Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 80, Jacob Aldrich, New York
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
New York Aldrich, Jacob R.80
CONTENTS
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State of New York 
Orange County }ss
On the 30th day of March in the year 1830 personally appeared before me Cap David Swegers and being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the within named Jacob Aldrich served under him as a private in the militia in the Revolutionary war at different times and places but this dept cannot state the duration of the time of service of the said Jacob Aldrich + this depnent is a pensioner under the act of the 7th of June 1832 
David Swezy
Sworn and subscribed before me 
John Hallach jurist
Judge of Orange Com. Pleas
State of New York
Orange county}ss I Asa Dunnine clerk of the said county do hereby certify that John Hallock I am before whom the above affidavit was sworn was at the time a judge of the court of common pleas in and for said county and that his name subscribed to the said affidavit is his genuine signature
Witness my hand and seal of office this 30th day of March 1833.
Asa Dunnine clerk
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March 16th 1833
Dear and Respected friend. Not hearing from you since my Grandsons were there I take this opportunity to ask your assistance in a recommendation for my services in the revolution war performed in Orange County from the time that Independance(sic) was declared I took an active part under the command of Captain David Sweezy although I did services under many different officers. I was att (sic)the building of fort Montgomery after the evacuation of that I went on frequent towers and fatigues in Building Fort West Point. But to return to the western frontiers against the Indians I have performed many hard marches and dangerous fatigues. I was att the building of the fort att Pean Pack I was there att the time the Indians invaded the Fort and killed Col Neucark's horse hannging att the gate killed William Steward I was out when so many brave men were lost att Lackaway I then saw James Reeve with his arm broke with a Ball and many others that might be mentioned in a deplorable situation. These duties were performed from the time above mentioned untill it was considered unecessary to guard the frontiers which must have been a number of years ago. 
Capt David Sweezy Elisha Reeve Daniel Baily James Reeve was my mess mates on many of these towers to this I am ready to give my affidavit which I think will entitle me to the whole pension. Having a recommendation from that county will enable me to appear bold in my petition to our court. Rememner my love to you wife and father and not forget yourself Harriet has a son produced a little boy and wish you and your wife would come and see us I would wish you to write to me an answer as soon as possible I remain your friend and uncle SG
Jacob Aldrich
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State of New York 
county of Suffolk }ss:
on this 28th day of May 1833 personally appeared in open court in the court of common pleas in and for the said county of Suffolk and State of New York Jacob Aldrich aged seventy eight years a resident of the town of Southold in the said county of Suffolk who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed June 7th 1832. that he was drafted in the militia of the state of New York in the month of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six under the following named officers: Captain David Sweezy, Major Moses Hutfield and Colonel Benjamin Justin the Lieutenant's name was Eliot Tryon, in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, that at the time of his entering the said service he was a resident of the Town of Goshen in Orange County in the state of New York, that after being drafted as aforesaid he continued in the said service in the said Militia ofer five years but by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot state positively the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served five years and three months he having been discharged from the said service in the full of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one as he thinks and believes, that he helped to build the fort at West Point that he went on many tours on the Western frontiers against the Indians, that he helped build the fort at Pean Pack that he was there at the time the fort was invated (sic) by the Indians, when Colonel Newkirk's horse was killed, and William Stewart a private was also killed, that he was and at the time Captain Little and many men were killed near Lackawana on the Delaware river, that he was not present at the battle because he was sent back with a file of men to get
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provisions, that he was an orderly Sergeant during the whole time of his said service. That he was born at the town of Southold in the county of Suffolk in the year 1755 as he has always  understood and believes but he has no record of his age. that when he was called into the said service he lived at Goshen in Orange county having removed therefore Long Island a little before it was surrendered to the British, that soon after the Revolutionary war he removed back the town of Southold in Suffolk county where he has lived ever since and where he still lives that he is known to Rev Abraham Sine Jr + judge Dor cl Warner who lives in his neighborhood and who will testify to his veracity upon their belief of his services that he never received any written discharge from his said service. that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension toll of any agency in any state   Jacob Aldrich
sworn and subscribed  the day and year aforesaid. 
Attest Joseph R Huntling clk
we Abraham Sine Jr a clergyman and David Warner one of the judges of the above court of Common Pleas both living in the neighborhood of Jacob Aldrich do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Aldrich who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration  that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age: that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion 
Abraham Sine Just.
David Warner
sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Attert Joseph R Huntling clk
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war
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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 Abraham Sind Jr who has subscribed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the town of Riverhead in said county of Suffolk and in the immediate neighborhood and congregation of the said  Jacob Aldrich and that David Warner who has also subscribed the same is a judge of this court of common pleas, and that their statements are worthy of credit.
I Joseph R. Huntling clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Suffolk do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Jacob Aldrich for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty Eighth day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. 
Joseph R Huntling clk
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Declaration of Jacob Aldrich for 
Revolutionary Pension
2546
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State of New York
County of Suffolk} ss: Daniel Hullock of the town of Southold in the county of Suffolk being duly sworn doth depose and say that to the knowledge of this deponent Jacob Aldrich of the said town of Southold, was in the summer of the year 1776 a soldier in the Revolutionary war, in the company of militia commanded by Captain David Livoney in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Benjamin Tustin, in Orange county in the state of New York that this deponent was at the same time a soldier in the company of militia commanded by Captain Seth Marvin in the same regiment where this deponent served eight months and and twenty days, that this deponent does not know when the said Jacob Aldrich entered the said service nor how long he served except that he knows he served, at least a large part of the season above mentioned this deponent further saith that he left Orange County soon after his discharge from service, that he at and about the time understood and has always understood and believes that the said Jacob Aldrich continued in Orange County several years after this deponent left and that he continued to serve in the militia until near the close of the Revolutionary war. This deponent further saith that he has known the said Jacob Aldrich ever since he was a child, and that they have lived in the same town ever since the close of the Revolutionary war, that this deponent is aged seventy eight years.
Daniel Hullock
Sworn the 16th day of October 1833 before me}
George Miller commissioner of [illegible]
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State of New York
County of Suffolk} ss: John Woodhill of the town of Riverhead in the said county being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has been acquainted with and lived in the same parish with Jacob Aldrich for forty years, that this deponent has always understood and believes that the said Jacob Aldrich was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, as a militia man and that he served in Orange County in the state of New York and that vicinity and that the said Jacob Aldrich is a man of veracity as this deponent has always considered and believes     
John Woodhull
subscribed + sworn the 24th day of October 1833 before me George Miller  commissioner of deeds
 
