Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 1125, Casparus Bain, New York
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SERVICE                                                              NUMBER

New York                Bain Casparus                    W1125
                                 or Baine                              [illegible] 26579-160-55  
                                          Mary
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24782
New York
Casparus Bain
of Washington Co. in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Compy commanded
by Caption Shaver of the Regt. commanded
by Col Van Rensselaer in the N York
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 80 Dollars 0 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of Mar
1834 and sent Hon G. Lamery[?] H. Reps

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 33 - $200.00
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 34
40.00
$240.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Jno. Cromwell  Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 109
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[Left side]
16454
Act Mar 3/55
March 26 55
Mary Baine
Widow of Casparus Baine
Private
-
Major Ten Brook
---
Enld. ____
dischgd ____
Revolutionary War
[Written diagonally, very faint]: WO 26.5799 Mar 19/56

Revolutionary Pensioner
Certificate No 2800
Feby 53 - 2800
AO:160 AC May 15/56
B[illegible]
M
Jas S. Corn
Argyle New York

[Right side]
Lt to Jas. S. Coon July, 10/55,
 "  "  "   "  "  "  "     Aug. 30 ""

[Very faint]: Feby '53   No 2800

Vol. B 1-20
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2800
New York         A.
Mary Baine
widow of Casparus Baine
who served in the Revolutionary
NY
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars  00
Cents per annum, to commence on  
the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the
7th day of November 1853
and sent to C. W. Bennett
Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under at
February 3, 1853, Page 88 Vol. A[or W]
(32)
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Declaration
of
Mary Bain
Wid of
Casparus Bain

Revl
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State of New York
Washington County ss

Be it known that on 18th day of April, 1853 before me one of the Justices of the Supreme Court in & for the State of New York
personally appeared Mary Bain a resident of the Town of Argyle in said County, & made oath according to law, that she is the widow of Casparus Bain, who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death; at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum; that I was married in the said Casparus Bain on the 31st day of December 1812 in the town of Argyle in said County of Washington & State of New York, that her said husband died on or about the 30th day of October 1830[1836?], that she
makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining s[illegible] portion of pension as may be due under any of the laws Regulations or decision that have been & may hereafter be adopted, [illegible] said Claimant Mary Bain further states that she has not intermarried but continues  to be a widow: that she now resides in the town of Argyle in the said County of Washington & State of New York, & has resided there for the space of Eighty one years last past & further that the said Declarant has received no part of said pension as said widow
The said declarant further states that she [illegible] constitute & appoints [illegible]ick, C. Russell of the town of Salem in said County lawful Attorney & assent to prosecute said
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claim, with power of substitution, to examine
all papers & documents in relation to it, & to do all thing necessary & lawful in the premises
       her                
Mary X Bain
       mark
[illegible] to subscribed this 18th day of April1853 before me 
C L Allen
Justice of the Supreme point
-
I Comelius L. Allen Justice of the Supreme
Court of the State of New York do hereby certify that Mary Bain above named is a respectable resident of the County of Washington aforesaid that I am well acquainted with the said Mary Bain
& know her to be the same person
she represents herself to be in the foregoing
declaration, She has this day appeared before
me & acknowledged the above power of
Atty to be her act & deed, and I further certify that the said Mary Bain from infirm health is
unable to attend in open Court & make this
declaration, but that the same was made before me at her said residence [illegible] 
April 18th 1853
C L Allen
Justice of Supreme Court
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State of New York
Washington County } ss

On this 21 day of March AD 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County and State Mary Baine aged 83 years who being by me duly sworn according to law declares on oath that she is the Widow of Casparus Baine who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War under as she believes under Major Ten Brook but who was his Captain or Colonel & what was the Number of his Regiment She has no present means of knowing & from where & to where he was mustered into service she does not know with any certainty but thinks from Dutchess County in the State of New York and to Bunker Hill and Fort Stanwix.

She further says her said husband Continued in Service in said War for 14 days & upwards & was honorably discharged therefrom as will appear by the Muster Rolls of said Company but when and where she has no knowledge information or belief.

She further States that she was married to the said Casparus Baine in Argyle aforesaid on the 31 day of December 1812 by Rev George Mairs deceased a Presbyterian Clergyman and that her name before her said Marriage was Mary Gillispy. That her said husband died at Argyle aforesaid the 30 day of October 1835 and that she is now a Widow.

