Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,162 And S. 43861, for Adolph Pickard, New York
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New York 

Pickard, Adolph 

S. 18162 
S. 43861
Carded
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28556 New York 
Adolph Pickard 
of Jefferson County in the State of New York 
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain (blank) of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Willett in the New York line for 9 months 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 30 Dollars (blank) Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of April 1834 and sent to Hon Dward well 

Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 $90
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 September 1834 $15
$105.00

Recorded by John Cromwell Clerk Book E Volume 4 Page 114
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Adolph Pickard 
O. Hungerford 
agent Watutown
New York
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State of New York }
Jefferson County }
On this fifth day of September 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County now sitting Adolph Pickard a resident of LeRay in said County aged seventy two 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 June 7, 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated that he served as a substitute for his brother John as a private in Captain John Wenn’s company of Rangers at Cooperstown N.Y. in June 1776 not less than two weeks that about the first of June 1777 he was called out in the militia as a Corporal at Springfield under Captain Nicholas Neaser Colonel Ed Cocks and served not less than two weeks at Unadilla again at the same place and in the same company and Regiment in August 1777 pulled out as a Corporal he marched to Fort Stannis was in the Battle near Oriskary Creek under General Herkimer when he General Herkimer received his death wound his Colonel Cocks was also killed and he this deponent received a wound for which he now has an Invalid pension he served in this tour not less than two weeks and was discharged as Herkimer. In May 1778 he served not less than two weeks in Garrison at Springfield under Captain Weaver Colonel Dan Clyde as a Corporal. In June 1778 he served as a private not less than three weeks in Garrison at Cherry Valley under Captain Adam Life Colonel Clyde. Same fall was out as a private under same officers in frequent scouts in all not less than one month was called out again in 1779 as a private under Captain Cook Colonel Jacob Clock at Springfield and served not less than four months from May to November in Garrison building Fort and fighting Indians (Native Americans) and Tories (British) on the Mohawk River that about the first of June 1780 he enlisted at Palatine under Captain
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension except Invalid or Annuity except the present; and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
P. Bouchard Clerk 
Adolph Pickard his x mark

We Benjamin Dighton a clergyman residing in the Town of Pamela in said County and David B Stiles residing in (illegible) hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Adolph Pickard who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy two 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. 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
P. Bouchard Clerk
Benjamin Dighton 
David B Stiles

And the said Court 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 Benjamin Dighton who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Pamela and that Daniel B Stiles who has also signed the same is a resident in (illegible) and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

I Peleg Burchard Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Adolph Pickard for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the Court this Fifth day of September 1833. 
P. Burchard Clerk
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New York 28.556
Adolph Pickard deceased
of (blank) in the State of (blank)
who was a private and corporal in the (blank) commanded by Captain (blank) of the (blank) commanded by (blank) in the Revolution line for N.Y.
Increased from $30

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany 
at the rate of 36 Dollars 22 Cents per 
annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 and end July 21st 1846 
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of December 1855 and sent to C.W. Burnett

Arrears to the 4th of (blank) 
Semi-annual allowance ending present
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State of New York 
County of Jefferson
On this 10th day of August 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oath David Pickard aged forty years a resident of Orleans in the County of Jefferson State of New York who being duly sworn according to law doth upon his oath declare that he is administrator of the Estate of Adolph Pickard; that the said Adolph Pickard was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the provisions of the act of June 7, 1832 at the rate of thirty dollars per annum which pension he continued to receive semiannually during his life at the Agency for paying pensions in Albany and after his death this deponent as administrator received the balance unpaid as his decease. This deponent further says that his father the said Adolph Pickard died in the town of Orleans in the State of New York on the 23rd day of July 1846 and left no widow and the following named children who are now living and over the age of twenty one years: Susannah Hardy, Catherine Turner, Clarissa Pickard, Charles Pickard, Sally Frost, David Pickard all residents of Orleans New York and Nancy Pickard, Mary Tanner and Adolphus Pickard all residents of LeRoy New York. Jonas Pickard resident of Bristol New York and Jonathan Pickard a resident of Lock in Michigan and that the aforesaid are all the children of the said Adolphus Pickard deceased and that they are the only children of the said Pickard
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27569
Adolph Pickard 

Admitted 
Private 9 months 

Honorable D. Wardwell
Home Rep
N.J.
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February 8, 1938
Adolph Pickard
S. 18162
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. G. Harry Swancott
11 Greenwood Court
Utica, New York 

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Adolph Pickard private in the New York troops and a pensioner while living in Jefferson County, New York. 

