Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19943, for Henry Osterhoudt, New York
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[first column]
(3-1776)
New York
CONTENTS
[second column]
Osterhoudt, Henry
or
Osterhout, Sarah
[third column]
NUMBER
W. 19943
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Repnted
Januy [SIC] 8/49
[shown on what appears to be an overleaf]

2860
New York, Albany
Sarah Osterhoudt
widow of Henry
N.Y.
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
73 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1948
Certificate of Pension issued the
8th day of Januy 1849
and sent to 
Timothy Sabin
Oneonta
Otsego Co. N.Y.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848 Page 163 Vol. 4.
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STATE OF NEW YORK, [Followed by 2 illegible numbers]]
ULSTER COUNTY
I, John Ferguson Clerk of the County of Ulster, do hereby certify, that
Peter Van Gasbeck Jr.
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 [Handwritten] - in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling on 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 or proof or acknowledgement is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 7th day of January 1839
John Ferguson
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State of New York
County of Ulster} ss
I John Lillie Paster of the protestant reformed dutch church in the
town of Kingston and County of Ulster _ Do Hereby Certify that the following is a true Copy or extract from the records of said Church, Seventeen Hundred and Eighty five on the Nineteenth
day of January was married Henry Osterhoudt single man with Sarah Crispell
single woman

that it is a true copy of the record with the
exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows 
[left margin] 1785 [illegible] 19 Jan.

[Quotes untranslated writing in Dutch language]

I John Lillie above named depose and say that I hold the office of Pastor of the Protestant reformed dutch church, in the county town and ?? aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the record of said church with the exception above named as certified by me – John Lillie Pastor

Sworn before me this 7th day of January 1839 }
P. [illegible] Gaasbeck [illegible]
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York 
Otsego County 
on the second day of February in the year 1839 before Seth Chase one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Otsego (it being a Court of Record) personally appeared Sarah Osterhoudt a resident of the town of Oneonta in said County of Otsego who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 7th day of July 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows- That she is the widow of Henry Osterhoudt who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and that she was married to the said Henry Osterhoudt on the 19th day of January 1785 at the house of Garret Constable in the town of Hurley in the County of Ulster and State of New York - that her husband the said Henry Osterhoudt died some time in the year 1825 (the particular time in that year she does not recollect) at Milford now Oneonta in said County of Otsego and that she has since the death of her said husband has remained and still does remain the widow of the said Henry Osterhoudt.
 And this declarant further states that at the time of her marriage with the said Henry Osterhoudt he the said Henry Osterhoudt resided at the house of Garret Constable [a] foresaid the place where they were married and that she the declarent then resided with her
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Father John Crispell in the town of Marbletown in said County of Ulster about fourteen miles from the place where they were married that the marriage ceremony was performed by a clergyman by the name of Adam Dull that said clergyman as she is informed and believes is dead that a record of said marriage was kept in the protestant reformed dutch church in the town of Kingston in said county of Ulster our extract from which said record is hereto annexed certified to be such by John Lillie the present officiating clergyman and Pastor of said Church that after the marriage with the said Henry Osterhoudt she resided with her said husband in the town of Marbletown aforesaid until about the year 1812 at which time they removed to the town of Milford in the country of Otsego aforesaid where she the declarant continued to reside with her husband the said Henry Osterhoudt until the time of his death as above stated and that she now resides at the same place where her husband the said Henry Osterhoudt did but which by a division of said town of Milford is now in the town of Oneonta that she the said Sarah Osterhoudt was seventynine years old on the 15th day of June last that for the proof of the services of the said Henry Osterhoudt as a soldier in the Army of the Revolution refference [sic] may be made to the affidavits of Garret Constable and Andries Davis which are hereto annexed that the said Sarah Osterhoudt resides eighteen miles from Cooperstown the place where Courts of record are held in said count of Otsego are by reason of advanced age and
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[enstowing] the place where Courts of record are held in said County of Otsego held and by reason of advanced age and infirmities by reason thereof she is unable to attend at said Courts to make her declaration.
His
Sarah Osterhoudt
Mark
Subscribed and sworn Feby 2nd 1839 before me Sarah Osterhoudt 2nd 1839 before me Seth Chase Judge of Otsego Com. Pleas 