State of New York county of Suffolk}ss:
I George Miller before whom the two foregoing depositions were taken do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named John Woodhull and David Hallock that they are both persons veracity and worthy of belief on oath that the said John Woodhull has been for several years I judge of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Suffolk Suffolk.
George Miller commissioner of Deeds
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Suffolk county ss: Jacob Aldrich the applicant being duly sworn further saith that he knows of no person living who has any personal knowledge of his service except Captain David Sweezey and Daniel Hullock whose depositions are hereto annexed that the said Captain Sweezey lives one hundred and fifty miles from this deponent and this deponent has not seen him in twenty years. that this deponent has no doubt but what if he could now see the said captain Livoney he could bring to his recollection facts which would enable him to make oath that this deponent did serve full five years as stated in his declaration. that during the said term of five years and three months service this deponent personal or attended to no other business or employment.
Jacob Aldrich
sworn and subscribed this 4th day of January 1834 before me. 
George Miller Commissioner of Deeds.
State of New York county of Suffolk} SS: I Joseph R Huntling clerk of the said county as hereby certify that George Miller before whom the three foregoing affidavits were taken on the days of the several dates thereof was and still is a commissioner of Deeds in and for said county duly authorized to take affidavits that I believe his name subscribed to the [illegible] of the said affidavits and to the above certificate to be in his own proper hand writing I being acquainted with the same. this witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and off office the 7th day of January 1834.
Joseph R Huntling clk
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N. 25466
Jacob Aldrich Suffolk County New York
Geo: Miller Suffolk C. House, N. York
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WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, Aug 2nd. 1833
Sir: The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus:}). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, showing the service of Jacob Aldrich Suffolk Couty New York

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Period when the service was rendered: Draft July 1777
-Duration of the claimant's service:
5 years 3 months 

Rank of claimant: orderly Sergt

Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.
Major Hatfield, Cap Sweney, Col Tustin

Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service:  78 years Orange County New York

Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Traditionary evidence papers correctly attached

