Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28904, for Jacobus Swartwout, New York
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
New York

CONTENTS
Swartwout, Jacobus
Swartout

NUMBER
S. 28904
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New York 24.365
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Jacobus Swartwout
Orange Co. in the State of New York
was a Sergeant in the company commanded
Captain Faulkner of the Regt commanded
Col M Laughling in the N. York [?]
for 2y [?]
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
of the rate of 120 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Nov
1833 and Sent to
James Finch Gorham
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $300 
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 March 34 60 00
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$360.00
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{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by by W.D. Williams Clerk,
Book E Vol. 4 Page 121

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Let to Pensioner May 18th 1835 act of Congress 14 May 1835
  "  " Hon. John W. Brown 16 April 1836
  "  " Hon. Nathe Jones 23 Jan 1839
  "  " same 16 Feb "
  "  "  Hon. N.H. Earl 3 Feb 1840
  "  "    "  N. Jones 2 Apr 1840

Death date not on A.B.
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State of New York
Orange County } Ss:
On the fifteenth of October 1833 personally appeared before me John Hallock Junr one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said County of Orange, Jacobus Swartwout a resident of the Town of Deer Park in the said County of Orange, aged eighty two years on the 15th day of Novr last who being first duly sworn, according to Law doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provission made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, that he entered the service of the United States in the year 1776 in Capt Abraham Cuddebacks Company in Col McLaughling's Regiment, in the Militia of the State of New York, and served
two months was stationed at Coshethton & Shekoken on the Dillaware river in Ulster County, now Sullivan County, in the year 1777.  I served four months in Capt William Faulkners Company in Col Mc Laughlings Regiment was stationed at Perammous & Ocquaknock in the State of New Jersey, in the year 1777 I served two months in Capt Abraham Cuddebacks Company in Col McLaughlings Regiment stationed at Fort Montgomery on the Hudson River in the year 1778 I served one month and a half in Capt Abraham Cuddebacks Company
Col. Newkirks Regiment, was stationed at New Burgh Shaker Hill and other places on and near the Hudson River in the County of Orange, I also served in the same year in Capt Abraham Cuddebacks Company, in Col Newkirks Regiment four & a half month, stationed on the frontiers[?] of Orange & Ulster Counties at Peenpack, Minisink, Mamakating and other places in the Dillerware river Neversink & Baskes kill settlements to protect the inhabitence against the Indians, in the year 1779, I served five months at the stations last mentioned and under the same offices and for the same purposes, in the year 1780, I served five & a half months at the same stations
and for the same purposes and under the same officers and in the year 1781, I served four months, at the same Stations, and for the same purposes, and under the same officers, during the services above described, I
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was orderly Sergant and served as such excepting the four months which I served in Capt. William Fullers Company. The whole of my services amounts to two years and four and a half months, and this deponant further saith, that he served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority, that he was either in the field, or in Garrison, and for the time during which the service was performed he was not employ'd in any civil pursuit, and this deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever, to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension rool of any Agency in any State,

note the word not in the last line but one of
from the bottom wrote on erasure, also any
erasure on the same line

Jacobus Swartwout

Sworn to and subscribed before me.
the day and year aforesaid
John Hallack Junr A. Judge
of Orange County Com Pleas

The following interrogatories was by me propounded to the before named Jacobus Swartwout, an applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832-

1st where and in what year was you born
Answer, in the year 1751. in the Town of Deer Park, Orange Co

2nd have you any record of your age; and if so, where is it
Answer, in my Family Bible.

3rd where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, where do you now live
Answer in the Town Deer Park, then called Mamakating and have lived there since that time, and live there still

4th how were you called into service; were you drafted, did you Volenteer, or were you a substitute, if a substitute- for whom.
Answer, in all my services before stated, I have
served as principle, and in no case as a substitute
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5th State the names of some of the regular officers who was with the troops where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service-
Answer, I have set forth in my declaration, the names of the officers under whom I have served, as fair forth as my recollection serves

6th did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it
Answer, I never received a written discharge, as
I can now recollect, at the expiration of any of my services

7th State the names of persons to whom you are known, in your present Neighbourhood, who can testify as to your Character for veracity, and their belief of your services
as a soldier of the Revolution-
Answer, Col William A. Cuddeback & James Finch Esq

I certify that the above & foregoing interrogatories was by me propounded, to the before named Jacobus Swartwout, and that the answers recorded under each of the said interrogatories, was given by the said
Jacobus Swartwout, this 15th day of October 1833-
John Hallock Junr A Judge of
of Orange Com. Pleas

State of New York
Orange County } Ss:
We William A. Cuddeback of the Town of Dear Park in the said County of Orange, and James Finch of Mount Hope in the said County, do
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Jacobus Swartwout, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be eighty two 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 oppinion from our personal knowledge of the fact, we having both resided in the immediate neigh-
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-bourhood of the said Jacobus Swartwout during the Revolutionary war, and do still reside in the same neighbourhood with said Jacobus Swartwout, and the said William A. Cuddeback, further deposeth and saith that he served as a Solder in the same Company a part of the time set forth in the said Jacobus Swartwouts declaration and the deponants further say, that the said Jacobus Swartwout was a very active and zealous defender
of the liberties of his County, and further say that the said Jacobus Swartwout is a man of high and respectable standing in society, and of undoubted truth & veracity
William A. Cuddeback
James Finch

Sworn to & subscribed before me
this 15th day of October 1833
John Hallock Junr A
Judge of orange Cornn Pleas 

State of New York
Orange County } Ss:
I Cornelious C. Elting, a clergyman residing in the Town of Deer Park in the said County of
Orange hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jacobus Swartwout, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that I believe him to be eighty two years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the Neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that I concur in that opinion, and I further certify that the said Jacobus Swartwout is considered and believed to be a man of truth & Verasity-
Cornelius C Elting

Sworn to and Subscribed before
me this 16th day of October 1833
James Finch Justice
of the peace

note the words a Clergyman, wrote above
the first line of the above affidavit
James Finch Justice
of the peace
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April 15, 1938.

