Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14669, for Abraham J Terwilliger, New York
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New York
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CONTENTS
M.
of
Terwilliger, Abraham J.
S. 14669
NUMBER
Carded
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1461
New York
Abram J. Terwilliger
Ulster in the State of N.
York
was a Private in the Comp commanded
Captain Paulding of the Reg. commanded
Col.in
the N. York
17 Ms
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York
at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of July

sent to Hon H  Brodhead [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 113.32
Semian allowance ending 4 Sep 3 28.23
$141.63
Recorded by
Book E.
Revolutionary
Steele
Vol. 3 Page 80
Claim, ┃
 
Clerk
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1867
Abraham Terwilliger
Suspd March 14. 1833
Oly 6. 16
P. 298
admd
Hon C Boadhouse
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BRIEF in the case of Abraham J Terwilliger of Wawarsing County of Ulster
in the State of New York
(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? 69
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[Chart] Period. / Duration of Service. / Rank. / Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.

 Volunteered spring of 1778 or 1779 / 8 Mo / private / Col Pauling

Volunteered Spring 1781/ 6 mo / " / ditto

draft July 1782 / 3 mo / " / not recollected

5. In what battles was he engaged? not any
 
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Shaungank New York

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditionary & living witness

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
not properly attested
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned.
Chas S Wilcox Clerk
9 March 1833
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State of New York
County of Ulster
On this 11th day September, personally appeared before the
Judge of the Court of Common pleas in open Court now sitting
Abraham I Terwilliger a resident of the town of Warwarsing
said County of Ulster and State of New York aged 69 who
being 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. That he entered the service of the
service of the United States under the following named officer
and served as herein Stated
.
that about the spring of the year 1778 he volunteered in Shawgangunk Ulster County for 8 months in a company by whom commanded he cannot remember but
that he was stationed in the Regiment of Col Paulding and served at Lachewank and at Wawarsing for said term of service that at the
time he was out and lying at Lachawach at the time that General
Sullivan went up through the County of Ulster in the way west in pursuit of indians
that he was in the company to which he belonged to most and go with General Sullivan at [illegible] near the Delaware river but that 
  General Sullivan has passed three day before they
arrived that a letter was struck up against a tree containing information of the departure of 
  General Sullivan as aforesaid  Upon receipt of which we returned to the fort at Schwack that
from there we were marched to Stony Point on the Hudson River and that from there he 
 was marched to Fishkill & poughkeepsie upon &
was then discharged
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That next in the spring of the year 1781 he thinks he  again
volunteered in the par of Shawangunk for 6 months but what
Captain he cannot remember that he was marched from Shawangunk
Wawarsing and placed in the regiment of Colonel Paulding
for the said 6 months and was stationed as a Guard at the house of
Johannes Bevin in Rochester now Wawarsing and there he stayed for a time of six months and was then discharged
That in July 1782 he then the rest after the aforesaid of
six months he volunteered for 3 months in Shawangunk in the Company
of which he can remember
the command that from Shawangunk
was marched to Stony Point on the Hudson River that he lay about
week that on the hill then-- there was some Regular Troops
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but cant remember about them that from Stony Point he was marched to Fishkill in Dutchess County and from there to Poughkeepsie then to Albany then to Fort Plain on the Gennessee - from there or about 10 or 12 of us was [illegible] from the company to drive some cattle from fort [illegible] to Fort Stanwix for the use of the troops there lying - that this was regular troop lying at Fort Stanwix but cannot remember under whose command then from fort Stanwix he returned to fort plain that at the place he was discharged that on his way home from Fort Plain there was about 50 of us - when at about a mile from the fort we met a pack of indians when we immediately formed a rank and fired but upon discovering the enemy to amount to several hundred we [illegible] returned tot he fort - and then the whole brigade sallied at in firing at the enemy and followed that within seven miles of Oneida Lake - and again returned to the fort but cant remember who was the commander in the fort.
That he was in the fort in conseyance of his return for about 10 days more than his said 3 months services
That to the interrogatories prescribed the the war department he answers tot he first
1st he was born in Shawingunk in the year 1763 on the first day of October
2nd that his age is recorded in the Shawangunk church
3rd that at the time he was called in to service he lived in Shawangunk aforesaid had lived there from his birth continued there until 1871 and then removed to Wawarsing where he now resides
4th that he has detailed as much as he remembers that his memory is much affected that he is quite deaf - has not made his services a matter of consideration for a long period never expected to be interested in the particulars of said service that he will not summise a guess upon oath
6th That he never rec'd a written discharge from the service
7th That he can from his services in part by Parad Bevis Est & Jacobus Smitt
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the respectability he can prove the town by General
John Janson one of the Judge and by the Dewitt of Shawengunk
& the proceeding evidence that it was out of
how to get the minister of the church where he belongs to
attend Court. That at a term served as a private in the militia
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That he hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension
annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the
Pension Roll of the Agency of any State-
Sworn to and Subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
Abraham J Terwilliger
A Hardenbergh Judges
John Jansen
Abm A Deys