She says for proof of her said husbands services in said war and the circumstances thereof she refers to her application for a Pension under the act of 3 February 1853 now on file in the Pension office, and to the Record of her pension Certificate recorded in the Same office on page 88 Vol A on the Roll of Pensioners, showing that she is a Pensioner at the rate of $80. a year as the Widow of said Soldier granted the 7 day of November 1853 as appears by her Pension Certificate now in her possession marked 2800. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land she may be
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STATE OF NEW-YORK,
WASHINGTON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, }SS.
I do hereby certify that H Shipherd Esquire,
whose name is subscribed to the Declaratrix affidaits hereto annexed, was on the 21 day of March 1855, the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected, sworn and qualified by law to act as such Justice and that the signature of said Justice subscribed thereto is genuine.

WITNESS my hand and seal of said County this 22 day of March A. D. 1855
Geo B Strow Dep Clk
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entitled to under the act of March 3 1855. She also declares that she has not applied for nor received under this or any other act of Congress any Bounty land whatever. }
Mary Baine X her mark

We Peter Bain & Jane Gillispy residents of Argyle in the State of New York upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Baine in our presence and that we believe from the appearances & statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.

We further declare that we have known the said Casparus & Mary Baine ever since their Marriage in 1812 That from that time to the death of the said Casparus Baine in 1835 they the said Casparus & Mary lived and cohabited together as husband and wife & were generally so reputed to be, that the said Casparus Baine is dead & died on or about the 30 day of October 1835 & we attended his funeral. We said Jane Gillispy says she was present and saw the said Casparus & Mary Married by Rev George Mairs deceased at the time & place aforesaid.

The said Peter Bain & Jane Gillispy further say the said Mary Baine remains a Widow.
                                          {     Peter Bain
                                                Jane Gillespy

The foregoing declaration and affidavit was sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
                                  H Shepherd Justice Peace

[words on front of fold]

In the Matter
of
The Claim of Mary Baine
To Bounty Land act of
March 3 1855
- - - -
Mar 1812

James S. Coon
Atty for Claimant
Argyle
N.Y.
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20221
Casparus Bain
Pension Papers

Information to be Sent to Daniel[?] C[illegible]
Salem Washington County
State of New York
Hon. G. Y. Lansing
H R
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State of New York
Washington County } ss

On this thirtieth - - day of August one thousand eight hundred & thirty two, personally appeared in open court before John Willard, Charles L. Ingalls, and Benjamin F. Skinner Judges of the court of common Pleas now sitting, Casparus Bain a resident of the Town of Argyle in the county & State aforesaid, aged Sixty nine years (will be Seventy the 15th of next month) 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. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, & served as herein stated: --

In the Spring of 1777 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - he volunteered in Livingston's Manor county of Columbia State aforesaid for the purpose of protecting the lives and property of the Whigs from the depradations of the Tories & other enemies & continued upon sentry every other night during that season until the capture of Burgoyne in the fall of 1777 and doing actualy duty for the term of six months as a common soldier. --

That in 1778 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - he entered the service for three months Tour as a volunteer for a class of fifteen (of which he was one) who were to Stand & draft for one Man out of their number - Mustered in
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in Livingston's Manor under Capt. John Shaver in the month of August 1778. From thence moved to Claverack and from thence Marched by the way of Albany & joined the Regiment at Fort Plain on the Mohawk River under Col'n Robert Van Rensselaer, where he remained doing duty during the three Months.

That he again entered the service in the Spring (he thinks April) of 1779 as a volunteer for a class of 15 as before stated, for a Six Months Tour - Mustered again in Livingston's Manor aforesaid under Capt Gansbeck, Marched from thence to Esopus moved up the Esopus creek some 15 or 18 miles where they were stationed in the vicinity of a Block House for about three Months. From thence he was transferred to Capt. Shaver again at Fort Plain where he remained doing duty until the end of the Six months.

That he then in the year 1780 joined a Militia Company commanded by Capt. Philip Smith, Lieutenant Casparus Schult & Ensign Bortle Hendricks, all of Livingston's Manor aforesaid, and continued with this Company doing duty whenever they were called, until the British evacuated the City of New York. During this period of three years & upwards, his Col'n was - - - - - - Samuel Ten Broeck, his services during this period were not located for any great length of time at any one point, being often called out in various directions on short Tours to quell the Indians - Remembers laying with the Regiment at Stillwater at two several times, one of which they were billeted out - remembers of laying with the Regiment at Greenbush - remembers in the Fall of the year he thinks of 1782 of a party of
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about twenty picked Men, sent from the Regiment at Stillwater north to Argyle for procuring cattle, from whence they returned with a number for the use of the Regiment.

