Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,167, for Adam Kader, New York
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New York

Kader, Adam
Nancy

W.26167
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New York

Kader, Adam
Nancy

W. 26167
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6087
New York, Albany
Nancy Kader
widow of Adam Kader
N.Y.
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1848

Certificate of Pension issued
the 13th day of May 182___
and sent to
T.S. Slingerland
East Cobbleskill
N.Y.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 311. Vol 4
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14469

Nancy Kader
Wid of Adam
NY
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Declaration

In order to obtain the pension due to Nancy Kader as the widow of Adam Kader under the Act of July 7th, 1838 and its supplements.

State of New York
Schoharie County :  ss

On this nineteenth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one personally appeared before me Demanthesny Sawyer, County Judge of the aforesaid County of Schoharie in said State of New York, Nancy Kader, a resident of the town of Fulton in said County of Schoharie aged about eighty-eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Acts of Congress passed July 7th 1838, March 3, 1843, June 17, 1844, and February 2d, 1848.

That she the declarant is now the widow of Adam Kader who departed this life in the town of Middleburgh in said County of Schoharie in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three since which time declarant has remained his widow, single and unmarried, and which time was in the year eighteen hundred twenty-three as aforesaid.
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That her husband the said Adam Kader was, as she was always informed by him and others and which she believes time, a soldier of the United States in the war of the American Revolution.  That during the said war, he lived in Marbletown in the County of Ulster and in said State of New York from where he enlisted into the said service and served as a regular soldier for a period of some three years or more in the companies of Captain Sackett and Captain Smith in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cortland and that he was a wars man, having enlisted for during the war and served to the close thereof.  That one Canfenter, and Thompson were officers and served with her said husband under said Captain Smith.  His brother, John Kader, was a drummer and served with the said Adam Kader in all of the said service.  Samuel Tallmadge was an officer and James Williamson in said service as she has often heard her said husband relate.

That declarant was duly married to the said Adam Kader in the month of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety by the Rev. Mr. Wagenhaven at the village of Schoharie in said county of Schoharie.  Said Rev. Mr. Wagenhaven was then a Lutheran Clergyman who then resided in said village of Schoharie and that she was so married to the said Adam Kader at the residence of the said Clergyman in the village of Schoharie as aforesaid
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That when a girl and before she was married she resided in the family of her father, Frederick Keyser, in Marbletown aforesaid in said County of Ulster, and bore the maiden name of Nancy Keyser.  That she came from Marbletown aforesaid to live in said Schoharie some two years previous to her marriage to the said Adam Kader, with whom she resided until he died as aforesaid.

That she makes this declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the aforesaid Acts and prays that a pension may be speedily allowed to her in consideration of the Revolutionary services of her husband the said Adam Kader, deceased.

Nancy Kader

Subscribed and sworn to
before me, the County Judge
of the County of Schoharie
State of New York in open Court at
Cobleskill in said County on this 19th
day of May 1857.  I certify that previous
this Jurat and Certificate I erased all
the words from the word "on" inclusive to 
"age" inclusive in the jurat as drawn by
marks drawn transversely immediately
preceding my certificate.

Demanthesny Sawyer, Schoharie County Judge
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State of New York
Schoharie County:  ss

Rev. James R. Keiser, a resident of the village of Schoharie in said County of Schoharie in said State of New York, of lawful age, being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is now Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of said Schoharie and has the custody and charge of the records thereof; that deponent has diligently examined the records of the said Church in order to find evidence of Adam Kader to Nancy Keyser which marriage is refuted to have occurred at said Schoharie in the month of June in the year seventeen hundred and ninety and the ceremony of said marriage to have been performed by the Rev. Mr. Wagenhaven former Pastor of the said Church, but that deponent is not able to find any entry of the said marriage upon any of the Church records of the said Church.

That some part of the marriage records of the said Church have evidently been torn out of the book or register in which the records of
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marriages are kept and the records of marriages from March 2d, 1789 to the 3rd of July 1790, have evidently been so town out of the said marriage record of the said Church and are not now to be found.

James R. Keiser

Subscribed and sworn to
before me on this 2d
day of September A.D. 1851

Elijah Dickinson, Justice of the Peace


I hereby certify that the above deponent J.R. Keiser is personally known to me, that he is now the Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schoharie as stated in the above deposition by him subscribed and is a credible witness.