The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in pension claim S. 18162 based upon (illegible) Adolph Pickard incurred during the Revolution and upon his service in that war. 

Adolph (Adolphus) Pickard was a “Dutchman” and was born in 1761 in Springfield, Otsego County, New York. The names of his parents were not given.

Adolph Pickard served with the New York troops as follows:
In June 1776 two weeks as substitute for his brother John Pickard in Captain John Winn’s company of rangers; in June 1777 two weeks as corporal in Captain Nicholas Weyser’s company Colonel Ebenezer Cox’s regiment; in August 1777 two weeks as corporal in Captain Weyser’s company Colonel Campbell’s regiment was in the battle of Oriskany where wounded by a musket ball in his left shoulder; in May 1778 two weeks as corporal in Captain Weyser’s company Colonel Samuel Clyde’s regiment in the garrison at Springfield; in June 1778 three weeks as private in Captain Adam Leyp’s company Colonel Samuel Clyde’s regiment in the garrison at Cherry Valley; in 1779 four months as private in Captain Severines Cook’s company Colonel Jacob
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Klock’s regiment was out against the Indians (Native Americans) and Tories (British) on the Mohawk River; from June 1, 1780 until January 1, 1781 as sergeant in Captain John Kasselman’s company Colonel Brown’s regiment was in two engagements at Palatine; from the spring of 1782 nine months as private in Captain Peter Tearce’s company Colonels Weisenfelt’s and Marinus Willett’s regiment. 

Adolph Pickard was allowed pension from September 22, 1786 on account of disability resulting from the wound received at the battle of Oriskany. 

He was living in Springfield, New York in 1818.

He was also allowed pension on account of his service in the War of the Revolution on his application executed September 5, 1833 then a resident of Leroy, Jefferson County, New York. 

Adolph Pickard died July 23, 1846 in Orleans, Jefferson County, New York leaving no widow but the following children survived him and in 1855 were residing as follows - Susannah Hardy, Catherine, wife of John Turner, Clarissa Pickard, Charles Pickard, Sally Frost, David Pickard, aged forty years, all of Orleans, New York; Nancy Pickard, Mary Tanner, Adolphus Pickard, all of Bristol, New York; and Jonathan Pickard, of Lock, Michigan.

The name of the wife of the soldier Adolph Pickard was not given and there are no data as to their marriage.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible family data. 
Very truly yours, 
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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Willet
New York Roll
1462
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Adolph Pickard Colo Willetts
Private New York Line  in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818, and delivered to Alvin Stewart Esqr
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
5 months 4 /30 $48.06
Revolutionary claim,}
Act 18th March, 1818.}
(J. P.)
Nine months
Springfield, Otsego Co



,
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Mrs. G. Harry Swancott
11 Greenwood Court
Utica New York 

Oneida Chapter 
Utica New York 
A. D. Hiller
Veteran’s Administration 
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:
Will you kindly send me the record of the following?
Adolph Pickard (Pickert) placed on the pension roll April 16, 1834, private N.Y. Continental, Jefferson County his residence age 72 years.
Think he was born in Cherry Valley, N.Y. 
Very truly yours, 
Edith B. Swancott
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See letter to O. Hungerford, Aug.
22. 1839
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New York
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Adolph Pickard Private Captain Weser's company of the Col Campbell's Regt Revolutionary Army NY
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Ratio of disability, one half
Date of discharge,
Time of closing the testimony,
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scribed on the Roll of New York
at 230/100- dollars per month, to commence on the increased to $4 per mo. Act 24 April 1816 to take effect from the passage of the Act 
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Certificate of pension issued on the
9 of July 1824
and sent to Daniel Van Horne Esq
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Arrears to 4th
Sem-an'l all'ce ending
Act of the 
Pension increased from, $4 per mo to $[illegible] Commencing 22 December 1831.  Certificate of increase sent to Pensioner at Wat[illegible] New York 11 February 1832
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43861
INVALID.
No. 43.861
Adolph Picker
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18

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Index: - Vol. 5[?] Page 594[?]

