Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42868, for Henry Like, New York
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New York
Like, Henry
S42868
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9009

New York

Henry Like
of Germantown in the State of New York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Van Cortland of the New York
line, for the term of seven years

Inscribed on the roll of New York
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence
on the 20 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of April 1819
and sent G. Wade Esquire Washington City D.C.

Arrears of 4th of March 1819  $83.96
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819   $48.00

Total:  $131.96

Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March 1818

D. 5 107

Continued

New Certificate issued and
forwarded to Jabez W. Throop at
Schoharie N.Y. March 26 1835
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Henry Like 
N York line Livingston & Van, Court
Cand's Reg. Van,
Ranseler & Bell's Cr.
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State of New York
Columbia County} ss

On this eighth day of June one thousand eight hundred & twenty personally appeared in open Court being the Court of Common Pleas and a court of record before the Judges of said court Henry Like aged sixty three years residing in Germantown in said county & State who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 & the 1st of May 1820.  That he the said Henry Like enlisted for during the war and as near as he can recollect in the year 1776 what season of the year he does not recollect but believes to be in the spring in the Town of Germantown in said county & State in Col. James Livingston's regiment in Capt. Peter Van Rensalear's company in the line of the state of New York on the continental establishment  that he remained in said regiment untill the defeat at Rhode Island the year not recollected and after that he was transferred into Col. Coutta [?] new regiment Capt. Samuel Pitts company that he was honorably discharged at New Windsor below the Highlands in the state of New York according to his best recollection  that he was at the taking of Corn Wallace  General Burgoyne Battle at Rhode Island & [illegible] near fort Stanix and that he has no further evidence of his said services except the affidavit of [illegible] to John Sawyer heretofore forwarded to the secretary of war with any original application and in pursuance of the act
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of the 1st of May 1820  I do sollemly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner [illegible] of my property or any part thereof with an intent thereby so to diminish it as to [illegible - looks like possibly "posing"] myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval services 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 me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than that is contained in the schedule hereto annexed which said schedule is Blank - that I have no property real or personal.  that I am by occupation a laborer and never learned a trade  that I am now so old and infirm as to be unable to labor for a subsistence   that I have a wife & seven children named Margaret Like, Elmer Like, Mariah Like, Amy Like, Samuel Like, Joseph Like, & Adam Like all of which have left home and neither of them are in a situation now than to support themselves  that two of them named Mariah & Amy together with my wife are now & have been for nearly three years supported by the town of Germantown in said county & state & that since I rec'd my pension a portion has been applied by me to this support and the remainder paid by the town -
[signed] Henry Like
his X mark
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Sworn to and [illegible] in open court the 7th day of June 1820 -

[signed] John J. Miller -
First Judge of said Court

I Abraham B. Van der Poel clerk of the County of Columbia do hereby certify that the foregoing statement and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court and as 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 _____ Dollars _____x cents _____

In testimony whereof I have hereto sent my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 26th day of June one thousand eight hundred & twenty

[signed] A. B. Van der Poel Clerk of the Court of Com. Pleas


State of New York
County of Columbia}ss
And I Abraham B. Van der Poel clerk as aforesaid do further certify that the said Court of Common Pleas is expressly [illegible] a court of Record by a statute of the said state of New York  That the said court proceeds in & according the course of the [illegible] law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount & that it keeps a Record of its proceedings & further that the said court has the power of fine & imprisonment - Witness my name & the county seal the 26th day of July 1820
[signed] A. B. Van der Poel Clerk
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State of New York
County of Columbia ss}
On this 20th day of April 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in & for the county and state aforesaid personally appears Henry Like aged sixty one years resident in Germantown in the county aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration to obtain the provision made by the [illegible - looks like "late"] 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
That in the spring of 1776 he enlisted at East Camp in the county aforesaid (then in the county of Albany) for the war [illegible due to an ink blot - looks like possibly "in"] Captain Peter Van Rensselaers company in Colonel Livingston's regiment in the New York line of continental troops - He continued to serve in the Land regiment till his regiment was very much cut to pieces in an action on Rhode Island when he enlisted with most of those who remained of Colonel Livingston's regiment into Colonel Van Cortlands Regiment of New York continental troops. - Captain Bell was the commander of the company to which he was attached in Van Cortland's regiment - 
He continued to serve in Van Cortlands regiment, which was the Second New York Regiment, till the end of the war when he was discharged near New Burgh at the time the American army was disbanded.
The war at the Battle of Rhode - Island and
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the taking of General Burgoyne and Lord Cornwallis and in active service during all the above [illegible].
That he is in reduced circumstances  & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services excepting the affidavit of Christopher Loyer who belonged to Captain Bell's company when the said Like enlisted in it.  Sworn & Subscribed before me the day and date aforesaid [signed] Hezekiah Dayton Judge as aforesaid}  Henry Like his X mark
I Hezekiah Dayton a Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Henry Like did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding Declaration against the common enemy:  and I now transmit the testimony & proceedings taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the declaration of the aforementioned act of Congress
Witness my hand & the seal of the said county this 20th day of April 1818  [signed] Hezekiah Dayton
A Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Columbia & State of New York

I further certify that it has been satisfactorily proved to me that the said Henry Like is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support - and that the annexed affidavit is a man on whose testimony full [illegible] may be placed -
[illegible] 20th April 1818 - [signed] Hezekiah Dayton
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[image is a folded page]
[left side of page - written upside down:]

Like  14
Admitted.

