Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,939, Jonathan S Conkling, New York
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New York Conkling, Jonathan S. W 18939
or Stoddard
Juliana
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New York (A.) 1995
Juliana Conkling, widow of Jonathan S. Conkling or Stoddard Conkling, Decd.
and who died on the 26th of Augt, 1822. of Chemung Co, in the State of New York who was a Private in the compy commanded by Captain D. Denton of the Regt. Commanded by Col. Ritzeman in New York line for 10 months private.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of March 1839 and sent to Thos. Maxwell, Esq Elmira, N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of March, 1839     $100.99
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sept 16.66
                                                            $116.66
{Act July 7, 1838. }
 Recorded by S.A. Elliot clerk, 
Book A  Vol 2,   Page 72.
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1995
Juliana Conklings application
July 7, 1838
Admitted Private 10 months 33.33
Th. Maxwell Esq 
Pursor
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State of New York  Chemung County ss} 
Ebenzer Bartlett of Elmira in the said county being duly sworn says that his age is seventy eight years and upwards; that he is a now pensioned under the act of June 7 1832 for services in the war of the Revolution in Capt. Daniel Denton's company of Orange County (NY) militia and Capt. Ebenezer Woodhull's company  of Cavalry. That he was well acquainted with Stoddard Conkling then of the said county of Orange, ( where the deponent also resided.) late of Chemung county deceased- That about the first day of March 1776 the said Stoddard Conkling enlisted for one year in a company commanded by Capt. Daniel Denton ( Chester in the county of Orange) and the said compy was immediately marched to New York; when they arrived there they  were attached to a regiment commanded by Col. Rudolphus Ritzema- in the Brigade commanded by Lord Sterling- the said Stoddard Conkling continued in the service until late in the fall and until after the capture of the Hessians at Trenton December 26 1776 when he was permitted to return home. This deponent was also enlisted at the same time in the said company- he knows that said Stoddard Conkling was in the Battle at White Plains in October or November 1776. The deponent has always understood that Conkling served ten months- The deponent continues to be well acquainted with the said Stoddard Conkling during his residence in the county of Orange + after his removal to the county of Chemung ( then Tioga county) and until the death of the said Stoddard Conkling about the middle of August 1822. This deponent was present at the marriage of the said Stoddard Conkling
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the clergyman ( the Revd. Mr Close of Orange County aforesaid) who performed the marriage ceremony. She has no documentary evidence of the said marriage other than the Family record of her said husband, a copy of which is annexed and the original book and record now produced before the said Judge. Therefore also to the affidavits of Ebenezer " Bartlett" + Ebenezer Sayre hereto annexed and who were present at his marriage. She further declares that she still remains the widow of the said Stoddard or Jonathan S. Conkling + has never since been married.     Juliana Conkling
sworn and subscribed before me the 11th day of Sept 1838
Jacob Westlake
a judge of Chemung County Courts NY
I Jacob Westlake the Judge above named do hereby certify that in consideration of the age, infirmities and bodily inability of the above named Juliana Conkling, rendering it in my opinion improbable that she can attend the next sitting of the court of Common pleas of the county of Chemung which is to be held at Elmira in the said county a distance of six miles from her residence, I have this day attended at her residence and she made oath before me to the truth of the foregoing declaration ( subscribed by her in my presence) in due form of law. I further certify that she produced before me an ancient Bible which she testified contained the family record of her husband the said Jonathan S. Conkling, or Stoddard Conkling as he has always been designated in this country, and the
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said book was identified to my satisfaction as formerly the property of her said husband and as containing the family record, by the oath as well of the said Juliana Conkling as that of Stoddard Conkling Esq. of Elmira in the said county, her son, to me known as a man of truth + veracity, and whose affidavit is hereto annexed. I also certify that  the record of the births and marriage of the said Jonathan  S. (or Stoddard) Conkling + Juliana Conkling is in the words letters + figures following towit:
" Family Record /" Births " /marriage/ Death/
" Jonathan S. Conkling  May 14th 1758 Jany 15th 1 August
" Juliana Conkling  March 3d 1765   1782    26th 1822
I further certify that I have Been intimately acquainted with the said Juliana Conkling since my residence in the county of Chemung, to which I removed from the county of Orange in the year 1814 and have always  since that period lived a near neighbour to her, and consider her character irreproachable, + her statements under oath or otherwise entitled to full credence. I also knew her husband the said Stoddard Conkling ( as he has always been called) from the said year 1814. until the period of his death in 1822; and the said Juliana Conkling has never since been married. September 11th 1838 Jacob Westlake
State of New York
Chemung County ss} Stoddard Conkling of Elmira in the said county aged forty nine years and upwards being duly sworn deposeth + saith that the bible now resented, is the family
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bible of his father Jonathan S. Conkling or Stoddard Conkling, which has been kept in the family for a great many years- and that the above extract is truly copied from the record contained in the same, which has always since his earliest remembrance been considered the family record. 
