Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19161, John Debow, New Jersey
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Service
New Jersey

Debow, John   Catharine

Number W. 19161
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6411
New York
John De Bow
Canandg [Canandaigua] in the State of New York
who was a Pv. [private] of Cav [Cavalry] & Inf [Infantry]^& Teamster^ in the Company commanded
by Captain Nixon of the Regt [regiment] commanded
by Col Scudder in the New Jersey
line for 7 1/2 months Private Cavalry
2 months private Infantry and
9 months Teamster
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 68 Dollars 76 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of March 1833-
and sent to Hon J Dickson
Ho. [House] Repres [Representatives]
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1832 $103. 14
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33
34.38
$137.52
Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832. 
Recorded by Jno. Cromwell
Clerk,
Book D  
Vol. 5
Page 161
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Reported
Dec. 18/48
Death date not on A.B.

2466
New York Albany
Catharine Debow
window of John Debow
who serviced in the Revolutionary war, N.J.
as private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
68 Dollars 76
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the
18th day of Dec. 1848 
and sent to 
Hon Robert L Rose
HofR [House of Representatives]
Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 59 Vol. 4
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State of New York
Ontario County
SS
On this twenty eighth day of August 1832
Personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the County Court now sitting John De Bow a resident of the town of Canandaigua in the County and State aforesaid, aged seventy one 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 June 7 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated.
1st At Cranbury County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey on the 15th January, after the Battle at Princeton /don't remember the year/ he enlisted for nine months in Captain Robert Nixons Company of Cavalry, Major Egberts and Major John Van Embre. Had no Colonel. 
The British Army being at Brunswick we were employed in scouting practices until about the 1st May, when was ordered to Bound Brook and after doing duty there, was ordered to Morristown at Headquarters, and was ordered to Pumpton, and was on duty at Sussex and Goshen, and the latter part of July the Company was ordered to Brunswick and patrolling to Amboy, and continued in the service until the last of August, when the Company was dismissed and I returned home.
2nd The next Spring after in May, was mustered in Captain David Chambers Company of Infantry in Colonel William Scudders Regiment and served at Allentown and Crosswicks. I served in this Company one month.  I was again joined to Captain Nixons Company. Was in the Battle at Monmouth. Saw General Washington there and was near him. Also General Putnam, and heard him harangue the Troops
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before the action. Did not leave the ground until the next morning and was then marched to Englishtown to recruit and remained there two or three days until waggons could be procured to removed the disabled and wounded and then returned to Cranbury with the Company and was then dismissed.  Was out under both Captains two months.  I remained at home until the last of November or first of December.
3rd When I enlisted under Captain James Patten who was Waggon Master in the regular Army.  This was at Cranbury as aforesaid, and I drove a four horse waggon and carried stores for the Army from Trenton to the Hudson River. To Morristown and other places, and was engaged in the service for nine months.  received from Captain Patten a bounty of ten dollars (continental money) and did not received any other pay or compensation. He was born at Cranbury in New Jersey the 18th October 1761, afterwards moved to Charlestown near the Mohawk River, and then to Cayuga County and then to Canandaigua, and there had resided for thirty one years last past. Has no record of his age. Has no documentary evidence and he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.
He knows Phineas P. Bates and David C. Bates of the town of Canandaigua.
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 State.
Sworn and Subscribed the 
day and year aforesaid
in open Court
John Debow
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State of New York
Ontario County SS
In the matter of John DeBow's application for a Pension

Personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for said county John DeBow who being duly sworn doth depose and say that the reason he did not obtain the evidence of a clergyman when he appeared before the Court on the 28th August 1832 is because the Baptist Society to which he belongs was at that time in a broken state and without a settled minister.  He is required to answer the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department.
The four first are answered in his declaration. To the 5th interrogatory he now says that he does not remember the names of the Regiments. He has stated the names of some of the general officers. He saw General Sullivan at Cranbury often. He came there to review the troops. To the 6th interrogatory, he now says he never received a written discharge. The 7th interrogatory is answered under the first head he served Seven and a half months. Under Second head two months, and under the third head nine months, in all eighteen and a half months for which he claims a pension.
Sworn to and subscribed
this nineth day of January 
1833 before me
Henry Chapin JP
John Debow