Miss Maud I. Hawley
Route 1, Box 84 C
Ashland, Oregon.

BA-J/ILL
Jacobus Swartwout
S. 28904

Dear Madam:
The record of Jacobus Swartwout is furnished herein as found in the papers on file in his claim for pension, S. 28904, based upon
his service in the Revolutionary War.

Jacobus Swartwout was born November 15, 1750 or 1751, in Mamakating, later called Deer Park, Orange County, New York; the names
of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Mamakating, New York, he enlisted in 1776, and served two months as sergeant in Captain Abraham Cuddeback's company, Colonel McLaughlin's (possibly meant for McClaughrey's) regiment of New York troops, stationed in Ulster County, New York; he enlisted in 1777, and served four months in Captain William Faulkner's company, in New Jersey, and two months in Captain Abraham Cuddeback's company, at Fort Montgomery; he enlisted in 1778, and served six months as sergeant in Captain Abraham Cuddeback's company, Colonel Newkirk's New York regiment; during the years 1779, 1780 and 1781, he served as sergeant on different tours amounting to about fourteen months, in Captain Abraham Cuddeback's Company, Colonel Newkirk's New York regiment, engaged against the Indians.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 15, 1833, at which time he resided in Deer Park, Orange County, New York. He signed his name Jacobus Swartwout. The soldier had continued to reside in Deer Park ever since the Revolutionary War.

There are no data in regard to the family of Jacobus Swartwout.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name
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of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office,
Records Division, this city, and furnish the following:

Jacobus Swartwout
Certificate #24365
Issued November 25, 1833
Rate $120 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
New York Agency.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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Hon N Jones
2 April 1840
GC

Record 47[?] page 393
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Pension Office
Apr 2. 1840
Sir
The certificate of the Comptroller of New York
offered in evidence of the services of Jacobus Swartwout I have the honor to inform you cannot be considered in having any bearing on the service in question The certificate shews that a payment made to Lieutenant
Jabs Swartwout for services ending June 27
1780 and to Ensign Jacobus Swartwout ending 11 June 1779 & June 12th 1780. In the first place the claimant has no when asserted a claim to service in the grade of an Ensign or 
Lieutenant and it may be added that the Lieutenant as will as the Ensign described in the Comptrollers certificate were not residents of that part of the State in which the claimant resided


Hon Nathaniel Jones
House Reps
NY
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Washington March 31st 1840

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions

Sir
I enclose and send herewith all the papers including the old pay certificate of Jacobus Swartwout, together with new Record evidence of his services as Ensign & Lt. as certified by the Comptroller of New York, with a view to a review of his case and if found to be just and sufficiently established by the additional proof of service, that you will place him again on the pension roll. His pay was stopped, as I believe in May 1835.  It seems to be truly humiliating [?] [?] as unfortunate for an old Soldier who has rendered as much service to his country as did Jacobus Swartwout to have his pay denied and his patriotism as it were questioned
now at the age of nearly Ninety. I hope sir that ample restitution may be made to this old Soldier & that his pay may be renewed and am with
great regard
your obedient servant
Nathaniel Jones
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Hm J. L Edwards's
Letter

Kerr[?]
Pension Office

Hon Nathaniel Jones
House Representatives
NY
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War Department
Pension Office
February 16. 1838

Sir
In reply to your letter of the 8th instant enquiring the cause of suspension of payment of the pension of Jacobus Swartwout, I have to hold that his claim as set forth in his declaration was for 2 months service in Captain
Abraham Cuddeback company in 1776, 1 1/2 month in 1777. 5 1/2 months in 1778. 5 months in 1779. 5 1/2 months in 1780. four months in 1781 and four months in Captain William Faulkner Company in 1777, all in the grade of an orderly Sergeant:- At the time
this statement was admitted there was no evidence in the Department to rebut it, and the claim was allowed. About a year afterwards the original pay rolls of Captain Cuddeback and subsequently those of Captain Faulkner were obtained from Albany: Those of Captain Cuddeback embrace the year 1776 1777. 1778 & 1779, were made up at the close of the war
and sworn to by that officer as containing a just and true account of the services of his company during that
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time - It appeared on inspection that no Sergeant of the name of Swartwout belonged to the company during the four years and that it was fully supplied during that period with non commissioned officers: The name of Jacobus Swartwout was found credited with a number of short tours as a private amounting in all to thirty days. On the rolls of Captain Faulkner his name did not appear in any grade. His account of his revolutionary services being
thus discredited by record evidence. payment of his pension was directed to be discontinued. 
It has been shown by incontestable evidence, that in 1778 Captain Cuddebacks company volunteered as minutemen to hold themselves in readiness to June when called upon from that time till the end of the war. It is not therefore improbable that the claimant has confounded the mere readiness to June with actual service
Respectfully
Your obt Servt
J.L. Edwards

Hon Nathaniel Jones
Home Reps
N.Y.
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Hon. N.H. Earl
HR
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The Number and Amount of Certificates Issued by the Treasury of the State of New for Levys and Militia Services continued from Book VIII
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                To whom given
1779
June 11   
43814 Jacobus Swartout 
Ensn
3 7 10

June 11
44183 Jacobus Swartwout
Ensn
3 10 4

June 12
44235 Jacobus Swartwout
Ensn
1 13 4

June 12
44.622 Jacobus Swartwout
Ensn
1 13 4


State of New York
Comptrollers Office
Albany Oct 24 1839
I hereby certify the above to be true Extracts from Book 9. now remaining in this Office,
And also that it appears from the same Book that the said Swartout servedthe 1st & 3d above named terms under Capt. Geo. Brinkerhoof, & the 2d & 4. under Capt Johannes Schutts, & that Abm Brinkerhoff was Colo. on the 11th day of June 1779
Bates Cooke
Comptroller
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The Number and Amount of Certificates issued by the Treasury of the State of New York for Levys and Militia Services &c
continued from Book II & III.

