Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,762, Philip Tourje, Continental Mass. R.I.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Continental Tourje, Philip W.16,762
Mass. Desire
R.I.
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Albany 1306
Desire Tourje
Widow of Philip Tourje
who died on the 8 May 1826
of Saratoga Co. in the State N. York
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Thurber of the [blank] commanded
by [blank] in the [blank] 
line for 2 years Mass
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of Aug. 1837 and sent to Alpheus Goodrich, Ballston Spa, N. Y.
Arrears to the 4th of March '37 480.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep " 40.00
$520.00
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3 - }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk:
Book A, Vol. 2 - Page 119
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New York Roll
[1366 Rolls]
[circled] /4362/ [circled
Philip Tourje,
Private
Massachusetts line - 1777 - 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of June 1818,
and sent to Salmon Child, Esq.
Ballston Springs, N. York
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
4 months 27 /30 $39.20
{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
Jackson
Continued
Greenfield Saratoga Co.
Letter to D. Stewart and
[illegible] 10th Oct 1838
Dead
Paid at the Treasury
under the act of the
6. April 1838 from
4 March 1826 to the
8 May 1826. Agent
Notified 26 Oct 1838.
Ballston Spa, N.Y.
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Philip Tourje
Copy
1362
Tourje
Sept 1818
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STATE OF NEW YORK,} ss.
County of SARATOGA,}
On this twenty second day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, in the
Court of Common Pleas of the said County, the same being a Court of Record for the said County, proceeding according to the course of the common law jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Philip Tourje
aged Seventy four years, resident in the said County, in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: in the spring
of the year 1777 he enlisted in Capt David Vanhorn's company in the ninth Massachusetts line Regt commanded by Col Henry Jackson for 3 yrs & served three year faithfully and recd. an honorable discharge at West Point New York that in 1775 and 1776 he was in the since the 1st year 8 month and the 2d year the
whole of it was in the battle of Bunker Hill, Monmouth and in Sullivans expedition
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That his original declaration was made on or about the Eighth day of April 1818 and that his Pension Certificate is numbered 1362
And I solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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,” 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 what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Sworn to and declared on the twenty second day of August 1820 before me in open Court
Philip Tourje
Thomas Palmer
Clerk
Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do 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 twenty nine dollars and five & a half cents.
IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said
court, on this Twenty second day of August 1820
Thomas Palmer
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the
County of Saratoga
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An inventory or schedule of the property of the within named Philip Tourje
One Cow of the value of - $16 00
1 table 1 25
1 Cupboard 00 75
1 hog 2 50
4 Basins (pewter) 00 37
1 platter & 6 plates earthen 1 00
2 Earthen bowls & cups & saucers 00 37
4 spoons & 4 knives & forks 00 50
1 tea pot 00 18
4 chairs 00 75
1 Shovel and tongs 00 50
1 Chest 00 50
1 set of the maker tools 1 00
1 loom very old 2 00
1 pot and dish Kettle 1 00
1 tea Kettle iron 00 371/2
$29,251/2
All the above articles are very old and have been long in use. My family consists of my self and wife aged 70 years and a Girl who lives with us to take care of my wife she is utterly helpless, I am by trade a shoemaker but my eyesight has failed me and I cannot longer pursue it. I live in al small house in Greenfield
for which I have agreed to pay $10 per year. I am so poor & [illegible] that I cannot subsist without public or private Charity
Philip Tourje
Sworn to in open Court
Thomas Palmer Clerk
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V1592
Desire Tourje