[Arrangement of 1870.]
This claim S.43861 was filed separately from S.18162 same soldier & papers were consolidated May 29, 1931. MNNF
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18162
INVALID.
18162
Adolph Pickard
Corp Rev War

June 7th 32
Vol. 1, Page 297
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1931 hist to Jay E. Pickard
1938 hist to Mrs G Harry 
Swan[illegible]
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Payable on the 4th March and 
4th September at New York 
by the Prest: U. S. B. Bank 

September 1830

Registered in Book B
Volume 5, Page 41 by
William Gordon Clerk 
Executed and countersigned by
J. L. Edward’s
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War Department 
Invalid Pension

I Certify That in conformity with the Laws of the United States Adolph Pickard who was a private in Captain Weyser’s Company of Colonel Campbell’s Regiment was on the 22nd day of September 1786 inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the New York Agency at the rate of two 50/100 dollars per month; and that his name is now on the roll of the same Agency at the rate of four dollars per month; commencing on the twenty fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. This certificate is issued in conformity to an order requiring formal certificates to be issued to all Invalid Pensioners.
Given at the War Office of the United 
States this ninth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty four. 
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
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State of New York
Jefferson County. SS. It is hereby certified that Adolph Pickard formerly a private in Captain Weser's Company in Colonel Campbell's & Regiment
who it appears by the accompanying certificate was placed on the Pension Roll 22 September 1786 at the rate
of two 50/100 Dollars per month and on the 24th April 1816 increased to Four Dollars per month) on account as he states of having received a musket shot in the left shoulder
which upon examination appears to have produced a fracture of the shoulder and an injury to the Shoulder joint which on account of  [illegible] 71 years his [illegible] increased and rendered the arm almost useless, while in the Line of his duty and in the said service on or about the 6th day of August 1777 at a place called Oriskany in the State of New York - is not only still disabled in consequence of the said injury but in our opinion is entitled to four Dollars per month more than he now receives as a pensioner being totally disabled from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor
Richard Clark M.D.
J.B. Craw Physican & Surgeon
Sworn and subscribed to this 7th day of September 1831 before me
Dan. Lee Justice of the Peace
I do hereby certify that upon a careful examination of the above named invalid that he is disabled as stated above and is in my opinion entitled to a full pension being totally disabled from procuring his subsistence
Madison Barracks
Act 7th 1831.-
Saml G.I. De Camp
[illegible]
N.Y. Army
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State of New York }
Jefferson County } I Peleg Burchard Clerk of the said County of Jefferson do certify that Daniel Lee before whom the witness affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the state of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that I am acquainted with the handwriting writing of said Justice and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of office at Wintertown this 7th day of September 1831
Peleg Burchard Clerk
By Wooster Sherman Department
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Increase of Pension

It is hereby certified that Adolph Pickard formerly a private in Captain Weser’s Company in Colonel Campbell’s Regiment Infantry who it appears by the accompanying Certificate was placed on the Pension Roll 22nd September 1786 at the rate of two 50/100 Dollars per month and on the 24th April 1816 increased to four dollars per month on account as he states of having received a musket ball wound in the left shoulder which upon examination appears to have produced a fracture of the shoulder and an inquiry to the shoulder joint causing (illegible) to the arm and having in some degree emaciate it and endured it almost useless while in the line of his duty in the said service on or about the 6th day of August 1777 at a place called Oriskany in the State of New York is not only still disabled in consequence of the said injury but in our opinion is entitled to four dollars per month more than he now receives as a pensioner being disabled to a degree amounting to that of a total disability.

Sworn and subscribed to
this 22nd day of December 1831
before me Daniel Lee Justice of the Peace 
Richard Clark 
J. B. Crawe
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State of New York }
Jefferson County } I Peleg Burchard Clerk of the County of Jefferson do certify that Daniel Lee before whom the witness affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the state of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that I am acquainted with the handwriting writing of said Justice and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of said County at Wintertown this 22nd day of December 1831
P. Burchard Clerk
By Wooster Sherman Deputy
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State of New York }
Jefferson County Clerk’s Office } M.J. Connelly Deputy
I John Marsh Clerk of the County of Jefferson do hereby Certify that Geo Farnham Esquire before whom the annexed affidavits were taken was at the time of taking such affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly authorized to take the same; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing as such Justice and verily believe that his signature thereto is genuine. 
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said County this tenth day of August 1855.
M.J. Connelly Deputy Clerk
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Adolph Pickard deceased 
Jefferson County, N.Y. 
Increased June 7, 1832
9 months and 27 (illegible) $32.97
26 days 3.25
$36.22
per annum from 4 March 1831 
to 21 July 1846 when he died
Deducting $30 a year 
Pay to David Pickard 
administrator for his own
and the benefit of children
Adolphus, Jonathan, Jonas,
Clarissa and Nancy Pickard, 
Susannah Hardy, Catherine 
Turner, Sally Frost and Mary
Tanner or any of them or any 
others of his children who may
be alive.
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Watertown, N.Y. September 6, 1833

I enclose the applications of Adolph Pickard Zadock Huntley and William Trickey for Pensions.
Yours, 
O. Hungerford 
J.L. Edward’s Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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David Pickard 

Adolph Pickard 
Died 23 November 1836

Susannah Hardy 1
Catherine Turner 2 
Clarissa Pickard 3 
x Charles Pickard 4
Sally Frost 5
x David Pickard 6 
Nancy Pickard 7
Mary Tanner 8
x Adolpus Pickard 9 

26 Corp $325
27 “ pg     297
                  622
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June 1, 1931
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 
AWF:MLB

Mr. Jay E. Pickard 
Route 5
Fort Plain, New York 

Dear Sir:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 18162 that Adolph or Adolphus Pickard was a Dutchman born in 1761 in Springfield, Otsego County, New York. 

He enlisted and served with the New York troops as follows: in June 1776, two weeks as substitute for his brother John Pickard in Captain John Winn’s company of rangers; in June 1777 two weeks as corporal in Captain Nicholas Weyser’s company Colonel Ebenezer Cox’s regiment; in August 1777 two weeks as corporal in Captain Weyser’s company Colonel Campbell’s regiment was in the battle of Oriskany where wounded by a musket ball in his left shoulder; in May 1778 two weeks as corporal in Captain Weyser’s company Colonel Samuel Clyde’s regiment in the garrison at Springfield; in June 1778 three weeks as private in Captain Adam Leyp’s company Colonel Samuel Clyde’s regiment in the garrison at Cherry Valley; in 1779 four months as private in Captain Severines Cook’s company Colonel Jacob Klock’s regiment was out against the Tories (British) and Indians (Native Americans) on the Mohawk River; from June 1, 1780, to January 1, 1781, as sergeant in Captain John Kasselman’s company Colonel Brown’s regiment and was in two engagements at Palatine; from April or May 1782 nine months as private in Captain Peter Tearce’s company, Colonel Marinus Willett’s regiment. 

He was allowed pension September 22, 1786, on account of disability resulting from the wound received at the battle of Oriskany.
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Adolph Pickard
Corporal
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We The Subscribers Abraham Ten Broeck and Philip Schuyler 
Do Certify that upon an Examination, in pursuance of the Law, entitled, “An Act making Provision for Officers, Soldiers, and Seamen, who have been disabled in the Service of the United States.” Passed the 22nd of April, 1786, We Do find that Adolph Pickard residing in the State of New York Aged twenty five years Years, late a private on Captain Nicholas Weser’s Company in the Regiment of (illegible) Commanded by Campbell and Claiming Relief under the Act of Congress, recited in the said Law, as an Invalid in Fact; and that he became disabled in the Service of the United States, in Consequence of a wound in the shoulder on the Sixth of August 1777
And Do further Certify, that upon the Principles of the said Act of Congress, the said Adolph Pickard is entitled to the Pay of two and a half Dollars per Month.
Given under our Hands, in the City of Albany, on the twenty second Day September in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Six.
Abraham Ten Broeck
Philip Schuyler
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State of New York
Jefferson County ⎬ Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County John Carter who being duly sworn deposeth that he is seventy three years old that he is well
acquainted with Adolph Pickard of Le Roy in said County that he knew the said Pickard in the year 1776 - that this deponent was a soldier in a Comp.y. of Rangers commanded by
Capt. John Win and that Adolph Pickard came into the company and joined it at Otsego Lake now Cooperstown a substitute for John Pickard and was in said Company
about two weeks. In June 1777 I was a soldier in Capt Knowse' Co. Genl. Herkimer held a council with the Indians at the mouth of the Unadilla and called with him a considerable force. I was then in Knows' Co.  Capt. Nicholas Weser; Coy was then and I saw then Adolph Pickard a Corporal in said Coy - this service was two weeks
I saw also the said Pickard at the OriskanyBattle a Corporal in said Company of Wesers - and believe the said Pickard was out full two weeks
I was also a soldier in Capt Teirce's Coy. Col Willets Regt of nine months man - Adolph Pickard was a private
in said Coy. and faithfully did his duty the whole nine months commencing in April 1782 and discharged Fort Plain 1 Jany 1783
John his X mark Caster
Subscribed and sworn this 4th day of Sept 1823 before me C McKnight J.P

I certify the above deponent is a credible Person
C McKnight J P
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State of New York }
Jefferson County } I Peleg Burchard Clerk of the said County do certify that C. M. Knight Esq before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same. One of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County about that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature. 

Witness my hand and the seal of the said County this Fifth day of September 1833. 
Peleg Burchard Clerk 
By Daniel Finley Deputy
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Adolph Pickard 

J. L. Edward’s Esq
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
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State of New York 
Comptroller’s Office 
Albany, April 13, 1855

I hereby certify that on searching the Records in this office for the Registry of Certificates issued in pursuance of a law passed April 27, 1784, entitled “An Act for the settlement of the pay of Levies and Militia for their services in the late war and for other purposes therein mentioned,” I find the following, viz:

Adolphus Pickard Private 
Book 1
Certificate 1.858
December 1779
8s 10 1/2d
Captain John Ruff
Colonel Jacob Klock

Adolphus Pickard Private 
Book 1 
Certificate 2.026 
August 17, 1779
1£ 8s 5 1/3d
Captain Severinus Koch
Colonel Jacob Klock

Adolphus Pickard Private
Book 1 
Certificate 2.090
March 6, 1780
10s 8d
Captain Severinus Koch
Colonel Jacob Klock

Adolphus Pickard Private
Book 2
Certificate 7.374
December 31, 1782
22£ 10d
Captain Peter B. Tearse
Colonel Willett

Adolph Pickard Corporal
Book 3
Certificate 11.477
September 12, 1782
2£ 10s 11d
Captain Nicholas Weser’s
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Clyde
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Letters Of Administration 
Adolph Pickard Estate

The People Of the State Of New York 
To all to whom these Presents shall come or may concern Send Greeting

Whereas, Adolph Pickard deceased, was at the time of his death an inhabitant of the County of Jefferson in the State of New York and died intestate by means whereof the ordering and granting administration of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased and also the auditing allowing and final discharging the account thereof doth appertain unto us: and we being desirous that the said goods chattels and credits may be well and faithfully administered applied and disposed of do grant unto David Pickard.
full power by these presents to administer and faithfully dispose of all and singular the said goods chattels and credits; to ask demand recover and receive the debts which unto the said deceased whilst giving and at the time of his death did belong; and to pay the debts which the said deceased did owe so far as such goods chattels and credits will thereto extend and the law require; hereby requiring the said David Pickard
to make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased which shall or have come to his hands possession or knowledge; and the same so made to exhibit or cause to be exhibited in the Office of the Surrogate of the said County at or before the expiration of three months from the date hereof; and that (blank) obey all orders of the said Surrogate touching the administration of the said estate and render a just and true account of administration when thereunto required: And we do by these presents depute constitute and appoint the said David Pickard 
Administrator of all and singular the goods chattels and credits which were of the said deceased.

In Testimony Whereof We have caused the Seal of Office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed. Witness N. P. Wardwell Esq Surrogate of the said County at his office in Watertown in said County the 18th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six
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The deponant says that he knows
that Adolphus Pickard in the year  7779 served under Capt Sofrenus Cook Col Jacob Clock not less than four months from may to Nov in garrison and building forts fighting Indians and Tories on the banks of the mohawk river- The deponant furthermore saith that he knows
that the above mentioned Richard served under Capt John Cassleman Col Brown and was in the engagement at Palatin when Col Brown was killed and that he joined Gen Van Renselair on the same day and was in another engagement
in the afternoon
Christian his X mark Walter
June the 10 1833 Came before me one of the Justice
of the peace and testifies to the above
Stark County of Herkirmer
Squire Johnson Justice
I have a partial acquaintance with Christian Walker 
I know nothing but he is a man of truth
Squire Johnson