Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20008, for Sybrant Quackenbush, New York
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(3-1776) 

Service
New York

Quackenbush, Sybrant
Elizabeth 

Number 
W. 20008

Contents
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630
New York Albany
Elizabeth Quackenbush 
widow of Sybrant Quackenbush 
NY 
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private

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

Certificate of pension issued the
5 day of July 1848
and sent to L. Jenkins
Albany, NY

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 174, Vol. 4

Reported
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30341
Albany New York
Sybrant Quackenbush
of Rensselaer Co in the State of New York
who was a private in the compy commanded
by Captain Peak of the regt commanded
by Col Yates in the 
line for 12 months private
N.Y.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany, New York
at the rate of 40 Dollars -Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Jany
1836 and sent Hon. A Bockee House of Reps

Arrears to  the 4th of March 1836 $200.00
Semi-annl allowance ending 4 Sept 20.00
$220.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk, 
Book E 9 Vol. 4 Page 60

Certificate and letter to 
Job Pierson Esq. enclosed
to Hon. A Bockee 22 Jany 1836
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Sybrant Quackenbush
application for a pension

Mr. Pierson
See Jos. Peeks papers

aomd 
12 mo pri
40$
Hon. Abraham Bockee
for
Job Pierson Esq. 
Schaghticoke 
N.Y.
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Declaration, in order to obtain  Congress of June 7, 1832. 
Form for State Troops & c.    Sold by Kemble  & Hooper S State st. Troy, N.Y.

State of New York, 
County of Rensselaer } ss. 
On this sixth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court ('in open court' crossed out) before me Herman Knickerbocker first Judge of Rensselaer County Court of Common Pleas Sybrant Quackenbush a resident of Cambridge county Washington and state of New York, aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That in the month of September 1777 he entered the service of the United States as a private at Schaghticoke N.Y. in a company of militia commanded by Capt. Walter Grosbeck in a regiment commanded by Colonel John Knickerbocker and continued in actual service until after the surrender of Gen Burgoyne in October 1777. Was stationed and served at Schaghticoke and Stillwater in NY for about one month. That on the 1st day of January 1778 he enlisted in the army of the United States with Captain Joseph Peak at Stillwater in the county of Saratoga N.Y. on what was then called the battle service in the continental line and served during the said term of one year in a regiment commanded by Col. Christopher Yates who he was discharged at Albany that during the said year of his said enlistment in services and was stationed at Stillwater N.Y. but marched and carried provisions for the army of the united States then stationed at Saratoga. That he was born in the year 1763 at Schaghticoke at which place he resided from his birth until he was 26 years of age since which time he has resided in Cambridge NY. He is known to Junie Vile, John Van Antwerp and many other aged persons all whom can testify as to his character, veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution  and is ever infirm and unable to attend any court. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, or (if any,) only on that of the agency of the State of New York. 
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. 
Sybrant Quackenbush
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me Herman Knickerbocker first judge of Rensselaer County Common Pleas. 

We, Mark Tucker a Clergyman, residing in the City of Troy and Anthony Almy residing in Cambridge hereby certify that we are acquainted with Sybrant Quackenbush who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixty three years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Mark Tucker
Anthony Almy
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
H Knickerbocker first Judge 
of Rensselaer Common Please 

And the said Judge do hereby declare in my opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And I further certify that it appears to me that Mark Tucker who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the City of Troy and that Anthony Almy who has also signed the same, is a resident in the Town of Cambridge and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
H. Knickerbocker first 
Judge as aforesaid

I , Herman Knickerbocker first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Sybrant Quackenbush for a pension. And that the said Sybrant at the time of making the same was unable to attend any Court without great inconvenience. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of August 1832. 
Herman Knickerbocker
first Judge as above stated
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In the matter of 
Sybrant Quackenbush
Application to obtain pension