I Conrad Bevin a resident of the same neighborhood and her of the
above named Abraham j Terwilliger who has subscribed and sworn
the aforesaid Decleration do Certify that I have in the Revolutionary war seen him in the service of the frontier in the year 1778 or 9
and in the year 1781- when at the house of my Father he was stationed
that I believe and have no doubt he served as he states that
his account of his services correspond with the facts of the times
that he is a man of perfectly integrity and truth to whose statement the most   implicit belief may be attached and
Sworn to and subscribed the
day and are aforesaid
Conrad Bever
Hardenbergh our of the Judges &
I Jacobin Dewitt a resident of of warwarsing do Certify that I am
personally acquainted with the above named Abm I TTerwilliger
who subscribed to the above declaration that I believe

him of Strict integrity of good moral character and entitled
implicit belief that he is of age he sets forth that he is
reputed to have been in the service in aforesaid of which I have no doubt
Jacobus DeWitt
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
Before Hardenbergh one of the Judges of Ulster County
I John Jansen of the Judges of the Court do certify that I am well
and personally acquainted with the said A Terwilliger who has sworn
and to the above declaration that I have lived previous
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The year 1811 a neighbor to the said declarant the
48 year that I believe him to be of the age he [illegible]
that he always supported a good character for
veracity moral and regular habits-- and whose statement is
entitled to their belief that he is reputed to have
be the service
John Jansen
Sworn to and Subscribed
Day and year aforesaid
Hardenburgh one of the judges
and the said Court do
hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter, and after forething, the entry
at presented by the war department. That the above
named applicant was a Revolutionary
in and served
as he state of which ⌨ ⌨  and the court further
certifies that it appears to them that Conrad Bevier & Scobey
Dewitt and William Dewitt and John James of the
Judge
who has subscribed and been sworn as Witnesses concerning
in the opinion of the Court as to the service his age and his bring
holden as he has set forth are entitled to
Crist
A Hardenburgh
John Jansen
Judges &
Abm A Deys
J. Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County
in the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
inal proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the applica
Abraham J. Terwilliger for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal of office this eleventh day of September 1832
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of Ulster
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State of New York,
ULSTER COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. I. Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster,
 and  Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, Do hereby certify
That Abraham G. Hardenbergh Esquire, was of the day of the
the Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas
in and for the said County of Ulster
authorised to take affidavits, and further that I am well acquainted with
hearing of the said Judge
and verily believe
the signature"A. G. Hardenbergh
ted to the Certificates
the said
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto subcribed my name and affixed the Seat of the
Cow and County, this 11th
day of September
1832
Jacob Snyder
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14669
INVALID.
File No. 14166
Abrhm J. Terwilliger
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 1832
Index: --Vol. 1, Page 371
Arrangement of 1870.}
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and
17 mo pre
$56.66
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This certifies that Abraham I Terwilliger an inhabitant
 of the Town of Wawarsing is believed to be of the age
he represents, and that from information from persons
that have been long acquainted with him they believe
he was a soldier in the Revolution, and that he is
now a man of good moral character-
Abrm J. Smith Pastor
of Refd Dutch Church of
Warraising-

April 17th 1833

I certify that the above named Abm J Smith States
that he has [illegible] in all cases against
taking an oath
C Hartshorn-- Justice
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please return this
Ellen Kille
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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
Abraham Terwilliger
further proof or explanation.
which require
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? yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
no
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?
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?
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?
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? No- Vide Jan 16
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered?
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; Foryear
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 theand

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 objection
ble. It must in every case be clearly shown 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
called into service by competent authority; that he was either
applicant served with an
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not emlived 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
who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of
the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the
entering the service, and the time and manner in the
---
---
and the official character and signature of the magismust
certify
trate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
EREYVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the coificate 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 cerficate
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.