[written on right side of page:]

4
Henry Like N York line Livingston & Van, Cortland's Regt. Van, Ranseler & Bell's Co
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State of New York
County of Columbia ss}
Christopher Loyer of Germantown in the county and state aforesaid being duly sworn ^says^ that he this Deponent and Henry Like named in the foregoing affidavit belonged in 2d. New York Regiment commanded by Colonel Philip Van Cortland at the close of the Revolutionary War and for five years at least previous to that time in Captain Samuel Bell's company and that they were both discharged at the same time near Newburgh in the summer of 1783.
Sworn & Subscribed by making his mark this 20th day of April 1818
[signed] Hezekiah Dayton 
A Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County & State aforesaid}
Christopher Loyer his X mark

State of New York Columbia County Clerks Office -} I Certify that Hezekiah Dayton whose name appears to the annexed Certificate & affidavit is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County  I Certify further that I know said signature to be his hand writing  Witness my Name & the seal of said Court this 18th June 1818.
C Miller Clerk
[there is a circular seal affixed in bottom left corner of page]
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42868
INVALID.
Revy

File No. 42.868
Henry Like
Priv Rev War

Act: 18th March 18
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 293-

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Henry Like, Rev.  New York. roll

Please state to what time the above named Pensioner was last paid.   
Pension Office
Mar. 26- 1835

To the 3 Aud. Office

Paid to 4th Sept 1834.
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J. W. Throop
Jan 22. - 1835

Schoharre [illegible - looks like "c/2" or "ch"] NY  Free
Jany 21

The Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington D.C

[illegible - possibly "ani." or "aus."] Jan 31st 1833-

Pension Office
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Schoharrie Jan'y. 22nd 1835

To the Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War

Sir    Henry Like represents that he has been inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the United States as a Revolutionary Pensioner and that he has had a Certificate from the war Office of the United States to that efect.  that the same has been worn out and intirely distroyed.  by which means he is unable to obtain his pension.  as the affedavit of the said Henry Like hereunto annexed therewith
therefore he request your [illegible] [illegible] and a Duplicate certificate to be made out and forward to him for the purpose of his receiving his Pension
if a certificate should be sent pleas have it directed to Schoharrie ch N.Y as Mr. Like now resides in this neighborhood
for and in behalf of the said Henry Like
I am your Obedient Humble Servant
[signed] Jabez W Throop
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[image appears to be an addressed envelope]

Free
Schoharrie ch NY
Feby 24   JW Throop PM

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington. D.C

[written sideways along left side of page:]

Mar 2
for Dup. Cert
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Schoharrie ch NY. Feby 24 1835

Sir   enclosed are the affidavits of Henry Like an applicant for a New Certificate and of Samuel Like as to the identity of Henry Like

by the request of Mr Like if a New Certificate should be granted he requests it may be sent to this place as he now resides in this vicinity
yours Respectfully
Jabez W. Throop

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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Application for a New Certificate

County of Schoharrie ss
on this seventeenth day of February 1835, before me the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county Schoharrie personally appeared Henry Like who, on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Samuel Bell in the regiment commanded by Colonel Philip Cortland, in the service of the United States:  that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York that he received a certificate, of that fact made the signature and seal of the Secretary of War:  which certificate: on & about the fourth day of September 1834 at or near the Town Livingston in the County of Columbia  that on or about the fourth day of September 1834 he this deponent  had his said original certificate for the purpose of making out necessary papers and power of attorney to obtain his pension that was due him at that time.  and the said original Certificate was worn out and [illegible] distroyed that it could not be of any further use and was there left, of which he has seen nothing since
Henry Like his X mark

Sworn and Subscribed to before me the daylight and year aforesaid}
[signed] David Miles Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of Schoharrie}ss
Be it known that before me David Miles a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Samuel Like and made oath in due course of law and says that he is well acquainted with Henry Like and knowes him to be the identical Henry Like whose name is Subscribed to the foregoing affidavit 
[signed] Samuel Like  
Sworn and Subscribed this 17th day of February 1835}
before me  [signed] David Miles Justice of the peace    I certify that the above named Samuel Like is a man of respectability and veracity
[signed] David Miles Justice of the peace

State of New York
Schoharie County
Clerk's Office ss}
I, Abraham A Keyser, Clerk of the said County, do certify, that David Miles, whose name is above subscribed, and before whom the preceding affidavits were taken, was on the day and at the date of taking said affidavits, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly qualified according to law; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signatures, David Miles, above subscribed, are the proper hand writing of the said David Miles.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County, this 23rd day of February 1835.
[signed] A A Keyser Clerk