Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,295, Wilhelmus France, New York
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New York
France, Wilhelmus
Anna 
A-19295
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[Much of this transcription is from the extracted text, but only corrected if it can be deciphered]

New York 4413
Wilhelmus France
of Ulster Co in the State of N. York
who was Private in the company commanded
by Captain [illegible] of the Regt commanded
by [illegible]

at the rate of 56[?] Dollars 16 cents per annum.
commencing on the 5th[?] day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension [illegible] the 28th day of June 1837 and sent to [illegible]

{Revolutionary Claim, [illegible] 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E  Vol 4  Page 23

[Right page]
Reduced from $80
order to pay July 20. 1837
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State of New York 
Ulster County } ss.  Personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the peace of the town of Kingston, in and for the County of Ulster and State of New York Wilhelmus France who being duly sworn deposeth and Saith 
That in the year 1776 he served in the Capacity of private Soldier for the full term of Six months as stated in his declaration hereunto appended
That in the year 1777 in served in the said capacity for three months as also stated in his said declaration 
That in the year 1778 he served as a private soldier for the term of three months, as also stated in his said declaration in the Company commanded by Captain Philip Swart, stationed at [illegible, Laghawagh?]
That in the year 1779 he served as a private [soldier?] for the term of two and a half months in Captain John [illegible, Woodhouse?] Company Stationed at Fishkill Dutchess County as also stated in his declaration 
That in the year 1780 he served as a private Soldier in Captain [illegible, poss. Derick?] Westbrook's Company for the term of three Months as stated in his said declaration. And also in the [same, crossed out] year 1781 he served as a private Soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Moses Yeomans for the term of Four Months as state in Said Declaration 
That in the year 1782. he served as a private Solder for the term of Nine Months in Captain Livingstons Company in Colonel Pawlings Regiment as stated in his said Declaration
I And lastly the said Wilhelmus France that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of Memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of
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his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned above and in the grades also above mentioned. To wit For Two Years Six Months and Fifteen Days Served as a private Soldier and for Such Service ? claim a pension.

his mark
Wilhelmus France

Subscribed + Sworn this 31st day of December 1832 Before me

P V Gaasbeck Jr.
Justice of the Peace

State of New-York
Ulster County Clerks Office

{mostly too light to be legible}
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

State of New York
Ulster County

On the Eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court, before the Judges of the court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Ulster, being a court of Record for said County proceeding according to the course of the common Law, with a Jurisdiction unlimited in part of amount, and keeping a record of their proceedings having a clerk and Seal of their own Wilhelmus France a resident of the town of Kingston in the County of Ulster aged Seventy Seven years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated

1st. The Said Wilhelmus France Declares that he was born in the town of Kingston, County of Ulster and State of New York, on the fourth day of August 1755

2nd. That the record of his age is contained in book of Record of the Lutheran Church of West Camp in Saugerties Ulster County

3rd. That at the time he entered the service, he lived in the town of Kingston Ulster County and State of New York and lived there since the Revolutionary war and now live there