I am, respectfully your obedient servant, J> l> EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Dear Uncle
I have read your note on the subject of your pension for your revolutionary services. As soon as I could conveniently I got the affidavit of Capt Swezey which I enclose to you
   Capt. Swezey is old infirm and his recollection and memory very much impaired, but I done the best I could with him he well remembered of your service under him but could not recollect the different times or the exact periods. 
I write to you from Newburgh where I am attending court. I left all our friends well yesterday Father is very smart for a man of his age. My respects to all friends
Yours respecfully
John Hallock Jr
Newburgh Apl. 8th 1833
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State of New York 
County of Suffolk}ss. Jacob Aldrich of the town of Southold in the said county an applicant for a pension under the act of June 7, 1832 being duly sworn saith that the whole time which he served or was subject to military orders was as is stated in his declaration now at the War department's above five years and three months, that during that time the militia were divided into two companies or divisions each of which was in the actual service or on duty, alternately with the other, that the tours of duty were from two to four weeks in length when one company or division was relieved by the other, that for the last forty five years he has been entirely removed from the place of his service and from all his comrades in arms and consequently he is unable to state with precision the particular tours of duty in which he served, that he helped to build Fort Montgomery, the Fort at West Point and the Fort at Pean Puck, and went many times to the West against the indians and to guard the frontiers that he with a number of soldiers for six men was stationed for the period of three months at Goshen to guard the jail to prevent the escape or rescue of three prisoners named Claudius Smith, Daniel Dulmar and James Heath as he thinks all of whom were executed in the month of January, but he cannot state in which year, that during all that time he as orderly sergaent (sic) had the command and charge of the said six men. that he was an orderly sergaent (sic) throughout the whole of his said service, and Captain David Livoney in his deposition, could only have meant that this
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deponent was not a commissioned officer when he says that he this deponent served as a private. that the said David Livoney was captain of the company to which this deponent belonged, but he was not under the immediate command of the said David Livoney near all the time that he was in the actual service,  that he has not seen the said David Swezey but once in forty five years and that was twenty five years ago. that if this deponent could have seen him, he has no doubt he could have enabled him to testify more fully to his service, that the accompanying letter is from a late member of congress to whom this deponent wrote to provide that deposition of Captain Swezey, and this deponent further saith that when he was employed nearly all his time by his duties as orderly sergeant in keeping up the discipline and organization of the militia in serving citations to courts marshals on delinquents and in collecting fines and the like
 Jacob Aldrich
I do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Jacob Aldrich eight years, he having lived within eight miles of me during that time, that he is a man of fair character and worthy of belief on oath and that he subscribed and provide oath to the foregoing deposition before this 9th day of June 1834. 
George Miller 
commissioner of Deeds
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State of New York
Suffolk county  } ss: I joseph R Huntting clerk of the said county do hereby certify that George Miller above named is a commissioner of deeds in and for said county duly authorized to take affidavits and that , his name subscribed to the above certificate I believe to be in his proper hand writing I being acquainted with the same.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twelfth day of June 1834.
Joseph R Huntting clk
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Jacob Aldrich
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8  Act 7 June 1832
Jacob Aldrich 
Suspended 
See letter to 
Geo. Miller
10 March 1834
Lett to same 12 Nov
Jm Baldwin May 2/33
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New York 
ret? 13 Jan. 1834
Smithtown N.Y. 9 Jany
War Department
Pension Office
Washington

three
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Suffolk Court House N.Y.
Jany 7- 1833

Sir. Enclosed I return the declaration of Jacob Aldrich for a pension with additional evidence of his service
I am Sir very 
Respectfully your
obt sevt.
George Miller

Hon: Lewis Cap.
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n.y.
Jacob Aldrich
ad. decln.
War Department 
Pension office
Washington
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Suffolk Court House N.Y.
June 11-1834-
Sir. Enclosed I forward in additional affidavit of Jacob Aldrich for which is all the further information he is able to give at present. 
very respectfully your obt svnt.
George Miller 

JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Jacob Aldrich
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Jacob Aldrich
Claim of his executor for pension. 
Power of atty to me and Vespasian Ellis Esq. sent about 7th March 1852.
No report Jany 17. 1853
please send same to me.
J.M. Baldwin
Atty for Ex.
Is Napan 
New York
Fr Comm of Pensions