To whom given

1780 June 27
17476. July Swartwout Lt
The Number and Amount of 
certificates issued by the Treasurer of the
State of New York for Levys and
Militia Service continued from Book 
VII.
2 16 101/2

1779 June 11
43814. Jacobus Swartout
Ensn.
3 7 10

1780 June 12 
44255 Jacobus Swartwout 
Ensn
1 13 4

State of New York
Comptroller Office
Albany Feby 21th 1846

I hereby certify the above to be a true Extract from Book 4, & 9 now remaining in this Office, and also that it appears from the same Books that the said Swartwout served the first term
above named under Capt Isaac Jan Wyck, the
Second & third under Capt. Geo. Brinckerhoof and that on the 27th June 1780 Wm Clark was Maj[?] and that on the 16th June 1779 & the 12th June 1780 Abm Brinkerhoff was a Colonel
Bates Cooke
Comptr
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The Number and Amount of Certificates issued by the Treasurer of the State of New York for Levys and Militia service
continued from Book VII
To whom given
-
1778 Dec 29
37778 Jacobus Swartwout
Ensn
8 18 2

State of New York
Comptroller Office
Albany Feby 21st 1840
I Hereby Certify the above to be a true extract from Book 8. here remaining in the Office & also that it appears from the same Book that the said Swartwout served the above named term under Capt John G. Brinkerhoof & that on the 11th June 1779 Abrm Brinckerhoof was a Colonel

Bates Cooke
Comptroller
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Hon J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
War Dept

Jacobus Swartwout Feb 9

Hon Nathl Jones 
HR
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House of Rep's
Feby 8th 1838

Hon  J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
Will you have the goodness to favor me early as may be convenient the reasons for inducing your
department to suspend the payment of a Pension for which a certificate was heretofore granted to Jacobus Swartout of the State of N.Y.
I remain Sir
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Nath; Jones
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Jacobus Swartswort
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War Department
Pension Office
January 23 1838
Sir
Herewith enclosed are certified copies of Jacobus Swartwout's papers, requested by your letter of the 6th inst.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully,Hon.
Your Obt Servt
J L. Edwards

Hon. Nathaniel Jones,
House of Representatives
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Col. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Arr Jan 9 1838

Jan 8

Hon Nathl Jones 
HR
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Washington D.C. Jany\.y 6th 1837
Col. J. L. Edwards
Sir
I have received a letter from the Agent of Jacobus Swartout and William A. Cuddeback urging me to obtain and lay before the Com
on Rev.y Pensions, all the papers proofs &c of these soldiers of the Revolution. Will you have the goodness therefore to furnish me with them soon as may be convenient.
If necessary I would receipt them or return them in due time to your office
To the inquiry I made some days since on behalf of W. Case Esq. as to what line a certain Rev. Soldier of the name of John Adams or John Addams belonged, I have received as yet
no reply.
I remain with sentiments of Esteem
your Humble Servt
Nathl Jones

N.B. The pamphlet containing the Pension Laws has not come to hand
N.S.
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Jacobus Swartwout
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Decr 29. 1837
Com Rev. Pensions
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Jan 4 1840
Rep (under Resol.) to the Comr
on Rev. Pensions
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March 5, 1840 Comr dis'd & to lie[?]
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N Jones, N.Y.
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25th Congress
2d Session

Congress of the United Sates
In the House of Representatives
Dec. 29, 1837.
On motion of Mr Jones, N.Y. Resolved, That the committee on Revolutionary Pensioners be instructed to enquire whether Jacobus Swartout is not entitled to a pension for services rendered
as an officer or private in the war of the revolution
Attest.
W. F. Franklin
Clerk
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Jacobus Swartwout

