Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,570, Nanning Vanderheyden, New York
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(3-1776)
SERVICE 
New York

Vanderheyden, Nanning
Catharine

NUMBER
W. 19.570

CONTENTS
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Let K P Ag't May 6 1841.
do to L Jenkins & W. B. Pierce
Dec. 30. 1844 - 

[Printed form with handwritten answers]
3553
New York A
Catharine Vanderheyden, deceased widow of Nanning Vanderheyden, who died on the 22 day of August 1791,
of Rensselaer Co. in the State of New York, who was a Lieutenant in the Company commanded by Captain Tibout of the Reg't. commanded by Col. Willet in the New York line for 18 months and 23 days.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 250 Dollars 25 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of May 1841 and sent to Andrew Follet of Lansingburg N. Y.

Arrears to the 14th day of June 1838 the day of the widow's death. $1821.26

Amount payable to Anna Lansing, only child of said deceased. $1821. (paper torn)

Revolutionary (paper torn)
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3rd

Recorded by 
[signature] W. W. Tyler Clerk
Vol. 3rd Page 133
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State of New York
Rensselaer County } ss
On this nineteenth day of January in the year Eighteen Hundred and forty one Personally appeared before the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Troy now setting Anna Lansing of the town of Lansingburgh County and State aforesaid, aged fifty Eight years, who being duly sworn according to law. Doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 4th 1836. That she is the only child and lawful heir of Nanning Vanderheyden and Catherine Vanderheyden deceast and that the said Catherines maiden name was Catherine Levises- And that the said Nanning died in the town of Half Moon County of Saratoga State aforesaid on the twenty second day of August Seventeen Hundred and Ninety one, under whom she claims to be allowed for the servises of her father in the war of the Revolution as Lieutenant in the State troops, and militia of the State of New York, as will appear from the certificates, commissions, Letters &c hereunto annexed. And that I the said Anna this deponent ask to be allowed what would have been due my mother the said Catherine for the Revolutionary services of her husband the said Nanning, had she applyed in her life time. And further that the said Nanning and the said Catherine were married in the town of Scaticook in Rensselaer County aforesaid on the Thirtieth day of Nov'r. in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty, as will appear by the annexed affidavit. And that the said Catherine remained the widow of the said Nanning, and never intermarried to the time of her death in the town of Lansingburgh Rensselaer County aforesaid on the fourteenth day of June Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Eight.
[signature] Anna Lansing

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me 
[signature] Henry V. W. Martin Justice

And the said Court declare their opinion that the said Anna Lansing is what she represents herself to be in the above affidavit
[signature] Henry V. W. Martin Justice
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Rensselaer County
City of Troy ss. 
I George Wheeler Clerk of the Justices Court of the City of Troy do hereby certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Anna Lansing for pension, and that the within named Henry V. W. Martin was a Justice of the Justices Court of Record at the time the within Deposition was taken, and the signature annexed, to the within Jurat and declaration is genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 19 day of January 1841
[signature] George Wheeler Clerk
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State of New York
Rensselaer County } ss
On this twenty fourth day of March Eighteen hundred and forty one. Personally appeared before Stephen S. Hunt Supreme Court Commissioner of Rensselaer County, Levinus Vannornum who being duly sworn according to law, Testifies and says that he is a resident of the Town of Lansingburgh in the County of Rensselaer aforesaid, That he this deponent was intimately acquainted with Naning Vanderheyden and his wife Catherine Vanderheyden whose maiden name was Catherine Levises. And that the said Naning served as a Lieutenant in the New York line; but have long does not know- and that after his return home from the regular service was a Lieutenant in the Militia of the State of New York. And further this deponent says that he knows of the said Naning being called out and going as Lieutenant under Capt Tillman and at other times after his return during the Revolutionary War, then Albany now Rensselaer County, but how long the said Naning served he cannot say. That the said Naning aforesaid died in the town of Half Moon Saratoga County State aforesaid on the twenty second day of August Seventeen hundred and ninety one, and that his wife the said Catherine died on the fourteenth day of June Eighteen hundred and Thirty Eight
in the town of Lansingburgh County of Rensselaer aforesaid. And that the the said Catherine never intermarried but remained the widow of the said Naning to the time of her death. And that Anna Lansing now applying for the amount due her Mother for the services of the said Naning is the only child that the said Nanning And the said Catherine ever had.
[signature] Levnes Van Arnum

the word (Catherine) interlined before executed)
Subscribed and sworn before me this twenty fourth day of March 1841 
[signature] S. S. Hunt
Sup. Court Commissioner

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent and that he is a person of truth and veracity-
March 24. 1841
[signature] S. S. Hunt
Sup. Court Commissioner
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[Printed form with handwritten answers]
STATE OF NEW YORK,
Rensselaer County Clerk's Office, }ss.
I, LELAND CRANDALL, Clerk of the County of Rensselaer, do hereby Certify, That S. S. Hunt whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, ["one of the" crossed out] is Supreme Court Commissioner of the County of Rensselaer, dwelling in said county, duly authorised to take such proof or acknowledgment. And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner and verily believe that his signature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the Seal of said County, this 24 day of March A.D. 1841
[signature] Leland Crandall Clerk
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[Printed form with handwritten answers]

In pursuance of a law passed the 27th day of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late Warm and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent annum, viz:

1780 Octo 30 | 39631 Nanning V. Der Heyden Lt | 1 | 4 | 8
1781 Dec'r 19 | 39.974 Nanning Vander Heyden Lt. | 4 | 16 | 6 2/3

STATE OF NEW YORK
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, March 9 1841

I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 8 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:
First - under Capt. Anthony Van Schaick in Col. Van Renssalaer's [Rensselaer] Regiment.
Second, " " Christ'r Tilsman " " Van Renssalaer's "
Albany County Militia [written vertically next to the preceding lines]

[signature] W. W. Tredway
Dep. Comptroller
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I certify that as appears from the record of Marriages solemnized in the protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Schaghticoke in the County of Renslaer [Rensselaer] in the State of New York, Nanning VanDerhyden was married to Catherine Levisse on the thirtieth day of November one thousand seven hundred and eighty; and that the following transcript of such marriage is in exact conformity with the original the date being expressed in fair legible figures.
1780. Nov 30. Naning van Derhyden en Cattrina Lewisse.

And I depose and say, that I hold the office of Pastor of said Church and as such have the custody of said records.
[signature] HMBoyd

Subscribed and sworn before me this 27th day of August 1840 -
[signature] Richard L. McDonald
Justice of the Peace
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[Printed form with handwritten answers]

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Rensselaer County Clerk's Office, } ss.
I, LELAND CRANDALL, Clerk of the County of Rensselaer, do hereby Certify, that Richard L McDonald Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the annexed certificate was, at the time one of the Justice of the Peace in and for said County: And further, that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice of the Peace and verily believe the above signature to be genuine. 
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County, this 19 day of January 1841
[signature] Leland Crandall Clerk
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Lt. Vanderheyden's Patent

Recorded

[illegible signature written upside down, perhaps "Geo." at the start but marred by a tear in the paper]
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[Printed form with handwritten answers]

The People OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, by the Grace of GOD, free and Independent: TO ALL to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: KNOW YE, that, in pursuance of an Act of our Legislature, passed the sixth day of April, one Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety; entitled "An act to carry into effect the concurrent resolutions and Acts of the Legislature, for granting certain lands, promised to be
given as bounty Lands, and for other purposes therein mentioned," WE HAVE Given, Granted and confirmed, and by these Presents, DO Give, Grant, and Confirm unto Lieutenant Nanning Vanderheyden -- ALL those certain tracts or lots of land, situate lying and being in the the county of Montgomery, and known and distinguished on Maps of the Townships in which they respectively lie, (filed by our Surveyor General, in our Secretary's Office, agreeable to law) as follows, to wit, by lot number Twenty-two in the Township of Aurelius Containing Six hundred acres, and Lot Number Eight in the Township of Pompey containing six hundred acres: The said two Lots together containing one thousand two hundred acres:
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TOGETHER with all and singular the rights, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining;
EXCEPTING and RESERVING to ourselves all gold and silver mines and one hundred acres of each of the said Lots to be laid out in a square as nearly as may be in each of the South East corners thereof--
and also five acres of every hundred acres of the said tracts or lots of land for high ways: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above described and granted premises unto the said __ his heirs and assigns, as a good
and indefeasible estate of inheritance for ever. ON CONDITION NEVERTHELESS that within the term of seven years to be computed from the first day of January next ensuing the date hereof, there shall be one actual settlement made on the said tracts or lots of land hereby granted, for every fix hundred acres thereof, otherwise these our Letters Patent, and the estate hereby granted, shall cease determine and become void. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF WE have caused these our Letters to be made Patent, and the great seal of our said State, to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS our Trusty and well-beloved GEORGE CLINTON, Esquire, Governor of our said State, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the navy of the same, at our City of New-York, this ninth day of July in the Year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and in the Fifteenth year of our INDEPENDENCE.

Approved of by the Commissioners of the Land-Office, and passed the Secretary's Office, the 21st day of March 1792 }
[signature] Rob Haspur, D Secr'y
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Nanning Vanderheyden
W. 19.570
New York
Letters patent granting Lieut. Nanning Vanderheyden Lot # 22, Twp. of Aurelius, containing 600 acres, and Lot # 8 Twp. of Pompey, containing 600 acres, in Montgomery Co., N.Y.; Signed by Robt. Haspur, D. Secry. Mar. 21, 1792 and endorsed by Geo. Clinton. and
A letter notifying Lieut. Nanning Van D'r Heyden that, owing to the new arrangement of the 3" N.Y. regt. whereby the number of officers had been reduced, he had been left out; signed {
Peter Gansevoort, Colo.
M. Willett, Lieut. Colo.
Robt. Cochran, Major
dated Fort Schuyler, May 30, 1778
(over)
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The above papers have been removed from said claim for safe keeping and are locked up in the Record Division 

a.e.m.
Apr. 8, 1911

Letter dated May 30, 1778, is in file as of 3-7-1972. ES

Letters patent is not in file as of 3-7-1972. ES
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Fort Schuyler 30th May 1778 -
Sir
You may observe that in the new arrangement of the third New York Regiment made in consequence of orders received from his Excellency Governor Clinton, you are left out. This Sir was not occasioned by any fault of or Misconduct of yours, but because of the necessity of reducing the [word crossed out] Number of officers.
We lament that no provision can be made for you in the Regiment and Esteem it our Duty to Express to you, our
United thanks, for the service you have tendered your Country and for your Exemplary brave, spirited & Soldier like Behaviour
during her Service at this Garrison
We are Sir,
your Obed't Serv't
[signatures] 
Peter Gansevoort, Colo.
M Willet Lieu't Colo.
Rob't Cochran Major

To
Lieut. Nanning Van D Heyden

[Stamped seal]
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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No. 5349
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Nanning Vanderheyden d 1791
Catharine M. Nov. 1780 d. June 14. '38
Lieut. N Y Line

Com'sn Lieut date at feb. '76
" " " 21 Nov '76 Cont line
New York 3d Bat.
In sum May 78 Le Letter Col Willet-
80 Oct '8. pri. - 1. 4. 8. 
81 Dec 19 Lt. - 4. 16. 6 } Comp'tr Cert.
 
3d Reg't Vanderheyden Nanning
Cap Tiebout 21 Nov 76 Militia [?]
May "78 Sec Roll private
21 Nov 76 h 30 May 1778
17 12
( 6  9
 L 4 .16.6
Dec 1781 
18 = 9 14 day 18 (mo)=23 (d)
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[This page contains various math calculations]

10
2.75
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12.75
.88
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13.63

2666
13

44
7
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308

80
160
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240

13.33
3.08
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10.25

250.25
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Lansingburgh March 25th 1841
I enclose you the papers of Anna Lansing for the amount due her mother at the time of her death for the services of her husband Naning Vanderheyden. While I think from the Commissioners Deeds and other
evidence accompying the same will be satisfactory
I am Yours Respectfully
[signature] Andrew Follet Jr.

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com'r of Pensions
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[Printed form with handwritten answers]

Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19.570
Catharine Vanderheyden
widow of
Nanning Vanderheyden
Lieut Rev War

Act: July 4th 36
Index;- Vol. M, Page 237
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Albany December 26. 1844

James L. Edwards Esquire
Commiss'r of Pensions
Sir,
I think its my duty to inform you that there is reason to believe that a fraud has been committed in the case of Catherine Vanderheyden dec'd, to [illegible] child, Anna Lansing, a pension was granted under the act of July 4, 1836.
The information I have on the subject is derived from William B. Pierce Esq. of this City, who informs me that when he was a Clerk to Giles F. Yates Esq. some years ago, application was made to Mr. Yates to try and get a pension for Mrs. Vanderheyden's child or children -
but that for some reason Mr. Yates declined to undertake it- that it was then stated that Mrs. Vanderheyden died in 1834.
That some months ago Anna Lansing called on Mr. Pierce to consult him about applying for the commutation pay due to her Father Naning Vanderheyden & he recollecting the case of her mother, asked her when her mother died - that she at first answered, in 1836, & afterwards said in 1834. Mr. Pierce also states that he has seen the record of Mrs. Vanderheyden's death at Lansingburgh, and it appears from that record that she died in 1834.
It appears from the Books of the Agency, that on the 17th
of May 1841, Anna Lansing as the only child of Catherine
Vanderheyden, received $1821.16 cts being for the pension allowed
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her under the act July 4, 1836, from 4th March 1841 to 14th June 1838 - 7 years 3 months & 10 days.
Mr. Pierce was unwilling to become the complainant in this case, but he authorizes me to refer you to him for any further information you may desire on the subject.
Very respectfully
Your obed't Serv't
[signature] Lem'l. Jenkins
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Catharine Vanderheyden dec'd
Wid of Nanning
N.Y.
Act July 4 1836
Married 1780
died Agu 22d 1791
Allow Lieut. 18 mo 23 days. N.Y. Line. Col. Willet, Capt. Tibout
$250.25 per ann.
Certified to be issued to Anna Lansing, only child of said Catharine, from 4 Mar 1831 to Jun 14 1838, the time of her death. 

[signature] Andrew Follet Jr Esq
Lansingburg N.Y.
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Benjamin Hicks Captain
Guy Young 1st Lieutenant
Nanning Van Der Heyden 2d Do
Jonathan Brown Ensign.

[Printed form with handwritten answers]IN CONGRESS.
The DELEGATES of the UNITED COLONIES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, to Nanning Van Der Heyden Gentleman
We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, do by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be the fifth second Lieutenant in a company of Foot commanded by Colonel Goose Van Schaick
in the Army of the United Colonies raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of second Lieutenant by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as a Lieutenant of said Regiment and you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United Colonies, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
By Order of the Congress
[Stamped signature] John Hancock PRESIDENT.

Attest. [Stamped signature] Cha's. Thomson Sec'y
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[Printed form with handwritten answers]

IN CONGRESS.
The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, To
Nanning Vander Heyden Gentleman
We, reposing special Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be first lieutenant of the Company number three of the third Battalion of New York forces in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a first Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as a first Lieutenant- And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
DATED the twenty first day of November one thousand Seven hundred & Seventy Six,
By Order of the CONGRESS,
[Stamped signature] John Hancock, PRESIDENT.

ATTEST [Stamped signature] Cha. Thomson Sec'y