Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15672, for James Ternure, New York
Page 1

(3-1776)

SERVICE
New York

Ternure, James
or Tournour
or Turnuer

NUMBER
S. 15672
carded

CONTENTS
Page 2

(left side)
A. G. Mudge May 11, 1857

(right side)
New York
James Ternure 
1071
of Rockland in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp'y commanded by Captain R. Johnson of the Regt. commanded by Col. Rigemont in the New York line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Octr. 1832 and sent to B. S. VanOrden

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832  $120
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '33 40
$160

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk
Book D Vol. 5 Page 144
Page 3

(left side)
Revolutionary Pension
Heirs of
James Tournour &
Elizabeth his wife
Arrears of pension

Alfred G. Mudge 
Attorney

(right side)
File with Revy soldier
James Ternuor or
Tournour
File 15672
Page 4

State of New York County of Monroe SS:
On this 20th day of April in the year 1857 before me personally appeared John Tournour a resident of Parma in said county aged 59 years who being duly sworn deposeth and saith: That he is one of the children and heirs at law of the identical James Tournour, sometimes spelled Turnuer who served as a private in the Revolutionary war being a resident of the State of New York and also one of the children and heirs at law of Elizabeth widow of said James Tournour. Said James being the identical person who drew a pension of $80 per annum for his said service payable at the city of New York.

That said James Tournour died at (illegible) New York on the 27th day of January 1835 leaving Elizabeth aforesaid his widow. That said Elizabeth Tournour died at Parma N. Y. on the 19th day of March 1839. That the said James Tournour and the said Elizabeth were married at Tappan N. Y. on the thirteenth day of December 1792 and that her name before her marriage aforesaid was Elizabeth Secoit.
He makes this declaration to determine the right of deponent and the other heirs at law to a pension as preparatory to a more formal application therefor.
John Tournour
Subscribed & sworn to before me the day and
Page 5

year first above written and I certify that John Tournour is a credible person and that I am not interested in the result of this case nor concerned in the prosecution
P. M; Crandall
Commissioner of Deeds

Know all men by these presents that I John Tournour of Parma N. Y. do hereby constitute & appoint Alfred G. Mudge of Rochester NY my attorney to prosecute my claim to a pension. Witness my hand and seal this 20th day of April 1857.
John Tournour

State of New York Monroe County ss:  
On this 20th day of April 1857 before me personally appeared John Tournour subscriber to the foregoing and acknowledged that he executed the same.
P. M. Crandall
Commissioner of Deeds
Page 6

STATE OF NEW YORK MONROE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, ROCHESTER
I William V Sage, Clerk of the County of Monroe, of the County Court of said County, and of the Supreme Court, both being Courts of Record having a common Seal, do certify that P M Crandall Esquire, before whom the annexed affidavit in writing was taken, was, at the time of taking such affidavit, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said county, duly authorized to take the same; that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to the Jurat to such affidavit is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said County, at Rochester, this 20 day of April A. D. 1857
William V Sage Clerk.
Page 7