Admitted
Private 2 years

Alphonse Goodrich Esq.
Ballston Spa
New York
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State of New York
Saratoga County
On the Sixth Day of March Eighteen hundred
thirty seven personally appeared before me Thomas J. Marvin one of the Judges of the Saratoga County Court
Desire Tourje a resident of the town of Galway in the County of Saratoga and State of New York aged Eighty four years on the ninth day of December last who being first duly sworn according to law doth make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 4th of July 1836
That she is the widow of Philip Tourje who was a soldier in the army of the United States under the continental establishment in the war of the revolution
She further declares that she was married to her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje on the fifteenth day of June seventeen hundred & seventy two at south Kingston in the State of Rhodeisland by the Reverend Doctor Torrey then a verry aged Presbyterian Clergyman & that Brant Milliman & Elizabeth his wife, Oliver Tennant & Mahitabel his wife, Thomas Austin, Sarah Billington & Mary Tourje were present & the only persons present at her marriage to her husband the aforesaid Philip Tourje all of whom were considerable older than herself & believes that none of them are living, that some of them were dead previously to her mooveing to Greenfield in the County of Saratoga
She further declares that her husband the aforesaid Philip Tourje died on the eighth day of May Eighteen hundred & twenty six, & that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof here to annexed she further declares that on the twentieth day of April Seventeen
hundred & seventy five (being the day after the battle of Lexington) her husband the aforesaid Philip Tourje enlisted as volunteer in Captain
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Thurbers company for eight month service & on the evening of the same day she made a knapsack out of her under head tick for her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje & the day following he marched for Boston & served to the end of his enlistment and as she was informed by her husband he was in the battle of Bunker Hill. That in seventeen hundred & seventy six her aforesaid husband enlisted as a soldier & served about twelve months & in the month of January 1777 or 78, & thinks on the 22d day of January her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje enlisted for three years service & served untill the year of seventeen hundred & eighty one when he was discharged from the army & that previous to his discharge from the army she had four children by her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje Namely Valentine who was born February the 14th 1773 William who was born October the 21st 1775 George who was born December the 5th 1777 Sally who was born February the 21st 1780. The three youngest of the aforesaid children are dead & cannot say whether the eldest is dead or living the last information she had of him he was living in the state of Ohio, which was about twenty five years since, but in what part of the state he was living she does not know. She further declares that she knows of no person now living whoose testimony she can procure who can testify to her having been married to her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje further than her declaration & the afadavits hereunto annexed  she further declares that she now has in her possession two certificates which ware granted to her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje of which the following are True coppies
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War Department
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18 March 1818 Philip Tourje late a private in the army of the Revolution is inscribed on the pension list. Roll of the New York agency at the rate of Eight dollars per month to commence on the eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred & eighteen.
Given at the War Office of the United States
this 30 day of June
one thousand eight hundred and 18
J.C. Calhoun
Secy of War

War Department 1362
Pension Office
Oct 31 1820
Sir You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined and the secretary of War has directed you name to be continued on the pension Roll
I am respectfully
Your obedient servant
J. L Edwards

To Mr. Philip Tourje
Saratoga County
New York


Desire Tourje X her mark
I certify that on the day & year first above mentioned the written name Desire Tourje was sworn before me to truth of the facts in the foregoing statement & that she signed the said statement by making her mark being unable
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to write her name & that I am acquainted with the said Desire Tourje & believe she is a person of truth & veracity & that the statement is entitled to [illegible] I further certify that she is in poor health & unable to attend court from bodily infirmity.
Thos J Marvin
Judge of Sar. Co. Court

