Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,416, James White, New York
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New York

White, James

NUMBER
R.11,416

CONTENTS
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State of New York
Orange County} ss

On this third day of [strikethrough] September [strikethrough] December in the year 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 said County of Orange being a Court of Record now sitting James White a resident of Walkill Orange County aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn [strikethrough] doth on [strikethrough] according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

That he first entered the service in the fore part of the revolutionary war but cannot state the year, was ordered to Fort Constitution opposite to West Point - was put in a company commanded by Captain Tilford then in Colonel Paulding’s regiment - staid there one month when he was discharged and returned home - there were two other companies of Militia no regulars - went through Little Butan to New Windsor from the Town of Walkill the place of residence of this Deponent - and from New Windsor [strikethrough] and [strikethrough] went by water - 

Deponent further saith that he was at Fort Montgomery when it was taken in October 1777 - and made his escape after the same was taken - that he was under the command of Captain Isiah Vail - Governor George and General James Clinton were there
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in command - after the fort was taken this deponent was ordered to New Windsor, laid there until the British Shipping came down the North now from the burning of Esopus or Kingston - about a fortnight - was then discharged and returned home - This Deponent was in service at this time about one month [strikethrough] as he thinks [strikethrough]

Deponent further saith that his recollection is very imperfect - and that he cannot state the particulars of his service he knows that he was called into the service as a Militiaman very frequently: that he was sometimes out one month - sometimes two weeks - and sometimes shorter periods his service was principally performed at Fort Montgomery - at Ramapo on the road to New York where a guard was kept during the greater part of the war - and at Minisink or Peenpack about twenty - miles from Deponents residence west of the Shawangunk Mountains near the Delaware river - Deponent was then very often out to guard the Frontiers from the savages who made incursions - burning houses - killing the inhabitants - Deponent recollects on one occasion of assisting to bury a family of the inhabitants who had been killed by the Indians - thinks there names were Atwater, a father and three sons - Deponent was generally stationed at or near Depays or Dewits around whose houses temporary [strikethrough] made [strikethrough] Forts had been made - Deponent
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was at a place called Hunk on the west side of the Shawangunk Mountain on the road to Kingston where he was in service one month Leonard Nichols was captain David Crawford Lieutenant - Captain Van Kenren was there Contine was Colonel - at the end of one month was discharged and returned home -

This Deponent says that he was at Ramapo one month - Vail was his Captain John Dunning his Lieutenant - Major Phillips was there and Major Newkirk; Deponent cannot remember the year - and this Deponent says that upon one occasion he was one of thirty ordered out to guard a Powder Mill at Phillipsburgh on the Walkill then Upston now Orange in Uester County - and he remains a there in service under the command of Lieutenant John Dunning for the period of Three Months -

And this Deponent saith that he was performing service from time to time for about six years Deponent has no hesitation in saying that including the services specified above he served in each year a period of three months - He was sometimes out on class duty - at others on occasion of alarms - when all the Militia turned out - Deponent always went out when ordered

And this Deponent says he know of no person who was out in service with him to whom he can refer except Thomas Bor
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land a resident of the Town of [strikethrough] Walkill [strikethrough] Hamptonburgh in the County of Orange and state of New York aforesaid

1st That he was born at New Windsor now called Cornwall ion in the year 1759 -

2 That he has a record of his age at home in the Town of Walkill and County of Orange aforesaid 

3 That he resided at Phillipburgh in the Town of Walkill when called into the service and that he has resided there ever since and that he now resides [strikethrough] there [strikethrough] in Goshen

4th That he was ordered out as a Militia man

5th That he never received a written discharge

6th That he has no documentary evidence

7th That he can refer to Thomas Clark, Gabriel N Phillips and Moses Phillips residents of Phillipsburgh in the said Town of Walkill as to his veracity & their belief

[strikethrough] The he knows of no person who was out in the service with him whose testimony he can obtain except Thomas Borland of Phillipsburgh [strikethrough]

He here by relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state - 

And this Deponent further saith that he is unable to obtain the [strikethrough] certificate of [strikethrough] affidavit of a Clergyman as required by the rules and regulations of the War Department - For he says that there is no Clergyman resident
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in his neighborhood, nor within a number of miles - that the Clergyman residing nearest to this Deponent came within a few years to the place where he now resides - That this Deponent is an old and infirm man and goes out in Public but very little, and he supposes that he is altogether unknown to the said Clergyman and he knows of no other Clergyman whose certificate or affadavit he can obtain
James White

Taken Subscribed and Sworn the day and year aforesaid
Asa Dunning Clerk
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Pension Papers
of James White}
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State of New York
Orange County ss} 

We Gilbert Horton and Gilbert Gale inhabitants of the town of Goshen County and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are acquainted with James White who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration to which this affidavit is annexed That we believe him to be Seventy Three years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he [strikethrough] now [strikethrough] resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Gilbert B Gale
Gilbert Horton

Sworn and subscribed To this 3rd Day of December 1832 - Before me in open Court
Asa Dunning Clerk

And the said 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 Soldier of the Revolution and served as he states And the Court further Certify that Gilbert B Gale and Gilbert Horton who have signed and sworn to the above certificate are [strikethrough] reside [strikethrough] as it appears to them residents of the town of Goshen in the County Orange aforesaid and are Persons of Credibility and that there Certificate is entitled to full credit - And the said Court further certify that it appears to them that
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Thomas Borland who made the affadavit hereunto annexed of his knowledge of the Service of James White applicant is an inhabitant of the town of Hamptonburgh and is a Person of credibility and that his statement is entitled to full belief

Asa Dunning Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Orange do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the Matter of the Application of James White for a Pension - And I further Certify that Horace W. Elliott before whom the affidavit of Thomas Borland was taken and sworn was at the time and now is a Justice of the Peace and that the signatures annexed is his genuine signature

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this thirteenth day of December 1832
Asa Dunning Clerk
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Oliver Whites Declaration for a pension By G. Houston of Middletown Orange Co. N.Y. Attorney
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State of New York
Orange } ss 

Before the undersigned came Thomas Borland of Hamptonborough in said count you being duly sworn doth depose that he is well acquainted with James White of Goshen & was well acquainted with him during the revolutionary war that the said White belonged to a company of Militia commanded by Capt Isiah Vail in the Regt commanded by Col. Phillips that he knew of three months service performed by the said White at one time in guarding the powder mill at Phillipsburgh in said county & that he served one month with Deponent at Niponough under the command of Capt VanKeuren He further deposes that the said White was engaged during the war as a militia man & was called out & done his pull share of duty as this deponent verity believes & he thinks that he was engaged in the service at least one year That he believes him to be of the age of seventy years or upwards & that his character for truth & veracity is good
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Thomas Borland

Sworn & subscribed the 25 October 1832 before me
H W Elliott Justice of the peace

State of New York
Orange County ss }

I Horace W Elliott one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Orange aforesaid do certify that I am acquainted with [strikethrough] Horace [strikethrough] Thomas Borland the person who made the affidavit above and that he is entitled to full Credit and belief.
Dated December 3rd 1832
HW Elliot Just of the peace of said county
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Admitted
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Oliver White’s
declaration for a pension
by G. Huston Atten.
Middleton
Orange Co

[strikethrough] James White Pension Papers

A. S. Benton
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State of New York
Orange County} ss

Be it Known that on this 12th Day of August 1854 personally came before me John G Wilkin County Judge of the County of Orange in open Court Oliver A. White a resident of Said County aged Sixty Six years who being by me duly sworn on his oath made the following declaration and Said that he is that he is one of the children of James White late of said County deceased, and that his Father James White in his lifetime made the annexed declaration, and that his Father James White died at Orange County on the 27th day of August 1836 and left him surviving no widow but the following married Children Jonathan S White of the State of Ohio and Sarah Horton wife of Gilbert Horton Julia Ensign wife of Silas Ensign, Elizabeth Smith wife of Silas Smith and Oliver A. White this declarant all of Orange County and that they were the only children of James White their father and that they are all of Lawful age.

Declarant further says that he makes this declaration
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the purpose of obtaining the Pension which was due his Father James White at the time of his death all of which this declarant claims is now due to the heirs or Surviving children of his Father James White under the act of Congress passed on the 7th day of June A.D. 1832

And that he gives refferance to the declaration of his said Father James White and the proof therewith connected and have unto attached
Oliver A. White

Subscribed & Sworn before me this 12 day of August 1854 The word only and the word were were interlined before signing.
John G Wilkin County Judge of Orange County
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State of New York
Orange County } ss

I John G. Wilkin Judge of the Court of Common pleas of the [strikethrough] of the [strikethrough] County of Orange State of New York do hereby certify that Satisfactory Evidence has been exhibited before me the said Judge in open Court that James White who made the annexed declaration dated the third day of December A.D. 1832, that he died on the 27th day of August A.D. 1836 and that he left no widow and that he left him surviving the following named children viz Jonathn S. White of the State of Ohio, Sarah Horton wife of Gilbert Horton, Julia Ensign wife of Silas Ensign Elizabeth Smith wife of Silas Smith and Olive A White this declarant who made the supplemental declaration hereunto annexed all residents of the county of Orange and that they are all of Lawful age and that they were the only children of the aforesaid James White at the time of his death.
John G Wilkin
County Judge of Orange County
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State of New York
Orange County} ss

Robert L. Prendel Being by me duly Sworn deposes and says the [?] a resident of the County of Orange and was well acquainted with James White (deceased) late of the said County and with his family and knows that the said James White died in said County on the 27th day of August 1836 and that he left him surviving no widow - but he left the following named children Jonathan S. White of Ohio - Sarah Horton wife of Gilbert Horton Julia Ensign wife of Silas Ensign Elizabeth Smith wife of Silas Smith and Oliver A White the annexed declarant all of the County of Orange in the State of New York and that they are the only children of the said James White deceased whose declaration is hereunto annexed

deponent further said that he has no Interest in the annexed claims
Robert L. Prendell

Sworn & subscribed before me this 12th day of August 1854
John G Wilkin
County Judge of Orange County
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State of New York,
Orange County Clerk’s Office, }

I, Nathan Westcott, Clerk of the County of Orange, do hereby certify that John G Wilkin whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instruments and thereon written was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, County Judge of Orange County dwelling in said county, elected and sworn and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand=writing of such County Judge, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine; and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged or proved according to the laws of this State.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County, the 27th day of April 1855.
N Wescott Clerk.
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State of New York
Orange County} ss

James Smith of Orange County New York aged 75 years sais that he was well acquainted with James White the person named as Named in the annexed application for a Pension and know that he died in orange county on or about the 27 Day of August 1836 and that he left him surviving no widow but the following Named Children Jonathan S White of the state of Ohio & Sarah Horton wife of Gilbert Horton Julia Ensign wife Silas Ensign Elizabeth Smith wife of Silas Smith and Oliver a White the person who made the sicond application all of Orange County and that they were all and the only children of the said James White that they are all of Full age.

This deponent sais that he has been a Resident of Wallkill in the said County of Orange and was acquainted with the said James White from his Earliest Infancy and know that any statement made by the said James White is worthy of Full credit and belief.

He further sais that he is no relative of the said James White & that he has no Interest in any Pension that may be granted for his services 
James Smith

Subscribed & Sworn before me this 17th day of Dicbr 1854
G. Houston Justice of the Peace

His words no widow but were interlined before signing
G. Houston Justice
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Orange County } ss

Michael R Brundage being by me dule sworn deposed and sais that he is 60 years old and that he has always been a Resident of Orange County and has always known James White the person named in the first application hereunto annexed and knows that he is dead and that he died at Orange County on or about the 27th day of August 1836 and that he left him surviving no widow - but that he left the following Named Children all of whom he was well acquainted 
Jonathan S. White of the state of Ohio Sarah Horton wife of Gilbert Horton Julia Ensign wife of Silas Ensign Elizabeth Smith wife of Silas Smith and Oliver A White the applicant named in the second applicant or declarant and that they are the only heirs or children of the said James White as above named in the first application at the time of his death, and that this deponent further sais that he has no interest in the Event of this application & that the said Children are all of Full age -
Michael R Brundage

Subscribed & Sworn before me this 17th Day of Frb 1855
G. Houston
Justice of the Peace
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Orange County
CLERK’s OFFICE, } ss.

I, NATHAN WESCOTT, Clerk of said county, and the County Court of said county, (a Court of Record,) do hereby certify that George Houston whose name is subscribed to the annexed declaration & affidavit, was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace of said count, duly elected and qualified and having full power to take the same; and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice, and verily believe that the signature G Houston subscribed to the said --- affidavit as genuine.

In witness whereof, I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court and county this 24 day of April 1855
N Wescott Clerk
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No. 38904
James White dec’d
NY
G.F. Houston May 3 1855

11416

June 7 1832
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[strikethrough] Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873, [strikethrough]

11,416
P.O.
James White
Service:

Enlisted: ---, 18
Discharged: ---, 18

Application filed: ---, 18

Alleges: ---
Re-enlisted: ---

Attorney: ---
P.O. ---
--- Recognized, --- Contract.
--- Cert. of Dis. Searched for ---, 18

Stamped over the top of the document
REJECTED