That he believes that all the officers under whom he served as above named are now dead. That he knows of no private soldier in this section of Country who was in the Service with him that might testify to the facts herein set forth & has no documentary evidence now in his possession, having given up his discharges to Peter Cantine then of Red Hook Dutchess County with whom he settled as Paymaster.

He continued to reside in Livingston's Manor in the County & State aforesaid until the year 1784 when he removed to the Town of Argyle at which place he has resided ever since.

1st That he was born at Livingston's Manor aforesaid on the 15th day of Sept. 1762.

2d That the record of his age is contained in the Family Bible now in the possession of his Mother in the said Town of Argyle.

3d He was living when called into service at Livingston's Manor in the County & State aforesaid & remained there untill the year 1784 - when he removed to Argyle where continued to reside to the present time.

4th He was a volunteer generally when called into service & did duty as such volunteer for fifteen Months & the remainder of the time he was called out with the Regiment to which his Company belonged & was in actual service in that manner with his said company for one year &
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and Six Months & upwards, making his whole time of actual service, Two years nine months and upwards.

5th The names of the Officers are as stated & 
heretofore as far as he now can remember.

6th He did receive his discharges & gave them to Peter Cantine as herein before stated.

He is known to the Reverend Archibald White a Clergyman & James Harvey a Merchant in his neighbourhood, who will testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.

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.

Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Casparus Bain

J. S. Leigh Clk

We Archibald White, a clergyman, residing in the Town of Argyle County of Washington & State aforesaid & James Harvey Merchant residing in the Town of Salem County of Washington & State aforesaid, hereby Certify, that we are well acquainted with Casparus Bain who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Sixty nine years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood & where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid -
Arch: White
Ja's Harvey

Sworn & subscribed in open court the 30th day of August 1832
                
J S Leigh Clk
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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 appears to them that Archibald Whyte who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Argyle in said County of Washington and that James Harvey who has also signed the same is a resident of the Town of Salem in said County of Washington and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Jesse S Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Washington do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Casparus Bain for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 30th day August 1832
                                                J. S. Leigh Clk
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1125
Mary Baine,
Widow.
Casparus Baine,
Priv. Rev. War.
Act: Feb. 3, 1853.
Index:--Vol. A, Page 28
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of New York
Washington County } ss

Be it known that on this 22nd day of April 1855 before me one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the said County of Washington, personally appeared Jane Gillespie a resident of the Town of Argyle in the County of Washington aforesaid & made oath according to law that she is aged sixty eight years that for the last fifty years she has resided in the said Town of Argyle, that she is now & has been for the last fifty years, personally acquainted with Mary Bain of the Town of Argyle County aforesaid; the this deponent was acquainted with the late Casparus Bain of the town of Argyle in said County in his life time; that she knows the said Mary Bain to be the widow of the said Casparus Bain. That this deponent was present at the marriage of the said Casparus to the said Mary, in the town of Argyle in said County, in December A.D. 1812, that the Rev George Mairs officiated as clergyman on the occasion, that the said Casparus Bain departed this life in the year 1836 or thereabouts, that the said Mary Bain has not intermarried, but continues to be the widow of Casparus Bain & this deponent further says that she has no interest in the claim of Mary Bain against the United States & further says not.
                                                Jane Gillespee
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 22 day of April 1855
Geo. M. Robinson Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Washington County SS. I Philander C. Hitchcock Deputy Clerk of said County and of the Courts of record therein do
certify that George M. Robinson was on the 22d day of April 1853 an acting Justice of the peace of the said County duly
elected and sworn and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his Signature to the
within Jurat to be genuine. Witness my name and official seal this 23d day
of May A D 1853.
P. C. Hitchcock Dep Clk
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State of New York
Washington County ss

Be it known that on this 21st day of April A.D. 1853 before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Washington personally appeared John C. Bain a resident of the town of Argyle in the County of Washington aforesaid & made oath according to law that he is aged sixty two years, that for the last forty years he has resided in the town of Argyle, that he is now & has been more for the last fifty years personally acquainted with Mary Bain of the town of Argyle County aforesaid, that this deponent was acquainted with the late Casparus Bain of the town of Argyle in said County in his life time, that he knows the said Mary Bain to be the widow of the said Casparus Bain, that this deponent was present at the marriage of the said Casparus to the said Mary in the town of Argyle in said County in December AD 1812: that the Rev. George Mairs officiated as clergyman on the occasion, that the said Casparus Bain departed this life in the year 1836 or thereabouts & that the said Mary Bain has not intermarried, but continues to be the widow of Casparus Bain: & this deponent further says that he has no interest in the claim of Mary Bain against the United States & further says not.
John C Bain

