Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22925, for William Ostrander, New York
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(801776)

SERVICE   New York

Ostrander, William
Maria

NUMBER  S.22925
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5472  New York
William Ostrander
county of Ulster in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Company commanded by 
Captain Dewill of the Reg commanded
by Col Gansevoon [?} in the New York
line for 2 years

[illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of $88 dollars -
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of FEb 1833
and [illegible]

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832  $120
Semi-anl allowance ending 4th ' 37  40
$160

Recorded by Geo C Stiles  Clerk,
Book D Vol 5 Page 119

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Ice Letter B.H. Wynkoop Feb 19, 1842
copies of papers sent to H.J. Van Buren Mar 31, 1842
Hon Secretary of War
1846
Set French & Sylvester
June 28/52

Wm Ostrander entitled to 88 doll to J Henry  
[illegible]
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit f the act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832.
State of New York
Ulster County ss  On the twelfth day of December 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 proceding according to the course of common law. with jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of their procedings having a clerk and seal of [illegible] own  William Ostrander residing in the town of Woodstock in said county aged seventy seven years who being 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 the 4th day of June 18 [torn] That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1776 with Capt Dewill and served in the 2nd Regiment of the New York line under the following named Officers. 
[illegible] that on or about the 22d day December this applicant enlisted in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Ganzevort for three years as a private  soldier and continued in said service until at the end of said term or then immediately entered as a corporal and continued in said capacity until the conclusion of the war and was discharged at West Point he received a written discharge but has since lost it. He further declares that in consequence of the length of time and loss of memory he cannot state the particular service but positively declares that he has served in the Revolutionary war from the year 1776. until the end of the war
He further declares that he was born in Livingston manor born in the county of Dutchess in the year 1759
That he has no record of his age - that he lived when he entered the service in the town of Hoosack Renselaer County that he has lived since the revolution in the town of Nine Partners Dutchess County that he now lives in the town of Woodstock Ulster County   That he remembers no officers except those above stated

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 any agency in any state.

[signed] William his x mark Ostrander
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
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A G Hardenbergh
Abm A Deyo
Jacob Trumpbour  Judges

The court of common pleas in and for the county of Ulster in the State of New York sitting this twelfth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two at the court house in Kingston in said county do hereby declare their opinion that the applicant named in the foregoing declaration was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.

A.G. Hardenbergh
Jacob Trumpbour
Abm A Deyo

Jacob Snyder Clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Ulster in the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of William Ostrander for a pension. In testimony whereof  [illegible] hereunto set my hand and seal of ofice this twelfth day of December 1832

Jacob Snyder
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William Ostrander
[illegible]
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[see image #28]

State of New-York,
County of Duchess,
ss I Robt Michell Clerk of the county of Duchess, Do hereby certify, that Joseph Martin whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at proof or acknowledgement, a Justice of the Peace - in and for the county aforesaid, dwelling in the said county, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said county, the 30th day of July A.D. 1841

Robt Mitchell Clerk.
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State of New York,
Dutchess County

Nicholas Goertner of the town of Redhook county and state aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the present Pastor of the German reformed church in said town that it appears by the of the said church that Becki daughter of William and Maria Blumlis was was baptized the fifteenth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen which is expressed on said records in fair legible figures and letters in the German language as follows viz -

Wilhelm Ostrander
Maria Blumliss

1819 Gutofer Kinder Becki
August 15

I Nicholas Gartner above named to depose and say that I hold the office above stated that the foregoing is a true extract from the words of said church and further saith not 

Nicholar Goertner
Sworn and Subscribed on this 29th of July 1841 before me to further certify that said deponent is a clergyman as above stated.