State of New York
Ontario County SS
I, Charles Crane, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that Henry Chapin, whose name is above subscribed was at the date above a Justice of the Peace in and for said County: and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe the said signature to be his proper act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto let my hand and seal of office, this tenth day of January A. D. 1833.
Charles Crane
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State of New York
Ontario County SS
Susan Warner being duly sworn saith that
she is a resident of Canandaigua in the said County. That she is sixty two years old. That she is personally well acquainted with widow Catherine Debow the foregoing declarant. That she will remember the marriage of the said Catherine Debow to her late husband John Debow. That they were married at Fort Hunter in the said State in the spring of Seventeen hundred and ninety. That the said widow Catherine Debow has four children living as the fruit of her marriage to the said John Debow. That Garrett Debow is the third
Child after their marriage and he is forty five years old. That the said John Debow died in the month of June Eighteen hundred and forty three. That the Widow Catherine Debow remains unmarried and is still a widow. That the said John Devor was reputed to have been a pensioner at the time of his death.
Subscribed and sworn the 30th day of
September 1843 before me the said
Susan Warner is personally known and
is a respectable person and entitled to
belief.
John Lapham, Judge
of Ontario County Court
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9773
July 7, 1838
[notation not legible]

State of New York ⎬
Ontario County SS
I Thomas Hall Clerk of the
County Courts in and for the said County of Ontario Certify that John Lapham is a Judge of the County Courts in and for the said County of Ontario and that Solomon E. White is a Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Ontario and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of my said office and subscribed my name the Seventh day of October
in the year Eighteen hundred and
forty three
Thomas Hall
Clerk of the County Courts of Ontario County
N. York
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State of New York
Ontario County SS
On this thirtieth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before the subscriber John Lepham a judge of the county courts in and for said county Catherine Debow a resident of the town of Canandaigua in the said county of Ontario aged seventy two 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 act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." And the further declaration to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed 3rd March 1843 granting provisions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of John Debow who was a private in the Revolutionary Army and a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death on the roll of the New York Agency.
She further declares she was married to the said John Debow at Fort Hunter in the State of New York in the month of May in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety. That her husband the said John Debow died in the said town of Canandaigua on the fifth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and forty three. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four being at the time above stated.  She further declares she is still a widow.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written before me.
John Lapham
Judge of the County Courts of 
Ontario County New York
Catherine her mark Debow
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I certify that I am personally acquainted with widow Catherine Debow the foregoing declarant. That she is apparently of the age above stated. That she is a respectable person and entitled to belief in her said declaration. That she is unable to attend the court of which I am a member from bodily infirmity.
John Lapham, Judge of Ontario County Courts
30th Sept. 1843

State of New York
Ontario County SS
Garrett Debow being duly sworn says that he is the son of the late John Debow and Catherine Debow the foregoing declarant. The he was present at the death and funeral of the said John Debow. That the said John Debow the late husband of the said Catherine Debow died in the town of Canandaigua in the said county on the fifth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and forty three that the said Catherine Debow and her late husband John Debow lived together as husband and wife from his earlies recollection to the death of said John Debow. That the said John Debow was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death. That the said widow Catherine Debow is still the widow of the said John Debow and remains unmarried.
Subscribed and affirmed the 30th day
of September 1843 before me the said Garrett 
Debow being personally known to me and is a respectable person so entitled to belief.
John Lapham, Judge of Ontario County Courts
Garrett Debow
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No. 9229
John Debow

[notation]

11.12.17

P121
Thos Beals
Canadaigua N.Y.
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Brief in the case of John DeBow of Canandaigua in the State of N. York (Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in open Court

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

3. How old is he? Seventy one years

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

Period 15th Jany In 1777
Duration of Service Enlisted for nine months and discharged on the last of Aug following
Rank As a Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served Capt Nixons Cavalry

Period Spring of 1778
Duration of Service 2 Months
Rank as Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served Col. Wm Scudder

Period December 1778
Duration of Service 9 months
Rank as a Teamster
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served Capt. Jas Patten Waggon Master

5. In what battles was he engaged? Monmouth

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Cransbury New Jersey

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence alone

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

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Wm Gordon Examining Clerk
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Handwritten notation: Sent out again Apr. 6, 1937 to 67 Park Ave. as it was returned "no such address."

