Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11163, for Teunis Ostrander, New York
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(8-1776)

SERVICE  New York

Ostrander, Teunis  

NUMBER
S.11163

Carded
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8699
New York
Teunis Ostrander
a Root [?} in the New York line who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Dewitt of the Regt commanded by Col Schyler in the for 10 mo 25 ds  N.Y.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 36 Dollars 16 centers per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of apr 1833 and Sent to J.H. Tiffany Cawghnawaga

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  $72.32
Semi-anl, allowance ending 4 Setp 18.08

$90.40

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by W.L. Williams Clerk, Book # Vol 4 Page 27
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11847

Teunis Ostrander

Admitted.
10 mo 25 days Private

11,17

29 Sep 32
13 Dec
J.H. Tiffany
Cawgharwaga

NY
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Brief in the case of Teunis Ostrander of Root in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Open court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he?  Seventy six years.

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[form]
Period / Duration of Service / Rank / Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

Volunteer
in 1775 / [illegible] on duty one day in each week sometimes [illegible] during the summer / / Capt John Dewitt
1776 / about 1 - / / Capt Ostrom, Col Schuyler
1777 / about 1 - / / same
1777 / upward of 1 / / same
1778 / 1 / / Capt John Groat
1778 / 1 / / Capt Lansing 
1778 / 1/2 / / Capt Ostram
1779 or 80 / 3 / / Capt Ostram
1780 or 81 / Capt Ostram

He concludes by stating that his whole service was certainly upward of 10 months & he believes 12 months

5. In what battles was he engaged?  unstated

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Clergyman & Jacob Clute certifies to traditionary evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

[signed] D Kuch Examining Clerk.
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Teunis Ostrander
Amended Declaration
11847

Admitted 
10 mo 25 days Private

Enclose certificate or answer to T.H. Tiffany  Cawaghnawa N.Y.

20
10
3.33
2.75
8

36.16
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Amended Declaration of Teunis Ostrander

State of New York
Montgomery County ss Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a justice of the peace in and for the county of Montgomery in the state aforesaid on the twenty second day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three - Teunis Ostrander who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the identical person named in the annexed declaration & procedings for a pension - That by reason of old age & consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below in all he served in the grade of orderly service five as in said declaration mentioned - Twenty seven days in the year 1776, in the expedition to Lake George as in said declaration mentioned - one month - In the year 1777 on the retreat from Ticonderoga as in said declaration mentioned - one month & ten days - In the same year, & at Stillwater, at the surrender of Burgoyne as in said declaration mentioned - one month & ten days. In the year 1778 in the summer season under Captain Groat to Schoharie, as in the said Declaration mentioned - One month  In the same year in September & October to Schoharie again under Capt Jacob Lansing as in said declaration mentioned - one month - In November or December of the same year Schoharie again, under Captain Ostram or i said declaration mentioned - fifteen days in the year 1780. To at Forth Hunter under Captain Ostram as in said declaration mentioned - Twenty days. In the year 1780 or 81 (which he's not surely recollected) under Captain Ostram & Colonel Schuyler, to the Mohawk country. When that country & Schoarie was burnt off as mentioned in said declaration.  One month in 1777 & 1778 On the several alarms, exclusive of the beforementioned, [illegible] to [illegible] & Schenectady, & in the vicinity of Albany - Three months - in all amounting to eleven months and twenty two days. I served as an orderly sergeant and for such-
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service & claim a pension
Subscribed & sworn to the 22d day of January 1833 before me Abm Van Horne Justice of the Peace

[signed] Teunis Ostrander

State of New York
Montgomery County
Clerks office  I George D Ferguson, Clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery do hereby certify that Abraham A Van Horne, before whom the within amended declaration of Teunis Ostrander purports to have been sworn on the date thereof a Justice of the Peace of said County: and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe that the name of said justice subscribed to the said amended declaration to be genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal office this 23 January 1833.

Geo D Ferguson
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Declaration of Teunis Ostrander

State of New York,
County of Montgomery Co   On the nineteenth day of September in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty two, personally apeared before the judges of the court of Common Pleas of the county of Montgomery Co aforesaid in the State of New York now sitting Teunis Ostrander, a resident of the town of Root, in the county & state aforesaid aged seventy six years, the 11th day of January last past, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on this oath make the following declaration; in order to obtain the benefit the provision by me act of Congress made 7th June 1832, and in answer to my interrogation put by the court says that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, towit 
In the year 1775 he entered the volunteer company commanded by Captain John DeWitt for the defence of the vicinity [illegible] Great Britain. He thus volunteered he belonged to Captain Simon WEstfall's comopany in Colonel Peter TenBroek's regiment of militia, in Rhinebeck, county of Dutchess, State of New York, This company of Captain Dewitt was called minutes men, I were liable to be called out to train or to actual service at any moment & actually did military service at least one day in a week & sometimes oftener during the summer of that year-That in the year 1776 He removed to the place called wn the Colonie, being [illegible] the city of Albany & was enrolled in the Captain Henry Ostroms company on colonel Philip Schuyler's regiment of militia & continued in his company during the whole of the revolutionary war, but was occasionally or several times separated from that company for a time by volunteering on occasional expeditions or services, under other officers as herein after mentioned when the particular occasion in said service [illegible]  returned again [illegible]  That in 1776 the whole company turned out & went to Lake George & thinks the company (including himself was discharged after about one month, service, That is the year 1777. he together with the whole of Capt Thomas company again turned out by order, to reinforce the army in or on this service about one month or more - That some time early in September in the same year, he, together with half the company (&half of the miliitia turned out, by order, and [illegible] the army at Stillwater,  were soon joined by
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remainder of the company & remained there in service until discharged, he believes, the day before the surrender of Gen Burgoyne, and we, in service on this expedition of one month to the best of his recollect. That in the two expeditions he served under capt Ostrom.
That in 1778 one fourth of the company was [illegible] not. That he volunteered into that detachment & early in the summer marched to [illegible], under Captain John Groat on an alarm of Torries & Indians, and was about one month on this service - and that in about the 2d of September of the same year he volunteered and marched under Captain Jacob Lansing, to Schoharieon an alarm of Indians & tories, & was absent on this expedition about one month both times, the company acting as guard. That late in the fall of the same year the whole company was ordered out, & he with the company marched under Capt Ostrom, to Schoharie on an alarm of tories & Indians - & remained in service about half a month, as nearly as he can recollect.
That in 1779 or 1780 which year he cannot positively recollect Capt [illegible] company on resident to Fort Hunter (now in Montgomery County) & [illegible] & he marched with the company under that captain Col Schuyler's regiment on an alarm of indians 2 times & remained in service he believes about half a month - 
That in 1780 or 1781 which year he cannot recollect, he marched with the whole company in  Capt Ostrom, & regiment Col. Schuyler to the Mohawk country on the alarm of tories & indians, when Schoharie & the Mohawk country were burnt off, I was absent, to the best of his recollection about one month - That he was also out in service on alarms at a number of other times & places which he cannot now precisely recollect on the duration of such occasions [illegible] but believe that they could amount to at least three months - He was several times & beyond Nishayuna sometimes to Schenectady, & to the Helledagh, & often times called out from discharged near Albany, when the alarm was contermanded & that he was in actual service as aforesaid certainly upwards of ten months and he believes twelve months, that he is very poor & has a family to support and does not know of anyone who has personal
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knowledge of his services as aforesaid that he could procure
That he never had a discharge nor does he draw any pension from the United States, nor has he ever before applied for any and hereby relinquishes all claims to any other pension or annuity but the present in his name on any pension roll in the United States to his knowledge.

[signed] Teunis Ostrander

Sworn to in open court the day & year aforesaid. Geo D Ferguson Clerk

We Abraham Van Horne a clergyman residing in the town of Johnstown in the county of Montgomery & state of New York and John Ostrom & Jacob Clute & Jacob S Glenn residing in the town of Glen in said county, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Teunis Ostrander who has subscribed and sworn to the above declartion and that we believe him to be seventy six years of age  and that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

[signed] Abraham S Glen  Jacob Clut  John Ostrom
Sworn & subscribed in open court the 19th day of September in the year 1839
Geo: D. Ferguson Clerk

And the said court do hereby certify & declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant, was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated, And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Abraham Van Horne also signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman and a resident in the town of Johnstown & that Jacob S. Glen, Jacob Clute & John Ostrom, who have also signed the same are residents in the town of Glen, & are credible persons, & that their statement is entitled to credit.
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the 19th day of September 1832.

Geo: D Ferguson

I George D. Ferguson clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of Montgomery do hereby certify that the foregoing contained the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Teunis Ostrander for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 23d day of January 1833.

Geo: D. Ferguson

Teunis Ostrander
11847

Enclose certificate [illegible]
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Rev War  11163

INVALID.

File No. 11,163
Teunis Ostrander
Priv. Rev. War

Act:  June 7, 1832
Index: - Vol. A, Page 282

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Jany 25  

Gen Cap

Secretary of War

Pension Office,
War Department Washington
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Caughuawaga N.Y 23 Jany '33

Respected sir - 
Enclosed are the amended papers on the application of Teunis Ostrander, for a pension, which I hope will be found satisfactory

Please accept the answer or returns to me as above

J.H. Tiffany