Subscribed & sworn before me this 21st day of April 1853
S. T. Shepherd Justice Peace
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State New York
Washington County SS. 
I Philander C Hitchcock Deputy
Clerk of said County and of the Courts of record therein do certify that Samuel Shepherd Esq was on the 21st day
of April 1853 a Justice of the peace of said County duly elected & sworn and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature to the within
Jurat S.J. Shepherd to be his genuine signature
Witness my hand & official
seal this 23d day of May
in the year 1853
P. C. Hitchcock Dep Clk
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State of New York
Columbia County
I Samuel Ten Broeck of the Town of Livingston in said County, being duly sworn
before Charles Robinson one of the Justices of the Peace of
said Town & County deposeth & says, that I was in the
service of the United States during the Revolutionary war
to Peter
as first major in the Regiment command
1
R Livingston, and I am well convinced & perfectly satisfyed
that Casparis Bain, now of the Town of Argyle & County
1
of Washington, did perform military Services as a common
Soldier under my immediate command. but cannot
the with precision at this late period the precise time of
Jush Services
Sworn before me at
John
Livingston the 3d day
February 1834
Charles Robison Dustin 4th par
City
Lugton
District of Columbia
1834. 1719. know Samuel in above
named. He is a were respectable
creditable man. I have seen her
write and beleive the above signature
to be genuine
Gerrit Lansing
I unite in the above
and fore
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State of New York
Columbia County } ss

Adam Clum of the town of Clermont in said County being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is and has been from his infancy well acquainted with Casparus Bain
now of Argyle in the County of Washington and State of New York that said Casparus was born at Livingston's Manor in the said County of Columbia, that during the rear of the Revolution said Casparus was a common soldier in the state levies that the year Burgoin was Captured and previous to that event said Casparus was in the Said Service the most of the Spring and Summer, that the year following said capture, the said Casparus again entered the said service in behalf of a class of fifteen of which he was one and continued in Service a part of the Summer and fall but how long this deponent does not distinctly recollect & from the time said Casparus first Entered the
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Service untill after the British evacuated New York he was in the said service every season according to the best of this deponents recollection and belief & This deponent recollects that the Regiment to which said Casparus was attached went on to the North thinks to Stillwater, and said Casparus went with it, but does not remember what year that was, but does well remember that said Casparus was out every year after he so entered the Service untill the close of the Revolution, that he was a hardy robust young Man and a very useful Soldier and as this deponent believes and always understood usually selected for the most hazardous enterprises & from the general recollection which this deponent has of the Services of said Casparus as a Common Soldier in the War of the Revolution, he verily believes said Casparus was in Actual Service a great proportion of his time and further this deponent saith that he this deponent was Several years in
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Succession called into said service and in several instances this deponent was in the same company with said Casparus and thinks and verily believes three or four times at Albany Stillwater and at the Northward, and this deponent has no doubt said Casparus was engaged in actual Service in the War of the Revolution More than three years in all, and this deponent further saith that he is now in the Seventy Eights year of his age and has always been an intimate acquaintance of said Casparus and a family connection.
Adam Clum

Sworn and acknowledged this Twenty Second day of April 1833 Before me a Justice of the Peace And I certify that said Adam Clum is well known to me and is a man of good Moral character and his relation entitled to full confidence