Joseph Martin
Justice of the Peace
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress passed the fifteenth of May 1828 entitled an Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution

State of New York
Ulster County ss
on this sixteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty at a court of common pleas held at the Court house in the village of Kingston in and for County of Ulster aforesaid personally appeared in open court before the Judges thereof Maria Ostrander a resident of the town of Woodstock County of Ulster and State of New York aged forty eight 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 third section of the act of Congress passed the 15th day of May 1828 entitled an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the war of the revolution
That she is the widow of William Ostrander deceased late of the town of Woodstock county and state aforesaid who in the revolutionary war resided in Columbia county of said State of New York and as he has informed her enlisted in the service of the United States for three years and served out his enlistment as a private soldier - that
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 shortly afterwards he again enlisted in the same service as a corporal for during the war and according to the best of her knowledge he continued in said corps untill the end of the war
That after the revolutionary war her husband the said William Ostrander continued to reside in said county of Columbia untill on or about the year
When he was legally married to this applicant in the town of Rhinebeck that the ceremony Abraham Fulton Justice of the Peace 
That her maiden name previous to her marriage was Maria Pimley
That shortly after their marriage to wit on or about the year
she with her said husband moved into the said town of Woodstock where they continued to reside untill the  day of her husband's death and where she still resides
She further declares that in the 1832 her said husband the said William Ostrander made application for and obtained a pension of eight dollars per annum which was subsequently increased to eighty eight dollars per annum - which amount he continued to receive untill the fourth of September 1839 - 
She further declares that her husband the said William Ostrander never received any bounty lands for his revolutionary services as she now believes - but that in
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the spring of the year of 1834 he the said William Ostrander received in lieu thereof Six hundred dollars from the Treasurer of the State of New York
She further delcares that her husband the aforesaid William Ostrander died the fifteenth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine and that she has not intermarried but remains a widow of the said William Ostrander as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed

[signed]  Maria her x mark Ostrander

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid before me
Reichd Keaton, Dep Clerk
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State of New York
Ulster county ss
William Kerr of the town of Kingston county of Ulster and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was well acqauinted with William Ostrander late of the town of Woodstock of said County and State.
That he was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of eighty eight dollars per annum  That he died the fifteenth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine and that he left a widow named Maria Ostrander with whom deponent is also well acqauinted and who has ever since the death of her husband remained and is still the widow of the said deceased and that she is the identical person named in the annexed application for a balance of pension due her husband the said William Ostrander deacesed and further deponent saith note.

[signed]  William Kerr

Sworn and subscribed before me this 16th day of September 1840 and that I am personally acquainted with deponent & that he is a credible witness - Henry M Ray Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Duchess County ss

State of New-York,
County of Dutchess, ss
I Robt Mitchell Clerk of the county of Duchess , do hereby certify that Joseph Martin whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a justice of the peace -in and for the county aforesaid, dwelling in the said county, commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to take the same.  And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such justice and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 30th day of July A.D. 1841

Robt Mitchell, Clerk.
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State of New York
Dutchess County ss  Jacob Ostrander of the town of Redhook County and state aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is thirty five years of age and is the son of the late William Ostrander deceased of the town of Woodstock Ulster County a pensioner of the United States who died in the fall of the year 1839 and left a widow named Maria Ostrander -

And this deponent further saith that his father the said William Ostrander was legally married to the said Maria on or about the first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen  that the ceremony was performed by Ephraim Fulton then a Justice of the Peace in said County and that her maiden previous to the marriage was Marie Plimley or Blimley and is the identical Maria Ostrander who is now an applicant for a pension for the Services of her deceased husband the said William Ostrander and further this deponent saith not

[signed] Jacob his X mark Ostrander
On the 29th day of July 1841 before came the above named deponent and after having the foregoing affidavit read to him duly made oath to the truth of the facts therein stated - and that being personally acquainted with & believe him to be a credible witness  Joseph Martin Justice of the Peace
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Revolution

22935
INVALID

File No.  22,925

William Ostrander

Pri Rev War

Act:  June 7th 32

Index: - Vol 2, Page 4

{Arrangement of 1870}
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[crossed out:  Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873]

[stamped] REJECTED

7825

P.O.  William Ostrander

Service:

Enlisted: , 18
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William Ostrander
decd
N York Rejd
Act May 15, 1828

Set to H Wynkoop Feb
18. 1842 Copies of papers 
sent to Hon J Van Borrow 
H.R. Mar 31, 1842
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Payments to be made at New York by Presd US.Br. Bank Agent for paying pensioners, in the Agency of

Issue new certce  for 88$

New York

Recorded by Geo C Stiles
Clerk, in Book D Vol. 5.
page 119
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WAR DEPARTMENT.

Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, William Ostrander of the State of New York who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army
is entitled to receive Eighty dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 11th day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

Lewis Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned. J. L. Edwards
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Henry Wyncoop
Feby 11 1846

Pension office

[illegible] in by this dept

MMB 26/113
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Feb 11 1846
Henry Wynkoop Esq

Washn City - Sir:  The claim of Maria Ostrander, has been carefully considered in compliance with your request of the 29 [illegible], [text crossed out] The question in this case is whether W Ostrander enlisted for and served tot he end of the Rev war. [text crossed out] By the entry [illegible] nelly' Book to which you refer it appears that Ostrander enlisted Dec 22 1776 for 3 years - that he was a Corporal in September 1 '80, and that mustered to the end of the war. You suppose that, as his first enlistment expired in Dec '79, he must have reenlisted in or prior to the month of September 1780, when he appears as corporal, and this is very probably - But you further content that as he "mustered tot he end of the war" he must have enlisted "for the war"  An inspection of the book in question will show that the time to which a soldier is mustered has no reference to the time of his enlistment. men who enlisted for 3 years or for the war are then found mustered [text crossed out] to various dates - embracing in some case but as five months [text crossed out] the full term of enlistment. It is evident therefore that you misapprehend the force of the remark if you consider "mustered to the end of the war" equivalent to "Mustered for the war" It means simply that Ostrander was in service until at the end of [illegible], [text crossed out] and he might have been as just as well under 3 years enlistment commencing in as prior to Sept 1780 as under an engagement for the war. 
Again numerous cased are found
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on Nuly's book when 3 years men reenlisted for the war and the fact of such reenlistment is stated opposite then named - no such entry is made in the regard to Ostrander - appears in the book as a 3 year man only; there is no evidence that he ever became a war's man; and the circumstances mentioned by the Com Pensions in his report herewith transmitted, render it almost certain that he did not. The views of [illegible] me therefore annexed in by this dept.
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Washington January 29th 1846

His excellency Secretary of War

Sir
The undersigned appellant for Mrs Maria Ostrander begs leave to say that, the enclosed papers or petition were presented to Congress 30th June 1842 and an action had therein, again presented on the 18th of March 1844 an affirmative report made by the committee & a bill prepared. Since then no action has been had thereon as appears by the fate of the papers? Believing the case a meritorious one. and having had some experience in tardy [illegible] to be [illegible] to obtain justice through Congress (and of which this case is a powerful evidence.) I beg to appeal to he Honorable Secretary of War. Hoping an examination of its merits your Honor will come to the same conclusion & grant the prayers of said widow. Your appellant begs leave to refer your Honor to your [illegible] presented to the committee (also herewith enclosed) And knowing that your honor has long been familiar with the imperfect state of the records at Albany, relating to that eventful period & the several arts of the Legisture resulting therefrom, your honor will be the more competent to award Justice.

Maria Ostrander by her agent Henry Wynkoop Appellant

Hon Sec of War
War Department
Washington D.C.

P.S. Please address address to me to oblige Respectfully your O C  Henry Wynkoop
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March 23 1852

Rel: to case of Wm Ostrander widow

French & Sylvester
Present

JL Edwards Esq
Comm pensions
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Washington March 17 1852

Sir,
Wm Ostrander of New York appl undr the Act of June 7 '34 for pension as corporal - his claim was allowed $88 per annum - proof of service [illegible],
Her widow has heretofore applied, [illegible] has been pending for several years, for the benefit of the act of May 1828. The proof wht has been already furnished in the cert. of the [illegible[ of 117. [illegible] that Ostrander, was [illegible] at West Point, at the close of the war. - that, he was "mustered as "corporal Sept 1780 - mustered to the end of the war"
In addition, the State of New York [illegible] the county of [illegible] in 1834, or appears by the papers The claim is, for a transfer from the Act of 1834 to that of 1828 Mr. Edwards [illegible]. We are about to appeal to the Secy of the [illegible] but on reflection deemed it proper to lay the matter before the court before that step was taken. Will you please give the [illegible] your consideration

your respectfully
{illegible]
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7825

Maria Ostrander
Wm Ostrander

[illegible]
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Febr 4 1842
Maria Ostrander 18?
Wm Ostrander 18?