State of New York
Saratoga County 
Clerks Office ss.
I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do Certify that Thomas J Marvin before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and that I am acquainted with is handwriting and verify believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature.
Witness my and and seal of office the fourteenth day of March 1837
A Goodrich Clerk
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State of New York
Herkimer County ss
On the 27th day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty seven Personally appeared before me John Hall a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County o Herkimer John Wood a resident of the town of Fairfield in the County of Herkimer aged seventy four years on the seventh day of July last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he was acquainted with Philip Tourje as far back as in the year of seventeen hundred and seventy six. that hte widow Desire Tourje whose deposition is hereunto annexed, was then the wife (or so reported) of the said Philip Tourje and that the said Philip Tourje was a soldier in the army of the Revolution as [illegible] as in the year of seventeen hundred and seventy six and for the two or three of the last years of the War the said Philip Tourje was a soldier in the army of the United States, and that during the terms aforesaid he this Deponant lived within each of the said Desire Tourje's dwelling and of her family, and untill then after the close of the War, and the return of the said Philip Tourje to his family, this Deponant further saith that the said Desire Tourje had three or four children previous to the end of the last term of service of the aforesaid Philip Tourje as a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and he well recollects the eldest was a son by the name of Vallentine, that the said Desire Tourje some three or four years since was at his house since which time he has been informed that the said Desire Tourje has been taken to the Poor house of the County of Herkimer  N.B. the word "July" [illegible] before examination
Sworn and subscribed to the Day and year aforesaid before me
John Hall Justice
John Wood
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I hereby certify that I have been aquainted [sic] with the within named John Wood for thirty five years that he is a man of sound intellect of good standing in society and in whose truth and veracity full reliance can be placed
John Hall Justice


State of New York
Herkimer County
I, E.A Munson Deputy Clerk of the county of Herkimer do hereby certify that John Hall Esqr was at the time of taking the within affidavit of John Wood, a justice of the peace in and for said County duly elected & qualified and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting & verily believe that the several signatures of "John Hall" subscribed to the said affidavit & also to the above certificate is genuine - Witness my hand & seal of said county this 28th day of February AD 1837
E. A. Munson
Deputy Clerk

State of New York ss
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with John Wood for twenty five years that he is a man of sound intellect and of good moral character and in whose veracity and integrity full reliance can be placed. Febry 28. 1837
A Osborn
Judge Herk. Co. County

State of New York
Herkimer County
I, E. A. Munson Deputy Clerk of the County of Herkimer do hereby certify that Abijah Osborn Esqr was on the day of the date of the above certificate a Judge of the Herkimer County Courts duly elected & qualified and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting & verily believe the signature "A Osborn" subscribed to the above certificate is genuine. Witness my hand & seal of said County Feby 28th AD 1837
E. A. Munson Depy Clerk
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State of New York
Herkimer County ss
On the 28th day of February 1837 Personally appeared before me John Hall a Jstice of the Peace in and for the Count of Herkimer Conrad M Fults a resident of the town and County of Herkimer aforesaid aged fifty three on the eight Day of August last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he has been acquainted with Desire Tourje for rising of five years last passed. During which time she has been reputed and called by the name of the widow Tourje and further saith that if she had been married to any person since his first acquaintance with her he believes he should have heard or [illegible] something of her marriage, he further saith that in the winter or spring of 1835 she was taken to the Poor house of the County of Herkimer, that in the month of June or July of the same year he went to the Poor house and took her home to his house and that she lived in his family and with his family connections for rising of one year where she was taken with a fit of the Palsey by reason of which she lost the use of her right arm and leg and was soon thereafter taken to the Poor house he further saith that he never heard or understood in any way that the said Desire Had been married to any person since the death of her husband Philip Tourje.
Conrad M Folts
Sworn and subscribed this 28th day of February 1837 before me John Hall Justice
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I hereby certify that I have been aquainted [sic] with the within named Conrad M Folts for thirty years and that he is a man in whose truth and [illegible] full reliance can be placed
John Hall Justice
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State of New York
Saratoga County SS
On the tenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, Personally appeared before the Carlton Morehouse a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Saratoga Thomas Tourje a resident of the town of Greenfield in the said County of Saratoga aged fifty three years on the ninth day of April next who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath depose and say that he is the son of Philip Tourje late of the town of Greenfield aforesaid Deceased and that the said Philip Tourje died on the 8th day of May 1826 at Greenfield aforesaid and that Desire Tourje whose declaration is hereto annexed is the widow of the aforesaid Philip Tourje and that the said Desire Tourje lived with him this deponent from the time of the death of her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje untill the month of November then next she then went to live with her son Stiles Tourje residing in the county of Herkimer where she lived untill in the spring of 1827 when she came to live with him this deponent and that the said Desire Tourje has lived with him this deponent and others of her children from the time of the death of her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje until about the month of January 1835 when (as this deponent was informed) the said Desire Tourje was taken to the Poor House of the County of Herkimer aforesaid The said Desire Tourje is now residing in the town of Galway in the County of Saratoga that ever since the death of her aforesaid Husband she has been reputed the widow of the aforesaid Philip Tourje and that he has never heard nor had the knowledge or intimation of the said Desire Tourje having been married to any person sine the death of her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje and that there can be no doubt in his mind as to the said Desire Tourje's having remained a widow and remained
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ever since the death of her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje
Thomas Tourje
Subscribed to and sworn this 10th day of March 1837 before me
Carlton Morehouse
Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Thomas Tourje who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit and that he is a man of good moral character in whom full reliance can be placed as to truth and veracity
Carlton Morehouse
Justice of the Peace