Dated at Schoharie this 2d day of September
A.D. 1851

Elijah Dickinson, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Schoharie County :  ss:

John Kline, a resident of the Town of Schoharie in said County of Schoharie aged ninety-two years being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that during the War of the Revolution he resided in the Town of Hurley in the County of Ulster in said State of New York and served on numerous occasions in the service of the United States against the British with the Militia of said Ulster County; that during said war deponent was well and intimately acquainted with Nancy Keyser who was a Daughter of Fredrick Keyser and who lived in the adjoining town of Marbletown in said County of Ulster, deponent was also well and intimately acquainted with Adam Kader who during said war lived about six miles from deponent in said Town of Marbletown in said County of Ulster and was a soldier of the United States in the continual service in said war; that in or about the year seventeen hundred and seventy-nine it being about the  middle of said War, the said Adam Kader enlisted into the company of Captain Samuel Sackett for during the war and served as a regular soldier until the war closed, which was for a period of between three and four years; said Adam Kader did not serve all of said times in said Company of Captain Sackett but towards the close of said war he served in the company of Captain Smith in the regiment of Colonel Cortland.  That deponent did not himself serve in the regular services aforesaid under the said Captain Sackett, Captain Smith or Colonel Cortland but frequently saw them and knew them well when in said service.  That the said Adam Kader had a brother, John Kader, who was a serviceman and served as such in the same companies of said Captain Sackett and Captain Smith with the said Adam Kader.  That as deponent was always informed by them the said Adam and John Kader both drew land for their said service in the Interior of the State of New York; that in or about the year seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, deponent came from Hurley aforesaid to live in said Schoharie where he has lived ever since; that in or about the year seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, the said Adam Kader and the said Nancy Keyser came from said Marbletown in said Ulster County to live in said Schoharie and in about two
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years thereafter which was in the year seventeen hundred and ninety they were duly married to each other by the Rev. Mr. Wagenhaven who then lived and preached in said Schoharie and was Minister of the Lutheran Church of said place; that the said Adam Kader and said Nancy Keyser were married as aforesaid at the house and residence of the said Wagenhaven in said Schoharie in the presence of this deponent; that after their said marriage to each other the said Adam and Nancy continued to live together as husband and wife from some time in said Schoharie and moved from there to the adjoining town of Middleburgh where the said Adam Kader died and left the said Nancy a widow who now lived in the town of Fulton in said County of Schoharie and still remains his widow; that she raised a family of children, the oldest of which was Cornelius, who, if living, would be at least fifty-nine years of age.  Their next was Frederick who is now about fifty-seven years of age.  The next was James who is now about fifty-five years of age.  That deponent was well acquainted with the said Adam Kader from a boy and always knew him well until he died at aforesaid which was about twenty-eight years ago and deponent knows the said Nancy to be the widow of the identical Adam Kader who served as aforesaid in the war of the Revolution.

John Kline

Subscribed and sworn to before me
on this fifth day of March 1851

Elijah Dickinson, Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the above-mentioned deponent John Kline is personally known to me; that he is a man of truth and veracity and of good standing and is a credible witness and that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is entitled to full faith and credit.

Dated at Schoharie, N.Y., this 5th day of March A.D. 1851

Elijah Dickinson, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Schoharie County : ss

Catharine Oliphant, a resident of the town of Schoharie in said County of Schoharie aged [blank] years being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that during the War of the Revolution she resided in Kingston in the County of Ulster in said State of New York and was then and there well and continually acquainted with Nancy Keyser who was the daughter of Frederick Keyser and lived in Marbletown near deponent in said County of Ulster and also with Adam Kader of said Marbletown; that the said Adam Kader was a soldier in the Continental Army in the service of the United States in said War, and enlisted from said Marbletown for during the War and served until the war closed as such soldier; his brother, John Kader, was a drummer and served in said war with him and they came home from said service at the close of said War.  That after the close of said War and in or about the year seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, the said Nancy Keyser and said Adam Kader came from Marbletown aforesaid to said Schoharie and in about two years thereafter which was in the year seventeen hundred and ninety the said Adam Kader and the said Nancy Kader were duly married to each other at the residence of Rev. Mr. Wagenhaven in said Schoharie by said Rev. Mr. Wagenhaven who then lived and preached in said Schoharie and was a Lutheran Minister; that after the said marriage the said Adam and Nancy lived together as husband and wife in said Schoharie for some time and moved from there to the adjoining town of Middleburgh where they so lived until the said Adam died which he did about twenty-eight years ago.  They raised a family of children the oldest of which was Cornelius who if now living, would be about fifty-nine years of age, their next was Frederick, who is now about fifty-seven years of age, their next was Jane who is now about fifty-five years of age. The said Nancy now resides in the town of Fulton in said County of Schoharie and is the widow of the said Adam Kader the identical person who was a soldier in said
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War of the Revolution.  Deponent is now the widow of William Oliphant, who was also a Continental soldier from said County of Ulster in said War of the Revolution and on account of which service deponent deserves a pension from the United States.