I the said Judge before whom the foregoing declaration was taken do certify that I believe the said Sarah Osterhoudt who made the said declaration is of the age of seventynine years as she represents and that by reason of old age and bodily infirmity she cannot attend at a court of record to make her declaration and that the reason she does not write her name is that she never learned to write 
Seth Chase Judge of the Court of Com. Pleas of Otsego County 

State of New York
County of Otsego 
Henry Osterhoudt of Oneonta County of Otsego being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is the son of Sarah Osterhout and Henry Osterhoudt named in the foregoing declaration of said Sarah Osterhoudt that he the deponent always resided with said Henry and Sarah Osterhoudt until the death of said Henry Osterhoudt that he the said Henry Osterhoudt died in Milford in said county in the month of October in the year eighteen hundred and twenty five but on what day of the month he does not recollect that said Henry at the time of his death was said to be seventy four years old and that he deponent verily believes he was of about that age, that said Sarah Osterhout has resided with this deponent ever since the death of her husband the said Henry Osterhoudt and that she has not been married since the death of her said husband but still remains the widow of said Henry Osterhoudt and now resides with deponent 

Henry Osterh.
Subscribed and sworn Feby 7th 1839 before me Seth Chase Judge of the court of on Pleas of Otsego County
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State of New York 
Otsego County
I Peter Collier of Milford in the County of Otsego aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose and say that for about twenty years last past he has been acquainted with Sarah Osterhoudt who has made the foregoing declaration for the purpose of obtaining a pension and also with Henry Osterhoudt who has made the foregoing affidavit and that he knows them the said Sarah Osterhoudt and Henry Osterhoudt to be person of good reputation for truth and veracity and that their statements are entitled to credit 
[signed] Peter Collier

Subscribed and sworn
Feby 7th 1839 before me 

Seth Chase Judge of the court of Com Pleas of Otsego County 
I the said Judge before whom the above affidavits taken do certify that I have for thirty years last passed been well acquainted with the said Peter Collier who made said affidavit and do know him to be a person of good character for truth and veracity and that his statement is entitled to credit 
Seth Chase Judge of the court of Com pleas of Otsego County 

State of New York 
Otsego County 
Jesse Rose Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Seth Chase Esqr whom the preceeding affidavits purport to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same a Judge of Otsego Com Pleas duly commissioned and qualified and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Judge & believe his name subscribed to the foregoing affidavits the annexed certificates of credibility to be his genuine handwriting and Signature. Witness my hand & seal of office this 9th day of February AD 1839.
Jesse Rose Clerk
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Kate M. Gray
East Springfield
New York
Dear Madam
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, V.19943, it appears that Henry Osterhoudt or Osterhout enlisted and served as a private with the New York Troops as follows:
In 1776, five months in Captain Jacobus S. Bruyn’s Company, Colonel Wynkoop’s Regiment; in 1777, five months in Captain Dubois’s Company, Colonel Van Cortland’s Regiment, and was in the battle of Monmouth; in 1779. eight months in Captain Hunter’s Company, Colonel Paulding’s Regiment.
He died in October, 1825, at Milford, which was later Oneonta, Otsego County, New York, aged seventy-four years. 
The soldier married January 19, 1785, at the house of Garret Constable, in Hurley, Ulster County, New York, Sarah, daughter of John Crispell. She was born June 17, 
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1759. They were married by the Reverend Adam Dull and at that time the soldier was a resident of Milford, New York, and she of Marbletown, New York. The record of their marriage was kept in the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church at Kingston, New York.
She was allowed pension on her application executed February 2, 1839, while a resident on Oneonta, Otsega [as typed] County, New York.
She stated that after their marriage they lived in Marbletown, New York, until 1812, then moved to Milford, Otsego County, New York.
In 1839, son Henry Osterhoudt, was a resident of Oneonta, New York.
There are no further data as to family.
Very truly yours
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner
[note in handwriting]
Date of widow’s death not on AB
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[Left Margin] EYO N.Y.

Rev 
WIDOW, &c.