State of New York Rockland County SS
On this fifteenth day of October in the year A.D. 1832 personally appeared before me Edward (illegible) first Judge of the court of Common Pleas in and for said county of Rockland James Tournour a person to me well knowen a resident of the Town of Ramapo in the county of Rockland and State of New York aged seventy seven years the eighteenth day of October 1832 unable from bodily infirmities to attend the court 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 the seventh 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated that he listed in the year 1775 about the first of July at Clarkstown the Orange county but now Rockland the place where he then resided for six months in a company commanded by Robert Johnson Capt and William Martin Lieutenant in Col (illegible) Regiment in the Canada Expedition under Genl. Montgomery shortly after being listed went to Albany we then marched to the northward until we arrived at Sent Johns first tool Chandler with a great quantity of Powder and other military stores which enabled Genl. Montgomery to carry on the siege of St. Johns after the surrender of St. Johns and other place of less note went to Montreal which surrendered imediately with a number of prisoners I was then detailed one of the guard to guard the Prisoners and after some time was sent as one of the guard to ferry the Prisoners to Albany where I was discharged. Some time in January 1778 by Genl Schyler the last of June or first July following at the town of Orange he listed in a company commanded by Capt John Blannett in Col Frank Regiment Genl. Scots Brigade for five months went to New York from thence to Long Island to Kings Bridge then joined Col Sackers Regiment crossed the North river from fort Washington to fort Lee from that to Peekskill after some time marched back to Clarkstown was there discharged the first Jany 1777 from the first May 1777 served under Capt Henry Turner of which (illegible) order was (illegible) in a Regiment commanded by A Hawkes Hay guarding along the west shore of the Hudson or North River from Chester to Stony Point all the time he was not (illegible) until about the first of November 1777. Served about 2 months under Capt King. then about the first part of April 1778 again losted for nine months at a place capped Tappan in said county in a company commanded by John Bellford along th Hudson River joined Capt Grayhand regiment then crossed the Hudson River marched to the White Plains in Westchester county joined a regiment commanded by Capt. Weisenfelt and were inspected by Richard Varick Brigade Inspector we then crossed the Hudson River
Page 8

and marched to the Hackensack or New Bridge in Kings County New York
where are remained and mounted guard at the Liberty Pole or English neighberhood together with Capt Elias Romain company of Col Gage Regiment and same
standing oI think when commanded by Major fill Remained there
untill the British army arrived the British have took some of our companyy and some of the standing troops and a great part of Capt Roming
Company and we returned to Branner where the British army marched back to
New York in company went to them and some where stationed at Have
strain that part now called Kamp where all discharges at Upper the first
day of January 1779 then about the feet of June lasted in Capt Garner Camp
the date he does not now recollect thinks he served one or two months
am again served in Capt The company in A. Hawkes Hays Regiment
same time in November 1779 the listed again in a company commanded
by Capt Jonarate Lownan in Col Lewis Dubois Regiment at a
called to pay for three months about the thirteenth of July 1780 when
first stationed siding or deser for after a short time marched to Kings
pany went on board of Sloops sailed up the River landed at Fishkill after
a short stay went on board of vessels and sailed to Albany after a short
incampment marched to Schenectady after about in campment of the weak
to fore make thee in Herkimer County the
marched after a short stay to fort Stanwix after some say returned
to fort Plains until the fifteenth day of October then returned home at
the Experation of three months since again entered the service the last
of April or first of may in on the command of Henry Tenner wether
an orden Lustin A. Haws pays Regiment until same time in July
listed
in a company of Rangers commanded by Sent Hose for cant day
how long gunding along the Hudson River from the English Neigh
borhood to Nejack Item the Remamber of the campaign in Capt
Henry Termine compay in A Hawley Hays Regiment see at the
months in 1782 Intered again under the command the first may
of Capt Henry Tener in A. Hawkes Hays Requet guarding
along the best share of the Hudson Hiram Nyack to loster
for at least four months Exclusive of all allance we had to
attend having no doubt on his mind having performed between
Page 9

three and four years military duty in actual service during
the Revolutionary war do not know that I ever have received a 
written discharge for any services during the war nor have any documentary evidence of my service all so proof I can offers same
of those that have served with me in the Revolutionary war
He hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension in
annuity except the present and that declare that his name
not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state

James Ternure

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Edward Suffem
First Judge Rockland County

James D. Demant, a Clergyman residing
in the Town of Ramapo in the County of
Rockland and Peter S Van Orden residing
in the Town and County aforesaid
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
James Tenure who has subscribed and
Sworn to the above declaration that we believe
him to be upwards of Seventy five
that he is reputed and believed in the labor
hood where he resides to have been a soldier of the
Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion

James D Demarest
Peter DVan Orden

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Edward Suffem
First Judge Rockland County
Page 10