Hon Jno W. Brown
HR
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James Finch Justice of the peace
State of New York Orange County Ss
I, Lebbeus L Vail Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid, Do hereby certify, that James Finch is a Justice of the Peace in and for Orange County duly Commissioned and qualified, that his commission is dated on the First day of January 1834 and will expire on the last day of December 1837 and that his signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of the said County the 29th day of March 1836 Lebbeus L Vail Clerk
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House of Representatives Washington April 5th 1836
Sir I enclose you additional affidavits in the case of Swartout & Cuddeback. I hope you will give them an attentive examination in connection with the papers heretofore filed & advise me of the result as soon as possible.
I am Very respectfully Your &c &c
John Brown
J L Edwards Esq
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Hon J.W. Brown H R
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James Finch Justice of the peace
State of New York Orange County ss
I, Lebbeus L Vail, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County and State aforesaid, Do hereby certify, that James Finch Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for Orange County duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission is dated on the First day of January 1834 and will expire on the last day of December 1837 and that his signature above written is genuine —
Given under my hand and the seal of said County the 29th day of March 1836 Lebbeus L Vail Clerk
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I HEREBY certify, that the accompanying pages numbered from one to thirteen, inclusive, are truly copied from the originals, in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions, Department of War.
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That JAMES L. EDWARDS, who has signed the foregoing certificate, is Commissioner of Pensions; and that to his attestations full faith and credit are and ought to be given.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed, on this twenty-second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
J. R. Poinsett Secretary of War.
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State of New York Orange County Ss
on the 22nd day of March 1836 before me James Finch one of the Justices of the peace in & for the said County of Orange, Personally appeared Benjamin Dodge of Mount Hope in the County of Orange aforesaid, aged fifty two years, who being by me duly sworn deposeth and saith that for forty years he has resided in the bounds of the Company Commanded by Capt Abraham Cuddeback during the Revolutionary war, and in the bounds of the adjoining Company commanded by Capt Benjamin Vail, and ever since that I have arrived to the years of manhood, I have been intimately acquainted with Mr Jacobus Swartwout, who resides in the bounds of the Company formerly commanded by Capt. Abraham Cuddeback, and whos pension I am informed has been suspended by the Pension Office, to the astonishment of my self and all that I have heard speak on that subject, I have often and repeatedly heard Mr Jacobus Swartwout spoken of as a distinguished Patriotic Soldier of the Revolutionary war, and a man which had long and faithfully served in the defence of his Country
and this deponant further saith that Mr Jacobus Swartwout is a man of unblemished character and against whom the toung of slander has never dare to rise and whose word or Oath is entitled to the highest credit
[signed] B. Dodge
Notes on erasure, in the last line excepting one, before signing. — Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 22nd day of March 1836 James Finch Justice of the peace
and I further certify that Benjamin Dodge who has sworn to and subscribed the above affidavit is to me a person well known, and a man of high respectability and of truth & veracity — 22nd March 1836 James Finch Justice of the peace
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State of New York Orange County Ss
on the 22nd day of March 1836 before me James Finch one of the Justices of the peace in & for the said County Orange Personally appeared, Alsop Vail of Mount Hope in the said County of Orange, Aged Seventy five years who being by me duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that
in the Revolutionary war he was a member of Capt Benjamin Vail’s Company in Col. Newkirk's Regiment of Militia, it being the adjoining Company to that commanded by Capt Abraham Cuddeback, which company comprised the settlement of Peenpack, and that before the burning of the Settlement of Peenpack, by the Indians, that Capt Cuddeback's company rendered Military services in the State of New Jersey, and after the burning of the Settlement of Peenpack, which I believe was in year 1777 or 1778, that Capt. Cuddeback's company was stationed in the Forts errected for the defence of that settlement in garrison until near the close of the Revolutionary War, and which garrison's was aided in their defence, by troops from the other parts of Col. Newkirk's Regiment, and from troops from Dutchess & Ulster Counties in this State, and this deponent further saith that he has been intimately acquainted with Mr Jacobus Swartwout from nearly the commencement of the Revolutionary war, and knows that he was a member of Capt Abraham Cuddeback's Company, and has allways understood that the said Jacobus Swartwout was a zealous defender of his County during the Revolutionary war, and rendered important services to his Country —
[signed] Alsop Vail

the word ‘Company’ first interlined Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22nd day of March 1836 James Finch Justice of the peace

And I further certify that that I am well acquainted with Alsop Vail who has sworn to and subscribed the above affidavit and know him to be a man of respectability & of truth and veracity — 22 March 1836 James Finch Justice of the peace

The words ‘be a man of’ first interlined
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State of New York Orange County Ss
I, Lebbeus L Vail Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Orange County Do hereby Certify, that James Finch is a Justice of the Peace as within and that the foregoing Certificate purporting to be his is genuine —
In the testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the 29th day of March 1836 Lebbeus L Vail, Clerk
Alsop Vail
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[State of New York] Orange County Ss
On the 22nd day of March 1836 before me James Finch one of the Justices of the peace in & for the said County of Orange Personally appeared, Hezekiah Woodward of Mount Hope in the said County of Orange, who being by me duly sworn according to Law, deposeth and saith that
he is eighty years old, that he was a member of Capt Benjamin Vails Company in Col Newkirk's Regiment of Militia, it being the adjoining Company to that commanded by Capt Abraham Cuddeback, that he is well acquainted with Jacobus Swartwout, whose pension has been suspended by the Pension Office, to my astonishment and that of the Public at large, I am well acquainted with the circumstances of his services as a member of Capt. Cuddeback's Company, in the Revolutionary war, that Mr Jacobus Swartwout, served in said Company during the Revolutionary war, as stated in an affidavit this day made by me in the case of Col William A. Cuddeback, a member of the said Company, I have been well acquainted with Mr Jacobus Swartwout from near the commencement of the Revolutionary war, until the present time, and know that he was a distinguished Patriotic Soldier of the Revolutionary war and rendered important services to his Country —
and that Mr Jacobus Swartwout is a man of character and high respectability and of undoubted truth and veracity
[signed] Hezekiah Woodward
Sworn to, and subscribed before me this 22nd day March 1836 — James Finch Justice of the peace
and I further certify that I am well acquainted with Hezekiah Woodward, who has sworn to and subscribed the above affidavit, and know him to be a man of Respectability and of truth & veracity — 22nd March 1836 James Finch Justice of the peace
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State of New York Orange County Ss
I, Lebbeus L Vail Clerk of the Court of Common [Pleas] for Orange County Do hereby Certify, that James Finch is a Justice of the Peace as within and that the foregoing Certificate purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court the 29th day of March 1836 Lebbeus L Vail Clerk
Hezekiah Woodward
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May 27. 
NY

Free
James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

file this with Jacobus Swartwout papers

[stamp] NEW YORK MAY 25
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Mechanics Bank New York 25th May 1835
Sir Jacobus Swartwout a Sergeant at $120 per annum, whose pension is Suspended by you, Letter of the 22nd Inst., was paid to 4th March 1835 on the 20th March last.
I am Respectfully Your Obt Servt - Jno Fleming Prud & pens rgs.

