Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6020, for Philip Knickerbocker, New York
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(3-1776)
SERVICE New York
Knickerbocker, Philip
Hannah
NUMBER R6020

CONTENTS
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1.188 Oct 20/52
Application of Hannah Knickerbocker widow of Philip for a Pension N.Y.
Oct 25/52

B.F. Chapman
Atty for Op.

Clockville
Madison Co,
New York

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Oct. 25th 1852
Appl of Philip Knickerbocker decd by his widow Hannah Knickerbocker N.Y.

Act 7 June 1832 [crossed out]
Act 3 Feby 1853

[three illegible words crossed out]
B. F Chapman
Clockville
Madison Co. NY
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State of New York Madison County ss:
Hannah Knickerbocker of said county being duly sworn doth depose and say that she is eighty years old. That she is the widow of Philip Knickerbocker who was a soldier in the war with Great Britain known as the Revolutionary War. That she was married to said Philip Knickerbocker on the 5th day of July 1806 at the town of Gallatin in the County of Columbia in the sate of New York by Rev. Herman Vidler a record of which marriage is hereto attached. That said Philip Knickerbocker died in the County of Columbia in said state in the year 1827. And this deponent has not remarried & continued his widow ever since. That this deponent's name before she married said Knickerbocker was Hannah Harden; That this deponent has no personal knowledge of said Knickerbocker's being engage in the service of the United States. But she knows it from what she heard her said husband say & what others who were engaged with him have said about it. Said Philip Knickerbocker often told this deponent and others that he had served in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War that he entered the service for during the entire war and served until its close; this deponent has seen his paper showing that he had done service in said war. but that all of his papers relating to his military service were burned of and destroyed soon after the death of her husband. This deponent says that said Knickerbocker entered the service of the American Army from the County of Columbia
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Application of Hannah Knickerbocker for the Pension of her husband & herself.
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and that his name can be found on the muster rolls of the Army - now on file in the department at Washington. This deponent has no means of knowing what company or regiment he was attached to. 
This deponent therefore prays for relief under the several acts of Congress for the relief of the widows of Revolutionary soldiers.
In presence of Stephen Chapman 
Hannah Foland
Maurice Foland

Hannah [her X mark] Knickerbocker

Subscribed & sworn to this 20th day of August 1852 before me. And I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with said Hannah Knickerbocker & believe her to be of the age as above stated and that she is a woman of good standing & creditable and I certify that the reason she did not unto her name is that she never learned to write and I further certify the above statement by her to be true.
Stephen Chapman
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Madison County ss
I Robert J Hildreth of the town of Fabius in the County of Onondaga being duly sworn according to law Saith that he is sixty one years of age August 24 in the year 1852 & that he formerly resided in the County of Dutchess and there became acquainted with Philip Knickerbocker forty five years ago and been intimately acquainted with him before and after he was married to Hannah Harder; who made the foregoing affidavit and application for a pension as hereunto annexed and am well acquainted with the said Hannah Knickerbocker who is now the widow of the said Philip Knickerbocker and have heard him the said Philip state on many occasions and at different times that he was a soldier in the Revolution Army and in several engagements and the statements were made to various other soldiers of the Revolutionary Army who were with him as they stated grew that he was correct for they knew the same was true. he died about twenty five or six years since at the County of Columbia N.Y. and further this deponent saith not.
Robert J. Hildreth

Subscribed and sworn before me this 11th day of August 1852. And I further certify that I believe him to be of the age as above stated and that his statements can be believed as true.
Stephen Chapman Justice of the Peace
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Columbia County Clerk's Office, } ss.

I, John R. Currie Clerk of the County of Columbia Do hereby certify, that Moshier Spaldin Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was on the day of the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. And further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the name of the said Justice subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the said County, this 28th day of June 1852.

