Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13679, for Cornelius Krom, New York
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New York
Krom,Cornelius S13679
Carded
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( left side note- death not on A.B.
See let to P.V Gausbea (illegible)
July 16 1836
let Hon B Sickles Aug30 1836
Order to pay 26 March 1838
Right side: 8053 New York
Cornelius Krom of Ulster in the state of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Schoomaker of the regt commanded by Col. Paulding in the New York  line for 11 months
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 36 dollars 66 cents per annum to commence on the 4th of day of March, 1831.
Certificate of pension issued the 9th day of March 1833 and sent to Hon M Broadhand Mr oin a Ulster Co. N.Y.
arrears to the 4th of Mar' 33 $73.32
semi-anl. (annual) allowance ending 4 Sep 33 18.33 Total 91.65
{Revolutionary claim Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by G.B. Stiles clerk, book 6 vol 4 page 23
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21,817
Cornelius Krom 2nd
aomd

Hon J.G Broadhead M.C.
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BRIEF in the case of Cornelius Krom of Marbletown, County of Ulster in the state of New York (Act 7th June 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a judge?  Court 
2.  If before a Judge, does  it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?  79
4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period | Duration of service | Rank | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served

drafted Fall 1776 1 month, private, Capt Hendrick Schoonmaker
drafted immediately in 1776, 1 month, Major Kl [illegible]
ditto 1 June 1777, 2 months, Capt Ransom
ditto ... after 1777, 1 month, 15 days, Col. Levi Paulding, Capt John Hestrank?
ditto spring 1778, 2 months, Col Hornbeck, Capr John Harbaugh.
ditto Fall 1778, 3 months 15 days, Capt Fred I. Schoonmaker
ditto
5. In what battles was he engaged?  not any
6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service? Marbletown New York
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  living witness & traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? no

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.  

Chas. G Welch Examining Clerk, 7th March 1833
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State of New York Ulster county
In the matter of the application of Cornelius Krom for a pension
P.V. Gaasbeek da Atty 21817
admd 11 mo pri $ 36.66
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress paper 7 law 1832
State of New York, Ulster county.
On the eleventh day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court- now sitting before the judges of the court of common pleas, held at the court house in the village of Kingston in aug6 for the county of Ulster being a court of record having a clerk and seal of their own Cornelius Krom  a resident of the town of Marbletown in said county of ulster, age 79 years,who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declararion, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress paper 7 June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as here in stated.
That he was born in the town of Marbletown in the county of Ulster and state of New York in the year 1754-
That he has a record of his age in his family bible and it also contained in the baptismal records of the Reformed Dutch church of Marbletown-
That he lived in the said town of Marbletown when called into service, that he has lived there since the revolutionary war, and that he lives there now-
That he sometime in the fall of the year 1776 was drafted as one of a class as a private soldier in the militia service of the stat of New York in the revolutionary war, and was in teh company commanded by Captain Hendrick Schoonmaker for one month, that he entered or found the said company
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at Kingston Landing and was from there by water to Peekskill and was there Stationed at Fort Independence and engaged in building Said Fort. and continued there in Said Service for the full term of One Month and was then discharged (recorded no written discharge) For the proof of the above be would refer you to the affidavit of John A Dewitt hereto attached, he being the only person alive whom he recollects that he can  procure to testify to the above service.

And this applicant declares that immediately after the above Service in the Same Year 1776 he was again drafted in the Said Service as aforesaid. in A detachment of Militia under the Command of Majors Albert Paulding and Adrian Wynkoop and was in a company Commanded by the Captain Ransom for One Month, and that he with the Said Company were sent to relieve and protect the Citizens of Schoharie when besieged by the Indians and Tories and pursued them to Harpersfield on the frontiers South West from Albany, When he with the Said returned to Ulster County and was then there discharged after the full term of One Month (received no written discharge) For the proof of which Service he would refer to the affidavit of John A. DeWitt hereby attached, he being the only person alive whom he recollects that can testify to the Said Service. 

And this applicant further declares that on or about the fourth of June 1777 was again drafted in the Same Service as aforesaid, in Captain John Hasbroucks Company in Colonel Levi Pauldings Regiments for Two Months, and that he with the Said Company rendeyvoused at Kingston Ulster County and went from there by water to Fort Montogmery and continued there until about the first of August following and was then discharged after the full term of Tow Months (received no written discharge) For the proof of which Service he would
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the affidavit of John G Krom hereto attached he being the only person alive whom he recollects that can testify to the Said Service 

And this applicant further declares that soon after the last mentioned Service 1777 he again was drafted in the Same Service as Aforesaid in the Company Commended by Captain John Hasbrouck in Colonel  Hoornbecks Regiment for Six Weeks that he with the Said Company rendeyvoused at Kingston Ulster County and went from there by land by the way of Catskill Coxsackie & Albany to Saratoga to Stop the progress of Burgoins army, and continued there until after the Second Battle (was not in the battle) when he with the Said Company were sent to Albany with prisoners where he with the Said Company were there discharged after the full term of Six Weeks Service (and returned home a few days before Kingston was burnt) (recorded no written discharge) For the Proof of which Service he would refer to the affidavit of John A DeWitt hereto attached, he being the person alive whom he recollects that can testify to the Said Service.
 
And this applicant further declares that Sometime in the Spring of the Year 1778 he was again drafted in the Same Service as aforesaid in the Company Commanded by Captain Frederick Schoonmaker for Nine Months and was Stationed at a place called Ashokan in the town of Marbletown at the house of Conrad DuBois, And continued there for the term of Two Months and was then with the Said Company discharged One Month before the full term of which he was drafted was expired. That he and the Said Company was Stationed there a guard to the frontiers (recorded no written discharge) for the Proof of which Service he would refer to the affidavit of John A. DeWitt. he being
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the only person alive whom he recollects that can  testify to the said service-
And that this applicant further declares that in the fall of the same year 1778 was again-
drafted in the same service as aforesaid in the company commanded by Captain Fredrick Schoonmaker for three and half months and was stationed as a frontier guard in the town of Marbletown in the county of Ulster, and continues there in said service the full term of three and half months and was the there discharged ( received no written discharge) For the proof of which service he would refer to the aforesaid of John A Delbate hereto attached, he being being the only person alive whom he recollects that can testify to said service
And finally this applicant declares by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he may not be exactly correct as to the precise time the service or services were rendered, but that he swears positively he served during the revolutionary war at different & stated periods the full term of eleven months or more as a private soldier. and verily believes that the above dates of the term of service are correct
That he was acquainted with Generals George and James Clinton. George commanded at Fort Constitution
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
Sworn to subscribed the day and year aforesaid A. Dloper first judge for AG Hardenbaugh
Abm A Degd
John Jansen  judges
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Mr Titus Bishop a clergyman residing in the town of Olive in Ulster county and Abraham G Hardenburgh of the town of Marbletown in same county
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Cornelius Krom who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age, that he 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. Titus Bishop
AG Hardenburgh
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
AD Stoper first judge
Abm A Deyo
John Jansen
and the said court do hereby declare this opinion 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 the court further certifies that it appears to them that Titus Bishop who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Olive in said county, and that Abraham G Hardenburgh who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Marbletown in said county and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
A Stoper first judge
Abm A Deyo, John Jansen, judges
I Jacob Snyder clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Ulster do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of
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the said court in the matter of the application of Cornelius Krom for a pension. 
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this seventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Jacob Snyder
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State of New YorkUlster county  John G Krom of the town of Hurley in said county being duly sworn and faith that he is twenty seven years of age; and he is well acquainted with Cornelius Krom of the town of Marbletown a soldier of the revolution war and now an applicant for a pension and the said Cornelius is upwards of the age of twenty four years and he served the revolution war in the company commanded of Capt John Haasbrook at Fort Montgomery as a private soldier at different times on the frontiers in a detachment of militia under command of Capt Frederich Schoonmaker Leiut John C Dewitt
John G Krom
Subscribed and sworn before me the 3rd day of January 1832
John Crispell, justice of the peace
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ulster county p I certify that i am personally acquainted with John G Krom who has signed and sworn to the within affidavit before me that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit
John Crispell, justice of the peace
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I Jacob Snyder, clerk of the county of Ulster, and clerk of the court of common pleas of Ulster county do hereby certify, that John Crispell esquire, was on the day of the date of the certificate to the annexed affidavit, a justice of the peace in and for the said county of ulster, duly authorize to take affadavits ___; and further that if i am well organized with the hand writing of the said justice, and verily believe the signature John Crispell subscribed is the certisicare of the said annexed above to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of said court and county, this seventh day of January 1833
Jacob Snyder
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State of New York
Ulster county I John A Dewitt of the town of Marbletown in said county being duly sworn and sayeth that is seventy four years of age and that he is well acquainted with Cornelius Krom of the town of Marbletown aforesaid, a soldier of the revolutionary war, and makes an applicant for a pension and that the said Cornelius Krom is upward of seventy four years of age, and that the said Cornelius Krom did serve in the revolution war in the company by Capt Fredrick Schoonmaker of milita in said county and that this deponent belonged to the said company of part of the time, and that this deponent saw the said Cornelius, serve in a detachment of militia under the command of Capt Fredrick Schoonmaker for one month or more, stationed at Fort Independence at Peekskill in the county of Westchester, and this deponent further sayeth that he has seen the said Cornelius Krom in service in said war at Schohary and Harpersfield for one month or more in the year 1776 in a detachment of militia, commanded by Majors Albert Pawling and Adrian Wynkoop to reclaim the citizens of Schohary OC from the Tories and Indians which has beseiged the town and for two months  or more, in a detachment of militia in the year 1777, at Stillwater in the county of Saratoga to stop the two groups of Burgoynes penetrating further in our country and that the said Corn. Krom in
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or about the year 1778, and under command of Capt Fredrick Schoonmaker of the station of said county. did serve on the frontiers in said county as a juror and secretary, for the term of about five and a half months, and further saith not
inscribed and sworn before me the 2nd day of January in the year 1833 Ebenezer Launbery 
J W Dewitt
ulster county
do hereby further certify that I am personally acquainted with John Dewitt Esquire who had signed and sworn to the foregoing affadavit that he is a credible person and that he is entitled to credit
Eben. Launbery
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I Jacob Snyder, clerk of the county of Ulster, and clerk of the court of Common Pleas of Ulster county, do hereby certify, that Ebenezar Lounsberry esquire, was on the day of the date of the certificate to the annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Ulster, duly authorized to take affidavits, go. and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said justice, and verily believe the signature "Ebenezar Launsberry"-- subscribed to the certificate of the said annexed affidavit to be genuine.
In testimony thereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the said court and county, this fourth day of January 1833
Jacob Snyder
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November 11, 1937
xxxxxxx
Louise Hasbrouck Zimm
Woodstock New York

Cornelius Krom, S .13679
BA-J/MCS

Dear madam:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Cornelius and Jan (Yan) Krom or Krum and Jacob and Jacobus S.  Davis.

The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to afford any information in regard to a Jacob Davis who served from New York state or to any soldiers name Jan (Yan) Krom or Krum and Jacobus S. Davis.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim S. 13679 based upon the Revolutionary War service of Cornelius Krom.

He was born in 1754 in Marbletown, Ulster County, New York and was the son of John Krom.  The name of his mother was not given.  It was stated that Cornelius Krom's birth was recorded in the baptismal records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Marbletown.

Cornelius Krom enlisted and served as a private with the New York troops as follows:  in the fall of 1776 served one month in Captain Hendrick Schoonmaker's company; immediately afterward he served one month in Captain Ransom's company; from about the first of June, 1777, served two months in Captain John Hasbrouck's company in Colonel Levi Paulding's regiment; soon afterward served six weeks in Captain John Hasbrouck's company in Colonel Hoornbeek's regiment; in the spring of 1778 served two months in Captain Frederick Schoonmaker's company; in the fall of 1778 served three and one half months in Captain Frederick Schoonmaker's company.
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Cornelius Krom was allowed pension on his application executed December 11, 1832 at which time he was living in Marbletown, Ulster County, New York, where he always lived.

In 1836 one John G. Krom was living in Hurley, Ulster County, New York, aged eighty-one  years, but his relationship to the soldier was not given are there are no further data relative to soldier's family.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the administrator.
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State of New York
Ulster County 
                       John G. Krom of the town of Hurley in the County of Ulster aged 81 years being duly sworn deposeth and saith. That he is personally acquainted with Cornelius Krom of the Town of Marbletown, that he is now living in the said town of Marbletown that this deponant saw him on the 25th day of August [...], that the said Cornelius was a Revolutionary soldier of the United States and is informed and believes him to be a pensioner of the 7th June 1832 -- And this deponant further says that he was personally acquainted with another person by the name of Cornelius Krom of the Town of Hurley now deceased, that the last mentioned Cornelius Krom died in the Winter of 1835 & 1836, and that he has been informed and believes that the deceased was also a pensioner of the United States under the Act of the 7 June 1832. That the said Cornelius Krom of Hurley  deceased is a son of Abraham Krom deceased, and that Cornelius Krom of Marbletown now living is a son of John Krom deceased - and this deponent further says that he has known both of the said Cornelius. Before and ever since the Revolutionary War, and that they were always resided in the said towns of Hurley and Marbletown.                            John G. Krom
Subscribed & sworn 
this 26th day of 
August 1836
Before me 
[...]. VanGasbeek Jr.
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Mechanics Bank
New York 17th March 1838