Catharine Oliphant

Subscribed and sworn to before
me on this fifth day of March A.D. 1841

Elijah Dickinson, Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the above-mentioned deponent Catharine Oliphant is personally known to me; that she is a person of truth and veracity and of good standing and is a credible witness whose testimony is entitled to full faith and credit as given in the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed.

Dated at Schoharie on this 5th day of March A.D. 1841

Elijah Dickinson, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Schoharie County
Clerk's Office

I, Loring Andrews, Clerk of the aforesaid County of Schoharie in said State of New York, and Clerk of the Courts of the said County, do hereby certify that Demastheny Sawyer Esq. before whom the annexed declaration of Nancy Kader, purports to have been sworn and executed was at the date of the same County Judge of said County and the Judge of the County Court in and for said County duly elected and qualified and duly authorized by law to act as such Judge, and that Elijah Dickinson Esq. before whom the annexed affidavits of Rev. James B. Keiser, John Kline, and Catharine Oliphant purport to have been sworn and executed was at the date of said affidavits respectively an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified and duly authorized by law to act as such Justice, and that the respective signatures of the said Demastheny Sawyer to the jurat of the said declaration and of the said Elijah Dickinson to the jurats of the said affidavits are each and all of them respectively genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County at Schoharie in said County on this 9th day of September A.D. 1857

Loring Andrews, Clerk
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WIDOW, &C.

File No. 26167
Nancy Kader 
Wid of 
Adam Kader
Priv Rev War

Act. Feb. 2nd 1848

Index: Vol A, Page 388

[Arrangement of 1870}
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9372

New York Albany

Nancy Kader
widow of Adam
who was a private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the roll at the rate
of 80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843

Certificate of Pension issued the
13th day of Mary 1853 and
sent to
T.S. Slingerland
East Cobbleskill
New York

[Acts of March 3, 1843 & June
17, 1844]

Recorded in Book W
Vol.. 2, Page 78
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9372

New York Albany

Nancy Kader
widow of Adam
who was a private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the roll at the rate
of 80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843

Certificate of Pension issued the
13th day of Mary 1853 and
sent to
T.S. Slingerland
East Cobbleskill
New York

[Acts of March 3, 1843 & June
17, 1844]

Recorded in Book W
Vol.. 2, Page 78
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11490
New York Albany
Nancy Kader 
widow of Adam
who died on the ____
of ____ in the State of N.Y.
who was a private in the ___ commanded
by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded
by _____ in the Revolution for two years

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of May 1853 and sent to
T.L. Slingerland 
East Cobbleskill N.Y.

Revolutionary Claim
Act July 7, 1838

H.R. Weightman, Clerk
Book D. Vol. 1 Page 165
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Nancy Kader
widow of Adam

Application for Pension
under the Act of July 
7th 1838

Additional Evidence

T.S. Slingerland, Atty.
East Cobbleskill
Schoharie Co.
N.Y.
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State of New York
Secretary's Office

Albany August 9, 1852

I certify that it appears by the Military Register in this office that Adam Kader enlisted as a soldier in the fourth New York Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry B. Livingston, Captain Sacketts Company (first mustered in June 1779) to serve during the War and was mustered to January 1782.

And further certify that it appears by the Military Balloting book of the Commissioners of the Land Office of this State in this office that Adam Kader was a private soldier in the Second New York Regiment commanded by Col. Philip Van Cortland at the close of the War and that Lot No. 20 in the Township of Brutus in the Military Fact containing 600 acres was granted to him as Bounty Land.  The patent for the said lot is dated July 8, 1790.