John R. Currie Clerk
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State New York 
Columbia County } SS:  Herman Vedder of said county being duly sworn deposes and says that he is seventy one years old & upwards: That since 1804 he has been and continued to the present time a minister of Gospel residing in the town of Gallatin in said county - and duly authorized to solomnize marriages. That he was well acquainted with Captain Philip Kickerbacker and that he was very partially acquainted with Hannah Harder of Kinderhook in said County previous to her marriage with said Philip Knickerbocker: That this deponent united in marriage said Philip Knickerbocker to said Hannah Harder on the 5th day of July 1806 at the said town of Gallatin in said County of Columbia 
That this deponent has kept a record of the marriages generally which he has solomnized and has a record of the above marriage of which the following is a true copy to wit 
“Record of Marriages”
“ July 5th 1806 Married by Harn Vedder V.D.M. Philip Knickerbocker of Dutches County to Hannah Harder of Columbia”
That said Knickerbocker at that time resided at the town of Pine Plains (an adjoining to Gallatin) in Dutchess County, and that he the said Philip was and continued a member of this deponents Church until he removed out of the bounds of this deponents Congregation [crossed out:until his death] that he died out of this town and this deponent can not state the year of said Knickerbockers death 
[signed] Herman Vedder
Subscribed & sworn to this 28 day of June 1852 before me
[signed] Moshier Sholdin Justus of the piece
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STATE OF NEW-YORK.
Clerk's Office, Madison County,
SS.

I, LORENZO D DANA, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Stephen Chapman whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof [or acknowledgment - CROSSED OUT] of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or [or acknowledgment - CROSSED OUT], a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected or appointed, and qualified, and authorized by the laws of said State to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe the signature to the said certificate is genuine, and that said instrument is executed and verified [acknowledged - CROSSED OUT] according to the laws of said State.

IN TESTMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, the 18th day of October 1852.

Clerk.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

July 6, 1926

Frank K. Haines,
Pomfret Centre, Conn.


Sir:
I have to advise you, that from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 6020, it appears that Philip Knickerbocker married July 5, 1806, at Gallatin, Columbia County, New York, Hannah Harder and he died in Columbia County, New York in 1828, or 1827.

On August 20, 1852, while living in Madison County, New York, aged eighty years, the widow Hannah applied for pension and alleged that her husband entered the service
during the Revolution, but her claim was not allowed as the failed to furnish proof of his services.

Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.
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Pomfret Center Come
April 9th 1926

Pension Bureau
Washington D.C

Gentlemen,
I wish to ascertain if possible what records you have concerning one Philip Knickerbacher and his widowHannah Harder Knickerbacher (or Knickerbocker) who I am told received a pension on account of his services in the War of the Revolution, serving at Battle of Saratoga.

I wish particularly to ascertain the dates of their deaths. His was in the neighborhood of 1819, in Dutchess or Columbia Co. NY Her's between 1838 and 1865 in Syracuse N.Y

I will pay any charge required for the search.
Yours truly
Frank K. Haines

[STAMP]
U.S. Pension Office
S
APR
21
1926
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NO 882

Hannah Knickerbocker
Widow of Philip

N. York
1853 let to B. P. Chapman, June 6.
6020
Act 3 Feb. 1853
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Nov. 6 - 1903 - Histy to
Mrs. Mary K. Carpenter
Watertown N.Y.

1926 July 6 Hist. to Frank K. Haines  AW.

6020
P.O.:
Hannah Knickerbocker wid Philip
Service: 
REJECTED [stamp]
Enlisted: ____, 18__
Discharged: ____, 18__
Application filed: ____, 18__
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Claim filed too late to be entered on rejected list of 1851
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized Contract
Cert. of Dis. Searched for ____, 18__
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[LEFT AND RIGHT COLUMNS]
Nov. 6 1903 - Hist to
Mrs. Mary K. Carpenter
Watertown N.Y.
1914 Nov. 4 Hist. to
W.B. Knickerbocker ¢
1914 Nov. 14 History to
B.D. Knickerbocker ¢
1914 Dec. 1. W.B Knickerbocker
ref. to and for last payment ¢
1914 Dec. 4 Hist. to C.J. Knickerbocker ¢


[CENTER COLUMN]
INVALID
Revy
File No. 44286
Harmonus Knickerbocker
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index - Vol. 3, Page 281
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Knierbecker, Herman
GRADE Private
LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4509
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED  Apr 21, 1796
to -- not shown ---

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.