February 20, 1937
Mrs. E. D. Capehart
67 Paul Vail (?) Avenue
New York City, New York

BA-J/ILL
John Debow
W. 19161

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of John Debow from New York, Pennsylvania or New Jersey.
The record of John Debow is given herein as found in pension claim, W. 19161, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War, as he may be the soldier in whom you are interested.
John Debow was born October 18, 1761 in Cranbury, Middlesex County, New Jersey; the names of his parents were not given.
While a resident of Cranbury, New Jersey, he enlisted January 15, 1777, served as a private in Captain Robert Nixon's company of Cavalry, under Majors Egbert and John Van Emburgh in the New Jersey troops until the last of August 1777, engaged in patrolling the New Jersey towns: he enlisted in May 1778, and served two months in Captains David Chambers and Robert Nixon's companies, Colonel William Scudder's New Jersey regiment, during which he was in the battle of Monmouth.  He enlisted in December 1778 and served nine months as teamster under Captain James Patton, Wagonmaster.
The soldier moved from Cranbury, New Jersey, to Charleston near the Mohawk River, thence to Cayuga County, New York and about the year 1801, to Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 28, 1832 at which time he resided in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. He died there June 5, 1843.
John Debow married in May 1790 at Fort Hunter, New York, Catharine, whose maiden name was not given.
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Catharine Debow, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed September 30, 1843, at which time she resided in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. She was then aged seventy-two years; the date and place of her birth and names of her parents were not given. In 1852, she was a resident of Farmington, Ontario County, New York.
John Debow and his wife, Catharine, had many children. In 1843, their son Garrit, their third child, was aged forty-five years. Three other children were living then, but no names of their other children were designated.
In 1843, David Capart of Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, stated that he had been acquainted with the soldier, his wife, and their children for fifty years; he did not state any relationship to the family. One Susan Warner, who gave her age as sixty-two years, in 1843, stated that she remembered the wedding of John Debow and Catharine, but she did not state any relationship to them.
In 1841, one Henry Debow (as he signed his name) witnessed the widow's (Catharine's) signature before a Justice of the Peace in
Wayne County, New York; no relationship between them was stated.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and, possibly, the date of this pensioner, you should
apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following: Catharine Debow, widow of John Debow, certificate #2466, issued December 18, 1848, Rate $68.76 per annum, commenced March 4, 1848, Act of February 2, 1848, New York Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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Catharine Debow
Rejected
Let to Hon A Dana, May 9 44
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11.050
481.JK
New York Albany
Catharine Debow
Widow of John Debow who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 5th June, 1843 of [Phelps] in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Nixon of the Regt commanded by Col Scudder in the N. Jersey line for 18 1/2 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany, N.Y. at the rate of 68 Dollars 76 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of August 1846 and sent to Hon C. H. Carrole, H. of Reps.
Total amount, $343.80
Act July 7, 1838 (and Joint [illegible]
Recorded by E. W. Robinson Clerk,
Book D. Vol. 1 Page 153
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See letters [illegible] 21, 1846 to
P. Agt
21. 1846 to


5434
New York - Alby
Catharine Debow
widow of John Debow
who was a Private
in the New Jersey line
for 18 1/2 months
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
68 - Dollars 76-
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843, and end
5 June, 1843, when former pension commenced.
Certificate of Pension issued the
seventh day of August 1846
and sent to Hon. C. H. Carroll
House of Representatives

Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 174
CW Robinson, CC
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5454
New York Albany
Catharine Debort
widow of John Debow
who was a Private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
68 Dollars 76 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 5th June 1843
Certificate of Pension issued the
10th day of May, 1844
and sent to
Hon Preston King
Hos of Reps [House of Representatives]

Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. Page 213

Reported
Certificate returned to the
Pensions Office, May 28. 1844
and sent same day to 
Hon A. Dana, H.R.
papers Acts '38
'43 Joint Resolution
[illegible]
let to G. DeBow Jan 18, 1847
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Written vertically:
1 not found 
3 got out 
returned

Cat de Bow
48 M3
M
Chapman

Written horizontally:
Free
N. S. Townshend
M. C. 