I certify that Adam Clum is one of my Constituents, that he is a respectable &
credible man, and that I would not hesitate to confide in his representation
Dated 20 Feb 1834
                                               A Vanderpoel
Washington H.R.
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State of New York
Washington County SS. On this 22 day of
November in the year of our Lord 1833
personally appeared before me John [??ard] 
Esquire Surrogate of the County of Washington in open Court now sitting at the Town of Salem in said County said Surrogates Court being a Court of Record Casparus Bain  the declarant mentioned in the declaration hereto annexed, who being duly Sworn doth depose and say in addition to the
facts within contained in the document hereto
annexed that in the year 1777, he served as a
Common Soldier Six Months the Name of
his Capt was Philip Smith and the Name of
his Col was Peter Leverington[?] and Samuel Ten Broeck ^[illegible]
That in the year 1778 he Served three
months as a Common Soldier under Capt
John Shaver[?] his Col was Robert Van
Rensslaer [illegible]
That in the year 1779 he entered the
Service as a common Soldier in a
Company
Commanded by Capt. Gansbuk[?], and was
afterwards transfered to a Company
Commanded
by Col. John Shaver[?] under Whom
he continued to serve for six Months from the
time he so entered into Service in the
Company
Commanded by Capt Gansrbuck[?], his Col.
Name was Samuel [illegible] Monk[?]
That in the year 1780 he served as a Common
Soldier six months under the aforesaid Capt
Philip Smith and Col. Samuel Ten Broeck
In the year 1781. he served as a Common Soldier
either six months or three months at one time but
which of the two periods this applicant is not Certain
but verily believes it was six months, during the
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[Illegible], this year he was frequently out at
short periods, and for several weeks in [Illegible]
but the precise length of time this applicant can
not att -- his Capt this year was John Shaver
and his Col was Samuel Ten Monk
In the year 1782. he served under the same office
in the year before as a Common Soldier Six Months he
thinks but can not [Illegible] with positive certainty whether
it was six or three months, but it was the one
period or the other
    And this applicant further saith that about
two years since he was afflicted with a fit of apoplexy
since which his memory has been imperfect
and many of the events which before were familiar
are not very [Illegible] left upon memory
and for that reason and the reason of old age and
consequent loss of memory, he can not swear 
[Illegible] as to the precise length of his service, but
according to the best of his recollection he served
not less than the periods mentioned  [Illegible] following and two years [Illegible] the matter 
and for this [Illegible] service he, this applicant claims
a pension for Two years and three months

Subscribed and Sworn                           [Illegible]
in open Court before
me, the day & year above
written   - John Willard Surrogate


Washington County
Surrogates office & I John Willard Surrogate of
the said county do certify that the foregoing affidavit
of Caspanus Bain was sworn to by him, the 
same being annexed previously by me to the [Illegible] 
[Illegible] papers. In witness whereof I have hereto
set my hand seal of office at Salem
in said county this 22 November 1833
and have also annexed my seal of office
to the tape binding these papers together
       John Willard
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State of New York
Washington County On this eleventh day of
Jun in the year of our Lord one thousand
Eight Hundred & thirty three, personally appeared before me John Willard Esquire surrogate of the County of Washington in open court being a court of record, Casparus Bain
who being duly sworn doth depose and say
in addition to the facts stated by him
in his declaration heretofore made, and to this 
amended declaration
annexed - that since the making of said declaration, he has been enabled to recollect one individual, ^to wit Adam C[illegible] who
could testify to his service, now living, and
that he has procured his statement in
writing duly verified by his oath, which
statement is also hereto annexed. And the
deponent further says that he cannot state
any more fully than he has done, the names,
of the several officers under whom he served.
And this deponent further says that in
consequence of the loss of memory, occasioned
by old age and infirmities be cannot state
particularly, the length of time, which he
served as a soldier - but from the best
of his knowledge recollection and belief
be served as follows -
For six months I served as a volunteer
in the year 1777 but under what officers I
cannot recollect
for three months I served as a private
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(volunteer)
in the company commanded by
John Shaver in the year 1778
For six months I served as a private (volunteer)
under Captain Gansbeck & Shaver in the
year 1779
For more than twelve months I served
as a private in the company of militia
commanded by Capt Philip Smith in
the years 1780, 1781 & 1782, and for such
services I claim a pension - 
Casparus Bain

Subscribed & sworn in }
open court the day and}
year aforesaid before me}
John Willard  Surrogate

Washington County}
Surrogates office[?] } ss   I John Willard Surrogate
of said County do certify that these papers
are bound together by me before sworn
to by the deponent. In witness whereof I
have hereunto signed my name and affixed
my seal of office at the knot of the tape
by which they an bound together 
June 11 - 1833-
John Willard
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C. W. Burnett Esquire
Washington City
D. C.
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Salem October 24th/53
Wash, Co. N.Y.
C. W. Burnett Esquire
Sir
In the month of
June last D.C. Russell of this place
forwarded by mail to the Commissioner
of pensions at Washington the application for a pension of Mary Bain the
wid of Casparus Bain a Soldier
of the Revolution who drew a pension
for his revolutionary Services -
nothing has been
heard from the
Commissioner of pensions regarding
this application - the papers I presume
will be found in the office
of the
Commission - this application I know
to be a meritorious one -

Please to attend to it in behalf of
the the widow & I will see that you
are rewarded for any Service you
may render her -
Inform me on this subject as soon as your convenience will permit -

