Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11253, for Martin Post, New York
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(3-1776)
SERVICE | | NUMBER
New York | Post, Martin | S.11253
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CONTENTS
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8702
New York
Martin Post
of Ulster Co in the State of New York  who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Schoomaker of the Regt. commanded by Col Pawling in the N. Y. [illegible]
line for 24 mo?

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Apl 1833 and sent to Hon J. C. Brodhead.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 40.00
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$200.00
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Died April 28, 1841

{Revolutionary Claim
{Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 28
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[left facing page]
Abe Whitaker for Martin Post}
3 months 1779
Allow'd

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13.052
State of New York Ulster County
In the matter of the application of of Martin Post for a pension
P.V. Gaasbeck Jr
Agent & Atty
Kingston Ulster County
admitted
24 mo. Private
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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act
of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
State of New York}
Ulster County} Ss:: On this Eleventh day of September, in the of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ulster, being a Court of Record for said County, Proceeding according to the course of the common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of their proceedings, having a Clerk and Seal of its own Martin Post a resident of the town of Saugerties, in the County of Ulster aged Seventy one 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 7 June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
1 And the said Martin Post says, that he was born in the town of Saugerties in the County of Ulster and State of New York on the 17th August 1761 that the Record of his age is contained in his fathers family bible, which he produce now 2 here in Court, that at the time he was called into service he lived in the town of Saugerties aforesaid, where he has 3 lived ever since and does now live. That when called into 4 Service, he was drafted, did [lined out "not"] volunteer but was ^not^ a substitute, 5 That he does not remember the names of any Regular Officers 6 that were with the troops where he served. That he does not remember ever to have received a written discharge-
[left margin note] First term 2 weeks in 1776
That he the said Martin Post seved (sic) for the term of two weeks in the summer of 1776 in the Militia Company commanded by Captain Hendrick  Schoonmaker that the said company shipped on board a Sloop of which are Petrus Post was master, at the town of Saugerties and were carried down the Hudson River to Fishkill where they landed, and remained during the whole if the said term, and at the end thereof the said Company returned again to Saugerties where this deponent & the whole company were discharged, but this deponent did not receive a written discharge from said Service
[left margin note] No living witness of this Service.
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[left margin note " 5 months in 1777"] And the said Martin Post further says, that he served in the Company commanded by the said  Hendrick Schoonmaker in Colonel Johannis Snyders Regiment of Militia for the term [left margin note "5"] of [lined out "Eight"] ^Five^ months or more, that the service commenced early [left margin note " Second term"] in the spring of the year 1777. that the said Company Rendezvoused at the said town of Saugerties, and were conveyed from thence down the Hudson River on board of a Sloop command by the said Petrus Port to fort Montgomery, where where this deponent and the company to which he belonged remained till the middle of the month of September, when this deponent and said company were taken by the same Sloop back again to Saugerties where this deponent was discharged but received no written discharge and where, [left margin note "Witness Tjuck Burhaus for 4 months of this service"] the whole company were discharged at the same time, and that on the next day this deponent was warned again to Rendezvous at Saugerties, which this deponent did, and the same Company under the same officer marched from thence through the Counties of Ulster Greene and Albany to Stillwater in the County of Saratoga, that he this deponent & the said Company remained there until the day before the Surrender of General Burgoyne, when, when the deponent and the company to which he belonged were sent back to Albany guarding four Hundred prisoners, whom they left at Albany in a fort on the hill, & march thence through the County of Albany & Green to the town of Saugerties where he this deponent was discharged and where the whole company was discharged, but this deponent did not receive a written discharge.
[left margin note "9 months in 1778 third term Witness Abraham DeWitt"] And the said Martin Post says, that he was drafted in the Militia company commanded by Lieutenant John Van Densen Early in the spring of year 1778 and served in the said Company for the Nine months, that the said Company rendezvoused at the Village of Kingston, in the County of Ulster and marched from thence to Brabant on the west side of the Esopus Creek, and were stationed at the house of one Edward Schoonmakers for one month and were