Hon J. E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Catharine DeBow
of New York
Act of 1848
2nd of July
B.B. Chapman Atty
June 1852
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Know all men by these present that I Catharine Debow of Ontario County in the State of New York and a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint B. B. Chapman my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to prosecute any claim that I may here for an increase of pension as the widow of John DeBow and I do hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments  and to receive the Certification certificate which may be  issued for said claim to appoint a substitute or substitutes under him and to do all other acts that I might as could do were I personally present.
Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney shall lawfully do in the premises.
Witnessed my hand and seal this fifth day of May A.D. 1852
Signed and sealed in the presence of
Lindley W. Smith
Gerret Debow
Catharine DeBow her x mark
State of New York SS On this fifth day of May A.D. 1832 before the subscribed Ontario County a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Catharine DeBow above named and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned and I do further certify that she did make oath that she was directly interested in said claim
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year aforesaid
Lindley W. Smith A Justice of the Peace
in and for said County
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Cath Debow
NY @ 48

M Cole
April 4 1837
Ex NY
H H Sylustay
May 10-51
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Whereas I, Catherine Debow, am the widow of John Debow, deceased who was a private of Cavalry and Teamster in the War of the Revolution and an allowed a pension at the rate of Sixty Eight dollars and seventy six cents per annum. for, and by virtue of the services of
my late husband, the said John Debow, and whereas I am advised that I am entitled to an increase of pension
Now therefore I do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel H. Marks of Columbia County, my true and lawful attorney and agent, for me and in my name to present and
prosecute my claim to such increased amount of pension as I may be by law entitled to, with
full power of Substitution,
Witness my hand and seal this 21st day of March A.D. 1851

Catharine DeBow her mark

Executed in presence of
Henry Debow
Walter Easton J P.

State of New York
Wayne County ss. On this 21st day of March A.D. 1851
before the subscriber
A Justice of the peace in and for said County, personally appeared
Catherine Debow, above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed
Walter Easton Justice of the Peace
.
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Dec 48
aa
5454
W Cole
act Feb 48

Hon. Rob L. Rose
H R
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State of New York
County of Ontario ss
Catharine DeBow of the town of
Canandaigua in said County being duly
sworn doth depose & say that she is the
widow of John Dow deceased, a revolutionary
Pensioner of the United States at the rate of
$68.76, that she has been in the receipt
of a pension since the death of her said
husband at the same rate that he drew, 
that the drew her pension for the last
time on the 4th of March last and that
her certificate of pension was surrendered
at that time to the pension agent and
that since that time she has not received another certificate nor drawn
any money since the 4th of March last and
that the now applies for a new certificate under the act of the second of February last past -
This deponent states that she has
not again intermarried but remains the
widow of the above named John DeBow.
Catharine DeBow her mark
Sworn & subscribed at open Court this
21st day of November 1848 before me
Mark H. Sibley
County Judge of the
County of Ontario
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State of New York
Ontario County Clerks Office
Canandaigna 29 Nov 1848 SS
I Alexander H Howell Clerk of
of said County do hereby certify
that Mark H Sibley Esquire before whom the within affidavit was subscribed and sworn was at the time a Judge of Ontario County duly elected sworn and authorized to act as such and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature to the within
certificate is genuine
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of said County,
W. H. Howell
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Washington Aug 10, 1846
Col. J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Sir
I recd the enclosed pension certificate in an
envelope addressed to me in yesterday's mail.
I am not aware of having had any thing to do with the application - and return you the certificate.
Very Respectfully
Preston King
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Coun &c

These papers would have been forwarded you earlier but for my indisposition when acted on Please write to J.G. Anders
as requested

Wash July 17.46
yours Respectfully
C H Carroll
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Jan 16 47
Cath DeBow
NY file

Black stamp: Paid
James S. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C

Round black stamp: Canandaigua NY JAN [illegible]