I am Respectfully
D. Russell
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.
James L Edwards
Commr of Pensions
War Department
Washington
D. of C.
$80 per Ann

[illegible]
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J L Edwards Esq

Sir
I now again send you the papers in
the case of Carparus Bain with the affidavit of
Genl Ten Brock annexed to which I have attached a Certificate of the verity of the Generals signature and character made by the Hon Mr Van Der Poel
and myself-- the character of Mr Adam Clum
a Witness is fully supported by the certificate
of Mr Van Dor Poel, in whose district both
Genl Ten Broeck and Mr Clum reside-- the
application is for a full pension and the
ability of the applicant to do full service
under any of his enlistments will be & [illegible] by Mr. Clum's deposition - with the evidence now offered to sustain his claim - You will at your convenience determine its merits
and communicate the result to
Yours very repectfully

G W Lansing
Washington 20 Feby 1834
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Mary Bain
Wid of
Casparus Bain
[illegible]
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Washington
Oct. 26. 1853

Honl. L. P. Waldo.
Comr. of Pensions  Sir.

I have the honor to enclose herewith
a letter received by me from D. Russell relative
to the application of Mrs. Mary Bain widow of Casparus Bain of N.Y. decd. for a pension under act of 3d Feby 1853.

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Sevt
C. W. Bennett
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Mary Baine
Wid of 
Casparus Baine
_________$80.00
Died 30 Oct 1835
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Brief in the case of Mary Baine Wid of Casparus Baine
of Washington County and State of New York
under the act of 3rd Feby 1853

Claim ("original" or "for increase'.)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance

Casparus Baine was a Rev Pensioner under the Act 7 June 1832 of the U States at
the rate of $80 per annum who died on the 30 Oct 1835-
Mary Baine his Widow on the 18th April 1853 in Supreme Court of the County and State aforesaid made
application for a pension under the Act 3 Feby 1853-
Marriage proven  by reputation & long cohabitation -
If for increase.
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Death of Pensioner by 3 [illegible] Certificate -
Identity by Certificate of Supreme Judge and other Evidence,

Allowed 5th November 1853, at the rate of
Eighty Dollars per annum commencing
on the 3d Feby 1853

Daniel McCook
Examining Clerk

Name and residence of Agent
C W Bennett Esq
Present
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Salem June 6th 1853

Dear Sir
Enclosed please find affts of
Mrs Mary Bain to obtain a pension under the
law passed  Feby 3 1853. If the affts should not
be sufficient please let me hear from you at
your earliest convenience & I will supply any
deficiency there may be
Resplt Your
D.C. Russell
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Casparus Bain, Act 1832
$80 p. an. Died 30th October
1835, Paid to his death
Saml P. Rind
Act J. Auditor
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Pension Office
3 Nov 1853
This case is respectfully
refered to the 3d Auditor
for certificate of date of
death of Pensioner and
for cash[?] payment
[illegible] Respectfully
[illegible]
Chief Clerk
D. McCook (see other side)
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D of Columbia

Mary Bain
wid of 
Casparus Bain

Reg 5 March 55 no 16454
Ad. 3 Feby 53 no 2800

FREE

Boynton
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26,579
[illegible]
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No. 3532
Oct 17th 1853
Mary Baine Wid of
Casparus Bain Private
Capt Shavers Co
Col Van Rensselaer
New York Rev War

Act 3 Feby 53 Revy War

Allowed 5 Nov 1853 at
the rate of $80 per annum
commencing 3d Feby 1853
D. W. Cook
Ex Clk

D. C. Russell
Salem
Washington Co
New York
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Argyle August 25 1855.

Com of Pensions
Sir In The claim of Mrs Mary Baine for
Bounty land (under 3 March 55) No 16.454 & by you suspended
on the ground of want of proof of service by Record Evidence I have
to say that as stated in your letter I have refered to the Comptrollers & Secretary of States Office Albany N.York & they write me that no
record of his service can be found there
The said Casparus Bain drew a pension as a revolutionary
soldier this widow draws one now. & I am informed
that at the time she obtained her pension she 
presented a certificate of such Service from Albany office
and which I presume is now on file with her application for Pension & Certificate.
If in looking at her pension application
on page 88 was granted 7 Nov 1853 you will doubtless find
that Certificate of service if not sufficient it will at least show
who was Bains Capt. Col. Regimet &c which will enable us
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to make a more thorough Search in Albany.
Answer is requested as soon as Convenient
I am Yours Truly

James S Coon
Atty for Mrs Bain