File no. 19943
Sarah Osterhoudt
widow of 
Henry Osterhoudt
Pri Rev War
Act: Feb 28 48
Index:–Vol. M, Page 104
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Right Margin] Dee 5 '96 To Rev Paul JD Krimmville
29 July 30 1929,
sent to Kate M. Gray
EGL
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Albany 2,027
Sarah Osterhoudt
widow of Henry Osterhoudt
[line crossed out]who was a pensioner under the [illegible] of
nd who died in the eyear 1825
Otsego Co. in the State of N. York
ho was a Private in the company commanded
y Captain – of the Regt. commanded
y Col. Cortlandtts [sic] in the N. York
line for 22 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 73' Dolars 33 1/3 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension found the 9th day of March
[illegible], 1839 and sent to Hon. J.H., Cooperstown, N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of March 39 220.00
Semi-annual allowances ending 4 Sept... 36.66
$256.66

{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 96
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New York 3118
Sarah Osterhoudt
widow of Henry Osterhoudt
who was a Private
in the New York line
for 22 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
Seventy three Dollars threty three
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
Second day of December 1843
and sent to 
Timothy Sabin
one into
Otsego County
New York
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 110
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Mr. Cole
NY 3118
Mr. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C. 

10 [typed, crossed out]

Oneonta N.Y. [stamped postmark]
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Oneonta Sept 5th 1948

Hon. J.L. Edwards

Sir

I Here with Send You Sarah Osterhout Affidavit an Application For a Certificate for a pension according to the act of Congress past February 2 1848

Timothy Sabin
Oneonta
Otsego Co
N.Y.
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State of New 
York County of Ulster 
I Garrit Constable of the town of Hurley in said County aged Eighty seven years being duly [from] deposeth and faith that he is a pensioner of the United States, that he was well acquainted with Henry Osterhoudt deceased that the said Henry Osterhoudt formerly lived with this deponent in the town of Hurley and was married there while he resided with this [deponent] - And this deponent further says that in the 1776 the said Henry went in Company with this deponent to Montreal in Canada in the Company commanded by Captain [ Jacobus] S. [Brugh] in Col. [Wynkoop] Regiment in Genl. Clintons Brigade and enlisted for five months as privates and and served the full term of five months commenced before harvest and were dichar ged in the beginning of November at Wagh [Runk]  - And this deponent further says that in the 1777 this deponent and the said Henry Osterhout formed for the term of five months in the Company commanded by Captain Dubois stationed at Waghhunk in Ulster County at Van Eating, and knows that the said Henry Osterhoudt formed the whole of said term of five months as a private that this service was in the summer of said year last above mentioned - And this deponent further says that he this deponent served the term of nine months with the said Henry Osterhout in the Company commanded by Captain Lounsberry in Col Courtlands Regiment, that this
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were both enlisted for the term of Nine months and served the whole of this last term and were discharged at Wawarsing in Ulster County that this deponent and the said Henry Osterhoudt were in the battle of Monmouth that their last service was in the year 1778. [signed] Garret his Constable his mark
Subscribed & sworn before me this 4 day of January 1839 
P. Van Grosbeck Jr 

Ulster County ss. I Do Hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Garret Constable, that he is a person of credit & that his statement is entitled to belief—

STATE OF NEW-YORK. 
ULSTER COUNTY, I John Ferguson Clerk of the County of Ulster, do hereby certify that Peter Van Grosbeck whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment 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 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 acknowledgment is genuine. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 7th day of January 1839 
John Ferguson Clerk
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were both enlisted for the term of Nine [illegible] and Served the whole of this last term and were discharged at Wawarsing in Ulster County that this deponent and the said Henry Osterhood were in the battle of Monmouth that the last service from was in the year 1778. 

His
Garrit Constable
Mark

Subscribed & sworn before me this 4 day of January 1839 
P. Van [Gausbeck] Jr.
J. P. 

Ulster County ss. 
I Do Hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Garrit Constable, that he is a person of credit & that his statement is Entitled to belief- P. Van [Gausbeck] Jr. J. Peace 

well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice [...] certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 7th day of January 1839. John [illegible] Clerk [acknowledgment typed and written on separate, overlaying piece of paper]
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2027
Sarah Osterhoudt 
Act July 7. 1838

Henry Osterhoudt
Capt Lownsbury Col Van Cortland 
Capt Hunter Col Pawling
Capt J. Bruger
Capt Dubois 

Van Cortland  9 mo
Entd May 78
Dis Feb 79 
Capt Hunter 8 mo

Admitted Private 22 months 
Hon Juv H. Prentiss 
Cooperstown 
New York
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State of New York 
Ulster County ss Town of Olive I Andries Davis being Duly sworn Deposeth and says that he is a soldier of the Revolution and that Henry Ousterhoudt Served Nine months in Col Courtlands Regiment with me as A private in Capt Edward Lounsberry Company on the said Ousterhoudt and my Self joined the the army at Valley Forge in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight and was in the Battle Monmouth in the same year and was discharged in Town of Rochester in said County and further States that he and said Ousterhoudt was enrole for Eight months service in Cons Palding Regiment in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Nine under the command of Capt Hunter and was marched out as for as lisquehannah [?] and not find the main army there and then Returned to stony point and demolished a fort on Built A New one and from stony point in where marched up to Poughkeepsie and [illegible] out Amongst the Inhabitants and there was discharged 
Andres Davis 

I certify that Andries Davis is well known me for forty years and that he is of good standing in community as any man in the County 
Sworn Before me this 5th day of January 1839 

STATE OF NEW-YORK.
ULSTER COUNTY, I John Ferguson Clerk of the County of Ulster, do hereby certify that Charles Davis, Esq. whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment 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 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 acknowledgment is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 7th day of January 1839
John Ferguson Clerk
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State of New York Ulster County 
Town of Olin 
I Andries Davis Being Duly sworn Deposeth and says that he is a Soulder of the Revolution and that Henry Ousterhoudt Served Nine months in Con. Courtlands Regiment with me as A private in Capt Edward Lounsberry Company on the said Ousterhoudt and my Self Jouned the the army at Vally Forge in the year of Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight and was in the Battle Monmouth in the same year and was discharged in Town of Rochester in said County and further States that he and said Ousterhoudt was enroled for Eight months service in Cons. [P]alding Regiment in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Nine under the Command of Capt Hunter and was marched out as far as [lisgne]hannah and Not finding the main army there and then - Returned to Stony point and demolished A fourt on Buitt A New one and from Stony point we where macked up to Poughkeepsie and billeted out Amongst the Inhabitants and there was discharged 
Andres Davis 
I certify that Andries Davis is well known me for forty years and that he is of good standing in Community as any man in the County - 
 Sworn Before me this 5th day of January 1839 Charles Davis J. Peace 

Justice of the Peace is and for said County.. subscribed and sword and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am acquainted with the handwriting of such [Justice] and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 7th day of 1839. [acknowledgement typed and written on separate piece of paper overlaying]
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4347 
N.Y.
7 July 38

Hon John H. Prentiss M.C. Washington
Hon. J.H. Prentiss [H].R.

[illegible] admin


FREE [stamped]
[illegible postmark stamped]
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Coperstown[sic] 9. February 1839

Col Prentiss

Enclosed are the papers in the pension case, please to present them and communicate with me as to the result

Respectfully Yours

[illegible] Rose
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2828 
Sarah Osterhoudt
 $73.33 
Albany 
3118 110 Timothy Sabin Oneonta Otsego Co. NY
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[UNDERLYING DOCUMENT IS COVERED BY THE CLERK'S AFFIDAVIT AND CANNOT BE READ]
State of New York
Otsego County Clerk’s Office,SS. I Samuel Russell Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Turner McCall Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit and certificate was on the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorised by law to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe his signature to the said affidavit& Certificate is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, the first day of August A. D. 1843.
Samuel Russell Clerk.
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State of New York
Otsego County } ss

On this Nineteenth day of May In the Year of Our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Three Personally Appeared before the Subscriber A Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Otsego Sarah Osterhout A residant [sic] of the Town of Oneonta in the County of Otsego Aged Eighty three Years Who being first Duly Sworn according To Law Doth on her Oath make the Following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision Made by The act of Congress passed on the 3d day of March 1843. Granting Pensions to Widows of Persons Who Served during the Revolutionary War That She is the Widow of Henry Osterhout Who Was A Private in the War of the Revolution But the Regiment in Which he Served as the officer Whom he was under She is not able to Tell at this Time and the annual Amount of the Pension Which She Received under the act of July 7th 1868 Was Seventy three Dollars and Thirty three Cents Per annum She further declares that she is that Still a Widow – 

Sworn to and Inscribed on the day and year Above written before Turner Mc Call Justice of the Peace } Sarah [his x mark] Osterhout
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I Hereby Cirtify[sic] that I am Personally Acquainted with Sarah Osterhout who made the within Declaration and that She Sustaines[sic] a Good Moral Carrector [sic] in the Neighborhood in which She Lives 

Turner Mc Call Justice of the Peace
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2829 Aug 8 / 43.
[his] Maid 50 / 40 .
NY
S. Osterhout
S. Walling

Hon. J.S. Edward 
Commr of Pensions 
Washington City D.C.

FREE [stamped]

ONEONTA N.Y. AUG. [stamped postmark]
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Oneonta Otsego County N.Y. 
August 2d 1843 
Dr Sir

I Herewith send the Application of 
Mrs. Sarah Walling [crossed out text] 
and Sarah Osterhout which you will please Examine and advise me accordingly 
I am Sir Very Respectfully Yours H. 
Timothy Sabin 

Hon J. L. Edwards
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State of New York
Otsego County SS

Be it known that before me Samuel J. Cooke a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Sarah Osterhout widow of Henry Osterhout who was a private in the war of the revolution and made oath in due form of law that she is the identical person who drew a pension under the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 granting half pay and pensions to certain widows and was inscribed on the pension Act roll of the Albany New York [illegible] and recd a certificate from the War Department allowing her seventy three dollars and thirty three cents per annum dated the 9th day of March 1839 and said certificate has been [illegible] to the pension office and that she has drawn said account of seventy three dollars and thirty three cents per annum under the different acts of Congress which have been passed up to the [illegible]th day of March 1848 and that she now makes this affidavit for the purpose of obtaining a new certificate for a pension under the act of Congress passed February 2nd 1848 granting pensions to certain widows during their lives and further deposeth and say that she has not intermarried and is still the widow of the aforesaid Henry Osterhout

wit Samuel J Cooke Sara [her x mark] Osterhout

Subscribed and Sworn this 31st day
of August 1848 before me
Samuel J Cooke Justice of the Peace
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I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the within named Sarah Osterhout who made the foregoing affidavit and have been for twenty years past am knowing to her having drawn pensions as stated by her and verily believe her statement to be true 

the reason she signs her name with a cross [additional handwriting covered by an additional piece of paper with notary acknowledgement] never taught to write

STATE OF NEW YORK
Otsego County, ss.
I, Charles McLean, Clerk of said county, do certify that Samuel I. Cooke the person subscribing the foregoing Affidavit & Certificate and before whom the same was taken, was on the 3d day of August, 1848 therein mentioned, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Otsego and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said said Samuel I. Cooke and verily believe that the name subscribed to the said Affi. & Certificate is his proper and genuine signature. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the seal of said County to be hereunto affixed this 2d day of September A.D., 1848. Chas. McLean Clerk.

[Seal of Otsego County]
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I hereby certify that Said acquainted with the within named Sarah Osterhoudt who made the foregoing affidavit and have been for twenty years past and knowing to her having drawn pensions as stated by her and verily believe her statement to be true

The reason she signs her name with a cross is that she was never taught to write

Samuel J Cooke Justice of the Peace
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                                           East Springfield, N.Y.
                                               April 23, 1929

Dear Sir;
                      Will you kindly
give me the address to
which the pension of Henry
Osterhoudt, Rev. Soldier
was send? His widow
rec'd his pension for 22
months actual services as
a private in the Burgoyne
invasion. He was born 
near Kingston, N.Y. and
died in Otsego Co. N.Y.
Please give place.
                  Thank you
                  Kate M Gray
                  East Springfield
                  New York.
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Krumville
Ulster Co., N.Y.

To the Hon U.s.
Pension Commission
Washington DC

Will you please inform
me as to the name of
Henry or Henrickus Osterhout
being on the roll of Revolutionary
Soldiers- His widow drew
pension for a number of
years. My object in making
the inquiry is that my wife
is desirous of becoming a
member of the "Daughters of
the Revolution" and she said
Henry or Henricus Osterhout
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was his Grandfather,

I wish simply to show from 
the record that the said
Osterhout was a soldier
of the Revolution 
& he was at
the Surrender of Burgoyne
under Gen Gates
You will
gratify me very much by
sending me the information
needed.
Address
Rev Paul Y. Deyo
Krumville
Ulster Co
N.Y.