D
7904-43
[illegible]
1904
5454
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Canandaigua January 11th 1847
James L. Edwards Esq
Sir
Cathrine DeBow the widow of John De Bow
a Revolutionary pensioner drew five years back pay last August 1846. You will confer a favor by stating the amount then paid to her.
and sending the same to
Your obedt Servant
Gerrit DeBow
Canandaigua Ontario County, N. York
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309
Pension Office
Jan 18 1847
Sir
In answer to your letter of the 11th inst. I have to inform you that in August last, Catharine Debow was pensioned for five years, under the act of
July 7. 1838 at $68.76 per annum; and under the act of March 3. 1843, from the 4th March 1843 to the 5th June 1843, when her former pension
under that act commenced.
Gerret De Bow Esq
Canandaigua
N. York
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section,
November 4, 1924.
Mark D. Batchelder,
1208 Jefferson Bldg.,
Peoria, ILL.
Sir:

I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.19161, it appears that John Debow was born at Cranbury, New Jersey, October 18, 1761.
He enlisted at said Cranbury January 15, 1777, served as a private in Captain Robert Nixon's Company under Majors Egbert and John Van Emburgh in the New Jersey Troops and was
discharged late in August 1777. He enlisted in May 1778, served 2 months in Captains David Chambers and Nixon's Companies, Colonel William Scudder's New Jersey Regiment, and
was in the battle of Monmouth. He enlisted in November or December 1778 as a teamster under Captain James Patton and
served 9 months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 28, 1832, while a resident of Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. He died there June 5, 1843.
Soldier married at Fort Hunter, New York, in May 1790,
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Catharine. She was allowed pension on her application executed September 30, 1843, while a resident of Canandaigua, New York, aged 72 years.
They had many children, no names mentioned except Gerrit, the third child, who was 45 years of age in 1843.
Respectfully,

Commissioner.

her death not on A. B
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Received Mar 24 1937
Mail Sub Div
VETS ADM 15
Reader

67 Park Avenue New York City
23 March 1937

US Pensions
Veterans Bureau
Washington DC

Dear Sirs, 

Would you be so kind as to tell me if
you have any records of pensions to the following Revolutionary Soldiers -
John DEBOW
York Co PA.

1790 - 1817 in 8th Co Capt Kimble's Regt.
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JOHN De Bow Morris Co NY
Private Capt Bates Co Carters Regt
Militia
JOHN DE Bow Bergen Co H.
Private Capt Demarest's Co
JOHN DE BOW Middlesex Co NJ
Private Capt Robert Nixon's & David Chambers militia

I would appreciate any information you will give
me regarding the families of these men.
yours truly
Cristina Capehart
Mr E.D. CAPEHART.
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When this letter came our letter [illegible] had been returned for better address, was on my desk and was resent Apr. 8 '37 to Park ave and not returned again so guess that was the street name
so in put letter in the case as [illegible] had sent a John DeBow W.19161
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67 Park Avenue New York City
2 Feb 1937
Veterans Administration Bureau
Washington DC
Dear Sirs
Would you be so kind as to look in your files and see
Black round time stamp: 
Received Feb 4 1937
Mail Sub Div
VETS ADM
READER 11
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2"
if pensions were paid to any of the survivors of JOHN DEBOW, LIEUT during the Revolution, or vivors of any DEBOW or DEBOE either from
NY. Penna, or N.J.
Yours truly
Cristina Caphart
Mr E.D. CAPEHART.
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MARK D. BATCHELDER
1203 JEFFERSON BUILDING
PEORIA, ILLINOIS

October 13 th, 1924
Pension Dept.,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:

Will you please send me a copy of the
Pension record of John Debow of New Jersey who served in the Revolutionary War #1877.
Thanking you for your attention, I
remain,

Yours very truly,
Mark D Batchelder
MDB: TW

U.S. Pension Office
OCT 16 1924
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1924, Nov 14 - Hist. to Mark D. Batchelder. NM
Rev WIDOW, & c.
File No. 19161
Catharine Debow
Wid of
John Debow
Priv Rev. War
Act: Feb 2d 48
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 177
Arrangement of 1870.
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John DeBow 9229
aom d
18 1/2 mo.
Viz -
7 1/2 mo pri cavalry
9 mo teamster
2 mo. Pri Infy
Thomas Beals
Agent
Canandaigua
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We Phineas P. Bates and David C. Bates of the
town of Canandaigua and State of New York
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
John Debow who has subscribed and sworn to
the above declaration, that we believe him to
be seventy one years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day
and year aforesaid in open Court.
David C. Bates
P P Bates

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 Phineas P. Bates and
David C. Bates who have signed the preceding certificate are both residents of the town of Canandaigua, that they are credible persons, and that there statement is entitled to credit.

I, Charles Crane, Clerk of the said Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Debow for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this first day of September A.D. 1832.
Charles Crane
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Catharine DeBow
widow of
John DeBow
Act of 1838
Albany NY
Agency
B.B. Chapman
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[handwritten]
Catharine DeBow widow of John $68.76
act of 1838 Albany Agency
B. B. Chapman
[/handwritten]
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Rushville (N Y) 9th Oct 1843
Hon J L Edwards
Dr Sir
Enclosed are the Dec of Catherine Debow the affts Garrett Debone, Susan Warner Phineas P Bates David Capart Holloway Hayward and the Certificate of Jane Wilson
Mrs Debow Claims pensions under the
Act 7 July 1838 and 3 March 1843 on account
of the services of her late husband John Debow
John Debow was a pensioner of the United States under the act 7 June 1832 on the roll of the New York Agency, affts of Debow Bates Capart & Warner prove that he was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death, the fact is not stated in the affts, but I am informed it was under the act 7 June 1832 and you are referred to the evidence on file in the War Department for the proof of his services
Identity of the applicant as the widow
of John Debow a pensioner of the United States
Affts Debow Warner, Bates Capartt & Hayward
will, it is believed, abundantly show the fact
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Marriage of the applicant to John Debow in 1790 -. The only positive proof in the afft of Susan Warner who is now 62 years old, then 9 years old of sufficient age to notice and remember an occurrence of that kind. She is supported by circumstantial evidence.
They lived together as husband & wife, afft of
Capart he has known them for more than fifty years & they have lived together & sustained towards each other that relation from his earliest recollection, he is corroberated by the afft of Debow & Bates who are quite full upon that point.
Death of John Debow 5 June 1843 affts of Debow, Warner, & Capart
The widow Catherine Debow remains unmarried, Affts of Debow, Warner & Capart
Credibility of the applicant, Certificate
of Judge Lapham & Afft of Justice Hayward
Credibility of Witnesses, all of them are certified to be respectable & entitled to belief
by the officers taking the affts, except the afft of Justice Hayward & his official character is proved.
Mr Wilson's naked Certificate is in here added. If he is known at the Department it will of course be of value.
This is all of the case and it is hoped
on a careful examination it may be found
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to be sufficient.
Since this case was prepared I have received
a communication from the Department, in an other case, informing me that inferiour evidence of marriage cannot be received until the Department are satisfied that
no record or documentary evidence can be obtained by the applicant.  Under that rule of the Department I perceive that this case may perhaps be defective.
I was informed by the applicant when she made the declaration that she knows of no record or documentary evidence, but it did not then occur to me that it would be necessary to make proof of that fact, but I see the propriety of the regulation and will (if she can do it) supply the defect, I prefer to send the papers as they are that they may get the earliest examination possible, for the applicant is poor, & will forward what evidence I can find afterwards.
It is perhaps unnecessary to inform the
Department, that we have no public records of Marriages in this State, or had not as early as 1794. Marriages in this State could then & can now be made like other civil contracts without solemnization in any form or record being made in any way.
In all cases, My first effort is to obtain record evidence if it can be had, for it is the most satisfactory and it can generally be done where Marriages took place in New England, but when the Marriage took place
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in this State I have never found a public record
& few private records are found in this State among those who were engaged in the Revolutionary struggle - they did not write much in those days they had more important business pressing upon them, the country was new & school houses base structures, their daughters were not educated as will be seen by the [illegible] to their declarations.
When an examination is had please inform me of the result
I am with great respect
Your Obt Servt
A. Torry
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8997-'43
468 JK
Catharine Debow
Application for arrears
of Pension under the
act of July 7, 1838
& joint resoln 23 Jany 45
68.76 for
5 years - act 38
Act March 3 '43
68.76 to 5
June '43 when her
pension commenced
Hon C. H. Carroll
H.R.
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Whereas the act of the 30th of April 1844 prohibited me from Drawing a pension during the same time for which my husband was a pensioner; I now make the following statement under oath to obtain the arrears due me by virtue of the act of July 7. 1838
I am the widow of John Debow who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution & who died at the town of Canandaigua in the
County of Ontario State of New York on the 5th day of June A.D. 1843. I have drawn a Pension at the rate of Sixty Eight (or Nine) Dollars & Seventy six Cents per Annum
from the 5th day of June 1843, the day of her said husbands death. And now ask for the amount due me from the 4th day of March 1836 to the day when my former pension commenced, in accordance with the Resolution of Congress of 23d day of January
1845

Catharine Debow her mark

Subscribed and sworn
this 26th day of June
A.D. 1846 before me
James G Austin Justice of the peace of Phelps Ontario County ^New York^
Patrick Leddy Witness
State of New York
Ontario County SS. I James G Austin a Justice of the peace in & for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing declarant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual she represents herself
to be in the foregoing affidavit & that the Reason the said Declarant did not write her name to the foregoing affidavit is because she says he never learned to write-- Dated June 26. 1846
James G Austin J.P.
Patrick Leddy Witness
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State of New York
Ontario County Clerks Office ss I hereby certify that James G Austin Esquire before whom the preceding affidavit was made was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Elected sworn and authorized to act as such and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signatures to the within Certificates are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of said County
at Canandaigua this 26th day of June 1846
Reuben Murray Jr
Deputy Clerk
Clerk absent
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[handwritten]
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
[/handwritten]
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Phelps Ontario County N.Y.
June 26, 1846

J. L. Edwards Esq

Enclosed I send you the application of
Catharine Debow and Rhoda Crosby. Each
for arrears of Pension under the act of July 7, 1846 due to them according to the Resolution of the 23 day of January 1845.
Send certificate to my address-

Very Respectfully
Yours
J. G. Austin
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months service
as Teamster
Pensioned as Private
John Debow
N.Y. Act 7 June 
1832
I authorize FS Evans to act for me in the written case
S  M Drury

Evans J Fant
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
State of New York
COUNTY OF Ontario ss
Know all men by these Presents,
That I, Catharine Debow of Farmington in said County & State do hereby authorize, constitute and appoint S. M. Drury of Canandaigua in the State of New York my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute for me and on my behalf, all and singular, claim or claims, I may have against the General Government of the United States, on account of the service of my husband John Debow-deceased, in the war of the Revolution; the said power of Attorney to be irrevocable for the space of three years from the within date; and the said S.M. Drury is
hereby authorized to take all necessary and proper steps in the prosecution of said claim or claims an my behalf.
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 29 day of December 1852
Lindley W. Smith J.P.
Gerrit Debow
Catharine Debow her mark

State of New York
COUNTY OF Ontario ss
Be it Known, That on the 29th day of December A.D. 1852 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County,
duly authorised by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Catharine Debow
above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year last above mentioned.
Lindley W Smith J. P.
State of
COUNTY OF
⎬ ss.
I, 
of the County and State aforesaid do certify, that
Esquire is now, and was at the time of the date of the foregoing, a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned and qualified to act as such
and for said County; and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Official Seal, this
day of
18
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[handwritten]
4459
Catherine Debow
N.Y.
Act 3 March 43.
68.76 from 5 June 43 the day of her husbands death
Hon Preston King
N. Y.
[/handwritten]
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State of New York
Ontario County
Catherine Debow being duly sworn saith
that on the 30th day of September last she made a declaration before John Lapham a Judge of the County Court of Ontario County for the purpose of applying for a pension
under the act of 7 July 1838 and 3 March 1843. that she therein stated that she was married to her late husband John Debow in the month of May in the year 1790. And this deponent further says that she has no record of her said Marriage either public or private and she verily believes there is no such record in existence;
that she has no written or documentary evidence of her said Marriage (except such as has been forwarded to the Department with her said application) and she verily believes there is no such evidence in existence, that she has no record either public or private or documentary evidence of any description
of the births or ages of her children or any other collateral fact tending to establish the time of her said Marriage, and there is no such record or documentary evidence known to this, and further this deponent saith not

Catharine Debow her mark
Subscribed and sworn the
8th day of November 1843 the said
deponent being known to me is a respectable person and
entitled to belief
John Lapham. Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas
of Ontario County NY
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State of New York
Ontario County
I Thomas Hall Clerk of the County Court in
and for the said County of Ontario Certify that
John Lapham Esqr is a Judge of the County Courts in and for the said County of Ontario duly qualified as such - and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have here now subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my said office the 9th day of November in the Year 1843
Thomas Hall
Clerk of Ontario
County Courts
NY
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Rushville N. Nov 1843
Hon J L Edwards
Dr Sir
On the preceding page is the Afft of Mrs Debow
I wish to have it filed with the other testimony
in her case-- The evidence of her Marriage
is pasol & the Regulations, I am informed,
require - that the Department be satisfied
that no documentary or record evidence can be had, before pasol evidence can be received,
I am with great respect
Your Obt servant

A. Torry
P S.
The Dec & affts were mailed in this case
9th Oct 1843
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State of New York
Ontario County ss
Phineas P Bates in being duly sworn saith that he is personally well acquainted with widow
Catherine Debow who is applying for a pension that he was also well acquainted with her late husband John Debow
that he has known them for forty years and they lived together husband and wife as long as he knew them up to the death of the said John Debow and from the appearance of their family when he first [illegible] and since he has no doubt they had lived together as husband & wife for fifty yours or more that the said John Debow was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death
P. P. Bates
Sworn & Subscribed the 30th day of
September 1843 before me the said
Phineas P Bates being personally known
to me is a respectable person & entitled
belief. John Lapham Judge of
Ontario County Courts.

State of New York
Ontario County ss
David Cassort, being duly sworn saith that he
is personally well acquainted with Widow Catherine Debow of the town of Canandaigua who is applying for a pension. that he was also personally acquainted with her late husband John Debow, that the said John Debow did in the said town of Canandaigua in
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the month of June last, that he has personally known the said Catherine De Bow and her late husband John Debow for fifty years or more that from his earliest recollection up to the death of the said John Debow the said Catherine and lived together as husband
and wife and had many children as the fruit
of their Marriage, that the said John Debow was reputed to have been a pensioner of the
United States at the time of his death, that the said Catherine remains unmarried and is still the widow of the said John Debow 

David Cassort

Sworn and subscribed the
7th day of October 1843 before
me the said David Cassort being
personally known to me is a
respectable person and entitled to
to belief
Solomon C. White 
a Justice of the peace
of Ontario County NY.

State of New York
Ontario County
ss
Holloway Hayward being duly sworn saith that he is a Justice of the peace of the town of Canandaigua in the said County of Ontario. that he was formerly well acquainted with John Debow late of the said town of Canandaigua who was reputed to have been a Revolutionary
Soldier and a pensioner at the time of his death
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that he is also well acquainted with his widow
Catherine Debow who is applying for a pension that he has known the said John & Catherine for thirty years 
last past that he is well acquainted with many of their children, that he has examined his declaration hereto annexed, that he knows
the said Catherine to be a respectable person
and that he has full confidence in the truth
of all the statements contained in his ^said^ declaration
Holloway Hayward
Sworn and subscribed the 7th day
of October 1843 before me
Solomon C. White
Justice of the peace
The Justice of he peace of Ontario County N York
I certify that I was personally well acquainted with John Debow & know his widow Catharine
Debow who is about to apply for a pension, that I have examined her declaration hereto annexed and have no doubt of the truth of the matters therein stated, that I know Susan Warner Garrit Debow Phineas P Bates Esqr. David Cassort and Holloway Hayward Esq. and that the said Catherine Debow Susan Warner Garrit Debow Phineas P Bates David Cassort & Holloway Hayward whom (over)
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Declaration and affidavits are hereto appended are respectable citizens and of good repute in the neighborhoods where they reside.
Canandaigua
Oct 7th 1843
Jared Wilson