Rockland County ss: I Edward Suffem
first Judge in and for said County Do
certify that I am well acquainted with the
Reverend James D. Demerest of Minister or
Clergyman of the true Dutch Reformed Church
residing in the Town of Ramposs in said County
who has signed the preceding certificate and also
that I am well acquainted with Major Genl
Peter Van Order who has also signed the same is a
resident in the said Town and County and is a
credible person and that their statement is entitled
to credit. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand this fifteenth day of October One thousand
eight hundred and Thirty two
Edward Suffem
Page 11

State of New York Rockland County ss. John [illegible]
being duly sworn deposeth and saith that
he will be seventy two years of age next November, that he resides in the now town of Clarkstown
in Rockland County. That he is acquainted with
James Ternure here present, that he knew
him during the Revolutionary war that said
James Ternure then resided in the precent of
Havershaw County of Orange now the County
of Rockland, that they lived neighbours together.
That he knows that said James Ternure united in
Captain Robert Johnsons Company Lieutenant William
Martin, that he left said County with said Company for the Northward, in the Canada expedition
after said Ternure returned understood from him at
that time that he had been as far as Montreal, with
the troops, this was in the year 1775 In 1776 before
Harvest being the last June or first July the said James
Ternure and I entitled in a company commanded by
Capt John Blanvelt Col Drakes Regiment, in
Col. Halbert Major Hatfield, Genl Scott Briga
dier, Nicholas Fish Brigade Major Prectorat
a place called Tappen, for five months, went
from there to New York thence to Long Island, and
remained there till Genl Washington retreated in
the night from there to New York remained there till
the British took possession of the City and retreated
from thence to near Kingsbridge, remained there
the British drove us from Kingsbridge situate
White Plains from White plains retreated to Pees
that when they lay at Kingsbridge James Tenne
the North river to Fort Lee on the West side the
and with some of the Troops and joined
them again he thinks at Peekskill, at the expiration
of their Term they were either discharged at Peekskill
or Clarkstown, Cannot now recollect which place
That when they were not lifted they belonged to one 
Militia company all the war, that they frequently

[illegible]
Page 12

in the said Militia Company Capt Henry Tenne
Walter Van Order Lieutenant in Col. A. Hawes
Hay Regiment Guarding the frontier
from Closter to Haverstraw, almost during the
war when not [illegible]. That he recollects of
said Term having served with him under
Capt Gardner at Haverstraw where on 
expedition they captured a considerable [illegible]
the British [illegible] while the British [illegible]
their march to Fort Montgomery how
served together under Captain Gardner is un
able now to say-
That said Ternure has always
born the reputation of an honest man
and would have no hesitation in believing
him. And further this deponent saith
not--
John Hutton
Sworn and subscribed
to this 15th day of Oct 1832
Before me
Edward Suffem
first Judge Rockland County

State of New York Rockland County J. Andres
Onderdonk of the Town of Ramposs
said County being duly sworn deposeth
and saith that he was seventy six years
of age the Twelfth day of April last. That he
knew James Ternure during the Revolutionary
war and ever since that they belonged
to a militia Company during said war
Commanded by Capt Henry Tenne, of
which Company Walter Van Orden was
Lieutenant that their company
was classed 
that he has known said Ternure to have
Page 13

served a private in the different classes of
said Company in Guarding along the North
river on the west side from [illegible] to Stoney
point, that they served at Stoney with
under Capt King in the Continental service
and drew continental rations, thinks they
were enlisted for two months, they remained
there till they were drove off by the British
which was near the expiration of their time
this was in the year 1777. That it has been
generally reported that said James Ternure enlisted
and served in the Revolutionary war
in the Canada expedition and law
has so been understood and believed
in the neighborhood where he lives. That ┃
said James Tenne has always borne the
reputation of an honest man and good
neighbour, that he is reputed and believed in the
neighborhood where he resides to have been a
Revolutionary soldier - And further this
deponent saith not

Andres Onderdonk

Sworn and Subscribed
this 15th day of Oct 1832
before me
Edward Suffem
first Judge Rockland County

Rockland County ss. I certify that
I am well
acquainted with Andris Onderdonk the above
deponent, that he is a reputable citizen of this
County and that his character for truth and
veracity is unquestionable,
Edwards Susem
Rockland Cty
Page 14

Rockland County ss Peter S Van Orden
of the Town of Ramapo in said County
of
being duly sworn deposeth and saith
That he has been acquainted with James
Ternure since year seventeen hundred and 
Seventy eight. That deponent served in Capt
Rocains
Company in Col. Days Regiment in
New Jersey
That said Ternure Served in Capt
Bells company of nine months men under the
Command Deponent thinks of Major Peter Fell, that
they joined Sergeant Geard at the Liberty Point
Bergen County that they remained there till the
British Captured the greater part of Capt Romains
Company, some of the nine months men and some of
the standing troops in the same year, that deponent
always understood Capt Bells Company retreated
to Parramus remained there till the British returned
to New York, and then marched from Paramus to
Tappan, that deponent some time in the last Nov or
first Decd of 1778 entered said Company under the command of Capt Bell, that part of said Company was
stationed at Tappan as a guard and part of the company
was sent to a place in the now town of Kama
to keep guard, sometime about last Decr was called 
to Tappan and on first day of June 1779, where there
do
both discharged that deponent and
said James Service in July 1780 listed in Capt
Lawrence Company, Col Lewis Depois Regiment
for three months at Tappan and after little time
he
marched from there to Kings ferry embarked
board of befal and sailed up the river to Fishkill 
landed and after short stay embarked and sailed to Albans
from thence marched to Schenectady encampt there about
two weeks, then marched to Fort Plain on the
Mohawk River,
That said Tenure was sent with 
detachment to Fort Stanwix & Deponent to 
the
That when deponent returned from
Page 15

Fort Clyde to Fort Plain, understood said
Ternure had returned from Fort Stanwix to
Fort Plain, and had come home with some part of
the Company after the expiration of the Term
of his enlistment- That after deponent retired
to New Jersey he recollect seeing the said James
Ternure in the service at different times on the
line, but does not recollect under whose command
the said Terrnure then was this was in the
years 1781 and 2, And this deponent further saith
That he has always understood that the said James
Ternure served as a soldier the greater part of the
Revolutionary war - And this deponent further saith that he has been acquainted with the
said James Ternure since the Revolution and
that his character for truth and veracity is
good. And this deponent further saith he
entered the service at the age of fourteen and
is now sixty nine years of age. And further this
deponent saith not
Peter S Van Orden

Sworn & subscribed to this
15th day of Oct 1832
Before me
Edwards Sussem
first Judge Rockland Cty

Rockland county I certify that I am well acquainted with Major Gen Peter S Van Orden the above deponent and that his character for truth and veracity is unimpeachable.
Edward Sussem
First Judge of Rockland Cty
Page 16

State of New York. 
Rockland County ss I David Pye, Clerk of the County of Rockland
and County
Do hereby certify That Edward Suffern Esquire
whose name is subscribed to the within Declaration
and affidavits was on the day of the date thereof
first Judge of the County aforesaid, Commissioned
and sworn and duly authorised to take the same
And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand
writing of the said Judge and verily believe that the signature of Edward Suffern subscribed to each of them respectively
is genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of the said County the
Seventeenth day of October, 1832.
David Pye
Page 17


Rochester New York
April 20  1857.

Sir:
I enclose you the annexed
claim of one of the heirs
of James Ternure for the purpose of
determining whether the
heirs are
upon the State of facts
therein presented
entitled to any Pension
of so
If so we expect to file a formal application thereof
 
Respectfully
Yours,
 
Alfred G. Mudge

To Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C
Page 18

15672
INVALID.
File No.
15672
or Tournour
James Tenure 
Pri Rev War
-
Act: June 7" 32

Index: - Vol. 1, Page Six
Arrangement of 1870.}