State of New York,
Saratoga County Clerk's Office, ss.
I, Alpheus Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, do certify, that Carlton Morehouse before whom the annexed affidavits purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 14th day of March 1837
A Goodrich Clerk
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss
On the Eleventh day of March one thousand Eight hundred and thirty seven, Personally appeared before me Carlton Morehouse a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Saratoga Stiles Tourje a resident of the town of Broadalbin in the county of Montgomery & State of New York aged Forty Eight years the sixth day of May last past who being first duly sworn according to law Doth on his oath depose and say that he is the son of Philip Tourje late of the town of Greenfield in the county of Saratoga and state aforesaid Deceased and that Desire Tourje whose declaration is hereunto annexed is the widow of the said Philip Tourje and mother of him this deponent that the said Philip Tourje died on the 8th day of May 1826. and late in the fall of the same year his mother the said Desire Tourje came to live with him this deponent (then residing in the county of Herkimer in the state aforesaid) where she lived untill the next spring. She then went to live with her son Thomas Tourje in the county of Saratoga aforesaid and in the spring of the year 1829 she came to live with him this deponent and lived with him untill about the first of February 1835 when the said Desire Tourje was taken to the Poor House of the county of Herkimer and in about ten days thereafter he this deponent moved with his family to the town of Boradalbin adjoining the town of Galway in the county of Saratoga. and on the sixth day of February last he this deponent with a Mr Joseph Bump went to the Poor House of the county of Herkimer and took the said Desire Tourje from the aforesaid Poor House to the house of the said Joseph Bump in the town of Galway in the county of Saratoga aforesaid where she the said Desire Tourje now lives and that ever since the Death of her aforesaid Husband
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Philip Tourje she has been reputed the widow of the aforesaid Philip Tourje and that he has never heard or had the least knowledge or intimation of the said Desire Tourje having been married to any person since the death of her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje and that there can be no possible doubt in his mind as to the said Desire Tourje having remained a widow and unmarried ever since the death of her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje
Stiles Tourje
Subscribed and sworn to this 11th day of March 1837 before me
Carlton Morehouse
Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am acquainted with Stiles Tourje who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit and that he is a man of good moral character in whose truth and veracity full reliance can be placed and that the word "Montgomery" in the aforesaid affidavit was erased before sworn to
Carlton Morehouse
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss
On the eighth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, Personaly appeared before me Ebenezer Couch a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Saratoga, Doctor Israel Youngs, a resident of the town of Greenfield in the said County of Saratoga aged Fifty five years on the twentieth day of July last, who being first duly sworn according to law Doth on his oath depose and say, that he was well acquainted with Philip Tourje late of the town of Greenfield aforesaid [illegible], for rising of twenty years previous to his Death, and that the said Philip Tourje died on the 8th day of May eighteen hundred and twenty six, at Greenfield aforesaid, and that Desire Tourje whose declaration is hereto annexed is the widow of the aforesaid Philip Tourje, That since the death of the aforesaid Philip Tourje, the said Desire Tourje has resided a part of the time in the town of Greenfield aforesaid and a part of the time (as this Deponant has been informed) in the County of Herkimer, and for the last six years in the County of Herkimer, that for about twenty years previous to, and up to the Death of the said Philip Tourje, he was more or less the Physician of the said Philip & his family, and that during his acquaintance with the said Desire Tourje she was reputed a woman of piety, possessing an intelligent mind and memory of truth and security and much esteemed by those who were acquainted with her, and that he never heard aught said against her
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid before me
Ebenezer Couch
Justice of the Peace