19657
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State of New York 
Rensselaer County ss} I Archibald Bull Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Herman Knickerbocker Esquire before whom the within declaration purports to have been sworn and also before whom the within certificates were sworn and signed was on the day of the date of the same First Judge of said county courts and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signatures within subscribed are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my had and affixed the seal of said County this first day of November 1832. 
Archibald Bull Clerk 
per N Howard Jun Dept
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State of New York
Rensselaer County ss} Sybrant Quackenbush of the town of Cambridge in the County of Washington being duly sworn upon his oath says that he cannot state with certainty the day of the month when he first entered the service of the United States but knows it was in the month of September 1777. And according to the best of the deponents recollection before the middle of said month and that he this deponent continued in actual service, as stated in his annexed declaration until after Burgoyne's surrender which happened on the 17th of October 1777. and this deponent therefore believes he was a full month in service during said year or more. 
And this deponent further says that since making the annexed declaration he this deponent upon reflection and information has become fully satisfied that he was mistaken in the year when he went entered the service  of the United States and that in truth and in fact it was on the 1st day of January 1778 instead of 1778 as stated in said declaration. That this deponent then and still well recollects that it was on New Years day when he enlisted with Captain Joseph Peak in the battans service as stated in said declaration and that this deponent verily reflects it was in the year 1778 but is now fully satisfied it was on the 1st of January 1779.  And this deponent further says that he continued in actual service of the United States as a private in the battalion service in Col. Christopher Yates regiment for the full term of one year when this deponent was discharged at Albany as stated in said annexed declaration. 
This deponent further says that his discharge
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was not in writing but by parol. 
And this deponent further says that altho this deponent resides in the town of Cambridge in the county of Washington and has resided there for many years past yet that he this deponent has but few acquaintances then and none who can testify to this deponents services. That he this deponent was born in Schaghticoke in the County of Rensselaer and resided there until he was 26 years of age. That the said town of Cambridge adjoins the said town of Schaghticoke and this deponent is from bodily infirmity unable to attend a Court of Record in any County for the purpose of making his application for a pension without great inconvenience and hazard and expense. 
And this deponent further says that during this deponents said term of service for one year he this deponent was engaged in carrying provisions to the army of the United States then stationed in the County of Saratoga, that one Derrick Smart was a Commissary and from time to time purchased provisions for the said army and this deponent and the company to which he belonged were constantly employed in driving the cattle purchased and in transporting other provisions purchased by said commissary to the said army. And this deponent during said years was not employed in any civil pursuit. And this deponent further says that Captain Joseph Peak is still living near Schenectady and can testify to this deponents services but this deponent cannot procure his testimony without great inconvenience and expense which this deponent is unable to pay. And this deponent further says
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says that Wynant Vandenburgh of Schaghticoke in the County of Rensselaer is the only person who knows this deponents services whose testimony this deponent can conveniently obtain and further saith not. 
Sybrant Quackenbush
Sworn this 24th day
of June 1833
H. Knickerbocker first
Judge of Rensselaer County 

State of New York
Rensselaer County ss} Wynant Vandenburgh of Schaghticoke in the county of Rensselaer being duly sworn upon his oath says that he this deponent has heard read the foregoing affidavit of Sybrant Quackenbush. That he this deponent has been intimately acquainted with the said Sybrant from his infancy and has always resided near him. That he this deponent will recollect that at the time of the surrender of General Burgoyne he this deponent saw the said Sybrant in the service of the United States and that the said Sybrant had been with the army of the United States some weeks previous and this deponent believes that he then served as stated in his said foregoing affidavit. 
And this deponent further says that he distinctly recollects that the said Sybrant Quackenbush in the year 1779 was engaged in actual service in driving and transporting provisions for the army of the United States in a company commanded by one Peak in a regiment
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commanded by Col. Christopher Yates. That he this deponent recollects commissary Derrick Swart as he was called and knows that the said Swart purchased provisions for the army which were conveyed to the army by the said Sybrant Quackenbush and the Company to which he belonged and this deponent verily believes that the said Sybrant was in actual service for the term of one year, altho this deponent does not remember the exact time he was in each service but knows that it was about that length of time and further saith not. 
Wynant Vandenburgh
Sworn this 24th day of 
June 1833 before me 
H Knickerbocker first
Judge of Rensselaer County 

State of New York
Rensselaer County ss}
I Herman Knickerbocker first Judge aforesaid do certify that I am well acquainted with Sybrant Quackenbush and Wynant Vandenburgh who have severally made the foregoing affidavits and have been acquainted with them both for more than thirty years last past. And I further certify that they are both credible persons and their statements are entitled to credit. 
H Knickerbocker first 
Judge as above
mentioned
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State of New York
Rensselaer County ss} I Henry R. Bristol Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Herman Knickerbocker Esq. before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same First Judge of the County Courts of the County of Rensselaer aforesaid. And further that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature thereto subscribed to be genuine. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this 26 day of June 1833. 
Henry R Bristol Clerk
for N Howard Jun Depy
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2543
2606

Eliz Quackenbush
act 1838
Md 19 Dir 1783
H dres. 19 May 1838 

Admitted 
Private 12 months 

Laurel Jenkins Esq. 
Albany 
N.Y. 
Elizabeth Quackenbush
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State of New York 
Albany County ss} On this 9th day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before the Justices Court of the City of Albany, the same being a Court of Record, Elizabeth Quackenbush, a resident of the Town of Cambridge in the County of Washington aged seventy two years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and provisions to certain widows."
That she is the widow of Sybrant Quackenbush who was a private in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, and at the time of his death, a Pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Sybrant Quackenbush, on the nineteenth day of December in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three that her husband the aforesaid Sybrant Quackenbush died on the nineteenth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the services, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated. 
She further declares that her surname previous to her marriage was Van Schaick. That she was married in the City of Albany in the County of Albany and the marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev Doct. Westerlo. And is unable from disease to write her name. 
her
Elizabeth x Quackenbush
mark

Sworn and subscribed on the day 
and year first above written
in open Court "Catherine" ward
J.G. Watson Clk

Witness the seal of said Justices Court and the signature of the clerk thereof
J.G. Watson Clk
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State of New York
Albany County }ss. Christian Miller of the City of Albany being duly sworn deposeth that he was well acquainted with the within named Sybrant Quackenbush in his life time. That he died on or about the 19th of May last past leaving the within named Elizabeth Quackenbush as his widow. That the said Elizabeth is a sister of this Deponent's wife and is the same person who has this day appeared before the Justices Court of the City of Albany and made oath to the within declaration. That she still remains the widow of the said Sybrant Quackenbush deceased. 
Christian Miller
Sworn and subscribed this 9th day
of October 1838 in open Court
J.G. Watson Clk

This hereby certifies that the above deponent is well known to the court and is a credible witness. In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed the seal of said court and subscribed my name. 
J.G. Watson Clerk
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State of New York
Albany County ss John R Blucker of the City of Albany, being duly sworn deposeth that he is Church Master of the Reformed Protestant Dutch church in the City of Albany and he has the custody of the Records of said Church. That it appears by an entry in said records that Sybrant Quackenbush was married to Elizabeth Van Schaick on the eighteenth day of December in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three. 
That the following is a church copy of the said entry written in plain legible words and figures viz
"1783 Dec 18 Sybrant Quackenbush & Elizabeth V. Schaick"
Jn. R. Blucker

Sworn to and subscribed this 12th day of October 1838 before me
L. Jenkins Court
of Deeds
I certify that the above deponent is a credible citizen. 
L. Jenkins Court of Deeds

State of New York
Albany County ss} I Henry B. Haswell Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Lemuel Jenkins before whom the proceeding affidavit purports to have been sworn and whose name is subscribed to the above certificate of credibility was on the day of the date of the same a Commissioner of Deeds & c in and for the said county and that his name subscribed to the same is genuine. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said County this 12th day of October 1838. 
H.B. Haswell Clerk
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19657
Sybrant Quackenbush

e.v.l.m.

Mr. Pierson
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War Department, 
Pension Office, 
May 25 1833

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. These notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

A Statement, showing the Service of Sybrant Quackenbush Washington Co New York

Period when the service was registered 
Sep 1777
Duration of the claimant's service. 
Years. 
Months About 1
Days. 
Rank of the claimant. 
Private
Names and Rank of the Company Officers under whom he served
Cap. Walt Grovesbeck
Names and Rank of the General Field officers
Col. J. Knickerbocker 
Battles in which the applicant was engaged. 
None
Country through which he marched
N York
Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period
69 years
Schaghticoke N.York 
Evidence by which the declaration is supported Traditionary 

Period when the service was registered
1 Jan 1778
Years 1
Months. 
Days. 

Names and Rank of the company officers under whom he served. 
Cap. Jos. Peak 
Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. 
Col. Yates 

I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
J.L. Edwards, 
Commissioner of Pensions. 

No claim for services alleged to have been rendered by a youth of 15 years can be admitted without direct and credible testimony
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Regulations Under The Act of June 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if on be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.  All applicants will appear before the Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.

The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.

1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of age, and if so , where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can reollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. {To a Soldier.} Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become it?
6. {To an Officer.} Did you ever recieve a commission, and if so, by who was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 

The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, to respectable persons - one of whome should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicitinty of such applicant, who can testify from their acquantance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of the other persons, giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party.  And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have every existed up on the subject. 

Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before requred, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infrimity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the Proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justcie of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed in his genuine signature.

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, there period of the his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

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[a] The declarant must appear in open COurt, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides.  If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer of soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had.  Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitles.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, her served not less that the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: -- For ----year-------months, and-------days, I servied as a ----------. For ----------months and ------- days, I served as a ----------; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important, all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant servied, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the "about three or four months," is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars repecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant servied; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant servied 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.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal or if he has not public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.

In every instance where the certifcate of the certfying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal fo the office of the certifying officer, so as to pervent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificat.

Proof of Service

[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the winesses, and the official caracter and siganture of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[Pointing finger] The notes for [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops.  The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the cedlarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent tot the War Department, with the delaration.

Joseph Rowen E [illegible]
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This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in possession of the government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.

L.W.B.
our
W. 20008.
R. 11004. 

Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. 
January 31, 1898.

O.W. & N. Div. 
Revolutionary. 

Madam:-
Replying to your communication of a recent date you were advised that Sybrant Quackenbush, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, made an application for pension on August 6, 1832, at which time he was 69 years of age and residing at Cambridge N.Y., and his pension was allowed for one year's actual service as a private in the New York troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Peak and Col. Yates. He enlisted at Stillwater, N.Y. his widow, Elizabeth, made application and received a pension for the service of her husband as above set forth. 
Peleg White, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, made an application for pension on May 27, 1822 at which time he was 73 years of age and residing at Petersburg, N.Y., and in his application he alleges that he enlisted at West Greenwich, Rhode island, and served in the Revolutionary war under Capt. Elvin Wait and Col. Ward. His claim was rejected, however, on the ground of insufficient service. 
Very respectfully, 

Commissioner. 

Miss Emma Wait Davis
71 Washington St. , 
Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
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New York
Revo
Sybrant Quackenbush
Rejected
let to Hon Pierson 13
Augt '33 do to same
22 Feb 34

Act 7 June '32
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Albany N.Y.
Sybrant Quackenbush on roll act 1832 at the rate of $40 per ann to what time period?
V.L.
John henry Esq. 
19 May 1838 p%o that time 
1/6
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Albany 2606

Elizabeth Quackenbush
widow of Sybrant Quackenbush

who was a pensioner under the Act of June 1832 
and who died on the 19th May 1838
of Albany Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Private in the company commanded 
by Capt. Peak of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Yates in the N.Y. line for 12 months 

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum 
to commence on the 19 May 1838

Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of May 
1839 and sent to Lemuel 
Jenkins, Albany, N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th od March '39
Semi annual allowance ending 4 Sept. 

Act July 7, 1838.

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book A Vol 2. Page 98
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New York 3922

Elizabeth Quackenbush
widow of Sybrant Quackenbush
who was a private 
in the N.Y. line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Dec 1843
and sent to Lemuel Jenkins
Albany 
N Yk

[Act of March 3, 1843.]

Recorded in Book A 
Vol 1 Page 112

Refs 18 Dec
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A new certificate as iss in this case under the opinion of the atty Genl. of 2 Sept. '42 which was given in consequence of the Resolution of Congress of 16th Augt 1842 

Rep 25 Feby '43

New York 2606

Elizabeth Quackenbush
widow of Sybrant Quackenbush
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June '32 and who died on the 19 May 1838
of Albany Co in the State of N. York
who was a private in the 
commanded by Captain   of the 
commanded by    in 
the NY line for 12 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany, N. York
at the rate of 40 Dollars - 
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836 and terminating 19 May '38.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of February 1843 and sent to Lemuel 
Jenkins, Albany N. Yk

Arrears to the 4th of
Semi annual allowance ending

Act July 7, 1838

Recorded by     Clerk, 
Book A Vol. 2  Page 98
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20.008 win

Sybrant Quackenbush 
Cambridge N.Y. 69

Sept 77 Stillwater NY
Capt. Walter Grosbeck 
Col. Jno Knickerbocker
1 mo. 

Gg 1.78 
Capt Jos Peak
Col Christopher Yates 1 yr 

Born 1763 at Schaghticoke
NY

Married Dec 19 1783
Elizabeth Van Schaick 
Albany NY 
He died May 19, 1838

No Bat
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O, W, & N. Division
Apr 4 1900
Received

Pension 
M
Office
US
Apr 2 1900

Mr. H. Clay Evans

Dear Sir, 
Will you please look among the Revolutionary War records in your office for the names of Peleg Wait of Rhode Island and Sybrant Quackenbush of N.Y. and send me any mention of them that can be found. 
Very respectfully yours
Josephine Wait Barker
Rochelle,
Illinois

Mar 30, 1900
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Left side:
Old War  & Navy
Jan 20 1898
Files

US Pension Office
D
Jan 19
1898

Right side:
71 Washington Street
Oskosh, Wis
Jan 17, 1898
Svc of Pensions
Washington D.C.
I wish to join the D.A.R. I know that my great-grandfather Sybriant Quackenbush served in the Rev. War, Also that my paternal great-grandfather Pelig Wait served for three months as substitute from
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his brother Jeremiah Wait. Do you find either of these names upon your records?
Yours Sincerely
Emma Wait Davis.
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20.008
Ry Widow, &c.
File no. 20.008
Elizabeth Quackenbush
Wife of Sybiant Quackenbush
Priv Rev War

Act: Feb 2th/48
Index:- Vol. M Page 146
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Jan 31 - 98 Miss Emma Wait Davis -Oshkosh, Wisc

Apl 6 1900  - Heights
Miss Josephine N.  Barker
Rochelle Ells
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Albany July 1 1848
James L Edwards, Esq
Comm of Pensions
Sir,
I enclose the declaration of Mrs Elizabeth Quackenbush, for the purpose of obtaining her pension Certificate under act 2d July last.
Most respectfully
Yr Obt Servt
Lemuel Jenkins
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Albany October 12th 1838

Sir
I herewith transmit the Declaration of Mrs. Elizabeth Quackenbush, widow of Sybrant Quackenbush, in support of her claim for a pension under the act of July 7 1838 -
Her husband was a pensioner under the act of June 7 1832 -
I am sire,
With great respect
Your obdt Servt
Lemuel Jenkins

To James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
War Dept
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Wife
Eliz Quackenbush
App for 
arrears
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Albany Feby 2d 1843

James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
I enclose the application of Elizabeth Quackenbush, for the arrears of her pension under the act of July 7 1838 from 4 March 1836 to 19 May 1838, the day of her husband's decease.
Very respectfully
Your obd Servt
Lenuel Jenkins
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Albany Sept 5 1843
James L Edwards, Esquire
Commission'r of Pensions
Sir
I enclose the application of Elizabeth Quackenbush, widow of Sybrant, for a pension under the act of March 3 1843 and am, 
very respectfully
Your obt Servt
Lemuel Jenkins
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Admitted

L. Jenkins
Albany
NY
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State of New-York
County of New York

On this twentieth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty eight personally appeared before the subscriber, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the county of New York in the state of New York, Elizabeth Quackenbush, a resident of the city of New York in the said county of New York aged eighty two year, who being first duly sworn, according to law,, doth, on her oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 2d February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War:
That she is the widow of Sybrant Quackenbush, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, and at his decease a pensioner of the United States, under the act of 7 June 18328, 3rd March 1843 & 17 June 1844 -and that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of 17 June 1844 was fifty dollars - She further declares that she is still a widow and that she never learned to write. 
Her mark Elizabeth Quackenbush X

Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before me Philip Jordan commissioner of Deeds.
In presence of Mathilda Westfall

I certify that the above Declarant is personally known to me 
Philip Jordan 
Commissioner of Deeds

State of New-York
City & County of New York
I James Conner, Clerk of the said county, do hereby certify that Philip Jordan was on the day of the date of the above Declaration and Certificate a Commissioner of Deeds and for the said county, duly appointed and sworn, and that the signatures to the Jurat of the above Declaration and to the above Certificate, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In Testimony whereof,  I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said county, this twenty first day of June AD 1848
James Conner, Clerk
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3655
Elizabeth Quackenbush
$40

Lemuel Jenkins
Albany
NY
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State of New-York
County of Washington
On this tenth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County - 
personally appeared Elizabeth Quackenbush a resident of the down of Cambridge in said county, aged seventy seven years who first being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war:
That she is the widow of Sybrant Quackenbush, who was in the service of the United States, as a private in the War of the Revolution, and died the 19th of May 1838.
She further declares that she was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, and that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the said act was forty dollars  -
She further declares that she is still a widow, and that she never learned to write.
Her mark, Elizabeth Quackenbush, X

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written
Wm Perry Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above declarant is personally known to me.
Wm Perry, Justice of the Peace

State if New-York
County of Washington
I, Edward Dodd, clerk of said county, do hereby certify that William Perry was on the day of the date of the above jurat and certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, duly appointed and qualified, and that the signatures above, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 19th day of August 1843.
Edward Dodd, Clerk
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Elizabeth Quackenbush
NY 
Act 7 Jul 38
40! from 3 March 1836 
to 19 May 1838

Lemuel Jenkins
Albany
NY
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to L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
The undersigned Elizabeth Quackenbush of the town of Cambridge, Wash. County, respectfully declares & says that Sybrant Quackenbush of the town of Cambridge in the County of Washington in the State of New York departed this life on the nineteenth day of May 1838 leaving Elizabeth Quackenbush his widow him surviving. That said Elizabeth Quackenbush as such a widow and by reason of her said husband's services in the war of the Revolution had a pension awarded to her of $40 per annum under the act of Congress passed 7th July 1838 - that she received pay under aid Act at the above rate per annum only from the nineteenth day of May 1838, when her said husband died as aforesaid, until the 4th day of March 1841, whereas it is claimed that she should have been paid from the 1oth day of March 1836 for five full years, and accordingly a claim for her arrears of pay is now hereby asserted, from the 4th day of March 1836 unto the nineteenth day of May 1838, aforesaid.
Her mark Elizabeth Quackenbush X
Before Wm R Mills

On this nineteenth day of January 1843, personally appeared before me the subscriber Elizabeth Quackenbush above named, & who signed the foregoing declaration and made oath that the facts set forth in the said declaration by her signed are true & correct.
Wm R Mills
Justice of the Peace
State of New York
County of Washington
Clerk's Office
I Edward Dodd Clerk of
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said courts do hereby certify that William R MiIls Esquire is a Justice of the Peace as written and that the written signature purporting to be his is genuine, 
Given under my hand and the seal of the said county this 19th day of January 1843
Edward Dodd Clerk
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State of New York 
County of Schenectady

Joseph Peck of the City of Schenectady being duly sworn doth depose and say that he this deponent is well acquainted with Sybrant Quackenbush  an applicant for a pension under the act of June 7 1832 and this deponent further says that he knew said Quackenbush in the time of the Revolutionary War, and this deponent well recollects that in the time of said war in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy nine the said Sybrant Quackenbush enlisted in the State Troops of the State of New York in the Company commanded by me in the regiment of Col Christopher Yates the Company were stationed at Stillwater & the said Sybrant enlisted for the term of one year and served his time faithfully as a private for the whole of said year a part of the time they were at Saratoga, and part of the time in Albany the said Sybrant was discharged the last of December 1779. he had no written discharge he was a good Whig & a faithful soldier
Joseph Pecke
Sworn and subscribed before me this 28th day of June 1833
Harmanys Peck Justice of the Peace in and for the city and county of the County of Schenectady.
I the said Justice before whom the foregoing affidavit of Joseph Peck was subscribed and sworn to, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with said Joseph Peck, and that is his a man of good moral
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Character and that his statement is entitled to the highest credit. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand [and seal  is written and crossed out] this 28th day of June 1833
Harmanys Peck Justice of the Peace in the County of Schenectady.

State of New York
County of Schenectady
I John  S Vrooman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Schenectady hereby certify that Harmanys Peck the Justice of the Peace before whom the affidavit of Joseph Peck appears to have been sworn to , was at the time the same purports to be sworn to a Justice of the Peace of the city & County of Schenectady. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 28th June 1883.
John S Vrooman
Clerk