James L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
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Payments to be made [at] New York [by] Presd U.S. Br. Bank
Agent for paying Pension [ ]rs in the Agency of New York

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E Vol. 4 Page 121 by W. L. Williams Clerk.

pay stopped 22 May 1835
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Jacobus Swartwout of the State of New York who was a Sergeant in the revolutionary war
is entitled to receive one Hundred & Seventy dollars and — cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States this Twenty fifth day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty three Lew Cass Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned, J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
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free
Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of  Pensions — Pension office Washington City

Oct 22nd 1833
N.Y.
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Goshen 18th October 1833
Dear Sir I inclose you Mr. Swartwout's declaration for a pension under the late act of Congress, the reason why it was mailed at Goshen was that I was there on business, if the papers are satisfactory, I wish to inclose Mr. Swartwout’s Pension Certificate to me, at the Post Office, at Finchville, Orange County, N.Y.
and you will much oblige your Obedt. Servt. James Finch
Hon’ble J. L. Edward
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State of New York Orange County ss.
and the said John Hallock Junr. one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Orange, do hereby declare my opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department,
that the said Jacobus Swartwout, who has Sworn to and Subscribed the declaration to which this Certificate is annexed, was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states in his said declaration, and that oppinion is strong & conclusive in my mind,
and the said John Hallock Junr, further certifies that Cornelious C. Etting, who has sworn to and subscribed the Certificate annexed to the declaration of the said Jacobus Swartwout, is a Clergyman of respectable standing, and Pastor of the Church & Congregation in the town and place where the said Jacobus Swartwout resides, and further Certify that Col William A. Cuddeback and the Hon’ble James Finch, who his Sworn to and Subscribed the affidavit accompanying the declaration of the said Jacobus Swartwout, are men of high and respectable standing in Society, and that their statement is entitled to full credit, and I further Certify that Col William A. Cuddeback is a resident of the Town of Deer Park in the said County of Orange, and that the Hon James Finch is a resident of the Town of Mount Hope in the said County of Orange, and that they both reside near to the said Jacobus Swartwout, and I further Certify that the said Jacobus Swartwout, in consequence of his age and weakness is unable to attend Court and make his declaration in open Court, and that I had to wait on the said Jacobus Swartwout, to enable him to make his declaration before me,
Dated this 18th day of October 1833 John Hallock Jnr A. Judge of Orange Com. Pleas
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State of New York
Orange County ss --
I Asa Dunning Clerk of the County of Orange and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Orange Do hereby certify that foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of
Jacobus Swartwout for a pension and I further
Certify that John Hallock Junr before whom the within declaration or affidavit of Jacobus Swartwout was sworn & also before whom the within affidavits of William A Cuddeback and James Finch was Sworn and whose name appears to the within Certificates was at date of the same & now is a Judge of the Court
of Common pleas in & for the said County (which is a Court of Record) and that the signature subscribed to the said affidavits & certificate is his genuine signature and I further certify that James Finch Esq before whom the annexed affidavit of Cornelius E Etting was sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County and that his signature subscribed to the said affidavit is his genuine signature---
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office
this 18th day of October 1833
Asa Dunning Clerk

Jacobus Swartwout 
28.225

Admitted
Ord Sergeant 2 years
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1934-Nov 14 Hist to Mrs. Nellie M. Gammon
1934 Dec 21 Mrs Nellie M. Gammon also how
  to obtain [?] of last payment of pension & 
 other information - MM[??]
 
1938 April 13 Hist to Maud J. Hawley - JLL

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28904
INVALID
Revy
28904
Jacobus Swartout
Serg Rev War
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June 7 32
Vol. 2, Page 409
[Arrangement of 1870.}
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MRS. NELLIE M. GAMMON
337 SYLVAN AVENUE
LEONIA, NEW JERSEY
Nov 1 1934

The Veterans Administration Bureau
Washington D.C

Gentlemen:
at the suggestion of the Adjutant Generals Office I am continuing a search for any information you may be able to give me. Revolutionary Record.
First of Tylee or Tyler Willcocks
born 1741 died 1809
Married Deborah Russell 1767
his birth place - probably Dartmouth
Old Dartmouth - His father & Mother
and also Military Record
Jacobus Swartwout b. Feb 12 1692 
D April 3 1749 
married Gieltjen Nieuwkirk 
Ref: Swartwout Chronicles 
Rudolphus Swartwout b May 6 1724
married Gerardine Brinckerhoff Oct 1 1749
Jacobus Swartwout born Aug 28 about 1747 or so
Baptized in Hopewell, NY Dec 4 1758
married Hulda Mc Lean Perkins b in Rhode Island
over
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Roberts in Revolutionary Records States,
Page 135 - James R, Captain, also Ensign
195 - Jacobus, Ensign
Jacob S., Ensign
240-262 - Jacobus
154 - Colonel Jacobus
271 - General Jacobus
156 - Jacobus C.
From an old Deed, it is believed this Jacobus we are searching was from Dutchess Co., N.Y. Probably [illegible]
One other fact please keep in mind, that “Jacobus” name was usually called James.
This old Jacobus father I believed came from Fishkill or thereabouts, I certainly appreciate and thank you most heartily
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for these were my old grandfathers,
Very respectfully yours, Mrs Nellie M Gammon

[stamp] RECEIVED NOV 3 1934 MAIL SUB-DIV. READER 16 VETS. ADM.
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Attention Pension Dept
NELLIE M. GAMMON 397 SYLVAN AVENUE LEONIA, NEW JERSEY December 1 1934
The War Department Washington D. C.

Gentlemen: From the Veterans Bureau I have information that Jacobus (James) Swartwout was granted a pension for service in Revolutionary War under S28904
Will you please copy all facts, I would especially like any family trace, Dates of application, where Pension would & be sent, The Veterans Bureau very kindly sent me also the Military record. This could be omitted. I appreciate every bit of help, and thank you
Very respectfully Mrs Nellie M Gammon
P.S. over