Sir

I enclose for your examination the papers in the case of Cornelius Krom a Private at $36.66 per annum under the Act of 7 June 1832, who claims his pension from the 4th of March 1837.

Very Respectfully 
Yours [?]
J [?]

James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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LEFT side: Cornelius Krom Aug 29 NY
Add to: Hon. I. L. Edwards, Washington DC
RIGHT: Hm A. Sickler
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Hon I L Edwards
Justice, I have been requested to forward the enclosed affidavit. the object of the affidavit is to remove doubt from your mind whether or not a Cornelius Krom entitled to a pension is still living a pensioner of the court remembering recently died. I saw Mr Cornelius Krom of Marbletown yesterday and he said so also did Judge Elmendorf that Cornelius Krom of Hurley was dead and Died last winter. that there were two pensioners of that name and that one is dead and the other living is I think beyond doubt.
yours respectfully Nicholas Sickler, Kingston 26th August 1836
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this claim is not identical with that of widow of Cornelius Krom
W.F. 20372
Pape
May 23, 1906 ( please let me see aw)
When did the above soldier die, aw
Please state why not addendum mention points of difference
In this claim F 13679 John G Krom testifies that a Cornelius Krom of Hurley (son of Abraham Krom) died in the winter of 1835-36
soldier Cornelius Krom of Marbletown ( son of John Krom) was living in 1836
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13679
INVALID 
Rev. War
File No. 13679
Cornelius Krom
Pri. Rev. War

Act June 7th 32
Index: - Vol 1 Page 212 

Arrangement of 1870.

1937 Nov 11 hist to Louise Hasbrouck zimm MCD
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LOUISE HASBROUCK ZIMM
WOODSTOCK
NEW YORK
GENEALOGIST

Member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

Specialist in Unpublished Records of Ulster County

Sept. 24, 1937

Mr. A. D. Hiller,
Veterans' Administration
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir - 

I have your letter of Sept. 2, 1937, saying there is no record of a pension granted to Cornelius Krom of Marbletown, Ulster Co. N. Y. for Revolutionary Services.  I wonder if there can be any mistake about this?  Since writing you I had an opportunity to look at "Revolutionary Pensioners of N. Y. State" and find 2 Cornelius Krom's listed under Ulster County.  The age of one was 80, the other 76.  Would you mind checking up on this, as I am very anxious for further details about my Cornelius Krom or Krum.  I am also writing to the Comptroller General's Office and may obtain some information from him.

I enclose some other requests on separate sheets.

Thanking you, I am

Yours sincerely,
Louise H. Zimm
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LOUISE HASBROUCK ZIMM
WOODSTOCK
NEW YORK
GENEALOGIST

Member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

Specialist in Unpublished Records of Ulster County

Data wanted on

JAN (YAN) KROM or KRUM, Marbletown, N. Y. (Ulster Co.)  He signed his will as YAN KROM though name is given as JAN in the body of the document.  This name occurs in list of those claiming Land Bounty Rights, Ulster Co. Militia, 3rd Regiment, Col. Levi Pawling. (N. Y. in the Revolution, p. 263)

THE NAME IS ALSO SPELLED CROM or CRUM.
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LOUISE HASBROUCK ZIMM
WOODSTOCK 
NEW YORK
GENEALOGIST

Member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

Specialist in Unpublished Records of Ulster County

DATA WANTED ON
JACOBUS S. DAVIS of Marbletown, Ulster Co. N. Y.  He was probably the one who served in Ulster County Militia, 3rd Regiment, Col. Levi Pawling (N. Y. in the Revolution, page 196)  Jacobus S. Davis died 1826.  

He had a brother, JACOB, who also served in the Revolution, under Colonel Lewis DuBois.  JACOB died in 1790.