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marched from thence, to the house of one Johannes Van Etten at a place called Waghkuuk in the west bounds of the town of Kingston, where this deponent & the said Company built a fort around said one Van Etter's house, and where this deponent and the said company of Lieutenant Van Deusen remained the Residue of said term of service, and at the end of said term were marched back to the said Village of Kingston where this deponent & the company of Lieutenant Van Deusen were all discharged, but this deponent did not receive a written discharge from said service
[left margin note "3 months in 1779 fourth term Witness Abm Van Etter"] And the said Martin Post farther says that he was drafted and served in the Militia of the said  County for the term of three months in the Summer of the year 1779 in the company of drafted militia Commanded by Captain Evert Bogartus, that said company was mustered at Kingston, in the County & marched from thence down to a place called the Grand on the west side of the Rondout Creek, and was conveyed from thence on board of a Sloop down the Hudson River, to the town of Fishkill in Dutchess County, where this deponent & Said Bogardus company remained for the whole of said term of service, that the said service commenced early in the spring of said year, and that at the End of said term of service the said Company marched back through the town of Fishkill Poughkeepsy (sic) and Rhinebeck in said County of Dutchess and crossed the Hudson River at Cantine's ferry into the town of Kingston, and marched from thence about three miles west to said Village of Kingston where this deponent & said Company were discharged from said service, but got no written discharge-
[left margin note "3 months in 1780 Fifth term Witness Samuel Post"] And the said Martin Post further says, that he this deponent was drafted and served for the term of Three months in the year 1780 in the Company any of Rangers commanded by Captain Derick Wesbrook. and Lieutenant Martin Hommel, that Samuel Post said service commenced early in the spring of said
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year, that Lieutenant Hommel mustered his men at Saugherties, and marched from thence through the woods to a place called Paghcataghca now in the town of Middletown, Delaware County taking with them twenty days provisions and from thence to the Cook House in said County, from them back through woods to Paghcataghca, thence to Layhawagh now in the town of Wawarsing Ulster County, where said company were supplied again with provision, and from thence back through the woods to Paghcataghca, where said Company Seperated (sic), Captain Wesbrook and Lieutenant Hommel taking each half of the men, and this deponent, went with Lieutenant Hommel back through the woods to the house of Tobias Wynkoop under the Blue Mountains in the said town of Saugerties where they obtained provisions, and there continued to range through the woods until the End of said term of service, that said company was discharged at Kingston, but this deponent received no written discharge from said service.
[left margin note "9 months in 1781 Sixth term Witnesses Jno Ed Schoonmaker Solomon Schutt"] And the said Martin Past further says that he enlisted for the term of nine months in the year 1781 in the Militia company commanded by Captain Livingston in Colonel [lined out "Wysenveldt"] ^Pawlings^ Regiment, that the said service commenced early in the shing of said year, that this deponent together with part of said company under the command of Lieutenant Ostrander ^were stationed^ in the town of Saugerties, at the House of one John DeWitt the whole of said term, and were engaged in ranging the woods on the frontiers under the blue Mountains through the said town of Saugerties and Kingston for the whole of said term of Service, and that the said Company and also this deponent were discharged at Kingston in said County of Ulster in the beginning of January next ensuing at the House of Captain Evert Bogardus but that this deponent did not obtain a written discharge
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and the said Martin Post 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.
[signature] Martin his X mark Post
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid - in open court
[Signature] A.G. Hardenbergh} Judges
[Signature] Abm Deyo}
[Signature] John Jansen}

We Peter A. Overbagh a Clergyman residing in the of Saugerties, in the County of Ulster and State of New York and Henry H Schoonmaker of the same place Hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Martin Post, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Seventy one years of age that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood here he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution that we concur in that Opinion.
[Signature] Peter A Overbagh
[Signature] Henry H Schoonmaker
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court
[Signature] A.G. Hardenbergh} Judges &c
[Signature] Abm Deyo}
[Signature] John Jansen}

And the Court do hereby declare their 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 Peter A Overbaugh who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the town of Saugerties in Ulster County and that Henry H Schoonmaker who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place, and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
[vertical script in left margin]
[Signature] A.G. Hardenbergh} Judges
[Signature] Abm Deyo}
[Signature] John Jansen}

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 the said Court in the matter of the application of Martin Post for a pension.
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In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this eleventh of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two.
[Signature] Jacob Snyder
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Fold3 File #27190157 shows affidavit from Fold3 File #27190159 partially obscured by a Certification by Ulster County Clerk. 
See File #27190159 for the full affidavit.

Text of the Certification by Ulster County Clerk. is as follows:

STATE OF NEW-YORK.}
Ulster County Clerk's Office,} SS. I, Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County Do hereby certify,  That Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior 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 authorised 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.V. Gaasbeck  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 fifteenth day of September 1832
[signature] Jacob Snyder
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State of New York}
Ulster County} ss: Abraham Whitaker of the town of Kingston in the County of Ulster, a soldier in the revolutionary war aged Seventy two years, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Martin Post a soldier in the Revolutionary war, 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 commanded by Captain Evert Bogardus' in Colonel Harthorn Regiment of Militia, and well knew the said Martin Post & that the said Martin Post belonged to the same company and Regiment with this deponent, that this deponent saw the said Martin Post in the said Company for three months in the year 1779 and knows that the said Martin Post continued to serve in the said corps in the capacity of a private soldier until he was discharged. And this deponent saith that he always understood that the said Martin Post enlisted for the term of three months and further with not 
[Signature] Abraham his + mark Whitaker
Subscribed & sworn this 11th day [of Sep]tember 1832 having read the same to him Before me}
[signature] P.V. Gaasbeck Jr. Justices of the peace of Ulster County
State of New York}
Ulster County} ss I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Abraham Whitaker who was by me duly from to the above affidavit. That he is a credible person, and that his statement is Entitled to credit
[signature] P.V Gaasbeck Jr
Justice of the peace
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13052
Martin Post,
admitted
2'4 [lined out "24"] mo Private
14'r
P.298
Mar 14 '33
Hon J. C. Brodhead
M.C.
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BRIEF in the case of Martin Past of Saugerties 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? 76
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.
            |  Years, Months, Days.| As a  | Gen.
drafted Summer 1776 | --- --- 14 | private | Capt Heinrich Schoonmaker
spring In 1777 | --- 5 --- | " | ditto
called out day after [illegible] | not stated | " | same officers
drafted Apring 1778 | --- 9 --- | " | Lieut John Van Deusen
ditto summer 1779 | --- 3 --- | " | Capt Evert Bogardus
ditto 1780 | --- 3 --- | " | " Deirch Wesbrook, Rangers
Enlisted 1781 | --- 9 --- | " | {Capt Pawling Capt Livingston} N. York troops
5. In what battles was he engaged?
not any
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Sangerties, New York
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by a by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 
living witnesses as to 28 months service & bytraditionary evidence-
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
not properly attached
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
Charles Wilcox Examining Clerk
8 March 1833
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
EEL
November 14, 1930

Miss Viola Post
Harriman
New York

Dear Madam:

[left margin note: "Searched NY Mrs Finch"] You are advised that the Revolutionary War records
of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard Abraham, Isaac, John and William Post, as described by you, or to any Jacobus, Peter or Daniel Post. 
It appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.11253, that Martin Post was born August 17, 1761, at Saugerties, Ulster County, New York.
While residing in Saugerties, New York, he enlisted and served as a private with the New York Troops as follows:
In the summer of 1776, two weeks in Captain Hendrick Schoonmaker's Company.
From early in the spring of 1777, five months in Captain Hendrick Schoonmaker's Company, Colonel Johann Snyder's Regiment, was stationed at Fort Montgomery and was discharged the middle of September; the day following the termination of this service, he re-enlisted, served in same company and regiment, marched to Stillwater, Saratoga County, New York, where he remained until the day before the surrender of Burgoyne, when he was sent to Albany, his company acting as guard to four hundred prisoners; he was discharged at the conclusion of this service.
From early in the spring of 1778, nine months under Lieutenant John Van Deusen.
In the summer of 1779, three months in Captain Evert Bogardus' Company, Colonel Hathorn's Regiment.
From sometime in the year 1780, three months in Cap[tain]
[left margin hand written note] Abraham Dewitt witness, stated that the  1779 service was under Capt. Pawling & Col Wisemonet - but as soldier said Lt Van Deusen and I could not find Van Deusen in such regiment in 1778, I used soldier's statement
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[Cap]tain Derick Wesbrock's Company of Rangers.
From early in the spring of 1781, nine months in Captain Livingston's Company, Colonel Pawling's Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 11,1832, at which time he was a resident of Saugerties, New York.
[left margin hand written note} From AB. He died April 28, 1841.
There are no data as to his family.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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3-549
Ex. BHT. Div. RECORD.
[lined out "Department of the Interior"]
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 3, 1930.
The attached letter is respectfully returned with the information that the data furnished is not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained.
* Please fill out such of the blank spaces below As the information in your possession will permit and return to this Bureau.
No. of claim -----
Name of soldier William Post, Jr.
P. O. address of claimant -----
Company -----
Regiment 10th Regiment
State where enlisted New York
Date of enlistment Revolutionary War
Date of discharge -----
If unable to furnish company and regiment give names of commanding officers.
Col. Morris Graham
Albany County Militia
Return attached letter with reply.
[signature] E.W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner.

5-- 2469
GOVERNMENT PRINTING SERVICE
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[left facing page]
1930. Nov. 4 - Hist. to
Miss Nola Post - E Eef

[right facing page]
Rev War
11253
INVALID.
File No. 11253
Martin Post.
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7" 1832
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Index: -- Vol. A, Page 299
[Arrangement of 1870.}
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Fold3 File #27190173 shows document from Fold3 File #27190175 partially obscured by a handwritten letter.
See Fold3 File #27190175 for the underlying document.

Text of the handwritten letter is as follows:

VIOLA POST
HARRIMAN, NEW YORK 
Oct. 30, 1930
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir
A month ago I wrote your office for information concerning pensions for some members of the Post family, and enclosed self-addressed and stamped envelope. I have had no answer to this communication. Has the letter been neglected?
Yours truly
(Miss) Viola Post

[circular stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE OCT 31 1930

This letter should have come to this section instead of sending it back to her

[circular stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE NOV 8 1930
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Harriman, Orange County, New York
September 26, 1930

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, DC
Dear Commissioner:
With the assistance of the Hon. Hamilton Fish, Jr., I am tracing the ancestry of the Post family to the Revolutionary war with the object of joining the D. A. R.
If any of the following applied for pensions after the war, will you please send me the names of their children?
ULSTER COUNTY Militia, 1st Regiment
(Col. Johannes Snyder )
Post -- Abraham not as
" {Isaac not as
" {Isaac, Jr.
" {Jacobus o
" {John not as
" { John, Jr.
/ " Martin only
/ " Samuel
" Peter (Lieut.) o
ORANGE COUNTY Militia, 2nd Regiment
(Col. Ann Hawk Hay )
Post -- Daniel o
" John not as
ALBANY COUNTY Militia, 10th Regiment
(Col. Morris Graham)
*Post-William, Jr. not as
ORANGE COUNTY Militia, 4th Regiment
(Col. John Hathorn )
*Post -- Jacobus o
Yours very truly,
(Miss) Viola Post.

[circular stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE SEP 29 1930
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Jacobus Teerpenning } 
[illegible] for}
Martin Post}
fort Montg'y  3 mos 
1777
Tjuck Burhaus- sworn
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File #27190179 shows affidavit from File #27190181 partially obscured by a Certification by Ulster County Clerk. 
See File #27190181 for the full affidavit.