[left margin] Reg BA S1911
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P. S. Will you please review records for Rudolphus Swartwout. I noticed in my letter it was spelled ‘Swartout’ leaving out the ‘w’. Perhaps this may bring a different view of his Revolutionary Record. He is mentioned, as in service, either in “Roberts New York in the Revolution” or in Page 177 “Swartwouts Chronicles” Thank you.
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Copy
State of New York Orange County ss
On the fifteenth of October 1833. personally appeared before me John Hallock Junr one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Orange, Jacobus Swartwout a resident of the Town of Deer Park in the said County of Orange, aged Eighty two years on the 15th day of Novr last, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States in the year 1776, in Capt Abraham Cuddeback’s Company in Col. McLaughling's Regiment, in the militia of the State of New York, and served two months, was stationed at Coshethton & Shehoken on the Dillaware river in Ulster County, now Sullivan County. in the year 1777 I served of our months in Capt William Faulkner’s Company in Col. McLaughling's Regiment, was stationed at Perammous & Ocquhenock in the State of New Jersey. in the year 1777 I served two months in Capt Abraham Cuddeback's company in Col. McLaughling's Regiment, stationed at Fort Montgomery on the Hudson River. In the year 1778, I served one month and a half in Capt Abraham Cuddeback's Company Col. Newkirk’s regiment, was stationed at Newburgh Snakehill and other places on and near the Hudson river in the County of Orange. I also
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served in the same year in Capt Abraham
Cuddeback's company in Col. Newkirk's
Regiment four & a half months, stationed on
the frontiers of Orange & Ulster Counties at
Peenpack, Minisink, Mamakating & other
places on the Delaware river Neversink
and Basheskill settlements to protect the
inhabitants against the Indians.-- in the
year 1779, I served five months at the 
stations last mentioned and under the same
officers, and for the same purposes.-- in
the year 1780, I served five & a half months
at the same stations, and for the same
purposes and under the same officers. and
in the year 1781, I served four months
at the same stations and for the same 
purposes, and under the same officers, 
during the services above described, I was 
orderly Sergeant, and served as such 
excepting the four months, which I served in Capt. William Faulkners Company - the whole of my services amounts to two years and four
and a half months, and this deponent further
saith, that he served with an embodied
corps, called into service by competent 
authority, that he was either in the field or
in Garrison, and for the time during which
the service was performed, he was not 
employed in any civil pursuit. and this
deponent hereby relinquishes every claim
whatsoever to a pension or annuity except
the present and he declares that his name
is not on the pension roll of any agency
in any State.
Jacobus Swartwout
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Note the word not in the last line but one from
the bottom, wrote on erasure, also an erasure
on the same line.
Sworn to & subscribed before me
the day and year aforesaid
John Hallock Junr A Judge of Orange County
Com. Pleas

The following interrogatories was by me propounded to the before named Jacobus Swartwout, an applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832

1st Where and in what year was you born
Answer in the year 1751 in the Town of Deer Park, Orange County

2nd Have you any record of your age, and if so
where is it.
Answer. in my family Bible

3rd Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, where do you now live
Answer - in the Town Deer Park, then called 
Mamakating and have lived there since that
time, and live there still

4th How were you called into service, were
you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you
a substitute, if a substitute for whom
Answer - In all my services before stated I have
served as principle, and in no case as a 
substitute

5th State the names of some of the regular officers who was with the troops where you
served, such Continental and militia
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Regiments as you can recollect, and the 
general circumstances of your service.
Answer - I have set forth in my declaration the names of the officers under whom I have served, as far forth as my recollection serves.

6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it.
Answer - I never received a written discharge as I can now recollect at the expiration of any of my services

7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer, Col. William A. Cuddeback & James Finch Esqr

I certify that the above and foregoing interrogatories was by me propounded to the before named Jacobus Swartwout and that the answers recorded under each of the said interrogatories was given by the said Jacobus Swartwout this 15th day of October 1833.

John Hallock Junr A Judge
of Orange Com. Pleas

State of New York
Orange County Ss:
We William A. Cuddeback of the Town of Deer Park in the said County of Orange, and James Finch of Mount Hope
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in the said County, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacobus Swartwout who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be Eighty two years of age, that he is reputed and beleived in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion from our personal knowledge of the fact, we having both resided in the immediate neighbourhood of the said Jacobus Swartwout during the Revolutionary War, and do still reside in the same neighbourhood with said Jacobus Swartwout, and the said William A. Cuddeback further deposeth and saith that he served as a soldier in the same Company a part of the time set forth in the said Jacobus Swartwouts declaration, and the deponent further says, that the said Jacobus Swartwout was a very active and zealous defender of the liberties of his country, and further say that the said Jacobus Swartwout is a man of high and respectable standing in society and of undoubted truth and veracity.
William A Cuddeback
James Finch

Sworn to & subscribed before me 
this 15th day of October 1833. 
John Hallock Junr A Judge
of Orange Com. Pleas

State of New York.
Orange County ss:
I Cornelious C. Etting a Clergyman residing in the Town of Deer Park in the
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said County of Orange, hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jacobus Swartwout who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that I believe him to be Eighty two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that I concur in that opinion, and I further certify that the said Jacobus Swartwout is considered and
believed to be a man of truth and veracity.
Cornelius C. Etting

Sworn to & subscribed before me
this 16th day of October 1833. 

James Finch Justice of the peace
the words a Clergyman, wrote above the
st line of the above affidavit.-
James Finch Justice
of the peace

State of New York
Orange County } ss:
And the said John Hallock Junr one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said County of Orange, do hereby declare my opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the said Jacobus Swartwout, who has sworn to and subscribed the declaration to which this certificate is annexed, was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he
states in his said declaration, and that opinion is strong and conclusive in my mind.
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And the said John Hallock Junr further Certifies, that Cornelius C. Etting, who has sworn to and subscribed the Certificate annexed to the declaration of the said Jacobus Swartwout is a Clergyman of respectable standing, and Pastor of the Church & Congregation in the Town and place where the said Jacobus Swartwout resides, and further Certify that Col William A Cuddeback and the Hon’ble James Finch who has sworn to and subscribed the affidavit accompanying the declaration of the said Jacobus Swartwout, are men of high and respectable standing in society, and that their statement is entitled to full credit, and I further certify that Col. William A. Cuddeback is a resident of the Town of Deer Park in the said County of Orange, and that the Hon’ble James Finch is a resident of the Town of Mount Hope in the said County of Orange, and that they both reside near to the said Jacobus Swartwout, and I further certify that the said Jacobus Swartwout, in consequence of his age and weakness, is unable to attend Court and make his declaration in open Court, and that I had to wait on the said Jacobus Swartwout, to enable him to make his declaration before me.
Dated this 18th day of October 1833. John Hallock Junr A Judge of Orange Com. Pleas
State of New York Orange County ss.
I Asa Dunning Clerk of the County of Orange, and Clerk of the Court of
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Common Pleas in and for the said County of Orange, do hereby certify that foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Jacobus Swartwout for a pension — and I further certify that John Hallock Junr before whom the within declaration or affidavit of Jacobus Swartwout was sworn, and also before whom the within affidavits of William A. Cuddeback and James Finch was sworn, and whose name appears to the within Certificate, was at date of the same, and now is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County (which is a Court of Record) and that the signature subscribed to the said affidavits and certificate is his genuine signature — and I further certify that James Finch Esq. before whom the annexed affidavit of Cornelius E. Etting was sworn, was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County and that his signature subscribed to the said affidavit is his genuine signature.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 18th day of October 1833 Asa Dunning Clerk
-Seal-