Arch O. Cambell, Dep. Sec. of State

Albany Aug 9 1852
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East Cobbleskill N.Y.
August 13, 1852

[illegible] of E. Neath
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington

Dear Sir:

In accordance with the requirements contained in your report under date of 22 July last in the case of Nancy, widow of Adam Kader, an applicant for a pension under the Act of July 7, 1838, an application has been made to the Secretary of State at Albany and the Certificate herewith enclosed has been received on said application.

In your said report in the case, you state that you "compute the pension from the length of the service and that Kader served to the end of the War and received Bounty lands but that he may have served only six or twelve months.  Show where he enlisted and the pension will be granted."  Now as appears from the Certificate of the Secretary of State herewith enclosed that Adam Kader was first mustered into the service in June of 1779 and was mustered to January 1782 and that he was mustered to serve for during the War.  This certificate further shows that Kader needs 600 acres Bounty Land and of course, must have served the full term of his enlistment which was to the end of the war.  Now from June 1779 to November 1783 is 4 years and 5 months which according to the Certificate of the Secretary of State must have been the time that Kader actually served, which would entitle the widow to $80 per year.

I am Sir Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
T.S. Slingerland
East Cobbleskill
Schoharie Co. N.Y.

Attorney for Nancy Kader, widow of Adam Kader, deceased
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Embodying the same requirements note above.

Very Respectfully
W. Wells

W. Wells
Middleburgh Schoharie Co.
New York
July [illegible] 1854

Requesting authentication of
pension Certificate of
Nancy Kader, to be used
in a suit assigned to T.S.
Slingerland for Pension money
received by him in her behalf of and
unjustly detained.

Respectfully referred to the
Commissioner of Pensions
with the request that the
required Certificates be prepared
for the signature of
the Secretary of in his judgment
it is proper that any should
be given.

Geo. C. Whiting, Chief Clerk

Cobleskill
July 5, 1854

Commisn.
July 7/54

[illegible]
3 July 1837
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Middleburgh, Schoharie Co.
N.Y. July 1, 1864

To the Secretary of
the Interior U.S.

Sir:

A suit having been commissioned by Nancy Kader, pensioner, to recover from T.S. Slingerland $800 pension monies received by him as her agreement from government and which he withholds from her, it becomes necessary to prove the fact that she is a pensioner.  The statute of our State authorizes such proof to be made by authenticated copy as follows:

1. A copy of any act procuring record document and now or hereafter remaining in any of the departments of the Gov. of the U.S. may when certified by the head or acting Chief Officer at the time being of such department to have been compared by him with the original and to be a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of such original and attested by the seal of his department be given in evidence in all the courts of this State.  (Laws of 1846, Ch. 240)

I have drawn a copy of the pension certificate and also a form of attestation which may be used or any other form
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Department of the Interior
Widows Pension

I certify that in conformity with the Act of July 7th, 1838, Nancy Kader, widow of Adam Kader who was a Private in the Revolution and died on the _____ day of _____ is inscribed on the Pension List at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum commencing on the 4th March 1836 and terminating on the 4th March 1841 unless the Pensioner married or died before the last mentioned date in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage or death.

Given at the Department of the Interior this thirteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

R. McClelland
Secretary of the Interior

Examined and countersigned
S.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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Department of the Interior
July _____ 1854

I certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of Pension Certificate with the original record of such Pension Certificate remaining in this Department and that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of such original.

In testimony whereof I

Secretary of the Interior of the United States have herewith subscribed my name and caused to be affixed the Seal of the Department at the City of Washington this _____ day of July 1854
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Nancy Kader, widow
of Adam of New York

Admitted, 
Act of 5the July 1838

2 years as a private at
$80 per annum from 
4th March 1836 omitting
(2) two years.

Certificate to
T.S. Slingerland Esq.
East Cobleskill
Schoharie Co.
N.Y.
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Brief in the case of Nancy Kader widow of Adam Kader
Schoharie, County and State of New York
Act 7th July 1838

Claim, ("original,")

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.

Record proof that Adam Kader served from June 1779 to January 1782 (for during the war); supported by strong traditionary evidence (as a private).

Traditionary proof of marriage with Nancy in June 1790.
Record proof that Adam Kader died in 1823.