Israel Youngs
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State of New York
Saratoga County Clerk's Office ss.
I, Alpheus Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga, Do certify, that Ebenezer Couch before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 14th day of March 1837
A Goodrich Clerk
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Philip Tourje she has been reputed the widow of the aforesaid Philip Tourje and that he has never heard or had the least knowledge or intimation of the said Desire Tourje having been married to any person since the death of her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje and that there can be no possible doubt in his mind as to the said Desire Tourje having remained a widow and unmarried ever since the death of her aforesaid husband Philip Tourje
Stiles Tourje
Subscribed and sworn to this 11th day of March 1837 before me
Carlton Morehouse
Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am acquainted with Stiles Tourje who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit and that he is a man of good moral character in whose truth and veracity full reliance can be placed and that the word "Montgomery" in the aforesaid affidavit was erased before sworn to
Carlton Morehouse
Justice of the Peace
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I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Doctor Israel Youngs who subscribed and sworn to the within affidavit for rising of forty years, and that he is a man on whose veracity and integrity full reliance can be placed. and that the word "five" in the aforesaid affidavit was interlined before sworn to
Ebenezer Couch
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Saratoga County 
On the eighth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, Personally appeared before me Ebenezer Couch a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Saratoga, Capt John Page a resident of the town of Greenfield in the said County of Saratoga aged forty seven years on the 8th day of April next who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that he has been acquainted with Desire Tourje whose declaration is hereunto annexed for rising of thirty years, that the said Desire Tourje previous to the death of her husband Philip Tourje did live for several years on the lands and premises of this deponant and that the said Desire Tourje has from his first acquaintance with her she has been reputed a woman of piety and of truth and veracity and from his acquaintance with her he would believe her declarations entitled to full credit 
John Page
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid before me
Ebenezer Couch
Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Capt John Page who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit for more than thirty years and that he is a man in whose veracity and integrity full reliance can be placed

Ebenezer Couch
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss
On the tenth Day March one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before me Ebenezer Couch a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Saratoga the Reverend Timothy Day a resident of the town of Galway in the said County of Saratoga aged fifty three years on the 27th day of January last who being first duly sworn according to law, says that he was well acquainted with Desire Tourje whose declaration is hereunto annexed for about ten years previous to the death of her husband Philip Tourje and during his acquaintance with the said Desire Tourje she was reputed a woman of truth and veracity of good standing in church and [illegible]
Timothy Day

Subscribed and sworn to the day and date aforesaid before me
Ebenezer Couch Justice

I certify that Timothy Day who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit is a clergyman and pastor of a church in Galway, Saratoga County
Ebenezer Couch Justice
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Phillip Tourje?
Affidavit
To
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War

Correct
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss
On this eighth day of April in the year 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Saratoga Personally appeared Phillip Tourje aged seventy two years resident in the town of Greenfield in the county of Saratoga and state aforesaid who being by and first duly sworn according to law maketh oath in the following declarations in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of  Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the revolutionary War That the same Phillip Tourje in the year 1775 served as a private soldier under Capt Matthew Allen of Colonel Church Regiment Rhode Island troop in the defence of his Country and opposing the common enemy eight month at Boston. That in the spring of the year 1776 he enlisted at [illegible] as a private soldier under the said Captain Allen for one year. Colonel Churches Regiment Rhode Island Troops and served his said term of enlistment faithfully in the said company in opposing the enemy. That in the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven he enlisted in the said Town of [illegible] for three years as a private in the company commanded by Captain David Van Horn of the ninth regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson and that he continued to served in said regiment untill he had served his time of enlistment, and then took another mans place in the said regiment and served eleven months longer. When he was discharged at West Point in the State of New York. That his discharge was left in Boston by the advice of his said Colonel under the proper that the depreciations of the continental money would be made up to them but has never received his discharge or the money anticipated. That he was in the battles of [illegible] Springfield in the Jerseys Monmouth, Rhode Island and Penobscot to the eastward of Boston. And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his Country for support and that he no other evidence more in his provided of his said services.
Philip Tourje
Sworn to and deposed before me the day & year aforesaid