State of New York Orange County ss
On the 22nd day of March 1836 before me James Finch one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Orange personally appeared Benjamin Dodge
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of Mount Hope in the County of Orange aforesaid aged fifty two years — who being by me duly sworn deposeth and saith that
for forty years he has resided in the bounds of the Company commanded by Captn. Abraham Cuddeback during the Revolutionary War, and in the bounds of adjoining company commanded by Captn. Benjamin Vail, and ever since that I have a arrived to the years of manhood, I have been intimately acquainted with Mr Jacobus Swartwout, who resides in the bounds of the Company formerly commanded by Capt Abraham Cuddeback and whose pension, I am informed, has been suspended by the Pension Office, to the astonishment of myself and all that I have heard speak on that subject, I have often and repeatedly heard Mr Jacobus Swartwout spoken of as a distinguished patriotic soldier of the Revolutionary War, and a man which had long and faithfully served in the defence of his country. And this deponent further saith that Mr Jacobus Swartwout is a man of unblemished character, and against whom the tongue of slander has never dare to rise, and whose word or Oath is entitled to the highest credit
[signed] B. Dodge
Notes: an erasure in the last line excepting one, before signing. Sworn to & subscribed before me this 22nd day of March 1836. James Finch Justice of the peace.
And I further Certify that Benjamin Dodge who has sworn to and subscribed the above
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affidavit is to me a person well known, and a man of high respectability and of truth and veracity — 22nd March 1836. James Finch Justice of the peace.

State of New York Orange County ss
On the 22nd day of March 1836 before me James Finch one of the Justices of the peace in & for the said County Orange personally appeared, Alsop Vail of Mount Hope in the said County of Orange, aged Seventy five years who being by me duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that
in the Revolutionary war he was a member of Captn. Benjamin Vail's Company in Col. Newkirk’s regiment of Militia, it being the adjoining Company to that commanded by Captn. Abraham Cuddeback, which company comprised the settlement of PeenPack, and that before the burning of the settlement of Peenpack, by the Indians, that Captn. Cuddeback’s company rendered military services in the State of New Jesey, & after the burning of the settlement of Peenpack, which I believe was in year 1777 or 1778, that Captn. Cuddeback’s company was stationed in the Forts erected for the defence of that settlement in garrison until near the close of the Revolutionary War, and which garrison's was aided in their defence by troops from the other parts of Col. Newkirk's Regiment, and from troops from Dutchess & Ulster Counties in this State, and this
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deponent further saith that he has been intimately acquainted with Jacobus Swartwout
from nearly the commencement of the Revolutionary War, and knows that he was a member of Capt Abraham Cuddebacks Company and has always understood that the said Jacobus Swartwout was a zealous defender of of his Country during the Revolutionary War, and rendered important services to his country.
The word (Company) first interlined.
Alsop Vail

Sworn to & subscribed before me; 
this 22nd day of March 1836
⎬
James Finch Justice of the peace

And I further certify that, that I am well acquainted with Alsop Vail who has sworn to and subscribed the above affidavit and know him to be a man of respectability and of truth and veracity - 22nd March 1836
James Finch, Justice of the peace

State of New York
Orange County } ss:
On the 22nd day of March 1836 before me James Finch one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Orange personally appeared Hezehiah Woodward of Mount Hope in the said County of Orange, who being by me duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he is Eighty years old that he was a member of Capt Benjamin Vails Company in Col. Newkirks regiment of militia it being the adjoining company to
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that commanded by Capt Abraham Cuddeback that he is well acquainted with Jacobus Swartwout, whose pension has been suspended, by the Pension Office, to my astonishment and that of the public at large. I am well acquainted with the circumstances of his services as a member of Capt. Cuddeback company, in the Revolutionary War, that Mr Jacobus Swartwout, served in said Company during the Revolutionary war as stated in an affidavit this day made by me in the case of Col William A Cuddeback a member of the said company. I have been well acquainted with Mr Jacobus Swartwout from near the commencement of the Revolutionary war, until the present time, and know that he was a distinguished Patristic Soldier of the Revolutionary war, and rendered important services to his Country - and that Mr Jacobus Swartwout is a man character and high respectability, and of undoubted truth and veracity.
Hezekiah Woodward

