Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11,527, for Jacob T Ten Eyck, New York
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(3-1776) 

SERVICE 
New York 

Ten Eyck, Jacob T 

NUMBER 
S. 11.527 
carded

CONTENTS
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New York 8877 
Jacob T. Ten Eyck of Montgomery in the State of New York who was a private in the Company command by Captain Van of the Rigt. commanded by Col Wimple in the New York line for 2 years 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 - Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of May 1833. and sent to Giles F Yates Schenectady N.Y. 
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  $160
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 1833 40 
[totals] $200
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk. 
Book E.  Vol. 4  Page 32.
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No. 12.467
Jacob T. Ten Eyck

G. F. Yates
Schenectady N.Y.
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BRIEF in the case of Jacob T. Ten Eyck 
County of Montgomery in the State of N.Y. 
(Act 7th June, 1832.) 
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court 
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
3. How old is he? 72 
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
[TABLE]
Period.  |   Duration of Service.  |  Rank. As a   |  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
In 1778  |  15 Days  |  drafted  |  Col. Wimple, Capt Van Slyck
79 after this  |  1 Month 15 Days  |  drafted  |  same officers all the times
after this  |  1 Month  |  drafted  |  
after this  |  22 Days  |  drafted  |
80  |  1 Month 15 Days  |  Pay Master  |
after this  |  1 Month  |  Pay Master  |
after this  |  1 Month  |  Pay Master  |
81  |  22 Days  |  Pay Master  |  
States his service at 3 ys
5. In what battles was he engaged? none 
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Schenectady
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Depositions 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
[signed] Sevin Belt Examining Clerk.
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Montgomery Co Court 
In the matter of the application of Jacob T. Ten Eyck for a pension 
12.467
Proceedings &c
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No. 7
To the care of Giles F. Yates 
Schenectady N.Y.
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State of New York 
County of Montgomery } ss   On this Nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, now sitting, Jacob T. Ten Eyck, a resident of the town of Root in said County aged seventy-two years and upwards, 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 7th 1832. 
He was born on the 14th day of February 1760 in the township of Schenectady, and the record of his age is in the Register of Baptisms, kept by the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in said town ship (now City) of Schenectady. He lived in Schenectady aforesaid when called into service, and resided there after the war until about 25 years ago when he removed to said County of Montgomery, and now resides in the town of Root aforesaid.
He entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated 
In the year 1776, when he arrived at the age of sixteen, he was called as a private in the company of Militia [illegible] beat; to wit the Company of Jesse Van Slyck the Regiment of Colonel
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Abraham Wemple. His other Company and field officers whom he recollects, were Francis Veeder and Walter Vrooman Lieutenants Abraham Swits and Myndert Wemple Majors. For the first year after his enrollment at the instance and by the persuasion of his father, he hired a substitute. But with the exception of this year, he served regularly every year of the war. From the year 1780, he was the paymaster of said Regiment of Colonel Wemple, and served as such until the termination of said war. Notwithstanding his performing the duties of paymaster as aforesaid he stood his drafts with the other members of said Regiment, and discharged his other military duties. 
Our frontiers being every year annoyed and harassed by the Tories British and Indians, the services of the militia were in constant requisition. The most prominent expeditions in which he engaged as near as he can recollect them were as follows.
In the year 1778, when the Indians and their Tory associates destroyed the settlements of German flatts, he was with a part of his Regiment at Colonel Clock's near the German flatts, and on their way thither in which he was engaged about two weeks. In 1779, he went from Schoharie to Cobleskill to aid in burying the dead that had been butchered there by the enemy in this service at Schoharie & Cobleskill he was engaged about six weeks He has performed garrison duty at it Fort Paris about four weeks (Stone Arabia), at the Schoharie forts about one month and at Fort Hunter about three weeks. He was at Schoharie in the fall of the year 1780 about six weeks when the forces under command of Sir John Johnson made a descent on the Schoharie settlements - was at Caughnawaga and Johnstown about one month with the troops that
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went in pursuit of Sir John Johnson and Major Ross after they had laid waste the Mohawk Country - he was at Fort Plank nearly a month at one time, when Fort Plain was destroyed by the enemy. In the year 1781, he was at Sacondaga [Sacandaga] employed under command of Governor Clinton in erecting fortifications at that post about three weeks. He was often out on short excursions besides those above stated, but cannot possibly recollect all the occasions, nor how long each time, yet he conscientiously believes that the whole period of his actual services from the beginning to the end of the war, exceeds three years – 
The following are the names of some of the regular officers whom he knew, or who were with the troops where he served, and such regiments as he recollects: to wit his brothers Captain Ten Eyck & John DePeyster Ten Eyck Paymaster in Colonel Livingston's Regiment, Major Fink, Major Frey, Colonel Goosen Van Schaick Captain Wendell, Lieutenant Youngs, Captain Brown, Colonel Marinus Willett & his Regiment of State Troops, & Colonel Gaansvoort’s Regiment & Lieutenant Colonel Abraham Cuyler & Genl Ten Broeck. He never to his knowledge received any written discharge from the service, and is not aware that such discharges were given to any of the members of his Company or Regiment. 
The following are the names of persons to whom he is known in his present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to his char [character, continued on next page]
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[character] acter for veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution: to wit. Adam H. Van Slyck & Cornelius Van alstine the 4th 