Salmon Child and I the said Judge on aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Phillip Tourje did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declarations against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary of the war department pursuant to the direction of the aforesaid acto fo Congress
Greenfield April 30th 1818
Salmon Child
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss
In testimony that the within named Salmon Child is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Saratoga and State of New York and that the within is his signature I subscribe my name and office the county seal this 5th day of May 1818
Wm Stillwell Clerk of the
County of Saratoga
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I William Tourjee of South Kingstown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island (a Revolutionary Pensioner) aged Eighty five years, and engaged according to law, do testify and say:
That Philip Tourjee (who removed to the State of New York several years ago) was my Cousin (our fathers were brothers) Desire Tourjee (his wife) was my sister when Philip and my sister were about to be married, Philip came to Jamestown (where I was at work by the month) and invited me to the wedding, but I as I was engaged by the month I could not attend - they were married however as I understood, by the Revd Doct. Joseph Torrey at Tower Hill in this town and lived peaceably together as man and wife having several children - during a part of the time they lived in South Kingstown, after they were married, they lived in the same house with me. I knew the Revd Doct Torry, he lived to a great age, and died a number of years ago, and was buried in the Presbyterian burying ground at Tower Hill.
I also knew Bryant Milliman and Elizabeth (his wife) Oliver Tenant and Mehitabel (his wife) and Phinehas Austin Sarah Billington was afterwards my wife who has frequently told me of her being at the wedding of my sister Desire and cousin Philip my wife has been dead about sixteen months
I have no means of knowing the precise year that my sister Desire was married, but should think it was about three years previous to the commencement of the Revolutionary War. I will further state that Milliman and wife removed from South Kingstown more than fifty years ago and I have since understd that they were both dead. Oliver Tennant and wife died in this town between ten and fifteen years ago. I will further state, that Doct Torry's sons removed to the State of Connecticut more than forty years ago; one daughter who married a man by the name of Wilson removed to the State of Ohio ab out the same time two other daughters died several years ago in this town one the wife of William W Pollock and the other the wife of Thomas Hawkins and further, that the persons said to have been present at the
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marriage of my sister Desire, did at that time live in the town of South Kingstown and are either dead or removed from said town

William Tourjee + his signature

Witness
Benj Hull
The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Washington Count ss
At South Kingstown July 20th 1837
Personally appeared William Tourjee the aforesaid Deponent, and after being carefully examined, cautioned and affirmed to testify the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, gave the aforegoing Deposition, which was by me reduced to writing in his presence and by him subscribed in my presence. And I do further certify that said Deponent is well known to me, that he sustains a fair character for truth and that his deposition is entitled to credit

Benj Hull Just Peace
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Washington ss
Clerks Office Supreme Judicial Court
I Powell Helme Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Washington do hereby certify that Benjamin Hull esq is a Justice of the Peace for the town of South Kingstown in said County of Washington duly appointed by the General Assembly and Commissioned by the Governor and thereunder qualified as the Law directs and that the signature certifying the taking of the aforegoing deposition is his genuine hand writing

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court aforesaid this 21st day of July in the year 1837
Powell Helme Clerk
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In a manuscript, (connected with the records of the Presbyterian Chh in this town, &) entitled "A Record of persons joined in marriage by Joseph Torrey Pastor of the Chh of Christ in South Kingston" is the following record "Philip Tourjee of North Kingston & Desire Tourjee residing in this town were lawfully married June 14 1772"