(If for increase)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

Charles H. Rhett,
Examining Clerk

Name and residence of Agent
T.S. Slingerland, Esq.
East Cobleskill
Schoharie County,
N.Y.
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N.Y.
Middleburgh Schoharie Co.
Dec. 2, 1853

To:  Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir:

A money pension was granted sometime last Spring I believe in May, to Nancy Kader of Fulton in this County for services of her husband, Adam Kader, in the War of Revolution.  The sum we are told by her Agent was $1200, but we have no other means of ascertaining the real amount except by application to the Department.  Of this sum, the widow has actually received but a small proportion, two thirds of it having been retained by her Agent.  She is a very old and infirm woman unable to read or write or manage her own affairs.  She is also blind.  She complains that she has been most unfairly dealt with by her Agent and has applied to me to obtain redress in the matter believing that in such cases the department is anxious that frauds and impositions should be redressed.  I make this application in her
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behalf for a statement of such facts as are necessary to enable her to enforce her claim against the Agent.  His name I believe is Tennis J. Slingerland or Tennis Slingerland.

I wish to know the amount he received for her.  Whether or not it directly from the Department or from other Agent of Government with name and place.  Also, such information as to her rights in the matter as you may claim advisable.

Very Respectfully,
W. Wells

An early answer is particularly solicited.
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Middleburgh, Schoharie
Co. N.Y. Dec. 17, '53

Hon. J.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir:

In the case of Nancy Kader, widow of Adam Kader, she no doubt gave a power of attorney to Mr. Slingerland.  Her complaint is that he having drawn the money as her Agent, kept back $800 of it.

Your letter states that the arrearages were $1200.  I would like to know from what Pension Agent, as what place the same was drawn by Slingerland in order to get proof of the fact.

If I rightly understand the Pension Laws (of which however I am not in possession) no release or assignment of any part of the pension money executed by Mrs. Kader to Slingerland before she received the money would be binding on her.  Am I correct in this impression?

Very Respectfully
W. Wells
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Postmarked Dec. 3, Middleburgh, N.Y.
Hon. S. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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East Cobleskill N.Y.
March 25, 1852

Dear Sir:

In answer to your report of the 4th of Dec. last in the case of Nancy Kader for pension under the Act of July 7, 1838, and its supplements, I have obtained and herewith enclose you four affidavits of intelligent and respectable citizens of Schoharie in proof of the marriage of the parties and also of the manner in which the land he drew passed from him.

This is the bet proof that I can obtain in the case, and I therefore submit it for your favorable consideration.

The date of the marriage may be established satisfactorily by referring to the date of the marriage of Catharine and William Oliphant who as the witnesses sworn was married in January of 1793, at least two years previous to the marriage of Mrs. Oliphant and at the time of Mrs. Oliphant's marriage had one child.

Please report to me in this case as soon as the business of the Department will allow you to do so.

I am Sir Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servant
T.S. Slingerland
East Cobleskill
Schoharie Co.
N.Y.

Hon. J.E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.
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Barnesville N.Y.
September 23, 1857

Dear Sir:

Enclosed herewith I send you papers in the application of Nancy Kader for pension under the Acts of July 7th, 1838, March 3, 1843, June 17, 1844, and February 3, 1848, as the widow of Adam Kader, a deceased solder of the Revolution.

Please report to me in this case as soon as an examination can be made.

I am Sir Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servant
T. S. Slingerland
Barnesville
Schoharie Co.
N.Y.

Hon. J.E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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August 17, '52

Addl evi:  in case
of Nancy Kader
widow of Adam

T.S. Slingerland
E. Cobleskill
Schoharie Co.
N.Y.
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Department of the Interior
Pension Office, Official Business

F.F.C. Triplett, Acting Commissioner

Messrs. T.S. and J.H. Slingerland
East Cobleskill
New York
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14469

Nancy Kader
wid. of Adam
N. York
Act 7 July 1838
Det. T.S. Slingerland Dec 4/57
Same July 22 1852
Same Dec 1 1832
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December [illegible] 1852

Addl. evi: in case
of Nancy Kader
widow of Adam

T.S. Slingerland
East Cobleskill
Schoharie Co.
N.Y.
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Department of the Interior
Pension Office, Official Business
J.E. Heath, Commissioner

T.S. Slingerland Esq.
E. Cobleskill
N. York
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Nancy Kader
Widow of Adam
Application for Pension
Act of July 7, 1838
Additional Evidence

T.S. Slingerland, Atty.
East Cobleskill
Schoharie Co.
N.Y.
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State of New York
County of Schoharie
Surrogate Court: ss:

I, Demosthenes Sawyer, County Judge and Surrogate in and for the aforesaid County of Schoharie in the State of New York, do hereby certify that at a Surrogate Court held at the Office of the said County Judge and Surrogate at the Village of Cobleskill in said County of Schoharie before me the said County Judge and Surrogate on this eleventh day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty two it was proved by the adduction and exhibition of testimony satisfactory to the said Court that Adam Kader of the Town Middleburgh in said County of Schoharie and State of New York, died in said Town of Middleburgh in said County of Schoharie about the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty three, and that he left his wife named Nancy surviving him and that his widow the said Nancy now lives in the Town of Fulton in said County of Schoharie and continues to remain the widow of the said Adam Kader single and unmarried and is an application for a pension from the United States.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the Surrogate Court of the said County of Schoharie at Cobleskill aforesaid on this 11th day of December A.D. 1852

Demosthene Sawyer
Scho. County Judge
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East Cobleskill N.Y.
December 11th, 1852

Hon. J.E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir:

In compliance with the requirement contained in your report under date of the 1st misc. in the case of Nancy Kader, widow of Adam, for Pension under the Act of July 7th, 1838, and its supplements I herewith enclose you a certificate of a Court of Record showing the year in which said Adam Kader died.

I cannot conceive the necessity of such certificates in this case as no reference will be made to the time of the death of said Adam in the calculation of the amount of pension due the widow under the Acts of July 7th, 1838, March 3, 1843, June 17, 1844, and February 2, 1848.

Please send me the Pension Certificate in this case as soon as practicable.

I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servant
T,S, Slingerland
East Cobleskill
Schoharie Co.
N.Y.
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State of New York
Schoharie County : ss

Nancy Kader, a resident of the Town of Fulton in said County of Schoharie, aged 89 years, being further duly sworn according to law doth depose and say on her oath, that deponent is now the widow of Adam Kader, deceased, that in the month of June in the years seventeen hundred and ninety, deponent was duly married to the said Adam Kader at Schoharie in said County by the Rev. Abraham Waggenhaven.  That in the year 1788, she came from Mableton in the County of Ulster in said State to live in said Schoharie and after living in said Schoharie about two years was married aforesaid.  That William Oliphant and Catharine Kerner, then neighbors of deponent in said Schoharie in the month of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-three, and at the time that they were so married to each other, deponent had been married to the said Adam Kader for more than two years and then had one child.

That her husband, the said Adam Kader, was a regular soldier during the War of the Revolution and served some three years or more and until the close of the said War in the companies of Captain Smith and Captain Smith in the Regiment of Colonel Cortland and for which service he drew a lot of land containing some six hundred acres as she believes in the interior of the State of New York.

That in or about the year seventeen hundred and ninety-two it being some two years after her said marriage, her husband the said Adam Kader, sold his said Bounty Land to one William Campbell.  The deponent did not and would not sign or execute any deed on conveyance with her husband the said Adam Kader of the said Lot of Land to any person, and has never signed any writing conveying said Lot of Land to any person whatever, although she was requested to do so by her husband the said Adam Kader, but that she refused to do so.

Nancy Kader

Subscribed and sworn to before me
on this third day of March
A.D. 1852 And I do hereby certify
that the said Nancy Kader is reputed
to be the widow of the said
Adam Kader as set forth by her

Elijah Dickinson, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Schoharie County: ss

