Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39948, David Austin, New York
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(3-1776)
SERVICE  New York
Austin, David
NUMBER  S.39948
CONTENTS  [blank]
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19.223 R
Pennsylvania
David Austin
of Tioga Cy in the state of Pen who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain Swartout of the regiment commanded by by Colonel Ganesvoort [Gansevoort] in the New York line, for the term of 1776 - 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17th of February 1824.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of March 1824 and Sent to Uriah Spencer Esqr, Tioga Pennsylvania
Arrears to 4th of March 1824 $4.74
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1824 $48
$52.74
{Revolutionary claims Acts March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820.}
March 1st 182[illegible]

From 24/70

Date of death not on A.B
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see page of Regt.
W Edwards
Hon J. C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
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District of Pennsylvania
County of Tioga Ss
On this seventeenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and  and twenty four Personally appeared in Open Court being a court of common pleas in and for the said County being a Court of record proceeding according to the course of Common Law a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount David Austin aged seventy years or there abouts Resident in the Sullivan township in the said district and County who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War for three years, that he enlisted for three years on the 25th day of November in the year of our Lord 1776 in Duchess County in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Abraham Swartout of the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Peter Garnzevoort [Gansevoort] in the line of the State of New York in the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps in the service of the United States untill the twenty fifth day of November A.D. 1779 and that on the 21st day of April 1818 he made a declaration before Ira Kelburn Esq a Judge of this Court and afterward on the 10th day of December A.D. 1819 he made another
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Declaration before Samuel W. Morris Esquire likewise a Judge of said Court And I do solomnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for for me any property or securities contracts or Debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed 
[signed] David Austin 
Schedule of Property
One Iron Pot Cracked $1 Dollar One Tea Kittle 88 Cents one Spider 58 cents one Dish Kettle 1.40 one fire Shovel 75 Cents one Trammel 1 Dollar one Grass sythe 37 cents one Peck [illegible] 88 cents one hoe 25 cents one hammer and trowel $1.12 cents one Tub 44 one [illegible] 25 cents to Draw [illegible, knives?] 1.25 cents one shoe Hammer & Punches 44 Cents Four sass [illegible] nets $1.12 one Bottle 12 cents one tin pail 12 Cents four spoons 12 Cts Four Knives
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& four forks 50 cts four Plates 18 cents two basins 31 Cents Common Table 88 Cents three old Chairs $1,00 one Chest 25 cents one meal Cask 75 cents one hand saw 50 cents three baskets __ Cents One old half Bushel 25 Cents one cow Bell 1 Dollar amounting to Eighteen Dollars 24 Cents 
[signed] David Austin 
Sworn to and subscribed on the 17th day of February 4 A.D. 1824 before me in open Court 

District of Pennsylvania 
Tioga County Prothonotarys office ss
I Uriah Spencer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tioga do hereby certify the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly Copied from the Record of said Court and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Eighteen Dollars and twenty four Cents - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 17th day of February 1824 
[signed] Uriah Spencer Proty
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November 11, 1932 
DAVID AUSTIN 
S. 39948 
BA-J/MLB 
Miss Olive E. Austin 
212 Davison Avenue 
Highland Park, Michigan 
Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter relative to David Austin, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. 
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 39948, based upon the Revolutionary War service of David Austin, and said papers do not show the date and place of his birth nor the names of his parents. 
David Austin enlisted November 25, 1776, in Dutchess County, New York, and served as a private in Captain Abraham Swartwout's company, Colonel Peter Gansevoort's 3” New York Regiment, until November 25, 1779. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed February 17, 1824, at which time he was aged about seventy years and a resident of Sullivan Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. 
No reference was made in the claim to wife or children. 
There is no application on file for bounty land on account of the service in the Revolution of David Austin. 
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name of the person paid, and possibly the date of soldier's death, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following data: - David Austin, Certificate 19223, issued March 29, 1824, rate $8 per month, commenced February 17, 1824,
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Act of March 18, 1818, Pennsylvania Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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1932, Nov 11 - Hist to Miss Olive E Austin M.L.B. 

39948 Revy INVALID. 
File No. 39948 
David Austin Pri Rev War 
Act: 18 March 18 
Index: - Vol. 3 Page 19 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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see page 1, Rigr 
David Austin 
Uriah Spencer 
Tioga, Penna.
Recd. 6 Mar. 1824
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David Austin

3/
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State of New York 
Otsego County ss  [On the] thirteenth day of [March]1823. before me Abijah H Beach one of the Judges in & for the said County of Otsego - personally appeared Seth Rowley to me known as a credible Witness and on being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is personally well acquainted with David Austin the applicant for a pension hereunto annexed and that he was so acquainted with him the said Austin in the Revolutionary War - that he this Deponant served in the said War in same Compy and Regiment with the said Austin and very well recollects & knows that the said David Austin did serve in Colonel Peter Gansvoorts Regiment in the years 1777 and 1778 at least two years in the 3d New York Regiment in which this Deponant servd at the same time and on the Continental Establishment - & verily believes he servd a longer time - for this deponent saith he left sd Austin in the said Regiment doing duty as a private Soldier when he Deponant left it.—sd Deponant very well recollects that the sd Austen did duty with him in the aforesaid Regiment at least two years viz 1777 & 1778 and further Deponant saith not – 
[signed] Seth Rowley 
Sworn to & Subscribed on the 13th day of March 1823 before me Abijah H Beach one of the Judges as aforesaid- 

Otsego County
Clks office ss  I Do hereby certify that Abijah H. Beach Esquire Before whom the forgoing affidavit was taken was on the day of the date thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County duly commissioned & Sworn 
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common pleas of said County this 17 day of March 1823 
[signed] William Nichols Clk
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State of New York 
Montgomery County ss
on the twenty ninth day of Decr 1823 came before John G. Sweet Esqr one of the Justices of the peace of the County aforesaid - personally appeared Jonathan Pinckney to me known as a credible Witness and on being duly sworn doth depose and say he is personally well acquainted with David Austin the applicant for a pension hereunto annext and that he was so acquainted with him the said Austin in the Revolutionary war that he this deponent served in the said War in the same Regiment with the said Austin and very well recollects and knows that the said David Austin did serve in Colonel Peter Gansvoorts Regiment in the years - 1777 and 1778 at least two years in the 3d New York Regiment in which this deponent served at the same time and on the Continental Establishment and really believes he served a longer time - for this deponent saith he left sd Austin in the said Regiment doing duty as a private Soldier when he deponent left it  - sd. Deponent very well recollects that the said Auslin did duty with him in the aforesaid Regiment at least two years |viz| 1777 and 1778 and further Deponent saith not- 
[signed] Jonathan Pinckney X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me John G. Sweet one of the Justices of the County aforesaid on the 29th day of Dec. 1823
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State of New York 
Montgomery County Clerks office ss.  I do hereby certify that John G. Sweet Esquire whoes name appears subscribed to the certificate of the annexed affidavit was at the time of taking the said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Commissioned Sworn and duly authorized by Law to take the same 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 29th day of December 1823 
[signed] A. J. Comrie Dep Clerk
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IN REPLY REFER TO 
Rev. and 1812 Wars Section. 
3-2562 
UNITED STATES 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS 
WASHINGTON February 18, 1930. 
Miss Olive E. Austin 
212 Davison Avenue 
Highland Park, Michigan. 
Dear [crossed out: Sir] 
I advise you that the data furnished by you are not sufficient to enable this bureau to make intelligent reply to the queries contained your letter. 
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below, as the information your possession will permit, and return to this bureau. 
First name of widow. Hannah (probably)
Full name of soldier David Austin.
Residence of soldier at enlistment Don’t know 
Residence of soldier after service Tioga County, Pa. probably about 1819
Name of state from which he enlisted Don’t know 
Approximate date of birth About 1764 or 1765 
Approximate date of death Some time after 1819 probably
Kindly return attached letter with your reply. 
Respectfully, 
[signed] Earl D. Church 
EARL D. CHURCH 
Commissioner.

[stamped] Revolutionary & 1812 Wars Section Bureau of Pensions NOV 5 1932
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212 Davison Ave, 
Highland Park 
Michigan 
Jan. 6, 1930. 
Pension Dept 
Washington D.C. 
Dear Sir 
Will is you please send me any information you have in the old Revolutionary records relating to any David Austin and his family who may be mentioned in your records - any David Austin whether he came from Vermont, New York, Mass. Rhode Island, or Conn or. New Hampshire 
I don't know where the David I’m looking up came from. Your records may help me to know. 
Yours sincerity 
Olive E. Austin

[stamped] Revolutionary & 1812 Wars Section
Bureau of Pensions Jan 3 1930

[stamped] Revolutionary & 1812 Wars Section
Bureau of Pensions Nov 5 1932
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212 Davison Ave. 
Highland Park, 
Michigan
Oct. 31, 1932.
of B Line NY Bk Rev 
Bureau of Pensions 
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sirs:
I have been searching for information about my Revolutionary ancestor, David Austin.
[note between paragraphs] no land
When I sent you the enclosed letter of Jan. 6, 1930, I had learned that there were five or six David Austins in the U.S. according to the census of 1790 - but, which, if any, was my ancestor I did not know.
Within the last year, however I have learned that our David may have lived in Tioga County, Pa about 1819 and thereafter - perhaps before that date. 
I have no doubt he is on the
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pension rolls, as he served throughout the Revolutionary War.
In an old cemetery near Mainsburg Tioga County, Pa., I found this tombstone record: “Hannah wife Hannah of David Austin Died Mar. 2, 1828 ae. 73 yrs 7 mo. 20 days” 
Perhaps, if David died first, you have a record of a pension paid to David's widow which was stopped at the time of her death. 
The above record, I believe to be that of my great great grandmother because at her side lies Luther Austin, who, no doubt, was her son and my great grandfather. 
My great grandfather, after the death of his wife in 1845, left Alleghany County NY, and went to live among relatives in or near Mainsburg, Tioga Co. Pa. He had a brother Alvin Austin - also a sister Lucy (Mrs. Lyman Rumsey) who lived there. 
Please send me all the information you have regarding the above mentioned 
over
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David Austin, and his family 
All soldiers, I believe, at the close of the Revolutionary War were given land. Please give me also the location of David's piece. This information may help me to trace family history.
Yours sincerely, 
[signed] Olive E. Austin