Text of the Certification by Ulster County Clerk. is as follows:

STATE OF NEW-YORK.}
Ulster County Clerk's Office,} SS. I, Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County Do hereby certify,  That Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior 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 authorised 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.V. Gaasbeck  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 fifteenth day of September 1832
[signature] Jacob Snyder
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State of New York}
Ulster County} Ss: Jacobus Terpenning aged 77 years, Tjuck Burhaus aged 73 years of the town of Kingston & Samuel Post of the town of Saugerties, Ulster County being sworn Deponants say that they are well acquainted with Martin Post a Solder of the Revolution and now an applicant for a pension. that these deponents were in the Service of the United States in the State of New York at fort Montgomery in the Revolutionary War, and were in the Company commanded by Captain Hendrick Schoonmaker, Lieutenant Peter Post and Abraham G. Van Aken, and well knew the said Martin Post, that the said Martin belonged to the same company with these deponents, that these deponents saw the said Martin Post at Fort Montgomery in the said service for [lined out "three"] ^four^ months in the year 1777 and know that the said Martin continued to serve in said corps in the capacity of a private Soldie, until he was discharged. and these deponent further say that the said service commenced in the beginng of April and Ended in the month of July next after in said year 1777 that the company to which these deponent belonged were conveyed by a sloop from Kingston to fort Montgomery and were there discharged and were conveyed back in the same way - that General Clinton Comanded in fort Montgomery
[signature] Tjuck Burhaus

Subscribed and swom this 10 day of September 1832 before me
[signature] P. V. Gaasbeck Jr. one of the Justices of the peace of Ulster County

The word "four" in the above affidavit interlined & the word "three" obliterated before it was sworn to before me
[signature] P. V. Gaasbeck Jr. Justice of the peace

State of New York }
Ulster County} Ss: I Do Hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Tjuck Burhaus, who was by me duly sworn to the above affidant (sic). That he is a credible person, and that his statement is entitled to credit-
[signature] P.V. Gaasbeck Jr Justice of the peace
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Ab'm DeWitt for Martin Post }
9 mos 1778
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File #27190185 shows affidavit from File #27190187 partially obscured by a Certification by Ulster County Clerk. 
See File #27190187 for the full affidavit.

Text of the Certification by Ulster County Clerk. is as follows:

STATE OF NEW-YORK.}
Ulster County Clerk's Office,} SS. I, Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County Do hereby certify,  That Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior 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 authorised 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.V. Gaasbeck  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 fifteenth day of September 1832
[signature] Jacob Snyder
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State of New York}
Ulster County} Ss:  Abraham DeWitt aged Seventy years of the town of Saugerties in Ulster County a solder of the the Revolution being duly Sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Martin Post a Solder 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 command by Captain [lined out "Livingston"] ^Pawling^ in Colonel [lined out "Pawlings"] ^Wysenacht (sp?)^ Regiment and well knew the said Martin Post. that the said Martin Post belonged to the same Company and Regiment with this deponent, that this deponent saw the said Martin Post in the said service for ^about^ nine months in the year 1778 and knows that the said Martin Post continued to serve in said corps in the capacity of a private soldier until he always understood that the said Martin Post enlisted for the term of Nine months - that the said service commenced in the Spring Early and ended in the winter following that the said Martin and the whole company were discharged in Kingston Ulster County in the State of New York at Evert Bogardus es.
[signature] Abraham Dewitt

Subscribed & Sworn this 10th day of September 1832, before me}
[signature] P.V. Gaasbeck Jr one of the Justices of the peace of Ulster County}

The words "Kingston" & "Pawling" were obliterated & the words "Pawling" & "Wiesenbelt" (sp?) interlined before the same was sworn to by deponent-
[signature] P.V. Gaasbeek Jr Justice of the peace

State of NewYork}
Ulster County} Ss. I Do Hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Abraham Dewitt the person who was duly sworn by me to the above affidavit. That he is a credible witness, and that his Statement is entitled to credit.
[signature] P.V. Gaasbeck Jr
Justice of the peace
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Samuel Post for Marlin Post}
3 ms. 1780
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File #27190191 shows affidavit from File #27190193 partially obscured by a Certification by Ulster County Clerk. 
See File #27190193 for the full affidavit.