I, John Kline, a resident of the town of Schoharie said County of Schoharie and State of New York, aged 92 years and upwards being further duly sworn according to law do depose and say that during the War of the Revolution, I lived in the town of Hurley in the County of Ulster in said State of New York, and that I served in said War with the militia from that section of Country.  That during said War, I was well and intimately acquainted with Adam Kader, who then lived in Marbletown near deponent in said County of Ulster and was a regular solder of the United States during said War of the Revolution and in or about the year 1779, enlisted into the company of Captain Sackett for during the War and served as such soldier until the War closed in said Company of Captain Sackett and also the company of Captain Smith in the regiment of Colonel Cortland.  That I was also well acquainted with Nancy Kader, who in said War lived with her father, Frederick Keyser, in said Marbletown.  That in the year 1787, I came from Hurley aforesaid to live in said Schoharie where I have lived ever since.  That in the year 1788, the said Adam Kader and the said Nancy Keyser came from Marbletown aforesaid to living in Schoharie aforesaid and in about two years thereafter were duly married to each other in my presence and which married occurred in the month of June in the year seventeen hundred and ninety, at said Schoharie by the Rev. Mr. Waggenhaven.  I recollect the year the said marriage occurred in June the fact that it took place about three years after I came to live in said Schoharie and about two years after said Adam and Nancy came to live in said Schoharie and from the further fact that the said Adam and Nancy Kader were so married to each other about two years before William Oliphant was married to Catharine Kerner and the said William and Catharine were married to each other in the month of January in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-three at said Schoharie.  Said Catharine is now a pensioner of the United States.  That I have made a former affidavit in the case and stated that the said Adam Kader drew land for his service in said War.  This statement was correct and as near as I can now recollect he doing a lot of land containing some 600 acres situated somewhere near the present Village of Auburn in said State and that in or about the year 1792, the said Adam Kader sold and as I believe transferred his claim to the said lot of land to one William Campbell, then a resident of said Schoharie.  I have often heard the said Adam Kader speak of selling his said County Land and say that he might better have taken his wife's advice and not have sold it for the price that he did she being opposed to his selling it as he did.

John Kline

Subscribed and sworn to
before me on this second day
of March A.D. 1852
Elijah Dickinson
Justice of the Peace

(over)
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I hereby certify that the within deponent, John Kline, is personally known to me, and that he is a credible witness whose testimony upon any subject is entitled to full faith and credit and that although aged, he still retains a sound mind and a good memory.

Elijah Dickinson
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Schoharie County : ss

I, Catharine Oliphant, a resident of the town of Schoharie in said County of Schoharie and State of New York, being further duly sworn according to law do depose and say that I am now a pensioner of the United States, as the widow of William Oliphant, deceased, who was a soldier of the United States in the War of the Revolution in the Regiment of Colonel Gansevoort and Colonel Van Schaick.  That I am well and intimately acquainted with Nancy Kader who is, now the widow of Adam Kader, deceased, and who now lives in the Town of Fulton in said County of Schoharie.  That I have made a previous affidavit in the case of said Nancy Kader for pension and then stated that the said Adam and Nancy Kader were duly married to each other at said Schoharie by the Rev. Mr. Waggenhaven in the year seventeen hundred and ninety.  This is the year in which said marriage occurred.  I well recollect the year from the fact that I myself was married to my husband, the said William Oliphant, at Schoharie aforesaid in the month of January in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-three and at the time, I was so married, the said Adam and Nancy Kader had been so married about two years and then lived together and kept house in said Schoharie as husband and wife and had one child which they called Cornelius.  This fact I well remember that the said Adam and Nancy were married to each other as aforesaid about two years before I was married as aforesaid and that they had one child when I was so married.  I remember the year from the further fact that in the year 1788, the said Adam and Nancy came from Marbletown in the County of Ulster in said State ot live in said Schoharie and that they were so married to each other about two years therafter.  During the War of the Revolution, I lived in Kingstown in said County of Ulster and was then and there also well acquainted with the said Adam and Nancy.  The said Nancy was a daughter of Frederick Keyser who lived in Marbletown aforesaid.  I know the said Adam Kader well in time of said War as we then lived near each other in said Ulster County.  Said Adam was a soldier of the Continental Line and served as I then understood and verily believe true in the Regiment of Colonel Cortland.

Catharine Oliphant

Subscribed and sworn to
before me on this 3rd day of
March A.D. 1852.
Elijah Dickinson, Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the above deponent, Catharine Oliphant, is personally known to me and that she is a credible witness whose testimony upon any subject is entitled to full faith and credit.

Elijah Dickinson, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Schoharie County : ss

