Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19946, for Peter Ostrander, New York
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(8-1776)

SERVICE   New York

Ostrander, Peter
Christina

NUMBER  W19946
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18498
New York

Peter Ostrander
of Greene County in the State of New York
who was a private in the Regiment Commanded by
Colonel Van Pottland of the New York
line, for the term of the war.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 4th of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Jany 1822
and sent to the Hon. R McCarty
House of Representatives

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1821 - $350.02
Semi-anl. All'ce ending 6 Mar 1822.  48
39 mo & 23/31 9/30   $398.02

{Revolutionary claim, Acts 18th March, 1818. }
and May 1820

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Lett et J Dorman
April 27' 52

lettr, AJ Dorman, June 7/52
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5261
New York Albany
Christina Ostrander, decd
widow of Peter
who died on the [blank] of [blank] 
in the State of New York
who was a private in the [blank] commanded
by Company [blank] of the command
by N.Y. in the Revolution for two years

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 cents
per annum, to commece on the 4th day of
March 1831. endg 7 February 1837

Certificate of pension issued the 17 day of 
Jany 1832, and sent to
John B Brouk  Coxsackie Green Co NY

Arrears tot he 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending

{Revolutionary claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3}

Recorded by  Weighswan

Book D  Vol. 2 Page 358

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J D Brouk
18 Feb 54

854
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State of New York
Green County 

Am this 17th day of November 1852 personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace within & for the county aforesaid Doretha Robberts of the town of Baltimore in said county who being by me duly sworn did depose and say that she is seventy four years of age - that she was well acquainted with Peter Ostrander who was a Revolutionary pensioner & his wife Christina in their lifetime - that for about fifty years she lived a near neighbour to them & frequently visited them. That they were always referred to be man & wife and always in public as well as private occasions acted & conducted them towards each other as such. That they must have been married some eighty years since as their oldest child if living would now have attained that age a [illegible] - That she this deponent well knows Elizabeth Payn. Chirstina Bartoe & Peter Ostrander by whom the foregoing annexed application for pension is made They are children and only surviving we of the said Peter Ostrander & his wife Christina that she has known the said Christina Bartoe & Peter Ostrander from the time they were children & that they [illegible] lived with their parents and said Peter Ostrander & wife Chistina Deceased

[signed] Doretha her X mark Robberts

William Coohman
Justice of the Peace

Subscribed & sworn before the day & year written.  I certify that the said Doretha Robbers is a [illegibl]
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Peter Ostrander

This may certify 
the within named
Peter Ostrander is to me
personally known 
also the person is the 
[illegible] & generally
known & reputed 
to have been a revolutionary soldier

May 7th 1818

He Kirttman
M Annly?
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State of New York
Greene County ss 
On this fourth day of May 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Greene personally appears Peter Ostrander age 68 years resident in the town of New Baltimore in the county and state aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn. According to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration. in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" : that he the said Peter Ostrander enlisted as a private in the early part of the war of the revolution in Orange town in the state of New Jersey during the war. in the company of infantry commanded by Captain Fowler attached to the regiment commanded by Col Van Cortland in the New York line of the Army of the United States - that he continued to serve in the said or in the service of United States until the termination of the said war. when he was discharged from service at West Point in the state of New York which period of service above mentioned was about six years and three months - that soon after he was discharged he delivered  his discharge to one Thomas Hoglitaling of the said town of New Baltimore
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to preserve for him, that he has since called on the said Thomas Hoghtaling at different times for the said discharge and has been unable to find or obtain the same and that he has reason to believe that the said discharge is lost or destroyed - and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.

Peter Ostrander his mark

Sworn so and declared before me the day and year aforesaid --
Peter C, Adams --
One of the Judges of the Court of Common Please and for the County of Greene

I Peter Adams, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Peter Ostrander did serve in the War of the Revolution, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions to the afore mentioned act of Congress.
May 4th, 1818
Peter G. Adams
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State of New York
Greene County ss
This may certify that the court of common pleas of the county of Greene is a court of Record in the State of New York - That the said Peter C Adams before whom the following proceedings and Testimony was taken, was at the time of taking thereof and still is a lawful Judge of the said Court acting under the authority of the said State. And that the said Peter C Adams is to me personally known and that I am acquainted with the handwriting and know his signature above
Subscribed to be genuine - 
In witness whereof I Willaim Van Berglon clerk of said court have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the service Court this fifth day of May 1818 - 

[illegible]
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State of New York
Greene County SS

On this fifth day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared in open court before me Alexander H Baily esquire Judge of said county Peter Ostrander a resident of the Town of Cairo in said county aged fifty four years, Christine Bartow a resident  of the town of New Baltimore in said county aged fifty years and Elizabeth Payne a resident of the town of Cairo in said county aged seventy eight years who being first severally duly sworn according to law do on their oathes make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 & the several acts explanatory of said act - That they are the only existing children of Peter Ostrander and his wife Christina Ostrander whose maiden name was Christina Houghtaling - that the said Peter Ostrander was a Revolutionary soldier was a pensioner on the New York roll under the act of March 18, 1818 - that he served in Captain Foulers company of Col Van Courtland's Regiment New York line from about the commencement of the Revolutionary War to the end thereof - that documentary evidence of such service is contained in the records of the war department at Washington
They further declare that their mother the said Christina was married to their father the said Peter Ostrander at some period during the early part of the Revolutionary war and prior to the clue thereof in 1783 - That no documentary evidence of such marriage at present exists to their know that their further the said Peter Ostrander died at Coxsackie in said county. by strangulation on or about the 20th of September AD 1825, and that their mother the said Christrina remained a widow from
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thenceforth to the day of her death and that she died at New Baltimore on or about the seventh day of February AD 1838 as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed

[signed]  Peter his x mark Ostrander
Christina her x mark Barlow
Elizabeth x her mark Payne

Witness A H Bailey 
John B Bronk

Subscribed & sworn to on the day & year above written before me in open court
A. H. Bailey
County Judge
Greene
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Peter Ostrander

Hon R M Carty HR 
Dec. 4 1821
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State of New York
Greene County     A

On this twenty ninth day of May 1821 personally appeared in the court of common pleas of the County of Greene and State of New York at an open court held at the courthouse in the said county the same being a court of record proceeds accordingly to the cause of the common law with jurisdiction unlimited in point of [illegible] keeping a record of their proceedings Peter Ostrander aged 72 years now of the town of New Baltimore county and state aforesaid and being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows that he enlisted in the early part of the Revolutionary war as follows  that he enlisted in the early part of the Revolutionary war for during the war at West Point State of New York in the company of foot commanded by Captain Fowler in the regiment commanded by Col Van Cortland in the line of the State of New York on the continental establishment. That he continued to serve in the said [illegible] in the service of the United States until the close of the Revolutionary when he was honorably discharged from service at West Point in the State of New York. And that his period of service was at least four years: that his original declaration was made on or about the 4th day of May 1818 - and that the same is now at the pension office in the city of Washington as he has been informed and  believed to be true: and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not since I live by gift sale or awary manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby do to [illegible] it as to being myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an Act to Provide for Certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 - and that I have not nor has any person in trust for the any property or securities. Contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and me subscribing my necessary bedding and clothing excepted

Real estate I have none
personal estate
one cow $15 
one table -27 cts
one ax $1
one heifer $7
shovel and tongs 75 cts
crockery consisting of 6 teacups and saucers 6 plates teapot and milk cup 
two shoats $4
knits and forks 37c

$26.00
1.50
1.75
$29.25
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and the said Peter Ostrander further states that he is by occupation a common laborer - that by reason of old age he is unable to pursue his ordinary labor and unable to support himself and family - that his family residing with him consists of a wife aged 57 years two daughters the one aged 15 years and the other 12 years

And that they are unable to contribute to his support 

[signed] Peter his x mark Ostrander
Sworn and declared the 29th day of May 1821 in open court before me
J Pickery Dep Clk

Greene Co ss I James Pinckney Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Greene Do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed one truly copied from the records of the said court which is a court of record as is therein set forth and I do further certify that it is the opinoin of the said court that the total amount & believe of his property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty nine dollars & twenty five cents -
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State of New York
Greene County ss

Jonathan David of the town of Greeneville in the county aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Peter Ostrander of the Town of New Baltimore in said county that he was acquainted with the said Peter Ostrander as a soldier enlisted in Captain Fowlers Company  in Col Van Cortlands regiment in the line of the State of New York on the continental establishment as early as the year 1777. at which time this deponent belonged to Capt Grahams company in said regiment. and that this deponent personally knows that the said Peter Ostrander hath served in the said company of Captain Fowler upwards of two year. And was daily during the said period in company with him.  

[signed] Jonathan David

Sworn and subscribed this 28th day of August 1821 before me. And I do certify that the said Johnathan David is a credible witness and a man of truth and veracity.

Ambrose Wistteurs Commissioner for taking affidavits

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Johnathan David and that I consider him a man of good character man of truth.

[signed]  Richard Awbanty member house of representatives
Jany 22, 1822
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State of New York
Green Co   I Dorrance Kirtland [illegible] of the county of Greene do hereby certify that Ambrose Kirkland before whom the preceding affidavit was taken was at the time of taking therefore commission from taking affidavits in the said county and duly authorized by the laws of the said State to take the same Ambrose Kirkland are verily believe the deposition of the said Ambrose signed to the preceding to be genuine

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 18th day of October 1821

Dorrance Kirkland
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State of New York
Greene County ss

John Stanton of the Town of Greeneville in the County of Greene being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Peter Ostrander of the town of New Baltimore in the said county and was acqauinted with him as a soldier enlisted in Captain Fowlers company in Von Cortlands Regiment in the line of the State of New York on the continental establishment as early as the year 1777 at which time this deponent was a soldier for nine months and that the said Peter Ostrander was a soldier and belonged to the company of Captain Fowler when he joined the army and when he was discharged. And that this deponent personally knows that the said Peter Ostrander hath served in the said company of Captain Fowler further term of nine months - 

[signed] John Stanton

Sworn & subscribed the 18th day of Sept 1821 before me - did I do certify that the said John Stanton is a credible witness - & a man of truth & veracity

Perkins King one of the Judges of the court of Com Pleas in said court

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named John Stanton and consider him a man of character and truth.