Text of the Certification by Ulster County Clerk. is as follows:

STATE OF NEW-YORK.}
Ulster County Clerk's Office,} SS. I, Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County Do hereby certify,  That Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior 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 authorised 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.V. Gaasbeck  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 fifteenth day of September 1832
[signature] Jacob Snyder
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State of New York }
Ulster County} Ss: Samuel Post of the town of Saugerties in the County of Ulster aged Seventy ^two^ years-72 a solder of the Revolutionary war, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he is well acquainted with Martin Post a solder 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 commanded by Captain Wesbrook, and Martin Hounuch Lieutenant and will knew the said Martin Post, that the said Martin Post belonged to the said company with this deponent that this deponent saw the said Martin Post in the said service for three months or more in the year 1780 and knows that the said Martin Post continued to serve in said corps in the capacity of a private Soldier until he was discharged and this deponent saith that he always understood that the said Martin Post [lined out "enlisted"] ^volunteered^ for the term of three months in said service and that the said Martin was discharged at Captain Bogardus in the town of Kingston Ulster County
[Signature] Samuel Post

Sworn & Subscribed this 10th day of September 1832 before me
[Signature] P.V. Gaasbeck Jr. one of the Justices of the peace of Ulster County

State of New York}
Ulster County} Ss.:  I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Samuel Port, who was by me duly sworn to the above affidavit, that he is a credible person, and that his statement is entitled to credit
[Siganture] P.V. Gaasbeck Jr
Justice of the peace
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John Ed Schoonmaker for Martin Post} 
9 mos 1781
+
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State of New York}
Ulster County} Ss:  John Ed. Schoonmaker of the town of Kingston Ulster County aged Sixty nine years, a soldier of the Revolution being duly sworn saith, that he is well acquainted with Martin Post a folden of the Revolution and now and applicant for a pension, that this deponent was in the service of the United States, in the militia of the State of New York in the Revolutionary war, and was in the Company commanded by Captain Livingston, Lieutenants Van Deusen & Dubois in Colonel [lned out "Weisenvilt"] ^Pawlings Regiment, and well knew the said Martin Post, that the said Martin belonged to the same Company and Regiment with this deponent, that this deponent saw the said Martin in said Serve for "nine" months in the year 1781 and knows that the said Martin continued to serve in said corps in the capacity of a private Soldier, until he was discharged, and this deponent says that he always understood that the said Martin [lined out "was drafted"] ^volunteered^ into said service for the term of "nine" months, that the said Martin was discharged at Kingston in Ulster County in the begining (sic) of January in the year 178  where the whole company were discharged by Major Van Benschoten - that said term of service commenced in the beginning of April in said year - and thinks the said Martin was stationed at John De Witts under Lieutenants of said Company - and further saith not -
[Signature] John Ed Schoonmaker
[Signature[ Solomon his X mark Schutt

Subscribed & Sworn this 7th day of September 1832 Before me}
[Signature[ Peter Van Gaasbeck Jr
one of the Justices of the peace of Ulster County

The words Pawlings & Volunteered were interlined  & the word Wiesenvilt & drafted obliterated before the said deponents were sworn thereto
[Signature] P.V. Gaasbeck Jr
Justice of the peace
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State of New York}
Ulster County} ss: I do Hereby certify that I am personally
acquainted with John Ed Schoonmaker and Solomon
Schutt, who were by me duly sworn to the within affidavit, that they are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit
[Signature] P.V. Gaasbeck Jr
Justice of the peace

STATE OF NEW-YORK.}
Ulster County Clerk's Office,} SS. I, Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County Do hereby certify,  That Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior 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 authorised 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.V. Gaasbeck  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 fifteenth day of September 1832
[signature] Jacob Snyder

[left margin, vertical script from prior File #27190195]
John Ed Schoonmaker for Martin Post} 9 mos 1781
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