[side note] 6 Month Witness Leonard Krows

4th That in the month of June 1776 he entered as a Volunteer in the services of the State of New York in the United State from "for the term of" Six months, and served in the Company commanded by Captain John L. Dewitt Lieutenants Van Aken & Dubois, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Johannis Hardenbergh, that during fall time he served on Long Island, and thence crossed the East river to the City of New York, retreated from thence through Harlem to Kingsbridge, then to White Plains to West[chester]
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Westchester, was in the battle of White Palins, marched then to Peekskill, and from thence crossed the Hudson River at Verplanks Point to Haverstraw, and was soon after discharged that to the best of his recollection he was discharged in the month December of said year. that he does not remember to have obtained a written discharge and of he did, it is now lost, That General Washing [Washington] Commander the Army in person. 
[side note 3 Witness Wm Emerick]
2d That he served for “Three” months at three several times the year he does not remember, under the following Officers viz. at Scharrie [Schoharie] under Captain Moses Cauline "one" month as a Volunteer: in Shandaken Ulster County under Capt Matthys Dederick in the fort at Jacob [illegible, Longyears?] “One” mouth, as Substitute for Abraham Osterhoudt under the blue Mountains in Saugerties at Tobias Wynkoop under Lieutenant [illegible, Burnhams? Burhaus?] “One” month, all in the Capacity of a private soldier making in the whole 3 months –
[side note Witness Wm Emerich Martin Port]
That he served at Fishkill in Duchess County in the 3 monthly Serven [serving] in the Militia company Command by Captain John Brodhead in the year 1779 for about two and an half months as a volunteer and [illegible] and was discharged at fishkill but got no written discharge that Colonel Henthorn Commanded the Regiment 
That he served as a Volunteer for “Three” months as a private soldier, in the Company commanded by Captain Wesbrook of the town of Rochester [illegible] the woods to Delaware River was at the Cook house thinks it was in the year 1780 
That he served at Wawarsing and [illegible, Louhabergh?] Ulster County for “Three” month the year he does not
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[side note] Wm. Emerick
remember in the Company commanded by Captain Philip Swart, as a volunteer and private soldier
That he Served as a Volunteer in the Company Commanded by Captain Moses Yeomans, for the term of “Four” months and does not remember in what year but thinks in the year 1780, that said company Ranged along the frontiers in Ulster County the whole of said term 
[side note] Witness John Ed Schoonmaker Martin Port
That he served for the term of “Nine” months in the year 1782 as a volunteer and private soldier in the Company Commanded by Captain Livingston in Colonel Fainburg Regiment, in a detachment Commanded by Lieutenant Van Deusen Stationed at John Van Alens in the town of Kingston in a picket fort [illegible] the House  that his service Commenced in the month of April and ended in the winter following  that the Company was discharged in Kingston at Evert Bogardus’s
And lastly the said Wilhelmus [illegible, prob. France] declares that he has Served in the Revolutionary war for more than Two Years as a private Soldier and a volunteer, and that to the Officers under whom, the places, where and the Several times when the above mentioned services were rendered he cannot positively State. That he has not any documentary evidence in his possession relating to the same. That he knows of no other regular officers or in Regiments, nor [illegible] Regiments except as above stated   That all the living witnesses of his services that he could procure and knew of have testified and their affidavits are hereunto annexed- 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on any pension Roll of the agency of any State.
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Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
[signed] Wilhelmus France  X his mark

A. G. Hardenburgh } Judges
Abm A Deyo
John Jansen
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9597 
Wilhelmus France 
14 Sep. 1831
18 Dec. 1831

Peter Van Gaasbeck 
Kingston N. Y.
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Brief in the case of Wilhelmus France of Kingston in the State of N. York 
(Act 7th June, 1832. 
1. Was the declaration made before a Court Judge Court?  in open Court 
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
3. How old is he? 77 years 
4. State his service as directed in the form annexed

[TABLE]
Period
June In 1776 volunteer | 6 months | Capt J. S. Dewitt Capt J [illegible] Philip Swart
 years not recollected | 3 | Capt [illegible]
1779 | about 2 ½ | Cap J. Buchanan [?]
Thinks in 1780 | 3 | Capt Westbrook
Years not recollected | 5 | Philip [illegible]
Thinks in 1780 | 4 | Moses Yeomans
1782 | 4 | [illegible]
As a Private
[END OF TABLE]

5. In what battles was he engaged?  White Plains
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Kingston
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?   Traditionary evidence and three living witnesses
8. Are the papers as to form or authentication and if so, in what respect?  The papers are not attached according to the Regulations
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
[signed] Wm Gordon  Examining Clerk
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4680
New York
Anna France
widow of Wilhelmus France N.Y.
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed the Roll at the rate of 56 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 12th day of July 1848
Certifcate of Pension issued the 9th day of April, 1849 and sent to Hon P. H. Silvester, Coxsackie N. York
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 70  Vol. [number illegible]


[opposite page] Reported
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A 13794 
Anna France 
Wid of Wilhelmus 
{illegible]
act 7 July 1838 
Married 1784 
Rejected husband
died 12 July 1841 
[illegible] act 22 July 48 
$36.66, p anm [per annum]
From 12 July 1848
Hon. P. H. Silvester M.C
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 
State of New York
Ulster County } ss.  On this Seventeenth day of October 1 in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty eight at a circuit court and court of oyer and terminer held at the court house in the Village of Kingston in and for the said County of Ulster personally appeared in open Court before one Judge thereof Anna France a resident of the town of Kingston in said County aged Eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath saith the following in order to obtain the benefit of the premium made by an act of Congress passed 7th July 1838
That she is the widow of Wilhelmus France who I the Revolutionary war was a private serving in defense of said County for [remainder of paragraph is illegible] 
She further declares that she was married to the said Wilhelmus France on the Seventeenth of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty four
That the [illegible] was signed by Mr [illegible] a Clergyman of the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church And that her maiden name [illegible] was Anna Brink
That her husband the said Wilhelmus France died on the twelfth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty eight in said town of Kingston
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And that she has not intermarried but has ever since remained a widow as [illegible] fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
She further declares that she has no documentary evidence to prove her husbands service in the Revolution but would respectfully refer to the papers on file in the War Department of her said husband at the have that respectfully refer to the papers on file the Department of her said husband under act of Congress 7th June 1839
[signed] Anna France  X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year first [illegible] in open Court before me
[signed] [initials illegible] Hasbrouck, Clerk of the County of Ulster

State of New York
Ulster County } ss. 
William L. [illegible] of the town of Kingston in the county and state therein being [seventy?] seven [illegible] and that well acquainted with Anna 

[REMAINDER OF DOCUMENT IS TOO LIGHT TO BE READ]
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State of New York 
Ulster County, ss.  Cornelius F Vanzantvoord of the town of Kingston in said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the present Clergymen of the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church of said town that it appears by this records of said Church Wilhelmus France was legally [married] to Anna or [illegible, poss. Annalie] Brink on the seventeenth day of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty four which is expressed in [illegible] figures and written in the Dutch language [illegible] viz 1784
July 17th Wilhelmus France married Annalie Brink [illegible] Ulster County [illegible]
I Cornelius Vanzantvoort do depose and [illegible] the office of Clergyman in the above named Church that the foregoing is a true exhibit from the records of said church and further saith not
[signed] C. Vanzantvoord

[REMAINDER OF PAGE IS TOO LIGHT TO TRANSCRIBE]
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State of New York Ulster County Clerks Office ss.
[name illegible] Clerk of the County of Ulster aforesaid do hereby certify that John [last name illegible] before whom the foregoing affidavit purport to have been taken was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly Elected was Sworn and authorized to take the Service and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the Signature “John [last name illegible, starts with a P]” purporting to be his are genuine [illegible] further.
The testimony whereof [illegible] and subscribe my name and affix the Seal the same this 18th ? day of December 18??
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No.  19395
[illegible]
with
Wilhelmus France
[illegible]
Act: 5th of June[?]
Index:--Vol. 62 Page 254[?]

[Arrangement of 1870]
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4413
New York  
Wilhelmus France 
Of Kingston in the State of New York
Who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Dewitt of the Regt commanded by Col Hardenbergh
line for 2 Years

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
At the rate of 80 Dollars per annum
To commence on the 4th day of March 1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Jany 1833 and sent to Peter Van Gaasbeck Kingston

Arrears to the [illegible] $120
Semi-anl allowance ending [illegible]  40
[totaling] $160
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by [name illegible] Clerk,
Book  D  Vol. [illegible]  Page {illegible]
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Let to Pensioner [crossed out text] 27 June 1835
Let to Pension Agent 27 June 1835
Let to Hon N Sickles [?] Mar 1837.
Let to same May 27 1837 
Let to Pension agent New York  May 27 1837
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Stephen Myers Deposition to the 9. months service at Fishkill the year after Kingston was burnt
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State of New York
Ulster County } ss.
Stephen Myer of the Town of Saugerties in the County of Ulster and State of New York of the age of 77 years  A revolutionary soldier being duly Sworn deposes and says that I have been acquainted with Wilhalmus France of Ulster County from a boy &  this present time that this deponent was a private Soldier in the war and served in the Company of Captain Evert Bogardus at Fishkill in the County of Dutchess a little short of three months  Some of the regular troops Militia and [illegible] was stationed at Fishkill at the same time this was after Sopus [Esopus] was burnt thinks it is the next year & that the said France was a Soldier in the [illegible] at that the same time [illegible] to what Company said France was attached and how long he served and further  says not 
[signed] Stephen Myer 

Stephen Myer Well known to me appeared before me on the 8th day of December 1836 Subscribed & was sworn to the above affidavit & I do certify that he is a man of truth and Varacity & his affidavid Entitled to full [REMAINDER OBSCURED]