Jan 22, 1822   
Richard McCarty
Member of the house of representatives
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State of New York
Greene County

I Dorrance Kirtland Surragate of the county of Greene do hereby certify that Perkins King whose [illegible]. the foregoing affidavit [illegible] who took the [illegible] was at the time of taking thereof one of the judges of the court of common pleas in said [illegible]  That I am acquainted with the said Perkins King and firmly believe his signature subscribed to the said affidavit to be genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 15th day of October 1821

Dorrance Kirtland
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State of New York
Albany County ss

Jacob Hallenbeck of the City of Albany in the county aforesaid being duly sworn saith that he is well acquainted with Peter Ostrander of the town of New Baltimore in the County of Greene and hath been acquainted with him since the year 1777 in which [illegible] deponent became acquainted with him as a soldier enlisted in Captain Fowlers Company in Col Van Cortland's regiment in the line of the State of New York in the continental establishment At which time this deponent belonged to Captn Wright's company in said regiment, and that this deponent personally knows that the said Peter Ostrander hath served in the said company upwards of three years  And further saith not

[signed] Jacob his x mark Hallenbeck

Sworn & subscribed this 23rd day of August 1821 before me by making his mark. John G Wasson Commissioner
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State of New York
Albany Co ss

I hereby certify that John G Wasson was a commissioner acting under the authority of this state and duly authorized to take affidavits. At the time of taking the preceding affidavit and verily believe the signature of the said John G Wasson as to preceding affidavit to be genuine  

In writing whereof I have hererunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office this 23rd day of October 1821
Horatio Marchant
Clerk
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Allowed May 19, 1838
A.H. Bailey
Green Co Judge
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State of New York
Greene County ss

I Jacob Van Orden Clerk of the county court holden at Catskill in and for said county of Greene, Alexander H Bailey Esquire County judge do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence had been exhibited to said court, by the examination of witness in open court, that although diligent search had been made, no record evidence can be found, if any exists, of the marriage of Peter Ostrander who was a Revolutionary Pensioner and his wife Christina Ostrander who maiden name was Christina Houghtaling. That the said Peter and Christina were both at the time of their decease residents of said county of Greene, That the said Christina died in said County of Greene on the seventh day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, and that said court is satisfied of the truth of the above stated facts as well from the nature of the testimony so as aforesaid exhibited as from the character of there giving such testimony

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Catskill this 19 day of May 1853

[illegible]
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In the matter of the application of the heirs of Peter & Christina Ostrander for arrearages of pension

Additional evidence
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I Jacob Van Orden Clerk of the County Court of the county of Greene in the State of New York, Alexander H Bailey Esquire county judge do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court while open for its [illegible] of such himself as should come before it  That no record evidence exists of the marriage of Peter Ostrander to his wife Christina Ostrander or of the time of the death of the said Christina Ostrander, and I further certify that satisfactory evidence has also been exhibited to said court while open for the transaction of business as aforesaid that the said Christina Ostrander died at the town of New Baltimore in said county of Greene on the 7th of February 1837 and that only four of the children of the Peter & Christina Ostrander now live viz. Peter Ostrander of the town of Cairo. Christina Bartow of the town of New Baltimore Maris Ostrander of the town of Greenville and in said county of Greene and Elizabeth Payne late of said town of Cairo but at present of Bemhards [illegible] in the county Oswega and state aforesaid, and I do further certify  that the following is the evidence so exhibited & therein said court viz:  Altamont J Gorman being duly sworn on his oath testified, I am an attorney at law & live and Justice in the town of Athens Greene County - about the first of April 1852 I was employed by John B Brunch of Coxsackie to examine review church records in the counties of Columbia and Greene for the purpose of ascertaining if there was any record evidence in existence of the marriage of Peter Ostrander to his wife Chirstina Ostrander and if I found such record evidence to inform him of the fact, I immediately entered upon the search and was engaged in it off [illegible] months and examined in person any church record in said counties in which I supposed there was the slightest chance for finding such evidence   the reason
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was a fruitless one  I found that in most of the churches no record of marriages was kept until sometime after the close of the revolutionary war - I then at the request of Mr Brunk [illegible] diligent search for the family record of the said Peter Ostrander but could not ascertain that he had even kept one.  I next searched the family record of the relatives of the said Peter and Christina Ostrander but did not find anything which threw any light on the subject, nor do I believe after the search I have made that such record evidence now exists if it ever did. I have also at the request of said Bronk examined the church records of the town of New Baltimore, Greene County, in which said town the said Christina Ostrander died for the purpose of ascertaining the time of her death and the family records of her parents but without learning anything about the object of my search. I have also made diligent inquiry about the number, names & places of residence of the surviving children of the said Peter Ostrander & Christina Ostrander. I have visited them severally in person and talked with them and talked to their friends and neighbors and as the result of such inquiry have ascertained beyond the shadow of a doubt that but four of their children now living viz Peter Ostrander of Cairo, Christina Bartol of  the town of New Baltimore, Maria Ostrander of the town of Greenville all in said County of Greene, and Elizabeth Payne late of said town of Cairo but at present of Bernhards Bay in the County of Oswego and state aforesaid  Elias Houghtaling being also duly sworn on his oath testified & live in the town of New Baltimore Greene County & was well acquainted with Christina Ostrander. She died at the house of her daughter Christina Bartol in the said town of New Baltimore on the 7th day of February 1837 and was buried in the burying ground of Andrew Houghtaling. Her grave was dug by a black man known
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by the name of Jack Houghtaling, I was present at her funeral and saw her interred. The funeral services was performed by the Rev Jeremiah Searles. I do not now know where he lives - I think I spoke to the black man to dig her grave at least & was asked to do so and I think I did - . am positive that she died on the 7th day of Februrary 1837. I recollect the time by the age of one of my children by the work] I was engaged in at the time, and in when employ I was, and by entries made by me about this same period - I am acquainted with the surviving children of the said Peter & Christina Ostrander. There are but four of them now living viz. Peter Ostrander of the town of Cairo, Maria Osrander of the town of Greenville and Christina Bartol of the town of New Baltimore all in the county of Greene and Elizabeth Payne late of the said town of Cairo but at present of Bernhards Bay in the county of Oswego & state of New York. Maria Ostrander has never been married. She lives in the family of a man whose name I do not recollect in the village of [illegible] of Greenville. Elizabeth Payne has been twice married, her last husband died last spring at Cairo, after his death she went to Oswego to where she now lives with her son by marriage  I am distantly connected to the Ostrander family and have had as good if not better opportunities for learning the personal history of its members than any other person I now know of. If the said Peter & Christina Ostrander had any other children living beside the four I would not rely have hard sometime of it during my life which has almost been [illegible]. but would necessarily have known it, I have no interest in anyway in the claim of the heirs of said Peter & Christina Ostrander, and I further certify that I am acquainted with the above named Altimont [illegible] and Elias Houghtaling. That they are reliable witnesses and that their testimony is worth of credance belief and satisfactory to the court.   Witness my
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hnd & official seal
this 21st day of March
AD 1853
J Van Orden Clk
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State of New York Attestation attached