I, Jacob Sidney, a resident of the town of Middleburgh in said County of Schoharie, aged seventy-three years, being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is well and intimately acquainted with Nancy Kader, who is now the widow of Adam Kader, and who now lives in the adjoining town of Fulton in said County of Schoharie.  That the said Adam Kader and his wife, Nancy, lived near neighbors to deponent in said town of Middleburgh and in which town the said Adam Kader died in or about the year eighteen hundred and twenty-three since which time she had remarried his widow.  That the said Adam and Nancy were always refuted and believed to have moved from the County of Ulster in said in said State to said Schoharie shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War, and to have been duly married to each other at said Schoharie in or about the year seventeen hundred and ninety.  That the said Adam Kader was always refuted and believed to have been a soldier of the Continental Line in the War of the Revolution and to have enlisted into said service from the County of Ulster in said State of New York, and to have served in said War until the close of the said War.  The said Adam Kader was also refuted and believed to have drawn some six hundred acres of Bounty Lands for his said services which land was said to be situated somewhere near Auburn in said State of New York.  Deponent has often heard the said Adam Kader, and others relate and State that he the said Adam sold his said Bounty Land to one William Campbell for a comparatively small sum or price and for much less that its worth.  That the said Adam and Nancy Kader lived together and sustained the relationship of husband and wife until the said Adam Kader died as aforesaid and raised a family of children, the oldest of which was Cornelius, who, if now living, would be about sixty years of age.

Jacob Sidney

Subscribed and sworn to before me
on this third day of March A.D.
1852 and I do hereby certify that
the said Jacob Sidney is credible
witness whose testimony upon any
subject is entitled to full faith
and credit.

Elijah Dickinson, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Schoharie County
Clerk's Office: ss
 
I, Loring Andrews, Clerk of the aforesaid County of Schoharie and the State of New York do hereby certify that Elijah Dickinson Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit of Jacob Sidney and annexed affidavits of Nancy Kader, John Kline and Catharine Oliphant purport to have been sworn and executed was at the respective dates of the said affidavits an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Schoharie, duly elected and qualified and duly authorized by law to act as such Justice of the Peace and to administer oaths and that his signature to the jurat and certificates of the said affidavits are each of them genuine and in the proper handwriting of the said Elijah Dickinson as such Justice of the Peace.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County at Schoharie in said County on this 25th day of March A.D. 1852.

Loring Andrews, Clerk
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Middleburgh Sept. 11th 1854

Hon. L. S. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

That it please your honor to answer my letter regarts for some time since, I saw it noted in a certain newspaper that government by pension agents had been [illegible] out of much money, and what I want to know of you Sir is this war, the pension allowed by government to one Nancy Kader, widow of one Adam Kader, deceased, a [illegible] and discovering and, or worth not.  [illegible] question on the grounds that I considered myself [illegible] in that [illegible], I [illegible] brought up the [illegible] and then called upon one Teunis S. Slingland to take part with me, and we agreed by [illegible] to be [illegible] in the product of that case if obtained, according so the pensioner [illegible] for services rendered [illegible] Slingerland took the post of attorney to [illegible], and myself the post of a Justice of the Peace on my own expense [illegible].  The war was won or hath approved and the money came into the hands of said Slingerland, and he rationed to himself two-thirds [illegible] thereof, and he hath turned me away entirely empty, and after calling upon him several times for my portion thereof without any effect  [illegible] case commenced against him wherein we both [illegible] witnesses, and he swore that I had no interest in that [illegible] and he swore that he had paid me for all my services rendered on that case, and in all other cases in pension benefits rendered [illegible] for him, and I was all to the [illegible]
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to the contrary but the two lost affidavits in his favor were taken befor me the name of the persons who gave them, is the Rev. [illegible] Kegger and Harmonee Vromon both citizens of the town of Schoharie Mr. Vromon was very reluctant of making one affidavit at all in  therefor each best after much perceeding he yielded and since that time he has spoken to me about it and said at the time he signed the affidavit he saw clerk place upon its face and was [illegible] that they were afterwards filled [illegible] I know at the time he made the affidavit that he would not qualify to it untill certain words were blotted out, [illegible] or how many I do not now recollect but they were of taht meaning as the old saying is hitting the nail on the head The Rev. Kegger was not pleased to make on the ground that som eof the old records of the Church were missing to prove the important point in question ye he made one. I spoke to said Slingerland on our return home about people making affidavits and only swearing to them to the best of their knowledge and beliefs that these was no doubt that ll such were received at head quarters or [illegible] facts: he made me no reply. During four years past [illegible] been much in company with said Slingerland doing [illegible] for him in his pension [illegible] and never have heard him complain of losing one singel case, you may [illegible] treat the proper 

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51-
12 - 5 - 41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Kader, John
GRADE- Private
LINE New York
WARRNET NUMBER 7350 and W. 127-160-55
ACREAGE. 100
ISSUED Aug. 23, 1790
7350 to Charles Newkirk, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives