Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3898, Leonard Gansevoort, New York
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SERVICE-New York
Gansevoort, Leonard  
NUMBER - R 3898
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Leonard Gansevoort
No 4.409
Declaration
R? 1 left
N York R3898
see letter to Hon, G.Y. Lansing H I 12 May 1804
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Gansevoort, Leonard N.Y. R 3898
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State of New York
City & County of Albany
     On the twenty fifth day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two, before the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Albany, in open Court, now sitting, personally appeared Leonard Gansevoort junior of the city, county and state aforesaid, aged seventy eight years on the third day of June last past, 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 7th June 1832: that he was born in the city of Albany, on the 3: June 1754: that at the commencement of the revolutionary war in the year 1775, he the declared was a resident in the city of Albany, and there continued to reside during the whole of the said war; that in the year 1796, he became a resident of the town of Greenbush in the county of Rensselaer, and that he at present again resides in the city of Albany:
    That shortly after the commencement of hostilities between Great Britain and America, to wit, in the year 1775, during the general excitement at that time prevailing in America, he the Declarer, feeling a strong attachment to the cause of freedom and of his country
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associated himself with a number of young men, citizens of the city of Albany, and formed and independent company of volunteers, which took the name of the association company, and whose Rutger Bleecker of the city of Albany as their captain; that the said company met very frequently, for  instruction and improvement in military exercise, and remained so embodied until that fall of that year, when they separated, and the company was thereon dissolved; that he the declarer was then enrolled as a private in a militia company commanded by Isaac Defreest as captain, in the Albany regiment the commended by Jacob Lansing junior as Colonel; that in the fall of the year 1776. he the declarer was ordered on a tour of duty to Lake George, Fort George being then commanded by Col. Peter Gansevoort, and there did duty as a private, until regularly discharged; that this tour of duty, according to the declarer's best recollection, exceeded a month: That on the 20th day of March 1777, he the declarer was appointed by the convention of the State of New York, ( no constitutional or permanent form of government having at that time been determined on by the people) and Ensign in a company of foot in the city of Albany, whereof Isaac DeFreest was the captain, in a regiment of militia commanded by Jacob Lansing jun. as Colonel, which commission is to this declaration
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annexed: that this declarer in the month of August in the year 1777 was detached as an ensign with Captain Jacob Bleecker jun. company of Col. Lansing reg to join another regt. of militia in the same brigade under the command of COL. Abraham Wemple of Schenectady, then encamped at VanSchaicks Island, as a part of the northern army commanded by General Gates; that immediately on receiving his orders, he this declarer obeyed them, and reported himself to Col. Wemple, and on entering upon the duties of his office, was requested by him to do the duties of adjutant to his regiment, which he accordingly did: that when General Gates removed his army, and advanced to Bemus's heights, he this declarer marched with the regiment to which he belonged, of which was attached to General Glovers brigade of Continental troops, and continues to do duty until after the first engagement between General Gates and General Burgoyne's armies, when an officer of equal grade with himself came to relieve him, when he returned to Albany. That subsequent to this event, to with on the 11th December 1777 he the declarer did furnish an able bodied man, named Hendrick Heefner to serve in a company commanded by Capt. Swartwout in Col. Peter Gansevoort's reg. for during the war: That not withstanding his having furnished such soldier, he the declarer when required and ordered to do military duty, performed the same_ That at the time when Schoharie was destroyed ( which he thinks was in 1780) he marched with the Albany regiment to Fort Hunter then in Tryon ( now Montgomery) county, and lay there encamped until discharged; and that subsequently to that tour of duty, he marched to Stone Arabia when that settlement
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settlement was destroyed by the army, and lay there encamped until discharged___ how long he was out on those two last tours of duty, he cannot at this late day, ascertain with any degree of accuracy or precision: That from the time of the commencement of the revolutionary war to its termination, this declarer did military duty in the city of Albany by turning out, when ordered in guard, for the protection of the lives and property of citizens, and guarding the public military stores, which were from time to time, during the whole of the american war, deposited in the city of Albany__That the said city, in not being a fortified place, was greatly exposed to the incursions of the enemy, and the machinations and depridations of those when denominated Tories, and that as his services were from time to time called for, he rendered them; recollecting, that during one part of that time he did duty every third night, but for how a long time those duties continued, he cannot ascertain from any memorandums in his own, or in the hands of any other person_and it also ought to be borne in mind, that in as much as there were not generally any regular troops stationed in that city, by reason of General Washington's repeatedly urging and pressing the continental and regular troops to join his headquarters to the south, the duties and service of the militia in the city of Albany and its vicinity, must have been very frequent, and often times severe. The declarer doth  verily believe, and so declares, that his military services in the course of the revolutionary war, exceed in point of duration, the time expressed in that act of congress herein referred to ___ He hereby relinquished every claim to any pension or annuity
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annuity whatever, except the present, and declares that his name not on the pension roll of any agency of any state.    Leonard Gansevoort  JR.      
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year aforesaid} J. G.Wasson  clk        
We John Ludlow a clergyman, residing in the city of Albany, and Abraham Van Vechten, residing in the same place, do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Leonard Gansevoort Jr. who has subscribed sworn to the foregoing and above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy eight years and upwards of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution as of him above stated and that we concur in that opinion.  
John Ludlow    
Ab Van Vechten
Sworn and Subscribed, the day and year aforesaid     
J. G. Wasson  Clk        
And the said court do hereby declare this opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed the War [Department],  that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he [said]. and the court further certifies, that it appears to them, that John Ludlow, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the city of Albany, and that Abraham Van Vechten who has also signed the same, is a resident of the same city, and is a credible person, and that their statements
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entitled to credit.      I John G. Wasson, clerk of the Justices court of the city of Albany, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court, in the matter of the application of Leonard Gansevoort Jun, for a pension      
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 25th day of August AD 1832      John G. Wasson clk     
County of Albany ss. On this 5th Nov 1832, before the Justices Court of the City of Albany personally appeared in open court, Leonard Gansevoort Jr. the identical person who subscribed and was sworn to the foregoing declaration, and who being again duly sworn, maketh oath of faith, " that the following supplementary declaration as contained in the affidavit now made by him as exclamatory of his former declaration, is according to his best recollection, the truth and nothing but the truth, to wit"   "For his Service in the grade of a private, seventeen months___; and for his service as and ensign, seven months: and for such service I claim a pension." Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year last aforesaid
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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I am under the necessity of asking a few words of information in regard to a claim of my father Leonard Gansevoort- deceased who made application about twenty five years ago for service rendered during the american revolution. Just now it is unecessary to enter into the details of that petition, wishing only to ascertain how for that- claim will extend to the heirs of my deceased father. For instance I am the last child now living and there are several grand children, would they also be entitled to a share or would the right end with me.
Being unable to renew the application for want of information I have been induced to apply to you in
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the matter. My mother while a widow made application for her interest in the claim but under the law then existing it was not granted. 
I have recently been informed that a new law is now pending which will entitle my fathers heirs to the sum awarded for his service.
I shall not take your time at present with farther inquiries and any information from you will be most thankfully received by Mrs R M Crysler
Le Davidz
Canada West
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Jan 4 1841
M L Gansevoort
Edwards Esq
Commisioner of pensions Washington D.C.
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To the Hon. J.S. Edwards commisioner of pensions
Sir, I desire a reexamination to be made of the papers in the matter of the application of my late husband Leonard Gansevoort under the act of 7 June 1832. If you still adhere to your decision disallowing him a pension, I request that said papers or copies therefore may be delivered to Giles  Yates my authorized attorney, with a view to present the claim to congress
I am very respectfully your obt servant
Mary Gansevoort
Albany Dec 15th 1840
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Ensigns commission
Gansevoort,  Leonard
N.Y. R3898
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Albany 11 December 1777
I the subscriber William Colbreath lieutenant of Capt Swarwout in Col Peter Gansevoort's regiment in the continental army do hereby certify that Leonard Gansevoort jun. has alone furnished an able bodied recruit named Hendrick Heefner to serve in said regiment during the present war pursuant to a resolve of the convention of the state of New York.
Wm Colbreath Lieut of the 3rd N York Regt
witness J Roorbach Justice of Peace
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Gansevoort, Leonard
N.Y. R 3898
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State of New York
County of Albany
We whose names are hereunto subscribed, do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Leonard Gansevoort Jun, esquire, who resides in the city of Albany, and that he is a gentleman of unimpeachable character, and of undoubted truth and veracity.