[underlying page is a duplicate of image #46]
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State of New York
Greene Co  On this first day of November one thousand eight hundred & fifty three before me personally came Peter Houghtaling who being by me duly sworn did depose that he at present resides in the town of New Baltimore in said County of Greene and is eighty six years of age. That he was well acquainted with Peter Ostrander & his wife Christina Ostrander in their lifetime. That the maiden name of the said Christina Ostrander was Christina Houghtaling and that she was a relative of him this deponent  That such acquaintance commenced when he this deponent was but a small lad and continued uninterrupted until the time they we verally deceased - that during the whole intermediate period the said Peter Ostrander & his wife Christina lived in the same neighborhood and that he this deponent did, to wit, in the town of Coxsackie County of Greene and cohabitated together as man and wife as they were always reputed to be and begat and raised a family of children, some of them since deceased nearly of the sage of him this deponent. that during the whole Revolutionary War (of which he this deponent has a distinct recollect as his father and several of his relatives and neighbors were engaged in it and were timelines absent from home for months)  The said Peter Ostrander family composed of his wife the said Christina and children resided only a few rods from deponents father and that deponent saw them almost every day - that he saw the said Peter Ostrander whenever he visited his family during the said war - That he the said Peter Ostrander frequently at such times spent whole evenings with deponents father in talking over the chances of the said war and continuing means for the support and protection of their families during their absence - that deponent recollects as well as though it had been yesterday the time of the surrender of the compy of Gen Burgoyne
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to that of Gen Yates - recollects of his father starting  [illegible] company with the said Peter Ostrander and others to join the army a short time previous to the battle. Recollects of hearing the sound of distant canon [illegible] - Recollects when the express rider came down with the news that Burgoyne had surrendered & how on the evening the neighboring women met at his fathers house and inquired for the news and how many of them were greatly charmed and for fear their husbands & friends and been killed - and deponent further says that for two or three years previous then to, to his one knowledge the said Peter and Christina Ostrander had lived and cohabited together as man and wife and that about the time of the taking of Burgoyne the said Christina was delivered of a female child - that that child was called Elizabeth and grew up and married that he is informed & verily believes still lives, though he has not seen her for several years and that her last husband was called Payne, and deponent further says that the said Peter Ostrander always acknowledged the said Elizabeth to be his child and provided for her and for her mother the said Christina and for other children subsequently begot by him by the said Christina and deponent further says that he has frequently heard the said Peter & Christina Ostrander in their lie time talk our together the circumstances of their marriage - heard them say by whom they were married and when and believes that according to deponents best recollection at present they stated that they were married by one Reese a minister of the Lutheran Church at [illegible] in the county of [illegible] state aforesaid a short time previous to the Revolutionary War - and deponent further says that he has no interest either directly or indirectly in the arrearges of Pension claimed by the heirs of the said Peter Ostrander & further says not

[signed] Peter his x mark Houghlating

Subscribed & sworn before me this day first written
William Cochran  Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Greene Co  on the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and fifty three before me personally appeared Cesar Egberts the known who being by me being duly sworn did depose & say that he lived in the town of New Baltimore in said county is eighty four years of age, that he was well acquainted with Peter Ostrander and his wife Christina Ostrander in their lifetime  and that such acquaintance thence commenced when he was but a child and continued to the time they severally deceased. That he deponent always lived in the same neighborhood that they did and frequently visited them. That the maiden name of the said Christina was Christina Houghtaling - that he this deponent has a clear and distinct recollection of the Revolutionary war and of the hardships and sufferings experienced by those families in the neighborhood when male members were engaged in it during its continuance - that he recollects particularly the time of the burning of Kingston and the capture of Gen Burgoyne given the fact that at the time there was hardly an able bodied man at home in the town and the great fear which was entertained by the women and slaves of being massacred by the Indians and Tories, and the joy which presented when the news came that the British troops had surrendered at Saratoga, and deponent further says that the said Peter Ostrander for two or three years previous there to his actual knowledge had lived and cohabited with the said Christina as his wife and had previous thereto had children by her, and that while they so lived & cohabited together he provided for her and for his said children and continued so to do up to the day of his death - that whenever during said war he the said Peter Ostrander returned home he lived with the said Christina and invariably before he returned to the army, which that sometimes weeks, made arrangements for her support and that of his said children during his absence - That he this deponent [illegible] but a small [illegible] at the time recollects as actually that
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events which occured in his neighborhood during said war as though they had occured within the last year - that his memory serves him well - that he recollects well many a conversation he had with the said Peter Ostrander & his wife the said Christina during said war, and many of the [illegible] used by them, and the clothes they wore and their means of support - and deponent further says that he has no interest in the claim of the heirs of the said Peter Ostrander for arrearages of pension or otherwise due or owing to them & further says not

[signed] Cesar his x mark Egberts

Subscribed & sworn before me that day & year first written
William Cochran Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Greene County  And this 1st day of March 1853 before me personally came Ephraim Bartoe to me well known who being by me duly sworn did define & say, that he resided in the town of New Baltimore in said County and is 49 years of age. That he was well acquainted with Peter Ostrander and his wife Christina Ostrander in their lifetime. That on the death of the said Peter Ostrander his papers fell into the hands of him this deponent. That among such papers he discovered the marriage certificate of the said Peter Ostrander to the said Christina Ostrander - That he read the same and that from it, it appeared that the said Peter Ostrander was married to the said Christina at [illegible] in the county of Columbia & state aforesaid by one Reese, a little previous according to the best recollection of him this deponent to the commencement of the
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Revolutionary War. That such Certificate with other papers of him this deponent are burnt by him some ten years since as useless & worthless and deponent further says that he has no interest in the claim of the heirs of Peter Ostrander for pension & further says not. 

[signed] Ephraim Bartow
Subscribed & sworn before me this 12th day of Nov 1853
William Cochran Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Greene Co  On this 21st day of November 1853 before me personally came Elias Houghtaling to me well known who being duly sworn did depose & say that he resides in the town of New Baltimore in said County of Greene, that some ten or twelve years since while on a visit to Ephraim Bartow of said town of New Baltimore, the said Bartow in looking over some papers of Peter Ostrander discovered the marriage certificate of the said Peter Ostrander to his wife Christina Ostrander and after reading it to the family handed it to him this deponent, who read it & then handed it back to him, and deponent says that Peter Ostrander was married to the said Christina Ostrander whose maiden name was Christina Houghlating by one Reese a little previous to the commencement of the Revolutionary war & further deponent saith not

[signed] Elias Houghtaling

Subscribed & sworn before me this 21st day of November 1853  William Cochran Justice of the Peace
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In the matter of the application of the heirs of Peter & Christina Ostrander for arearges of pension [illegible] Additional evidence
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Adm H Con
J.L.E
Mr
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Rev Widow, & C.

File No. 19946
Christina Ostrander
wid. of
Peter Ostrander
Priv. Rev. War

Act:  July 4, 1836

Index: - Vol. M, Page 104

{Arrangement of 1870.)
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No 7.918

Christina Ostrander died
widow of Peter of New York.

Letter to John B Bronk  2 May 1853

Act 4th July 1836.
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Ian 24/52
Re. to Christina Ostrander

Dannan
Coxsackie
NY
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No 7.918
Christina Ostrander died widow of Peter of New York.

Letter 
B. Bronk 20 May 1853.
me MN 30/1833
J.B. Bronk 15th Dec 1853.
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No 7.918

Christina Ostrander (deceased)
widow of Peter.
Green County New York

Admd Act July 4, 1836
2 years private at $80
per annum commencing
4th March 1831 and ending
7th February 1837 - the date of her death

Husband died in 1825

Pay to John B Bronk,
administrator, for the benefit of Peter Ostrander,
Christina Bartoe, Maria Ostrander & Elizabeth Payne
only surviving children of Christina Ostrander deceased,

Certif to the administrator. Order chief clerk
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[illegible]

H.R
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I hereby certify that Peter Ostrander called on me last summer who stated that he had enlisted and served in the company under my command in the Revolutionary War. And that I could not recollect that the said Peter Ostrander had served in my company in the revolutionary war - but it is possible he may have belonged and served in my company. And from the length of time I may have forgotten his service - Date [illegible] at the fifth day of January 1822

[signed] Theod Fowler
late Captain New York Reg
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[illegible]
The children of Peter Ostrander of New York have recently been allowed pension at the rate of $80 per annum under act of 4th July 1836 from 4th March 183 to the day of her death. Will you please inform me a receipt of this whether said children were not entitled to $96 per annm instead of $80, then further the said Peter Ostrander had been allowed $96 per annum under the act of 1818.

I am sir
with great respect
your obt ser

John B Bronk
Coxsackie Greene Co NY
Feb 11th 1854
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Sir

The heirs of Christina Ostrander deceased not being able to give the required security on opening letters of administration. I have t their urgent solicitation taken out letters myself and herewith send you a copy of my official bond duly authenticated. Nothing more I believe now remains to be done by me till I receive the arrearages of Pension due them. As Peter Ostrander died in 1825 & his widow the said Christina in 1837 I informed by those engaged in the [illegible] of such claims that the heirs are entitled to $96 a year from the time of his to the time of her death a period of 12 years which would make the amount due the heirs something like $1152  Let me hear from you on the receipt of this

[signed]  John B Bronk

[illegible] of the Greene Co NY Jany 5th 1854

To Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
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Peter Ostrander received as a pension   You will have her kindness to affix your seal to the date of [illegible] last payment of his pension that it may be said as evidence and oblige you.

Obedient Reverent 
AJ Donnan
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Brief in the case of Christina Ostrander, Deceased, widow of Peter
Greene County and State of New York
Act 4th July 1836 - 

Claim,

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance, 
Husband was a pensioner under Act of March 18, 1818 at $96 per annum He served two years as private $80 per annum allowed in this case
The marriage is proved by Peter Houtaling Cesar Egberts and others as having taken place prior t expiration of Peter's service -
He died 20th September 1825  Christina Ostrander died 7th February 1837 - as shown by certificat of court, accompanied by affidavits. The kinship of the children, vz, Peter Ostrander, Christina Bartoe, Maria Ostrander, and Elizabeth Payne, proved by certificate of court accompanied by proof upon which it is founded.
Certificate ordered to issue, for the above sum of John B Bronk, legally appointed administrator for benefit of said children

Examining clerk  R Geddes

Name and residence of Agent
John B Brouk Esq
Coxsackie,
Green Co NY
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Nov:  22/52
In the matter of the application of Elizabeth Payne, Peter Ostrander & Christina Barol for pension due them as children of Peter Ostrander & Christina his wife

Declaration afft.

Cole
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State of New York, Greene County Clerk's Office.

I JacobVan Orden, Clerk of the County of Greene, do hereby certify that William Cochran on or before whom the annexed affidavits taking the same, a Justice of the Peace aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, and duly authorized to take the same. And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Wm Cochran and verily believe that the signatures to the said affidavit are

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the  19th day of November 1852

Jacob Vanschelen Clk
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State of New York
Greene County ss

Peter Houghtaling of the town of Coxsackie in the county and state aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is eighty three of years of age. That he was well acquainted with Peter Ostrander and Christina Ostrander, his wife in their lifetime. That such acquaintance was an intimate one, and was first formed when this deponent was a small lad and extended from that period up to the time of their decease. That during the whole of that period they resided in the same town and within a few miles of him this deponent. That the said Christina was a distant relative of him this deponent and that her maiden name was Christina Houghtaling. That the said Peter Ostrander married the said Cristina before the close of the Revolutionary War & prior to 1783. That at the time of the taking of General Burgoyne by General Gates at the battle of Saratoga (which he this deponent distinctly recollects) the said Peter Ostrander & she said Cristina lived & cohabitated together as man & wife & had at that time one or two children who have since deceased & continued so to live & cohabitate together up to the time of the decease of the said Peter Ostrander in 1825 or thereabouts, that the said Peter Ostrander was a revolutionary war soldier 2 served for one or more terms under
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Captain Thomas Houghtaling who was the father of him this deponent

Subscribed & sworn before me this 29th day of June 1852

[signed] Peter Houghtalking
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State of New York
Greene County ss

Cesar Abbison of the town of New Baltimore in the county and state aforesaid being duly sworn says. That he is eighty one years of age. That he was well acquainted with Peter Ostrander and Christina Ostrander his wife in their life time. That he first became acquainted with them when he was a small boy and such acquaintance continued up to the time they severally deceased. That during the whole of that period they resided only a few miles from him this deponent. That the maiden name of the said Christina was Christina Houghaling, that this deponent has a distinct recollection of the closing scenes of the revolutionary War. That the said Peter Ostrander & said Christina at that period lived & cohabited together as man & wife & had children, who have since deceased and continued so to live & cohabit upon to the time of the death said Peter Ostrander That they were always reputed to be man & wife and so always acted [illegible] each other on private as well as public occassions. That deponent has often laboured in the same field & at the same piece of work with the said Peter Ostrander and that the said Peter Ostrander often in conversations with him stated & that he had married the said Christina at an early period of said war of which he this deponent entertains no  doubt

[signed] Cesar his x mark Abbison

Subscribed & sworn before me this 25th day of August 1852
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State of New York
Greeene County ss
On this 17th day of November 1852 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for the County & State aforesaid. Peter Fblow of New Baltimore in said County who being by me duly sworn did dopse & say that he is seventy eight years old. That he is seventy eight years old. That
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[illegible] to him in my presence & hearing
William Cochran
Justice of the Peace

Peter F Claw his mark

[illegible] in presence of us -
John B Bronk
William Cochran
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State of New York
Greene County ss On this 17th day of November AD 1852 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for the said county of Greene personally appeared Elias Robberts of the town of New Baltimore in said county also being by me duly sworn did depose & say that he is in his seventy eight year of age.  That from a small lad he has been acqauinted with the said Peter Ostrander & Christina his wife. That they were married & habited together as man & wife when he this deponent first knew them and that according to common report they must have been married some eighty years since as their oldest children if still living could now have attained about that age. What he is acquainted with Elizabeth Payne, Chirstina Bartoe & Peter Ostrander mentioned in the foregoing annexed application for pension due their mother as widow of the said Peter Ostrander & his wife Christina that this deponent well knows them as he did their parents having lived a near neighbor to them for the greater part of his life & further says not.

[signed] Elias his x mark Robberts

Subscribed & sworn before me this day & year first cited
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State of New York
Greene County

[illegible] Jeremiah C Donnan of Coxsackie in said county being duly sworn says that he was acquainted with Peter Ostrander an Christina his wife in their life time. That they were reputed to be man & wife. That for about 10 or 12 years he attended as physician the said Christina whenever sick that she died in the town of New Baltimore in said county, of Asthma on or about the seventh day of February AD 1838 according to his best recollection - that he has often heard the said Christina in her life time say that she was married to the said Peter Ostrander before & at an early period of the revolutionary war of which him this deponent entertain no doubt. That the said Christina never married again after the death of the said Peter Ostrander but remained a widow till she died & further says not

[Signed] JC Donnan

Subscribed & sworn before me this 18th day of Nov 1852
William Cockran Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Greene County ss 

Abner Wakely of Coxxsackie of said county being by me duly sworn doth depose & say that during the year 1825 & afterwards he kept in grocery & victualing  [illegible] at Coxsackie aforesaid. That he was well acquainted with said Peter Ostrander mentioned in the foregoing annexed application & was a revolutionary pensioner in his life time - That the said Peter Ostrander died from strangulation caused by a piece of cabbage sticking in his throat while sitting at the table  Of him this deponent in Coxsackie aforesaid on or about the 20th day of September AD 1825 according to the best recollection

[signed]  Abner Wakely

Subscribed & sworn before me this 9th day of November 1852  William Cochran
Justice of the Peace
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Peter Ostrander
 
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March in the year 1822. at New York by the President of the NY Branch Bank


Recorded by Very L Beale
Clerk, in Book B, Vol. 5th page 154
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War Department.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the Laws of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818 and 1st of May 1820.  Peter Ostrander late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty second day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty two.

JC Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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FREE

Henry Ashley
The Congress
Washington City

4 Nov 1822

Report of Peter Ostrander's death
Read 15 June 1827

Coxsackie NY Dec 29
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Coxsackie 28th December 1820

Sir 
Peter Ostrander the pensioner wherein named died in September 1820 This January & after he had [illegible] half yearly pension at court he is dead whether in March or September 1825 [illegible by his representatives & the certificate less with Mr [illegible] surrender it up to the department of [illegible]
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John

Enclosed I send you the certificate and additional evidence required by your note of the 5th of Augt last in the matter of the application of the heirs of Peter & Christina Ostrander for arrearages of Pension.  As a year had interview since the application was first filed on or be attended to - Both the certificate & the affidavits an full complete and I have no doubt but that that will satisfactory Let me hear from you on [illegible]

Coxsackie Green Co NY Nov 24 1852

To Commission of Pension

John Bronk
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Statement of Ostrander & [illegible] case
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Abraham Steenberg - 

Papers marked D is this affidavit and schedule - certified by the Clk of Greene  papers Marked A and B are the affidavits of John Hammond and Peter W Ostrander. Stating their knowledge of the [illegible] in. Capt Watkins Company in Col Henry B Livingtons regiment - Paper marked C is an affidavit of Dormann Kirkland stating time of making one general application on 13th June 1818 which Steenbergh in affidavit referred to above states were lost in transmission to Washington - paper marked F is an affidavit of Steenbergh explaining former affidavit. and what be meant by word substitute in his former affidavit - Paper marked E affidavit of Lawrence Salisbury stating his [illegible] in Dubois reg and an exchange in Capt Matthew Comfry in Livingston's Regiment  Paper marked G with an affidavit of Darrance Kittaw stating probability of [illegible]

Peter Ostrander

II
Original papers filed in Washington and certificate granted and returned for evidence what being on roll - 

Papers marked A is the sufficient schedule for papers marked B C D are the affidavits of Johnathan David John Stanton and Lawl Hallenbeck stating their knowledge of more than nine months served in Capt Fowler company in Col [illegible] regiment.

The rules of war department are 2 credible witnesses for where the person is not [illegible] on roll
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May 24/53

May 24 addl

Christina Ostrander  wid Peter

Mayo

Jas D Bronk
Coxsackie 
Greene Co
NY
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Sir

Enclosed I send you the certificate you mention in your letter of the 2nd init. by looking at it you will at one [illegible] that it remain the only objection which can possibly exists to the allowance of the claim. The marriage of Peter Ostrander & his wife Christina is sufficient proved by the papers heretofore furnished, as having taken place before the last term of his service. and by  the laws of New York marriage may be proved by heresay. So to the time of marriage and the children begat & exe see Jason W King 5 Couen R237 Fenton as Peece 4 Johnson R 42.  Jackson Cooley & Johnson Repent 99 & other cases too numerous to metion. The application as you well recollect is made is made by the heirs of Christina Ostrander widow of Peter to receive the pension due her in behest of her husband - Let me hear from you soon

Yours
John B Bronk

Coxsackie Green CO NY
To the commissioner of Pensions
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Christina Ostrander
NY Sus 56

[stamp] Coxsackie Dec 5

S P Waldo Esq
Commisioner of Pensins
Washington DC
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S Waldo Esq

D Sir

Your form of the 30th of Nov last was duly received and in reply allow me to say that Christina Ostrander left no personal property a [illegible] in action except the one now claimed by her heirs as due her from the services of her husband and consequently as you require letters of administration to be [illegible] out on her estate by her heirs the [illegible] it becomes necessary to know about what the amount of the claim allowed will be, in order that the administrator & the court may know how large to fix the penalty of the bond. If you will have the goodness to drop me a line on the receipt of this stating the probably amount of the claim as allowed. I will attend to the taking out of letters & forward you the required official bond.

Yours John B Bronk

Coxsackie Greene Co NY
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Sept 7, 1853

Sept 7 care of Christina Ostrander, dec
widow of Peter

Cole

John B Bronk
Consackie 
Green Co
NY
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Sir

Your note of this 5th of August last in relation the to the claim of the heirs of Peter Ostrander for arrears of Pension due them [illegible] duly received, and in reply allow me to say that I am at a loss how to interpret it as it conflicts with all the pension communications I have received from the Department  At the time of the filing of the claim in November last, Mr Johnson then head clerk of the Department examined the papers and informed me that they appeared to be sufficient but that I must wait till the claim has [illegible] in its regular order before it could be fully determined, [illegible] to that I had addressed a note to Department stating what facts I am able to establish, and under date of April 27th 1852 received an answer informing me that on establising such facts the claim would be allowed from the Department on the 2nd day of May 1853. I received another communication from the department stating that 40 possible some record evidence should on addressed as to whether  the marriage of Peter & Christina took place before the expiration of the last period of his service, and that further evidence would be required as to the date of Christina [illegible] That certificate was duly obtained & forwarded. Now you tell me that it is not sufficient that witnesses swear she was married before her husband left the service & they must show how they  recollect this state of facts " and this point I make if necessary [illegible] with the [illegible]
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[illegible]
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[illegible]
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Copy official Bond
of John B Bronk
as Adm of Sc Of Chrstina Ostrander Deceased
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Know all men by these presents that Mr John B Bronk Jonus Brong & Sacob G Bedell of the town of Coxsackie in the County of Greene and State of New York are held and firmly bound unto the people of the State of New York in the sum of Eight hundred dollars lawful money of the United States of America to be paid to the said people to which payment [illegible] and truly to be made we bind ourselves one and each of our heirs executor and administrators jointly & severally firmly by these presents sealed with our seals Dated this 21st day of December AD 1853
The condition of this obligation is such that if the above bounden John B Bronk shall faithfully execute the trust reposed in him as administrator of the singular the goods Chattels and credits of Christina Ostrander late of the town of New Baltimore, County of Greene deceased intestate and also obey all orders of the surrogate of the county of Greene touching the administration of the estate committed to him. this obligation to be void else to remain in force of virtue
Sealed & delivered in presence of William Cochran Jr

[signed] John B Bronk
Jonus Bronk 
Jacob G Bedell

State of New York
Greene County Jonus Bronk & Jacob Bedell of Coxsackie in said county of Greene above named being each duly sworn does each for himself severally say that he is a resident and freeholder residing in said town of Coxsackie & is worth the sum of eight hundred over and above all the debts & responsibilities he owes or has incurred.

[signed]  Jonus Bronk
Jacob G Bedell

Severally sworn before me this 21st Day of December 18[illegible] Justice of the peace
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Greene County ss On this 21st day of December 1853 before me personally appeared John B Bronk & Jacob G Bedell to me known to be the individuals described in and who executed the above instrument who acknowledged that they executed the same

William Cochran Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Greene County Surrogates office I hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy bond of her B Bronk [illegible] with the