The above named manuscript contains the records of some hundreds of marriages having date from "Oct 17 1736" to "Jany 28 1789"

All of which appear to have been written by the same hand

Attest Charles P Grosvenor
Pastor of the Presbyterian Chh
South Kingston (R.I.)
South Kingston
July 21st 1837

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Washington County ss
At South Kingstown July 21st 1837 Personally came Revd Charles P Grosvenor and was duly engaged to the truth of the aforegoing.
Before me Benj Hull Just Peace
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/eel

January 24, 1929

Miss Grace T. Earl
200 North Washington Avenue
Columbus, Ohio

Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.16762, it appears that Philip Tourje enlisted April 20, 1775 and served eight months as a private in Captains Thurber's and Nathan Allen's Companies, Colonel Church's Rhode Island Regiment and was in the battle of Bunker Hill. He enlisted at Swansey in 1776 and served twelve months as a private in Captain Nathan Allen's Company, Colonel Church's Regiment, and was in the battle of Springfield. He enlisted in 1777, and served three years and eleven months as a private in Captain David Van Horne's Company, Colonel Henry Jackson's Regiment and was in the battles of Monmouth, Rhode Island and Penobscot.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 8, 1818 at which time he was living at Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York, aged seventy-two years. He died there, May 8, 1826.
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The soldier married, June 14, 1772, at Tower Hill, South Kingston, Rhode Island, Desire Tourje (his cousin), she was born, December 9, 1752. They were both at that time of said South Kingston.

She was allowed his pension on her application executed March 6, 1837, at which time she was living at Galway, Saratoga County, New York.

Children:
Valentine born February 14, 1773.
William born October 21, 1775.
George born December 5, 1777.
Sally born February 21, 1780.
Thomas born April 9, 1784.
Stiles born May 5, 1788.

William, George and Sally died prior to March 6, 1837, and Valentine had moved to Ohio.

Respectfully,

Winfield Scott
Commissioner.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., [blank], 10[blank]
H.F. 16762

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Philip Tourje a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
[table headings]
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment. | Length of Service. | Rank. 
 Officers under whom Service was Rendered| [sub categories] Captain | Colonel | State
Apr 20 1775 | 8 mos | Pvt | Nathan Allen Thurber | Church | R.I.
+Apr Swansey Spring 1776 | 12 mos | Pvt | Nathan Allen | Church | [blank]
Spring 1777 | 3 yrs ! 11 mos | Pvt | David Van Horne | Henry Jackson | [blank]

Battles engaged in, June 75 Bunker Hill, Dec 76 Springfield, June 78 Monmouth, Aug 78 Rhode Island & Penobscot
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, Apr 8, 1818 His ap was al.
Residence at date of application, Greenfield, Saratoga Co. N. Y.
Age at date of application, 72 yrs, He died May 8, 1926 at Greenfield N. Y.
Remarks: Soldier in Kingston married June 14, 1772 at Tower Hill, South Kingston R. I. Desire Tourje (his cousin) born Dec 9, 1752. She was al pension on an app &c Mch 6, 1837 while a res of Galwaym, Saratoga Co. N. Y. Children: Valentine moved to Ohio b. Feb 17, 1773. William b. Oct. 21 1775. George b. Dec  1777. Sally b. Feby 21 1780 dead 18[illegible], Thomas b. Apr 9 1784. Stiles b May 6 1788.

Respectfully
Commissioner.

[calculation in left margin]
1836 less 84 equals 1752

6-285C
place of birth not stated
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON

August 16, 1920.

Mrs. Mary Roberts
313 Lake Street,
Howell, Mich.

Madam:
In reply to your letter of the 28" ultimo, you are advised that the Revolutionary War pensioner Widow File 16762, Desire Tourje was the widow of Philip Tourje and had only four children, namely: Philip, Valentine, George, and Sally.* As you desire the history of the parents of one Stiles Tourje, it would not appear that the above noted pensioner was the subject of your inquiry.

