Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16812, John Anderson, Continental (N.Y.)
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(8- 1776)
Service
Continental (N.Y.)
CONTENTS
R
Anderson, John
Sarah
NUMBER
W. 16812
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2599 ┃
New York Roll
John Anderson 1st
private
New York Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence
the 4th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd of Sept 1818
and forwarded to Dorrance
Kirtland Esq Coxsackie
Green Cy New York
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818
$32.28
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819
48.00
Arrs. 8 mos. 28/31 & 4/30 ds  $80.28
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

Lamb three years 1780

City of New Baltimore Green
Continued
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John Anderson
This may Certify that the
within named John
Anderson is to me personally
known & to the
the same person as is
within described & generally known and reputed to be
a revolutionary soldier
May 11 1818
Dorrance Kirtland
M Congress
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State of New York
Secretary's Office
I certify that it appears by the records in this
office that John
Anderson was a soldier in the Regiment of
Artillery in
the Revolutionary War commanded
by Colonel John Lamb and that a bounty of
land was granted to said John Anderson by
this State for his said services
---
Arch Campbell
Albany April 27. 1818
Dep Secretary
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State of New York
Greene County
I do hereby certify that the court of common
Pleas of the said County of Greene is a
Court of Record in the said State, and that the
said Peter C Adams before whom the
foregoing proceedings and Testimony was taken, 
at the time of taking thereof, was lawful Judge of the said Court, and acting under the authority of the said State and that the said Peter C Adams
is to me personally known, and that I am
acquainted with his handwriting and know
his Signature above subscribed to be genuine
Witness whereof I William Van Bergen
Clerk of said Court have hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed the Seal of the same
Court, the fifth day
of May 1818-
[signed] Wm Van Bergen Clerk
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State of New York
Greene County

On this fourth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me
the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of
Common Pleas in and for the County of Greene
appeared John Anderson aged 56 years and resident in the Town of New Baltimore County
and State aforesaid who being by me first
duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath
make the following declaration in order to
obtain the provision made by the late act
of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for
certain persons engaged in the Land and
Naval Service of the United States in the
Revolutionary War" That he the said John
Anderson Enlisted in the Revolutionary War
in the State of New York at
West Point sometime in the year 1780 as a
matross in the Company commanded by
Capt Andrew Moody of the second Regiment
of New York Artillery - that he continued to serve
in the said corps or in the service of the United States
until the ninth day of June in the
year 1783 when he was discharged at
West Point in the said State from service that
he in reduced circumstances and
stands in need of the assistance of his Country
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for support, that on about fifteen years ago
he delivered his discharge to John V. N Gates of
the City of Albany to procure pay due him for
his services from the United States, and that
he has hitherto been unable to procure his
discharge from the said John V N Yates and
has reason to believe that the said discharge
is lost or mislaid. And that he is the person
described in the annexed Document Signed
by Archd Campbell that the same is authentic 

John Anderson
Sworn to and declared before me on the day and year aforesaid 
Peter C Adams
one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Greene
State of New York
Greene County 
Peter C Adams Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for the County of Greene as aforesaid do certify
that it appears to my satisfaction that the said
John Anderson did serve in the Revolutionary War
as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy - and I now transmit the proceeding
and Testimony taken and had before me to the
Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant
to the directions of the aforementioned act of
Congress-
May 4th 1818-
Peter C Adams
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Joseph Anderson 1st
2599
Ch
2
23 Sep 1818
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State of New York
Greene County
On this fist day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Twenty personally
appeared in a Court of Common Pleas held
in and for the County of Greene aforesaid in open Court
being a Court of Record for the said County of Greene
John Anderson 1st aged fifty nine years Resident
in the Town of New Baltimore in the County of
Greene who being first duly sworn according to
Law doth on his Oath declare that he served in
the Revolutionary War as follows that he enlisted 
the service in the second New York Regiment
of Artillery Commanded by Colonel John Lamb
in the Company of Capt Andrew Moody in the
year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Eight 
in which Regiment he served till the ninth day
of June in One thousand seven hundred and Eighty
three when he was discharged at West point that the
original declaration of the said John
Anderson 1st for the benefit of the act entitled
an act to provide for certain persons engaged in
the land and naval service of the United States in the
Revolutionary War"" passed on the Eighteenth day of
March in the year one thousand Eight hundred and
Eighteen bears date the fourth day of May one
thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen and is inscribed
on the Pension list Roll of the New York agency by
Certificate number 2599 and I do also solemnly
swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States
on the Eighteenth day of March 1818 and that
I have not since that time by gift sale or in any
manner disposed of my property or any part thereof
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with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my
self within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled
"an act to provide for certain persons Engaged in the land
and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War"
passed the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have
not nor has any person in trust for me any property
or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I
any income other than what is contained in the
Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
Schedule of Property -
Real Property none
Personal Property - one Table 
one pot one dish Kettle
one small spider one Griddle
one Tea Kettle one water pail
one stone pot one Earthen pot one tea pot one Sugar dish
one white Bowl five old spoons six Knives & forks, one Shovel
and tongs one pair old Andirons
one pitcher one small cup
one Tea Cannister nine plates Six Tea Cups & saucers one ladle
one skimmer
one knife Box - Two Candlesticks
one pair shears one smoothing Iron
one prs small steel yards
other platter

one tin Bason & cup
one old chest one
small looking Glass two chairs
one Chissel
two chairs one Bread Tray two old Bowls
Two small augers one old scythe one keg
Two Barrels one hoe one rake
one small Poor Boat
One Drawing knife
one shaving horse
one pr Compasses
one small Basket two Iron Wedges. which property I
believe to be worth
fifteen
Dollars and no more
I am by occupation a day labourer and have lost the
use of one of eyes so that I can barely perceive daylight  
or any glimpse thereof my family now Courts of a
wife aged fifty three years and is in a weak state of heal
and the following Children who reside with me Isaac
fourteen years old Betsey twenty four year old and
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her Husband has left her she has three children which
I have to help support one named Margaret Seven years
old. One named John four years old & one named Sally
aged sixteen months old
John Anderson 1st
Sworn to & declared on the
first day of June 1820 in
open Court before me -
Wm Van Bergen Clk
-
The Court estimate the value of the Pensioners
Estate contained in his Inventory at fifteen dollars. 
Moses Martin
Benjamin Hayton
Thomas Barker

I. William Van Bergen Clerk of the County of Greene
in the State of New York and of the Court of Common
Pleas in said County do hereby certify that the foregoing
oath and the schedule thereto annexed and truly copied
from the Record of the said Court and I do further 
certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the
total amount in the value of property exhibited in
the aforesaid schedule is fifteen Dollars in Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
Seal of the said Court on this first day of June in the
year of our Lord 1820
Wm Van Bergen
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11000
New York Albany
Sarah Anderson do
Widow of John Anderson 1st
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 24th Sept 1834
of Green Co. in the State of New York
who was a matross in the Company
commanded by Captain Moody
Regt commanded by Col Lamb
for the New York line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of
Albany
at the rate of
100
Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
March, 1836.
Ending 11 February 1840
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of 
October 1850 and sent to
H.H. Sylvester
Total amount,
Charles to
Act July 7, 1838
Recorded Weightman
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Book D vol 1
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State of New York 
Greene County } ss  I Jacob Van Orden Clerk of the County of Greene do hereby certify that John Vanvechten Esqr before whom the annexed affidavit of William R. Betts purport to have been sworn and subscribed was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by law to take the same, and very believe that his name subscribed to the Jurat of said affidavit is his genuine Signature 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal this 24th day of August 1850.
[signed] J Van Orden Clk
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State of New York 
Greene County } ss  William R. Betts of the town of Catskill County of Greene and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the present Clergyman of the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church in said town.  that it appears by the records of Baptisms in said Church that Margaret daughter of John and Sarah Anderson was baptized in said Church on the first day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty six which is expressed on said record in the Dutch language in fair legible figures and letters as follows viz. 
1786 |  Ouders [Parents]  |  Kinders  [Children]
June 1st  |  John Anderson Sary Anderson  |  Margaret
I William R. Betts above named do depose and say that I hold the office of Clergyman in the above mentioned church, that the foregoing is a true extract from the records of said church and further this deponent saith not 
[signed] Wm R Betts
sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of August 1850 and further certify that said deponent is a Clergyman as above stated
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State of New York 
Greene County } ss Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act Granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.
State of New York 
Greene County } ss.  On this Seventh day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty at a Surrogates Court held in the village of Cairo in and for said County of Greene personally appeared Isabella Dutcher a resident of said town of Cairo in the County of Greene aged fifty one 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 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows.
That she is one of the children of Sarah Anderson (who was the widow of John Ander [sic] deceased) who in the revolutionary war was a Soldier in defence of his Country for which he was awarded a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month that he died on the twenty fourth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty four in the town of New Baltimore in said County of Greene, and left him surviving his widow named Sarah Anderson, who died on the eleventh day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty in the town of Coeymans in the County of Albany and left
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her surviving four children whose names are as follows viz: Margaret Whiteman, Elizabeth Young, Isabella Dutcher, and Henry Anderson who are her only living children.
She further declares that their father & mother according to the best of her knowledge & belief were merried [married] in Dutchess County on the sixth day of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and as eighty five, that her maiden name was Sarah Mansfield, And that ever since the death of her father, her mother the said Sarah Anderson has remained a widow. That the marriage of her parents did not take place previous to her fathers leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 viz at the time above stated, And for proof of the foregoing statement she would respectfully refer to the papers on file of her father the said John Anderson in the Department at Washington in the application for his pension under the act of 1818, for whose services she now claims a pension for his deceased widow and further saith not 
[signed] Isabella Dutcher X her mark
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year first above written in open Court before me – 
[signed] L Tremain Surrogate of Greene Co 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this Seventh day of August 1850 
[signed] L. Tremain  Surrogate
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State of New York 
Greene County } ss 
I Joseph Sherman being duly sworn before Erastus Newman a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County depose and say that I am Sixty five years of age. that I have resided in the Town of New Baltimore in the said County since the year (1792) in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and ninety two, and this Deponent says that when he came into said Town with his father in the year above named he remembered that John Anderson the First, and his wife Sarah were then living together as husband and wife and this Deponent says that the said John Anderson the First and Sarah his wife had a Daughter named Margaret Anderson who went to the same school with Deponent and this Deponent has refreshed his memory in relation to the facts above stated by reference to the Deeds of his father now in his possession which were given in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety one for lands in said Town and County aforesaid and said Deponent recollects that he moved into said Town and County with his father soon after he purchased and lands and this Deponent says that he was acquainted with the said John Anderson the First from the time mentioned above until the time of his Death which occurred [illegible – too dark] the Fourth and this twenty fourth [illegible] in the year of our Lord one [illegible] hundred
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and thirty four - and during the time mentioned above and while this Deponent was acquainted with the said John Anderson the First and Sarah his wife they the said Anderson and Sarah continued to live together as husband and wife without reproach and this Deponent further says that he was agent for the said John Anderson and did receive and pay over to the said Anderson his Pension from the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen untill the time of his Death, except two or three years during which time the said Anderson did employ some one else to draw his Pension  - and the last Pension which the said Anderson drew this Deponent was his agent and for him drew the same and this Deponent was his agent at the time of his Death and further this Deponent saith not. 
[signed] Joseph Sherman 
Sworn and Subscribed this 14th day of June 1850 before me 
[signed] Erastus Newman Justice of the Peace 

I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the said Joseph Sherman the Deponent above named and that he is of good moral character - one of our best Citizens and a man who is entitled to the esteem of the public as being strictly a man of truth and veracity 
[signed] Erastus Newman Justice of the Peace
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the annexed was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, and duly authorized to take the same. And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that his signature to the same is genuine. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 30th day of July 1850
[signed] J Van Orden  Clk
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State of New York
Albany County } ss  Margaret Whiteman of the town of Coeymans County of Albany and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is the eldest child of Sarah Anderson, widow of John Anderson (who was called John Anderson the first) who was a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed in the year 1818 at the rate of eight dollars per month which he continued to receive untill the day of his death which took place in said town of Coeymans on the twenty fourth of September in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty four and left him surviving the said Sarah Anderson who died on the Eleventh day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty in said town of Coeymans, and left her surviving the following named children viz. Margaret Whiteman Elizabeth Young. Isabella Dutcher and Henry Anderson who are the only living children of the said John & Sarah Anderson deceased.
Deponent further saith that she does not know that her parents had any records of their marriage nor of the age of their children, that according to the best of deponents recollection, her father & mother were married in Dutches [Dutchess] County on the Sixth day of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty five. that her mothers maiden name was Sarah Mansfield. That deponent believes she is Sixty five years of age, and was born on the nineteenth day of October in the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty five in said town of [blank] Deponent further saith that she has no documentary evidence of the services rendered by her father in the revolutionary war, but deponent has frequently
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heard her father say that he had served in Captain Moodys Company of Artillery but for what length of time deponent does not recollect, for further proof of said service she would respectfully refer to the papers on file in the War Department in the application of the said John Anderson for a Pension under the act of Congress passed in the year 1818 and further this deponent saith not. 
[signed] Margaret Whiteman
Sworn and subscribed on the 27 day of July 1850 before me & further certify that I am personally acquainted with said Margaret Whiteman, she is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church in the town of Coeymans is a respectable citizen & her statement entitled to full credit
[signed] [first name illegible, Elyck?] D R Converse a Justice Peace in and for the County of Albany

State of New York, 
CITY AND COUNTY OF ALBANY, CLERKS OFFICE,} ss.  I, Robert S. Say Clerk of the City and County, do hereby CERTIFY, that E. D. R. Converse whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of Proof or Acknowledgment of the annexed instrument in writing and endorsed thereon, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment , a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, and duly authorized to take the same: And that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Converse and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate of Proof or acknowledgment is genuine, and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged as
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State of New York
Albany County } ss  Peter Van Antwerp of the town of Coymans [Coeymans] County of Albany and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is Seventy years of age, and was well acquainted with John Anderson and Sarah his wife whose maiden name before her marriage was Mansfield.
That said John Anderson & said Sarah lived together as man & wife ever since deponent became acquainted with them, and had several children, that their oldest child named Margaret Whiteman is their first born and resides in said town of Coymans [sic]  Deponent further saith that said John Anderson was awarded a pension which he continued to receive untill the day of his death which took place fifteen or sixteen years since in the town of New Baltimore in the County of Greene and left him surviving the said Sarah Anderson who died in the town of Coymans some nine or ten years since and left her surviving the following named children viz Margaret Whiteman, Elizabeth Young Isabella Dutcher and Henry Anderson who are the only living children of the said Sarah Anderson deceased. And this deponent further saith that he has frequently heard the said John Anderson relate the events of the revolutionary war in which he had been engaged & believes he stated he had served in an Artillery Company in the Continental line, but for what length of time deponent does not know, and further this deponent saith not 
[signed] Peter Van Antwerp
Subscribed and sworn Before me this 27 July 185-
[signed] [first name illegible] D. R. Converse  Justice of the Peace in the County of Albany 
State of New York Albany County, Sc
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I [Elyck?] D.R. Converse a Justice of the Peace of said County do Certify that I have been aquainted with Peter Van antwerp for the Last past twenty years and that the said Peter Van Antwerp has allwais since my aquaintence with him has sustained a good Moral Cariture above any reproach
[signed] [Elyck) D R Converse Justice 

State of New York, 
CITY AND COUNTY OF ALBANY, CLERK'S OFFICE, } ss.  I, Robert S. Lay Clerk of the City and County do hereby CERTIFY, that E. D. R. Converse whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of Proof or Acknowledgment of the annexed instrument in writing and endorsed thereon, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment , a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, and duly authorized to take the same: And that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Converse and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate of Proof or Acknowledgment is genuine, and that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New-York. 
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my official seal this 29th day of July 1850
[signed] R. S. Lay CLERK.
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March 15, 1938 
John Anderson
W. 16812
BA-J/AWF
Anna B. Stocking
600 Century Club Lane
Manoa, Upper Darby
Pennsylvania
Dear Madam:
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, W. 16812, based upon the military service of John Anderson in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth of John Anderson were not given, nor were the names of his parents stated.
John Anderson enlisted at West Point, New York, sometime in the year 1778, served as matross in Andrew Meade's Company in Colonel John Lamb’s Second Regiment of Artillery, and was discharged at West Point, New York, June 9, 1783. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 4, 1818, at which time he was aged about fifty-six years, and a resident of New Baltimore, Greene County, New York.
John Anderson married January 6, 1865 in Dutchess County, New York, Sarah Mansfield. The date and place of her birth and names of parents were not given. The said Sarah Anderson was aged in 1820 [?] about fifty-three years. 
John Anderson died September 24, 1834. His widow Sarah Anderson, died February 11, 1840 [?] in
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Coeymans, Albany County, New York. 
Reference was made in 1820 to the following children - Isaac, aged fourteen years; and Betsey aged twenty-four years, and to her three children:  Margaret, aged seven years; John aged four years; and Sally, aged sixteen months. The name of Betsey’s husband was not stated.
The following children survived their mother, Sarah Anderson, and were allowed the pension due her: Margaret Whiteman, born October 19, 1785, and in 1850 was living in Coeymans, New York; Isabella Dutcher, aged fifty-one years in 1850 and a resident of Cairo, Greene County, New York; Elizabeth Young; and Henry Anderson. The ages of Elizabeth Young, and Henry Anderson were not shown, nor was it stated where they were living. 
The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible family data. 
Very truly yours 

A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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May 12 -1897. History to Howard A. Fuller, 91 Clinton Ave, Albany, N.Y. 
1930 Oct. 29 Hist to Mrs. E. H. Sisson [illegible]
1938 Mch. 15 hist to Anna B. Steel 

Rev WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 16,812 
Sarah Anderson (Widow of John Anderson 
Mattss [Matross] Rev. War 
Act: July 7th 1838
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 14 

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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32.786
 New York Albany 
John Anderson Decd 
of Green Co in the State of N. York 
who was a Matross in the Compy commanded by Captain Moody of the Reg commanded by Col Lamb in the New York line for 2 years 
Deduct payts [payments] at $96, under act 1838
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany 
at the rate of 100 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Endg 24th Sept 1834 
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th of October 1850 and sent to H. H. Sylvester Esq Charlestown N. H.
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. 
Recorded by  [signed] H. R. Weightman Clerk,
Book E. 2. Vol. 4 Page 2
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[ILLEGIBLE, TEXT IS TOO DARK]
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No 38.063 
John Anderson decd 1st
N York 
Act 7 June 1832 
Admd 2 yrs Matross, 
$100 per annum, ded’g former pay at $96 per annum under act 1818 Ending 24 Sept 1834 when he died payable to Margaret Whiteman 
Elizabeth Young 
Isabella Dutcher  &
Henry Anderson, only surviving children, 
Sarah Anderson, decd 
widow of John 1st 
Act 7 July 1838, No 14214 
Married 1781, 
Husb died 24 Septr 1834 
Admd 2 ys Matross 
$100 per annum, ending 11 February 1840, payable Alby roll 
H.H. Sylvester. Charlestown N. H
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Charlestown Oct 15 1850
Sir,
Encld you will find the declaration of Isabella Dutcher, one of the children of Sarah Anderson widow of Jn. Anderson who was a pensioner under the act of March 18, 1818, for a pension due the said May under the Act of July 7 1838 
I am Respectfully
[signed] H H Sylvester

Col Edwards
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March 2, 1938    [note] Stamp gone when rec in Revolution Wars Sect.
Pension Bureau 
Washington D.C.
The History of Greene Co. N.Y. page 374, states that there was then living in 1830 in New Baltimore, that co - a Revolutionary Pensioner, by the name of “John Anderson”
I should very much like to know if his pension papers contains the names of others of his family, as I am trying to trace the ancestry of one  “Elizabeth (Betsy) Anderson,” who married “Hyat Youngs.”
I think she was the daughter of this “John" 
Is their and historical or genealogical information contained on this paper- 
Also- 
The History of Chemung Co. N.Y. page 555- states that “Isaac Boyer [or] Bowyer, a Rev. Soldier from Pa. with sons Israel and James located there in 1817-“
Have you any record of this man? These men are both ancestors of mine and I am trying to prove the line. 
Thanking you for a reply, I am 
Sincerely 
Anna B. Stocking 
600 Country Club Lane, 
Manoa - Upper Darby – Pa.

[stamped received Mar 4 1938]
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October 12, 1930   [stamped U.S. Pension office Oct 14, 1930]
Pension Bureau 
Washington D.C 
Dear Sirs 
Will you kindly and me any record which you may have in your office of John Anderson who was placed on the pension roll of Greene Co. N.Y. 1818. Names of his children are particularly desired - or any other information  Nist
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appreciation of any thing you can do in this matter.
I am 
Yours very truly 
(Mrs. E. H.) Margaret S. Sisson 
N.J. State Chairman of Genealogical Research

2540 Boulevard 
Jersey City, N.J.
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Albany . N.Y. Apr. 27, 1897 
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sir 
Will you kindly give me what information your department records show concerning the service of John Anderson who as a solder in the Revolutionary Army.
He enlisted from New York State when about 16 years of age and at the expiration of that service subsisted for the remainder
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of the war. He served through the war, was honorably discharged and given a pension and a grant, or warrant of land where Johnstown, N. Y. now is, or in that vicinity, or it might possibly have been Cooperstown, N.Y. 
He was an orphan when he enlisted and died of the cholera in 1834. I think at New Baltimore, Greene Co., N.Y.
If the records show that no pensioner by the name of John Anderson from New York State meets the data which I have given, Will you kindly give we the records of service of each John Anderson who served in the New York troops in the Revolutionary war and received a pension therefor.
From the information there afforded I may be able to trace the identity of my ancester which, for several reasons, is of great in importance to me.
Thanking you in advance I am
Yours respectfully 
Howard N. Fuller 
91 Clinton Ave, Albany, N.Y.
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section ANF:MLB
October 29, 1930
Mrs. E. H. Sisson 
2340 Boulevard 
Jersey City, New Jersey 
Dear Madam: 
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 16812, that John Anderson enlisted in West Point, New York, in 1778, and served as matross in Captain Andrew Moody's company in Colonel John Lamb's artillery regiment, and was discharged June 9, 1783. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 4, 1818, at which time he was living in New Baltimore, Greene County, New York, aged fifty-six years. 
He died September 24, 1834 in said New Baltimore. 
The soldier married January 6, 1785, in Dutchess County, New York, Sarah Mansfield. 
She died February 11, 1840 in Coeymans, Albany County, New York, 
In 1820, the soldier referred to the following children: Isaac, aged fourteen years, and Betsey, aged twenty-four years; also to her three children: Margaret, aged seven years; John, aged four years, and Sally, aged sixteen months. The name of Betsey's husband was not stated. 
The following children survived their mother, and were allowed the pension due her:  Margaret Whiteman, born October 19, 1785, and an 1850 a resident of Coeymans, New York; Isabella Dutcher, aged fifty-one years in 1850 and residing in Cairo, Greene County, New York; Elizabeth Young and Henry Anderson.
Very truly yours 
E. W. MORGAN 
Acting Commissioner
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March 14, 1938
[illegible]
Anna B. Stocking
600 Country Club Lane
Manoa, Upper Darby
Pennsylvania
Dear Madam
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of John Anderson, who, in 1820 [?], was living in New Baltimore, Greene County, New York, and you ask to know if Elizabeth (Betsey) Anderson, who married [illegible] Young, was a daughter of this soldier: you request, also, the record of Isaac Boyer, a Revolutionary War soldier, of Pennsylvania.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon the military service in the Revolutionary War of an Isaac Boyer or Bowyer. Such claims are the source of the data furnished by this office.
The record of John Anderson, of Greene County, New York, is furnished you herewith. 
Very truly yours 
A. B Heller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51 12-5-41 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 
Division of Veteran’s Administration Archives
NAME Anderson, John  GRADE  Private   LINE Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER 10932  ACREAGE  100  ISSUED February, 1790 to Ann Tootle, Admt James Williams and Joseph Dawson Admrs of James Tootle, late 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.
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The National Archives 
Form VAN-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans Administration Archives 
Bounty Land Warrant Record Card
Name  Anderson,John
Grade  Private
Live  Massachusetts 
Warrant Number 3634
Acreage  100
Issued Oct. 1, 1791
to not shown
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volume 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 application 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.