[illegible[  Hn J Van Buren HR
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House of Rep. Feby 24, 1842

Hon J.L. Edwards

Dear sir
I am requested to present to the house, the claim of Elizabeth Elsworth, widow of John Elsworth will you please send in the papers or a certified copy thereof, which were presented on her behalf for a pension under the Act of July 4 1836.
Also
Tabitha Williams widow of Gilbert Williams. the like under act 7 July 1838.
Maria Ostrander widow of William Ostrander  
The like under of act 1828-
Also the papers by which the said William Ostrander was allowed a pension under the act of 1832

Very respy your obt st
John VanBuen
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An Act for the relief of William Ostrander (passed April 8 1834)

The people of the State of New York represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows:
1. The Treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller to William Ostrander a Revolutionary War Soldier six hundred dollars in lieu of his claim upon the state for bounty lands as a soldier in the New York Regiment.

State of New York
Secretary's Office
I have compared the preceding with an original act of the Legislature of this State on file in this office and do Certify that the same is a correct Transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original.

Arch d Campbell
Dep Secretary

Albany Aug 14. 1841
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State of New York
Ulster County

I Rhciard Heater Deputy Clerk of the County of Ulster aforesaid do certify Maria Ostrander named appeared in open court and duly made oath to the annexed declaration on the 16th day of September 1840 and further certify that Henry McRay before whom the annexed affidavit of William Kerr subscribed and sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace duly commissioned and qaulified & that his Signature therto is genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court & county this 4th day of August 1841
Note William Kerr interlined
Rich Keater, Dep. Clerk,
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On rolls
enlisted 22 Dec 76 for 3 yrs 
mus: Corpl Sept 80 mus: to the end of the war"

Admd
2 years Corp
88$
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State of New York
Secretary's Office

I certify that it appears by the "Military Register" in this office that William Ostrander on the 22d of Dec 1778 Enlisted as a private for three years in the 3d New York Regiment Captain Dwitts Company - mustered as corporal Sept 1780 mustered to the end of the war.

Given under my hand and the seal of this office at the city of Albany the twenty-second day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two

Arch. Campbell
Dep Secretary
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NY Sept 8

Wm Ostrander admd

Adm $

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

FREE
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War Department
Pension Office
August 6th 1834

Sir  i have the honor to inform you that it appears Wm Ostrander served in the grade of Corporal, was admitted accordingly on his certificate made at $80 instead of 88$. per annum it should be returned for correction as no further payment will be made it is connected

I am very respectfully your Obt Servant
JL Edwards

Saugenlus September 2 1834
The foregoing is a copy of instructions I have this day reviewed from your office viz of the Hon C Bodle and in obedience have enclosed the original certificate of Wm Ostrander

Pleas return the same to me in order to accelerate its return

I am very respectfully your most obt servant
Henry Wynkoop

Hon. J.L.Edwards
Washington
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Catskill December 1841

Sir

Annexed is an application under the act of 15th March 1828 for a balance of pension for the widow of William Ostrander deceased - which she thinks as his widow she is entitled to and for which she neglected to apply through through ignorance
In addition to the proof in possession of the Department by which he was pensioned. I have procured a copy of an act passed int he New York legislature for his relief in lieue of his bounty land which he was entitled to and which I hope may be conetunue.
Whatever may be your decision you will please direct to the Hon. John Van Buren M.C. who is somewhat acquainted with the claim having assisted her husband in procuring the passage of said act

I am respectfully your 
most obedient servent
Henry [illegible]

Col. J.L. Edwards
Comms of Pensinos
War Department
Washington D.C.