21 1832
Declaration
for Pension
No 2576
-
unspecified service
under [illegible] & drilling
estimated by applicant
at 4 mo. disallowed
-
Admitted
10 mo priv:
$33.33
M. Lansing
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Personally appeared before the Justices of the Justice Court of the City of Albany in the county of Albany and the State of New York in open Court Abraham Vosburgh also being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reasons of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his ſervice [service] but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following Grade for one year & two months served as a private and for such ſervice [service] Aclaims [acclaims] a pension. 
Abraham Vosburgh x his mark [written above and below] 
Sworn to and ſubscribed [subscribed] the 17th day of November 1832 in open Court.
J. G. Waſson [Wasson] Clk
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State of New York
Albany County } ss

On this 21st day of July one thousand eight
hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the Justices of the Justices court of the City of Albany now sitting Abraham Vosburgh a resident of the City of Albany in the County of Albany and State of New York aged seventy
seven years 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 June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United
States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. In the summer of 1776 he was enrolled as a Volunteer and private in a company of militia commanded by Jacob Lansing and marched from Albany where he resided by the way of Saratoga and Sandy
Hill to Lake George. Here there were regular troops under the command of Gen'l Peter Gansevoort. He was absent one month and a half. His other officers as now recollected by him were Col. Philip Schuyler and Major Abraham Fonda. And he further declares
that in the summer of 1777 he was again enrolled as a Volunteer & private in Capt Jacob Lansing's Company of militia and marched from Albany by the way of Schenectady to Schoharie County and was stationed at the old stone church then used as and called the upper fort. He saw no regular troops at this station. He was absent on duty one month and a half.
His only other officer whom he now recollects was Co'l Harmanus Wendall. And he further declares
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that in the summer of 1778 he was again enrolled as a Volunteer and private in Captain Jacob Lansing's Company of Militia and marched from Albany to Schoharie and was stationed as before at the old stone church or upper fort. On their march thither they took what was called the old Schoharie road. He saw no regular troops.
7 wks [written in left margin]
He was absent seven weeks. He does not now recollect the names of his other officers. And he further declares that in 1779 that [word crossed out] he was again enrolled as a Volunteer and private in Captain Jacob Lansing's company of Militia and marched from Albany to Fort Hunter after being here 1 [digit written in margin] a month & more he was detached from his company and placed under the Command of Lieutenant Conrad Sharpe and went to Cobleskill where he remained three weeks he was absent at this time in all about
two months. 3 weeks [written in margin] His only [word written above] other officer now recollected was
Major Abraham Fonda and that in the fall of the same year last aforesaid he went again under the same officer to Fort Hunter 2 [digit written in margin] and was absent two months. And he further declares that in the Summer of 1782 he was again enrolled as a Volunteer and private in Captain Jacob Lansing's Company of militia and marched from Albany by the way of Schenectady & Fort Hunter and other places along the mohawk River to Fort Plain 1 [digit written in margin] that after having been here a month and better he [4 scribbles] went to Bowman's Creek 1 [digit written in margin] where they remained near a month longer & then 2 [digit written in margin] returned home having been absent two months and more.
His other officers as he now recollects were Major Fonda and Lieutenant Levinus Winne. In giving the names of the officers for each of the above times that he was enrolled & turned
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out he may owing to the lapse of time since these services were performed have fallen into some mistake but as to the services themselves he speaks positively & unequivocally and declares that they were performed. And he further declares that he was during the whole of the revolutionary war [written above] when at home called upon every week and frequently three times a week either to stand guard for the protection of the City during night or when alarms were given or at the drills which were numerous during the war and that these various last mentioned services rendered at different times would taken together be equal to at least four months militia duty. And he further declares that he was born in the City of Albany in the County and State aforesaid in the year 1755 that he has resided in the said City of Albany ever since and that the only record he now has of his age is contained in his family bible. He has no documentary evidence of his aforesaid services and never had any. That the aforesaid officers are to the best of his knowledge and belief all dead & if not he is unacquainted with their places of residence and that there is no person now living to my[crossed out] his knowledge who can testify [written above] to my [crossed out] his said services or any part except such as have been sworn to by Jacob Vosburgh whose affidavit is hereunto annexed. 

[written to the left side] x And he further declares that the whole of his aforesaid service amount to one year & two months. I certify that the foregoing was written in the margin before being sworn to.
J. G. Wasson Clk

x And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State and if any only on that of the agency of the State
of New York X

Abraham Vosburgh X his mark [written above and below]

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year  aforesaid

J. G. Wasson Clk.

We Isaac Ferris a Clergyman residing in the City
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of Albany and Anthony Sanford of the same place hereby certify that we are all well acquainted with Abraham Vosburgh who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age that he is [illegible] and [illegible] in the nieghborhood [neighborhood] where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Isaac Ferris
Anthony Van Santvoord
Sworn to & subscribed the said and year aforesaid.
J. G. Waſson [Wasson] 

And the said Court do hereby declare this opinion after the investigation of the matter and after [illegible] the interrogatories prescribed by War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served [illegible] And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Isaac Ferris who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the City of Albany and that Anthony Sanford who has also signed the same is a resident in the City of Albany and is a credible person and that the statement is entitled to credit.
Gerrit L. Dox }
H. Shear } 
Justices of the Justice Court
Albany
I John G Wasson clerk of the Justice Court of the City of Albany so hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abraham Vosburgh for a pension [illegible] testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of our office this 21st day of July Eighteen hundred and thirty two.
John G. Waſson [Wasson] Clk
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State of New York }
Albany County } ss
Jacob Vosburgh being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is acquainted with Abraham Vosburgh of the City of Albany whose declaration is hereto annexed that he has heard the declaration read and knows that the Service therein mentioned as having been rendered by the said Abraham in 1782 as one of the militia of the State of New York were so rendered by the said Abraham and that the said Jacob belonged to the same company & was with him at the same time.
Jacob Vosburgh [signature]
Sworn to & subscribed the say and year aforesaid. } 
J. G. Waſson [Wasson] Clk
We the Undersigned Justices of the Justice Court of the City of Albany do hereby certify that on the twenty first day of July Eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared [illegible], in open Court Jacob Vosburgh the witness named in & who made the foregoing affidavit of services rendered by Abraham Vosburgh in the Revolutionary War that we are acquainted with him and that he is entitled to Credit and we do further certify that the said Abraham Vosburgh made his mark in signing his application for a pension on account of never having been taught to write.
J. G. Waſson [Wasson] Clk
Gerrit L. Dox }
C. H. [last name illegible]}
Justices of the Justice Court
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August 21, 1939
BA-J/MCS
Abraham Vosburgh, S.23471
Mrs. Bethune M. Grant, Jr.
709 South Perry Street
Johnstown, New York

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Cornelius Bulson for Bulsing and Abraham Vosburgh.
Revolutionary Was data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States and based on the military service of soldiers in that war. A careful search of the records fails to show such claim on file on account of the service of a Cornelius Bulson, searched under all spellings.
The data which follow were taken from papers on file in the pension claim, S.23471, based on the military service of Abraham Vosburgh, with the exception of Abraham I. Vosburgh, S.23469, whose history was sent you May 24, 1839, this is the only Abraham Vosburgh found in the Revolutionary War records of this office who was born as late as 1754 and lived on the west side of the Hudson River.
Abraham Vosburgh (S.23471) was born in Albany, Albany County, New York. The names of his parents are not shown. 
While a resident of Albany, he enlisted and served as a private4 with the New York troops as follows: from sometime in the summer of 1776, one and one half months in Captain Jacob Lansing's company in Colonel Philip Schuyler's regiment; from sometime in the summer of 1777, one and one half months in Captain Jacob Lansing's company in Colonel Harmanus Wendall's regiment; from sometime in the summer of 1778, seven weeks in Captain Jacob Lansing's company; in 1779, he served about five weeks in Captain Jacob Lansing's company when he was detached and served under Lieutenant Conrad
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Sharpe, serving in all about two months; from sometime in the fall of 1779, two months in Captain Jacob Lansing's company; from sometime in the summer of 1782, over two months in Captain Jacob Lansing's company; he also served various other periods during the Revolution, amounting to at least four months in all, and was engaged in guard duty and drilling.
Abraham Vosburgh was allowed pension on his application executed July 21, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Albany, New York.
One Jacob Vosburgh made affidavit in Albany County, New York, in 1832 that he served in the Revolution with Abraham Vosburgh, relationship not given. There are no further data relative to the family of Abraham Vosburgh.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of Abraham Vosburgh, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid and possibly the date of soldier's death. it is suggested that you address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington D.C., giving the following data:
Abraham Vosburgh, Certificate 5021, issued February 1, 1833, rate $33.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, New York Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administration
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Rev. & 1812 War Section
[illegible initials in top right corner]

September 21, 1928

Katharine D. Seaman
Johnstown Public Library
Johnstown, New York

Madam;
I advise you that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 23471, that Abraham Vosburgh was born in
1755 in Albany, Albany County, New York.
While a resident of Albany, New York, he enlisted and served as private with the New York troops as follows:
From sometime in the summer of 1776, one and one half months in Captain Jacob Lansing's Company in Colonel Philip Schuyler's Regiment.
From sometime in the summer of 1777, one and one half months in Captain Jacob Lansing's Company in Colonel Harmanus Wendall's Regiment.
From sometime in the summer of 1778, seven weeks in Captain Jacob Lansing's Company.
In 1779 he served about five weeks in Captain Jacob Lansing's Company when he was detached and served under Lieutenant Conrad Sharpe,
serving in all about two months.
From sometime in the fall of 1779, two months in Captain Jacob
Lansing's Company.
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From sometime in the summer of 1782, over two months in Captain Jacob Lansing's Company.
He also served various other short periods during the Revolution, amounting to at least four months in all, and was engaged in guard duty
and drilling
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 21, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Albany, New York.
There are no data on file relative to his wife and children,
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
[handwritten]
In 1832 one Jacob Vosburgh made [illegible] in Albany Co. [illegible] he served in Rev. with Abraham
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709 South Perry St.,
Johnstown, New York.
June 22, 1939.

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.

Can you give me any information of a Cornelius Bulson (Bulsing) who was in the " Line" New York state, 3rd Regt. in the Revolution. He may have
served in other Reg'ts also. Lived in Western District of Rensselaerwyck, Albany County. This became a part of Watervliet when that town was set off in 1788. Cornelius Bulson, or Bulsing, was born there in 1732, married Annatie Gonsalus
in 1761. Very desirous of death record.

Also an Abraham Vosburgh of Rensselaerwyck, 3rd Reg't Albany Co. Col. Schuyler, lived in Watervliet in 1790. He was born in 1754 died in Johnstown, N. Y. Dec., 18 1846. He located in Johnstown after 1790 and had son -- Mynard - born in 1798.
An Abraham Vosburgh had Land Bounty Rights, and this Abraham settled on a tract which had been confiscated from the estate of Sir John Johnson, Tory, in the Sacandaga Patent east of Johnstown.
Very truly yours,
Mrs. B. M. Grant Jr.
Mrs. Bethune M. Grant Jr.,
Johnstown, New York.
[a stamp]
RECEIVED JUN 26 1929
MAIL [illegible] DIV
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Johnstown Public Library
Johnstown, New York
Nov. 19th. 1927
Pension Bureau
Revolutionary War Section
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen: Please send me a copy of the pension record of Abraham Vosburgh [includes some handwritten letters] of Mohawk who served in the Revolutionary War.
his wife's name was Saartje Bulsing. he died in 1846 aged 92 years. Served in the Albany County Militia under Col. Philip Schuyler, Col. Abraham J Van Alstine, and Col. Robert Van Resselaer, as private. He later resided on a farm in Albany Bush, Fulton Co. N. Y.
Should also like a, copy of the pension of John Walker, born in Perthshire, Scotland, served as a private in the Line under Col Philip Van Cortland, the Levies - Col. Dubois, Dutchess [Duchess] Co. Militia - Col. William humfrey, Orange Co. Milita; Col. Ann hawk and Albany County (Land Bounty Rights)
Please give all data possible.
Very truly yours,
Katharine M. Seaman
Librarian
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[LEFT SIDE OF DOCUMENT] [handwritten] Revolution, 23471
INVALID
[Fi]le No. 23,471
Abraham Vosburg
In Rev. War
Act: June 7th 32
[In]dex:-- Vol. 2, Page 433
(Arrangement of 1870)

[RIGHT SIDE OF DOCUMENT]
1778. Sept. 21. hist. to Katharine W. Seaman
WCS
1939, Aug. 21. hist. to Mrs. Bethune M. Grant, Jr.
[initials illegible]
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[written perpendicular at the top]
July 14, 1842
Abraham Vosburgh
NY [illegible]

J. L. Edwards
Comr. [Commissionwer] of Pensions
Washington City
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Lamingburgh, July 12th 1842
Sir,
I perceive from the return from your office that a Person of the name of Abraham Vosburgh was allowed a pension of $33.33. The first day of February 1833. And was a resident of Albany County? I think there must be some mistake in the allowance as the Person [illegible] had ought to receive the Pension is now a resident of the City of Troy in the County of Renſselaer [Resselaer]. And now has all This Paper made out but finding a Person of the same name drawing a Pension Thought propper [proper] to route you first on the [illegible]
Charles P. Houghton
I am yours
Respectfully,
J. L. Edwards
Comr. [Commissioner] of Pension