That his said father has always as long as he can remember, been called Stoddard Conkling, and he never knew him to write his name in any other way than Stoddard Conkling"  S. Conkling
Sworn before me the 11th September 1838 
Jacob Westlake a Judge of Chemung County Courts NY
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State of New York  Chemung County ss} 
Ebenzer Bartlett of Elmira in the said county being duly sworn says that his age is seventy eight years and upwards; that he is a now pensioned under the act of June 7 1832 for services in the war of the Revolution in Capt. Daniel Denton's company of Orange County (NY) militia and Capt. Ebenezer Woodhull's company  of Cavalry. That he was well acquainted with Stoddard Conkling then of the said county of Orange, ( where the deponent also resided.) late of Chemung county deceased- That about the first day of March 1776 the said Stoddard Conkling enlisted for one year in a company commanded by Capt. Daniel Denton ( Chester in the county of Orange) and the said compy was immediately marched to New York; when they arrived there they  were attached to a regiment commanded by Col. Rudolphus Ritzema- in the Brigade commanded by Lord Sterling- the said Stoddard Conkling continued in the service until late in the fall and until after the capture of the Hessians at Trenton December 26 1776 when he was permitted to return home. This deponent was also enlisted at the same time in the said company- he knows that said Stoddard Conkling was in the Battle at White Plains in October or November 1776. The deponent has always understood that Conkling served ten months- The deponent continues to be well acquainted with the said Stoddard Conkling during his residence in the county of Orange + after his removal to the county of Chemung ( then Tioga county) and until the death of the said Stoddard Conkling about the middle of August 1822. This deponent was present at the marriage of the said Stoddard Conkling
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and Juliana Sayre on the fifteenth of January 1782 by the Revd. Mr. Close of the Presbyterian church at Oxford in the County of Orange. The said Juliana Conkling is yet living and still remains the widow of the said Stoddard Conkling.  Ebenezer Bartlett
Sworn + subscribed before me the 29th August 1838 the said Ebenezer Bartlett being in my opinion a credible + disinterested witness. 
James Robinson Justice of the Peace Chemung co. N York
State of New York Chemung County ss} On the 11th September 1838 personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace of the said County, Haynes Bartlett of Romulus in the county of Seneca + state  aforesaid, aged eighty one years + upwards, who being by me duly sworn says that he was well acquainted with Stoddard Conkling late of Elmira in the county of Chemung deceased; that previous to and during the war of the Revolution the said Conkling resided in the county of Orange in the said state this deponent enlisted with the said Stoddard Conkling about the first of March 1776 at Chester in the county of Orange, for one year in a company of militia commanded by Capt. Daniel Denton: that the said company soon after marched to New York where it was attached to a Regiment commanded by Col Ritzema in the Brigade under Lord Sterling The said Conkling as well as this deponent continued in the service at New York, White Plains + the neighborhood until after the capture of the Hessians Dec 26 1776 when they were permitted to return
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home, having been ten months in the service the deponent has always known the said Stoddard Conkling up to the time of his death in 1822: and that his widow Juliana Conkling still survives him and is a resident of Chemung County aforesaid and mentioned in the proceedings for a pension annexed and at whose marriage on the 15th January 1782 he was present.  Haynes Bartlett
Sworn before me the 11th Sept  1838 the said Haynes Bartlett being in my opinion a credible witness Th Maxwell JP  Chemung Co. NY
State of New York Chemung County ss} Ebenezer Bartlett above named being further sworn in addition to the above says that Stoddard Conkling named in his affidavit above made is the same person mentioned in the foregoing family record as Jonathan S. Conkling; but that he was always known as and called Stoddard Conkling.   Ebenezer Bartlett
Sworn before me the 15 Sept 1838}  Th Maxwell JP. Chemung C. NY.
State of New York, Chemung County ss Ebenezer Sayre of Elmira in the county aforesaid aged seventy eight years and upwards being duly sworn says that before and during the war of the Revolution he was acquainted with Stoddard Conkling mentioned in the preceding affidavits. That the deponent and the said Conkling resided in the neighborhood of each other in the county of Orange in the state aforesaid until after the revolutionary war when they removed to
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county of Tioga, now Chemung, and resided near neighbor to each other until the death of said Conkling in August 1822. That he always went by the name of Stoddard Conkling  and always so wrote his name, though originally named Jonathan Stoddard Conkling. That he was present when the said Conkling and Juliana Sayre were married by the Rev. M Close a presbyterian clergyman on the fifteenth of January seventeen hundred eighty two and he further states that the said Juliana still remains the widow of the said Conkling having never married since his death above mentioned, and is the identical person whom he saw married as aforesaid and who makes the annexed application for a pension in consideration of her said husband's services.
This deponent recollects that the said Conkling enlisted in March 1776 for one year in the company commanded by Cap Daniel Denton and that he marched to New York immediately thereafter, and continued there + in the neighborhood until late in the fall or early in the winter when the troops were  placed in winter quarters, when they were allowed to return home, as their time would expire in March and then services during the winter were not required.
This deponent was frequently out with the said Conkling in short  tours of militia service. He recollects once in particular that the said Conkling was at West Point engaged in building fortifications there one week but that is all he can particularise except one month in service at the time Fort Montgomery was taken in October 1777 under Capt. Horton of the Orange county militia.  Ebenezer Sayre
Sworn + subscribed before me the 19th Sept. 1838 the said Ebenezer Sayre being in my opinion a credible + disinterested witness. S Conkling JP
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State of New York Chemung County clerks office ss} I Isaac Baldwin clerk of the said county of Chemung do hereby certify that Jacob Westlake before whom the annexed declaration of Juliana Conkling and affidavit of Stoddard Conkling were made was when the  same bear date one of the Judges of the County courts of the said county of Chemung duly appointed + sworn and that his signatures to the said papers are genuine I further certify that James Robinson before whom the affidavit of Ebenezer Bartlett appears to have been taken, and Thomas Maxwell before whom the affidavit of Haynes Bartlett + Ebenezer Bartlett appear to have been taken, and Stoddard Conkling before whom the affidavit of Ebenezer Sayre was taken, were all of them when the said affidavits were severally taken, Justice of the peace in said county duly commissioned + sworn; and that the several signatures of the said Justices above subscribed to the said affidavits are genuine. Witness my hand and official seal the 20th September 1838.
Isaac Baldwin clerk per D Herron Depty clk
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Juliana Conkling supplementary afft.
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Family Record / Births    / Mariages  /  Death
jonathan S Conkling  May 14th 1758 Jany 15th August 26 1822
Juliana Conkling /March 1765 /1782/
Ebenezer Conkling /Oct 9 1784 /  Jany 30 1809
Joseph Conkling / Sept 10 1787  / June 24 1813
Stoddard Conkling / May 11 1789/  Jan 14 1818
Susannah Conkling / Feb 2 1793/  / March 2 1793
William S Conkling  / August 17 1794/   /  February 12 1817
Elisabeth Conkling / May 22 1797/ Jan 26 1814/ 
Rebecca Conkling / July 6 1800/ Oct 21 1818/
Vincent Conkling / Oct 16 1802/ Nov 22 1829/  
Susan Conkling  Nov 2 1805/   /   /
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State of New York Chemung County ss} Stoddard Conkling of Elmira in the said County aged forty nine years + upwards being duly sworn says that the annexed paper marked ( drawing of pyramid)  at the bottom was this day cut by this deponent from the family bible of his father Jonathan Stoddard Conkling deceased: that he has been acquainted with the same many years ( probably thirty) and it has always been considered + recognized as the family record of the said Jonathan Stoddard Conkling or Stoddard Conkling as he has generally been called. That from the earliest recollection of this deponent his said father was known and called by the name of " Stoddard Conkling": and as far back as the recollection of this deponent extends his said father always wrote his name "Stoddard Conkling" and the deponent never knew him to write it Jonathan S. Conkling as it appears in the record though that was his baptismal name. Juliana Conkling the wife of the said Jonathan S. or Stoddard Conkling is still a widow having never been married since her said husbands death; she is the identical Juliana Conkling whose declaration + application
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for a pension was made before Judge Westlake one of the Judges of the county courts of the said county of Chemung in the month of September last.   S. Conkling
Sworn before me the 16 Jany 1839 the said Stoddard Conkling being in my opinion a credible witness. Th Maxwell JP Chemung Co. NY}
State of New York Chemung County Clerks office ss} I Isaac Baldwin clerk of the said ounty of Chemung do certify that Thomas Maxwell before whom the foregoing affidavit of Stoddard Conkling Esquire was made was when the same bears date a Justice of the peace of said county duly commissioned + sworn + that his signature above subscribed is genuine.
Witness my hand + seal of office the 17th day of January A.D. 1839. 
Isaac Baldwin clk
per D Stinson D clk
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Rev WIDOW, & c. 
File No. 18939
Juliana Conkling widow of Jonathan Stoddard Conkling  Pri Rev War
Act: July 7th 38
Index:- Vol. A, Page 151
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Elmira Sep 20 1838
Sir I enclose the application of Juliana Conkling under the act of July 7 38 for a pension. The proof show an enlistment under Capt Danl Denton in 1776 + service at New York + the neighborhood until about 1st Jan 1777, when for want of proper quarters they were dismissed making actual service 10 months. The two Bartletts who prove this service were in the same compy + are both pensioners uner the act of June 7 1832 for that + other service. Eben, Sayre proves the same service and one month at Fort Montgomery under Capt Horton and one week at West Point. The family record is given + the marriage proved by 3 witnesses who were present. 
You will probably deem this a clean case. I suppose the services ought to be allowed at 13 mo. 7ds. He enlisted for a year served  10 months + was dismissed for want of proper winter quarters at any rate it would seem that one year should be allowed. Jud Th Maxwell
Hon JSrowards