The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to a Thomas Tourje with any spelling of that name.

Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner

*See abstract in claim.
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1920 Sept. 23 Hist to Mary E. Roberts
1929 Jan. 24 Hist to Miss Grace T. Earl [illegible]

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16762
Desire Tourje
Wid of
Philip Tourje
Priv Rev War

Act: July 4th 1836
Index: Vol M, Page 279

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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ANDREW EARL
200 North Washington Avenue
Columbus, Ohio

April 12. 1928.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
I would very much appreciate it if you would send me any information that you might have in your department concerning the Revolutionary War records of Tomas Tourjee and his son Phillip.

Thomas Tourjee was born in North Kingstown, Rhode Island in 1722, and both he and his son probably enlisted there.

Have you any record of another Phillip Tourjee who served in the war of 1812. I think that he enlisted with the New York troops. He received a land grant about 1875.

Thanking you, I am
Very truly yours,
Grace Tourjee Earl

[stamped]
PENSION OFFICE
APR 14 1928
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New York
Desire Tourje
suspended let to
A Goodrich June 29 1837
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Revolutionary Claim
FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Mar 21 1592
NY
4 July '36
3d sec
[postmark] BALLSTON NY MAR 15

No. 1592
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Ballston Spa March 15 1837

Sir-
The enclosed is transmitted to you at the request of those interested, who desire that the subject of the application may be investigated as early as your convenience will permit, and the result communicated to me.
Very Respectfully
Your obt Servt
A Goodrich

J. L. Edwards Esq
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Rev tic
csu
&2 [check mark] el - Mansfed Envelope enclosed
Howell Michigan August 7th 20

Department of the Interior, Pension
Will you kindly give me the Revolutionary War record of my great grandfather Philip Tourje who served a number of years in R. War and his wifes name was Desire and she was a pensioner, any information about him his age, where born, his wifes name before marriage &c, will be greatly appreciated, and would be glad to remit any charges for same.
Very Respectfully
Mrs. Mary E Rubert
313 Leake St
Howell
Michigan

[stamped]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
A
AUG 9 1920
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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Oct. 23 183 [blank]

Sir: Under the act of the 6t of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Desire Tourje widow of Philip Tourje dcd a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany N. Y Agency, at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, under the law of the 18th March 1818 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1826 to the 8th May 1826.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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Free

Hon J. L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner 
Pension Office
Washington City
D.C.

Aug 4
[illegible]
Desire Tourje

Auth Galway NY
July 31
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Saratoga County
Town of Galway
July 31 1837
Sir
In compliance with the regulations of the Department in relation to Claims under the act of the 4th of July 1836 requiring [illegible] evidence of marriage, as stated in your letter to Alpheus Goodrich Esquire of the 38th of June last (in relation to the Claim of Desire Tourjee widow of Philip Tourjee) I wrote to the Post master at Tower Hill, South Kingston, State of Rhode Island, with a [illegible] to to procure the evidence required, and have received a copy of the record of her marriage, and an affidavit in relation to the same. The reason assigned for having taken the affidavit in addition to the Copy of the record of marriage is that search was made at the Town Clerks office and no record found of her marriage. That Doctor Torrey died Nov 25 1791 in the 85 year of his age and 61 year of his ministry as appeared by his gravestone and there had not been any minister of that [illegible] since his Death untill a few years since, it was therefore believed that no Church record could be found of her marriage, and the affidavit was to be the only evidence that could be found. The day following search was made, & the records of the Church found in which was the record of her marriage a Copy of which together with the affidavit were enclosed to me, and I herewith have the honor of enclosing the same to you.
I am very Respectfully
Your obt & humble Sevt
Ebenezer Couch

Hon 
J. L Edwards Esqr

P.S. Should the Pension be granted to the residant Please forward her certificate to the care of Alpheus Goodrich Esqr Ballston Spa
E. Couch