Given under our hands this 25th August 1832
John Townsend mayor of Albany
Jamey McKown Kuorder of Albany
Sol Van Rensselaer pm
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in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed the 7th June 1832 that he was forso in the city of Albany on the 3rd of June 1754 that at the commencement of the revolutionary war in the year 1775. he the declared was a resident in the city of Albany and there continued to reside during the whold of said war that in the year 1790. he became a resider of the town of Greenbush in the county of Rensselaer and that he at present again resided in the city of Albany_ that now the length of time which has elapsed and from the defromed impaired memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the before mentioned below and in the following grades to wit_
In the fall of the year 1776 he served at Fort George as a private under Captain De Forest for one month_
That in the summer of 1777. he served as an ensign under Captain Bleecker who commanded a detachment of Colonel Lansing regiment at Van Schaick's Island for eight weeks that about two weeks of this time he acted as
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necessary duty as a private in the city of Albany to gaurd the prisons and the military stores deposited in the city of Albany that this duty consisted in watching at night and in trolling the streets to guard against the apprehended invasions of the enemy that this duty was rendered during the first six years of the war that during this time he was called on to perform duty at intervals of from three to ten nights.  Taking the actual amount of service thus, performed as one night in ten, it amounts in one year to thirty six days and in six years to two hundred and sixteen days or seven months.
It will appear from the above that the subscriber has served as a private in the open field two months and two weeks as a private in the city guard seven months as an ensign in the open field two months according in all to eleven months and two weeks__
He hereby relinquishes every claim or annuity except the pension under the pension act passed the 7th of June 1832 and for the above service he claimed a pension. Leonard Gansevoort Jr
Sworn to subscribe in open court the sixth of November 1832 John G Wasson clk
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I am well acquainted with Leonard Gansevoort Jr the applicant within named and cheerfully unite my unqualified testimony to his integrity  veracity and respectability
Washington 8 May 1854
G M Lanning
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REJECTED
3898
Leonard Gansevoort
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IN Convention of the Repre FOR THE State of NEW-YORK THE Twentieth Day of March 1777 To Leonard Gansevoort  Jun GREETING:   
BY Virtue of the Authority repo do hereby nominate, authorize, constitute and appoint you the said Leonard Ganesevoort Jun.  Ensign & - of the Company of Militia of Fort in the City of Albany whereof Isaac De Forest is Captain       
hereby requiring you, before you enter into the Exercise of your said Office, to make in writing, and subscribe in Presence of the Chairman of the Committee of the City, Town, District, or precinct wherein you reside, the Declaration appointed and directed by the Eleventh Section of the Seventh Resolve contained in the Rules and Orders for regulating the Militia of the Colony of New York, recommended by this Congress on the 22d day of August 1775, and authorizing you fully to execute all the Powers belonging to your said Office, by virtue of the said Rules and Orders, and the said Declaration: And we do hereby require all persons under your Command , to pay due Obedience to you, according to the said Rules and Orders, and such further Rules and Orders as shall be made and recommended for the Militia of this State, by the present, or any future Continental Congress, or Legislature of this State       
Attest Robt Benson Secty.      By Order,  Pierre Van Cortlandt V. Pressd
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4.409
Leonard Gansevoort Jr
N. York
Let to claimant 10 Nov 1832
Hon G Y Lansing 12 May 1834
Hon G F  Comstock 25 June 1854
Mrs RM Crystal March 2, 1857

3898
Act June 7 1832
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New York Act 7 June 1832
Rejected 
10 Nov 1832
Leonard Gansevoort Jr
Claimant
papers sent to Hon G Y Lansing 
April 19 1832
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7498 to 7500
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4409
N.Y.
Let [letter] Jas Paine 10 Nov. 32.
Hn G Y Lansing 12 May 34
G.F. Comstock 25 Jani 53
Act 7. June '32
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Canada PAID 6
To the pension Agent
Washington City
District of Columbia


ST-DAVIDS UC
FE 7 1857
CANADA

Leonard Gansesvoort
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