Sworn to & subscribed before me 
this 22nd day of March 1836

James Finch Justice of the peace

And I further certify that I am well acquainted with Hezekiah Woodward, who has sworn to and subscribed the above affidavit, and know him to be a man of respectability and of truth and veracity.
22nd March 1836
James Finch Justice of the peace
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State of New York Orange County Ss
I Lebbeus L. Vail Clerk of the Court of Common [Pleas] for Orange County Do hereby certify, that James Finch is a Justice of the Peace as within and that the foregoing Certificates purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court the 29th day of March 1836 Lebbeus L. Vail, Clerk
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[stamp] RECEIVED MAR 26 1938
Rt. 1 — Box 84C Ashland, Oregon.
U.S. Pension Bureau Washington D.C.  Gentlemen — We are wishing to establish the Revolutionary records of Jacobus Swartwout Swor etc (wife, Anne Guimaer), Philippus Swartwout (wife, Anne Wynkeop), and Cornelius Wynkeop Swartwout (wife's name not known), father, son and grand-son respectively. All three are supposed to have seen Revolutionary service and the son and grand-son are supposed to have died in battle against the Indians near Deer Park (Port Jervis) N.Y. in 1779.
We are wanting authentic records for admition [admission] into the D.A.R. and also for family record, so if we may have whatever you have — births, marriages, deaths, places, names — anything you have on record, we will surely appreciate it.
Also we wish to establish the line in between Cornelius W. Swartwout, thru his son, presumably Gerardus 1812? Swartwout, to my grand-mother, Sarah Swartwout Ingersoll, born 1816, in N.Y. There is just a possibly
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that your office can supply that data, also.
And one more thing: my grandfather Abraham
[in pencil] only one in fl 1812, he may be in 1812 files
Ingersoll, was born about 1798, presumably in N.Y. or Pennsylvania. We think his father's name was Elspeth
[in pencil] Red. Fl 1812
Ingersoll, and from my grand-father’s birth date, we feel that Elspeth and probably his father must have seen Revolutionary service also. Grandfather had a sister Lucy Kent and a sister Dorcas Carpenter, that we know of. Beyond that we know absolutely nothing, and we would like to know, if it is possible. We will certainly appreciate any help you can give us.
Very truly yours, (Miss) Maud J. Hawley Rt. 1 Box 84C Ashland, Oreg.

[stamp] RECEIVED MAR 28 1938
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November 14, 1934.
BA-J/ILL Jacobus Swartwout S. 28904
Mrs. Nellie M. Gammon 337 Sylvan Avenue Leonia, New Jersey
Dear Madam: Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Tylee (Tyler) Willcocks, Jacobus (James) Swartout and Rudolphus Swartwout.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land which have been made to the United States based upon service in that war.
A search of those records fails to show such claims on file on account of service of Tylee or Tyler Willcocks and Rudolphus Swartout, under any spelling of those surnames. The record of only one soldier named Jacobus (James) Swartwout has been found. His record is given herein as found in the papers on file in his claim for pension, S.28904, based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
Jacobus Swartwout, as he signed his name, was born November 15, 1750 or 1751, in Mamakating, later called Deer Park, Orange County, New York; the names of his parents are not shown.
While a resident of Mamakating, New York, he enlisted in 1776, and served two months as sergeant in Captain Abraham Cuddeback's company, Colonel McLaughlin's (possibly meant for McClaughrey's) regiment of New York troops stationed in Ulster County, New York; he enlisted in 1777, served four months in Captain William Faulkner's company in New Jersey and two months in Captain Abraham Cuddeback's company, at Fort Montgomery; he enlisted in 1778, served six months as sergeant in Captain Abraham Cuddeback's company, Colonel Newkirk's New York regiment during the years 1779, 1780 and 1781, he served as sergeant on tours, amounting to about fourteen months, in Captain Abraham Cuddeback's company, Colonel Newkirk's New York regiment, engaged against the Indians.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 15,
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1833, at which time he resided in Deer Park, Orange County, New York. He had resided there ever since the Revolutionary War. There are no data relative to the family of Jacobus Swartwout.
Very truly yours, A. D. Hiller, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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December 21, 1934. BA-J/MMHF/ILL Jacobus Swartwout S. 28904 
Mrs. Nellie M. Gammon 337 Sylvan Avenue Leonia, New Jersey.
Dear Madam: Reference is made to your letter of December 1, addressed to the War Department, attention Pension Department, in which you request all data in regard to Jacobus (James) Swartwout, and Rudolphus Swartwout, and state that the Veterans Administration has furnished you information in regard to the first named soldier.
The pension records are now in custody of the Veterans Administration, not the War Department, therefore, your letter was referred by the War Department to the Veterans Administration for reply.
A very careful examination was made of all papers on file in pension claim, S. 28904, when the report was furnished you November 14, 1934, and all data found relative to birth places of residence, service, etc., were incorporated in that report. No data were found in regard to his family. The Veterans Administration does not have a record of the payments of the pension paid Jacobus Swartwout. In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this soldier, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following: Jacobus Swartwout, Certificate 24365, issued November 25, 1833, rate $120 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, New York Agency.
The records of the War Department are of a military character only. You were furnished the military record of Jacobus Swartwout in the above noted report from this office, and as stated in that report, there is no claim for pension on file based upon service of a Rudolphus Swartwout, or Swartout, or other spelling. As he was not a recipient of a pension, there would be no record of payments in the office of
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of the Comptroller General.
Very truly yours, A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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April 15, 1938
CORNELIUS SWARTWOUT W. 29605 BA-J/MMHF:MLB 
Miss Maud I. Hawley Route 1, Box 84 C Ashland, Oregon
Dear Madam: Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Jacobus Swartwout; that of his son, Philippus, and that of his grandson, Cornelius Wynkoop Swartwout, the son and grandson having been killed, supposedly, in battle in 1779, also, the record of Gerardus Swartwout, son of Cornelius W., named above, and that of Abraham Ingersoll, of New York or Pennsylvania, and finally that of his father, Elspeth Ingersoll.
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War or War of 1812 of an Elspeth Ingersoll, Philippus or Gerardus Swartwout. The Revolutionary War record of Cornelius Swartwout, also, the record of the only Jacobus Swartwout found in the Revolutionary War records of this office are furnished you herewith. If this is not the record of the Cornelius Swartwout in whom you are interested, another search of the records will be made, if you will furnish as much as possible of the following data in regard to him: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of wife or widow. This information is necessary, also, in order to identify the record of Abraham Ingersoll who served in the Revolution or War of 1812.
Very truly yours A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator