Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13522, for Benjamin Jansen, New York
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New York
Jansen, Benjamin

NUMBER
S.13522
Carded

CONTENTS
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8622
New York
Benjamin Jansen
of Ulster Co in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Paulding of the Regt commanded by Col. Graham in the N.Y. in the N.Y. line for 11 months 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Apl 1833 and sent to Hon. J. C. Brodhead Modena 

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $73.32 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833   $18.33 
[total] $91.65 

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by W L. Williams Clerk 
Book E  [Vol.] 4  Page 22
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13.044 
Benjamin Jansen 

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P. 298 
Mar 16 33
Hon J. C. Brodhead M.C.
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Brief in the case of Benjamin Jansen of Rochester County of Ulster in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.) 
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
3. How old is he? 76
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 

[BEGIN TABLE]
Period.   |   Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days.  |  Rank.  As a  |  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Gen.  |
drafted In 1776 |  5 Months.  |  private  |  Col. Levi Pawling New York troops Capt Benjn Kortright   |
drafted July 1777  |  3 Months.  |  private  |  Col. Morris Graham Capt Benj Kortright  |
in winter & summer 1779  |  2 Months.  |  private  |  Capt Fredk Westbrook  |
not stated  |  1 Month.  |  private  |  Sergeant Jonathan Westbrook  |
[END OF TABLE]

5. In what battles was he engaged? White Plains, Stillwater & Saratoga
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Rochester, New York
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witnesses & traditionary evidence [illegible] witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Not properly attached
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned
[signed] Chas. G Wilcox Examining Clerk.
8th March 1833
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George Van Vleet for Benjamin Jansen 
2 ms

allowd
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13.044
State of New York Ulster County 
In the matter of the application 
of 
Benjamin Jansen, Pension 
J.V. Gaasbeck Jr 
Atty 

admitted 
11 months Private
$
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Ulster Common Pleas of September term one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two. 
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 
State of New York 
Ulster County } ss:  On the twelfth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two Personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Ulster being a court of Record for said County proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a Record of their proceedings, having a clerk and Seal of their own Benjamin Jansen a Resident of the town of Rochester in the County of Ulster Aged Seventy Six 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 7th June 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein Stated. 
5 Months Witness Peter Krows
1. And the said Benjamin Jansen Declares, that in the month of July he served as a private Soldier for the term of "Five”, months, at Fort Montgomery, Kingsbridge and White Plains, was in the battle of White Plains, that he was drafted into the said service in the town of Rochester in the County of Ulster and Served in the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Kortright in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Levi Paulding of Levies of the State of New York , under General George Clinton, that the said Company was discharged at Peekskill that he did not receive any written discharge and for proof of his Service refers to the Affidavit of Peter Krows herewith annexed -
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3 months 2d Witness Peter Krows And the said Benjamin Jansen further declares, that in the month of July in the year 1777 he was drafted and served in the capacity of a private Soldier for the term of “Three" months, at Sillwater [Stillwater] and Saratoga, was in the battles of Still water and Saratoga, that he served in the company of Captain Benjamin Kortright of Rochester in Ulster County in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Morris Graham as a private soldier; and that at Still water and Saratoga he served in the same company, that he was discharged from the said service in the Month month of October of said year in the town of Hurley in Ulster County aforesaid but did not obtain a written discharge, Generals Schuyler and Gates were at Stillwater and Saratoga, that for proof of this service he begs leave to refer to voucher marked (A.) hereunto annexed – 
2 months Witness George Van Vleet  3d And the said Benjamin Jansen further declares that he served in the Capacity of a private Soldier in the summer of the year [blank] in the Militia Company commanded by Captain Frederick Wesbrouck, Lieutenant Peter Smith both now deceased, that the said Company was stationed as a frontier guard at a place called "Ashocam" [Ashokan] on the western frontiers of the then town of Marbletown, now Olive in the said County of Ulster, for the term of two months at the House of Courced Dubois, and was discharged at Marbletown but obtain no written discharge and for proof of this service refers to George Van Vleet a living witness -
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1 month 4th And the said Benjamin Jansen further Declares that he served for “One” month under Sergeant Jonathan Wisbrook now deceased, that he marched from the town of Rochester through the wood to the "Cook House”, in Delaware County, and brought from thence three Tories by the name of John Middagh Hendrick Bush and Martin Clearwater and delivered them up to Colonel Levi Paulding in the town of Marbletown, Ulster County, and were then discharged without written discharge, that he knows of no Living Witness by whom he can prove this Service 

And the said Benjamin Jansen, here now in open Court Solemnly and sincerely declares that he has in the whole Served for more than “Eleven” months - as before stated that the times when the place where and the officers under whom the said services were rendered he cannot positively declare, but positively avers that the said Services were rendered in the Capacity of a private soldier during the revolutionary war
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1. The said Benjamin Jansen declares that he was born in the town of Kingston in Ulster County and State of New York, on the Sixth day of January 1756 
2d. That the Record of his age is contain in the book of baptismal Records of the minister of the Reformed dutch Church in the town of Kingston Ulster County 
3d. that when he was called into service he was living in the town of Rochester Ulster County. has lived in said County Since the Revolutionary war and lives there now 
4. That he volunteered and was drafted, but was not a substitute for any one when called into said Service –
5. That General Washington Commanded at New York and white plains, General Putman that Generals Schuyler and Gates command in the Northern army in 1777 when Burgoyne Surrendered 
6. that he never had a written discharge from the service
7. That he is known in his neighbourhood to 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State 
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid -
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[signed] Benjamin Jansen 
A D Toper First Judge 
John Jansen
Abm A Deyo 

We John Gasman a clergyman residing in the town of Kingston in the County of Ulster and Richard Ten Eyck residing in the town of Hurley in said County hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Jansen who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Seventy six years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that Opinion 
[signed] John Gasman  Richard Ten Eyck
Subscribed and sworn the day and year aforesaid 
[signed] A D Toper First Judge  John Jansen  Abm A Deyo 

And the said Court do hereby declare their 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 the court further certifies, that it appears to them that John Gasman who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman Resident in the town of Kingston in Ulster County, and that Richard Ten Eyck who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of [blank] in the said County, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

I, Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Ulster, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings at the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Jansen for a Pension. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and seal of Office this twelfth day of September one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two. 
[signed] Jacob Snyder

Abm. G Hardenbergh
Abm A Deyo
John Jansen  Judges
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STATE OF NEW-YORK, 
Ulster County Clerk's Office, } ss.  I Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, do hereby Certify, That Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior Esquire, was on the day of the date of the Certificate to the annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Ulster, duly authorised to take affidavits, &c; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the signature "P.V. Gaasbeck Jr.” subscribed to Certificate of the said annexed Appear to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seat of the said Court and County, this fifteenth day of September 1832 
[signed] Jacob Snyder
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State of New York 
Ulster County } ss. Petrus Krows of the town of Marbletown in Ulster County a solder of the Revolution being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Benjamin Jansen a Soldier of the Revolution and now an applicant for a pension, that this deponent was in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, and was in the Company commanded by Captain Jacob Hasbrouck in Colonel Levi Pauldings Regiment, and well knew the said Benjamin Jansen, that the said Benjamin Janson belonged in the Company commanded by Captain Benjamin Kortrigh in the same Regiment, that this deponent saw the said Benjamin Jansen in the said service for "five" months in the year 1776 and knows that the said Benjamin Jansen continued to serve in said corps in the capacity of a private soldier until he was discharged that the above service commenced in the month of July and ended in the winter following and this deponent says that he always understood that the said Benjamin Jansen was drafted into the said service that the said Company marched by Land to fort Montgomery thence to White plains. was at the battle of White Plains thence preached to Peekskill and were there discharged 
And this deponent further says that this deponent was in said service in the same Company & Regiment above stated, and well knew the said Benjamin Jansen that the said Benjamin Jansen was in the Company commanded by the said Benjamin Kortright, that the said Benjamin Janson served in the said Company for “three” Months in the year 1777, and were discharged at Hurley in Ulster County - that the said service commenced in the summer and ended in the month of October after the burning of Kingston, that when this deponent arrived at Still water Genl. Schuyler Commanded but Genl. Gates afterwards took the command of the Army - And this deponent further says that he this deponent is 82 years of Age – 
[signed] Peter Krows
Sworn & subscribed this 30th day of August 1832 Before me, 
[signed] P. V. Gaasbeck Jr Justice of the peace for Ulster

[note in margin] 3 months 8 months
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State of New York
Ulster County } ss.  I Do Hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Peter Krows who was duly sworn by me to the within affidavit. That he is a credible person and that his statement is Entitled to credit 
[signed] P. V. Gaasbeck Jr Justice of the peace

Petrus Krows for Benjamin Jansen
Afft. 5 mos
3 mos
8 mos
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STATE OF NEW-YORK. 
Ulster County Clerk's Office, } ss.   I, Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County do hereby certify, That Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior Esquire, was on the day of the date of the Certificate to the annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Ulster, duly authorized to take affidavits, &c. and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the signature "P. Van Gaasbeck Jr.” subscribed to the Certificate of the said annexed Affidavit to be genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this fifteenth day of September 1832 
[signed] Jacob Snyder
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State of New York Ulster County ss:  George Van Vleet aged 72 being duly sworn says that he is well acquainted with Benjamin Jansen a Soldier of the Revolution, and now an applicant for a pension, that this deponent was in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war and was in the Company command by Captain Frederick Wesbrouck. Lieutenant Peter Smith, that the said Benjamin belonged to the same company with this deponent, that this deponent saw the said Benjamin in said service for two months in the year 1779 that said Company was stationed at Conrad Dubois in Ashokan then Marbletown now Olive in the County of Ulster. that the said Benjamin Served in said Corps in the capacity of a private Solder till he was discharged and further saith 
[signed] George Van Vleet X his mark
Sworn & subscribed this 12th day of September 1832 before me 
[signed] P. V. Gaasbeck Jr one of the Justices of the peace of Ulster County 

State of New York 
Ulster County } ss: I Do Hereby certify that I am well acquainted with George Van Vleet who was by me duly sworn to the above affidavit. That he is a credible person, and that his statement is entitled to credit 
[signed] P.V. Gaasbeck Jr 
Justice of the peace
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Rev War
13522 INVALID. 
File No. 13.522 
Benjamin Jansen 
Priv. Rev. war 
Act: June 7th 1832. 
Index: - Vol. 1  Page 191 

{Arrangement of 1870.}