He has no documentary evidence; but can produce the testimony of John Sanders & Lieutenant James H. Peck who can testify to his services (which testimony is hereunto annexed)
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State 
[signed] Jacob T Ten Eyck
Subscribed & Sworn to the day & year aforesaid 
note the words "in which he was engaged about two weeks” “In this service at Schoharie & Cobleskill he was engaged about six weeks" “about four weeks, “about three weeks “about six weeks” & “about one month” on the 2d page; all interlined before the signing & swearing to the foregoing declaration – 
[signed] Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk 
We Adam H. Van Slyck and Cornelius Van alstine the 4th residing in the town of Root in said County of Montgomery, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob T. Ten Eyck 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.
[signed] Adam H Van Slyck  Cornelius Van alstine
Subscribed and sworn to the day & year aforesaid 
[signed] Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk.
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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 revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies, that it has been made satisfactorily to appear to them that there is no clergyman living in the immediate vicinity of said applicant - and that it appears to them that Adam H. Van Slyck and Cornelius Van Alstine who have signed the preceding certificate, residents of the town of Root - in said County, are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit. 
I George D. Ferguson Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob T. Ten Eyck for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twentieth day of September One thousand eight hundred & thirty-two. 
[signed] Geo: D. Ferguson
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County of Schenectady ss.
I James H. Peck of the Town of Rotterdam in said County, late a Lieutenant in the army of the Revolution, do hereby Certify, that I am well acquainted with Jacob T. Ten Eyck of the Town of Root in the County of Montgomery an applicant for a pension under the act of 7th June 1832 - that I knew him during the revolutionary war, and have personal knowledge of his service in said war as a private in Captain Jesse Van Slyck’s Company in the Regiment of Militia of the (then) County of Albany whereof Abraham Wemple was Colonel, and know that he served as such from the year one thousand seven Hundred and seventy-eight to the year one thousand seven Hundred and Eighty when he received the appointment of paymaster in said Regiment of Colonel Wemple - and served as such paymaster till the end of the war. I further certify that I served with him the said Jacob in the year one thousand seven Hundred & Seventy Eight at the time of the destruction of German flatts by Sir John Johnson & the troops under his command - but I do not remember to have been out in company with him in any other military expedition, but know that said Jacob served in manner & for the time above stated.
[signed] James H Peck
Subscribed & sworn this 8th day of August 1832 before me 
[signed] Wm Strong JP.
And I the said Wm Strong Peck do hereby
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certify that James H. Peck who signed and swore to the foregoing certificate is a man of credibility & that his statement is entitled to credit. Augt 8th 1832 
[signed] Wm. Strong JP.
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County of Schenectady ss 
I John Sanders of the town of Glenville in said County having during the revolutionary war belonged to the Regiment of Militia commanded by Col Abraham Wemple do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jacob T. Ten Eyck now of the town of Root in the County of Montgomery an applicant for a pension under the act of 7th June 1832 that I knew him during the revolutionary war and have knowledge of his service in said war that when the regiment was organized he was under sixteen years that as soon as he arrived at that age he became a private in Capt Jesse Van Slyck’s company that he has known him a considerable time in service with himself at Stone Arabia also for a considerable time at Fort hunter but does not distinctly recollect the years when said services were performed that I know he at several other times was in service at which I was not personally present but know to true and would amount to considerable length of time that I know him to be aged and in reduced circumstances that I know that Jacob was always very ready and willing to render and discharge his Military duties whenever required
[signed] John Sanders
Subscribed & Sworn this 9th day August 1832 
[signed] James Caw Jnr. Justice
and I the said James Caw Jnr. do certify That Judge John Sanders Esqr who signed and swore to the foregoing certificate is a man of great credibility and that his statement is entitled to the utmost credit. August the 9th 1832 
James Caw J.P.
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County of Schenectady ss.
Adam Vrooman of the City of Schenectady in said County, being duly Sworn and examined doth depose and say, that he was during the war of the revolution and is now well acquainted with Jacob T. Ten Eyck the same person referred to and described in the preceding depositions of James H. Peck & John Sanders that this Deponent during said war served in the same Regiment with said Ten Eyck to wit the Regiment of Colonel Abraham Wemple, but in a different Company - this Deponent remembers to have seen said Ten Eyck in service at sundry times, especially at the upper Fort in Schoharie in the year one thousand seven Hundred and seventy-eight & on the occasion of burying the dead at Cobleskill in that year, & further this Deponent saith not. 
[signed] Adam Vrooman
Subscribed & sworn this 9th day of August 1832 before me 
[signed] Wm Strong J. P. 
I Wm Strong Justice the peace before whom the preceding deposition of Adam Vrooman has been taken, do hereby certify that said Adam Vrooman is a man of credibility & that his statements are entitled to credit. Schenectady August 9th 1832 
[signed] Wm Strong J.P. 
State of New York 
County of Schenectady } ss
I John S. Vrooman Clerk of said County of Sche [Schenectady, continued on next page]
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nectady, [Schenectady, continued from previous page] do hereby certify, that William Strong & James Caw, before whom the preceding affidavits of James H. Peck, John Sanders & Adam Vrooman purport to have been sworn, were at the respective dates of the same, each, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County - that I am acquainted with the hand writing of each respectively and verily believe that the name of said James Caw and William Strong subscribed to said affidavits, to be the proper hand writing & signature of said James Caw & William Strong respectively 
Witness my hand & Seal of office, this third day of September One Thousand Eight Hundred & Thirty-two.
[signed] John S. Vrooman  Clerk
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Rev War
11527
INVALID.
File No. 11.527
Jacob T Ten Eyck 
Priv Rev War 
Act: June 7th 1832 
Index:-Vol. A, Page 370 
[Arrangement of 1870]
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No 12.467
Jacob T. Ten Eyck

Giles F. Yates
Schenectady NY
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Jacob T. Ten Eyck which require further proof or explanation. 
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes 
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? 
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes 
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled? No 
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes 
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? no 
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes 
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? yes 
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes 
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes 
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES. 
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For--- year --- months, and --- days, I served as a --- For --- months and ---- days, I served as a --- and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service 
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.