STATE OF NEW-YORK 
COUNTY OF ULSTER, } ss. I, Charles W, Chipp, Clerk of the County of Ulster, DO HEREBY CERTITY That [name illegible] whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed [illegible] affidavits and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgements a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the 6[?] day of April AD 1837
[signature illegible, but probably Charles W. Chipp] Clerk
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State of New York 
Ulster County } ss. Stephen Myer of the Town of Saugerties in the County of Ulster and State of New York of the age of 77 years A revolutionary soldier being duly Sworn deposes and says that I have been acquainted with Wilhalmus France of Ulster County from a boy & this present time that this deponent was a private Soldier in the war and served in the Company of Captain Evert Bogardus at Fishkill in the County of Dutchess a little short of three months Some of the regular troops Militia and [illegible] was stationed at Fishkill at the same time this was after Sopus [Esopus] was burnt thinks it is the next year & that the said France was a Soldier in the service at Fishkill at that the same time [illegible] to what Company said France was attached and how long he served and further says not 
[signed] Stephen Myer 
Stephen Myer Well known to me appeared before me on the 8th day of December 1836 Subscribed & was sworn to the above Affidavit & I do Certify that he is a man of truth and Varacity & his affidavid Entitled to full Credit –
[signed] Tobias Wynkoop Justice of the Peace
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Wilhelmus Emerick deposition
As to 1 month service the same before with him as also as being known to his service on the Frontier about the first of the War from Spring till Winter in which service he saw him frequently during the season 
Witness lived within a mile from the Station to which fact I certify 
[signed] L Elmendorf
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State of New York 
Ulster County ss.
Wilhalmus Emerick of the town of Saugerties in the County of Ulster & State aforesaid of this [illegible…….] being duly sworn on his Oath depose and says that he is well acquainted with Wilhelmus France of the said County of Ulster from his childhood to the present day [illegible] was his God father of about the age of eighty one who was also a soldier of the Revolutionary war and this deponent further says, that this deponent & said France as post Soldiers and they (drafted) in the Company commanded by Capt Moses Cantine under Major Paulding and think for the term of one month the Company mustered in Ulster County and Marched to Schohary [Schoharie] County to a fort [illegible] Middleburgh Fort where the company was stationed then scouted to brakabeen [Breakabeen] & its vicinity thence to Harpersfield & this deponent and said France served the full month as aforesaid, does not recollect the year  A [illegible] about the time Sopus [Esopus] was burnt by the regulars & this deponent further says that in the Commencement of the War there was Monthly drafts to enter the service   that there was a Company stationed at the foot of the Catskill Mountains in Ulster County at what is called Woodstock & [illegible….] maintains and scouted along the Mountains being the frontiers from Spring to Winter & does know that Captains Schoomaker Snyder & Hummel have commanded the same time in that station and does know that he this deponent has seen the above named France as a private Soldier in that service a number of times in the Course of that season and he says not) 
[signed] Wilhalmus Emerick
June 19th 1837
I do certify that Wilhalmus Emerich Well known to me did subscribe and was duly Sworn to the above affidavid And the same has made from his own recollection & he is a man of sound mind and memory & is entitled to full Credit as a man of truth and varisity 
[signed] Tobias Wynkoop Justice of the peace of Ulster Co
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Abraham DeWitt   deposition
to 3 months service the year after General Sullivan's Expeditions
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State of New York 
Ulster County } ss.  Abraham Dewitt of the Town of Saugerties County of Ulster & State of New York of the age of Seventy three years a Soldier of the revolutionary war being duly Sworn on my oath depose and say that I have been acquainted with Wilhalmus France of said County from boys up to the present day, and that the said France served as a private Soldier in the said revolutionary war in a Company of [illegible]  [command of, crossed out] Col Paldings Regiment said company was commanded by Cap. A Dimick [illegible] who this deponent well recollects that the services was under the next year abt. General Sulavins {Sullivan’s] Expedition with his [illegible] to [illegible] along the Sissquahanah [Susquehanna] river to Tioga point &  Pennsylvania about 1778 or 1779 and does know that said Company did march from Marbletown in Ulster County along  mountains being frontiers to Albany County also Shandaken Papackton [Pepacton] Brook kill and did serve for the term of three months   Served the full term of the Draft and was discharged at Kingston in Ulster County  this deponent served as a private soldier in said Company during said [illegible] and this deponent believes that France is of the age of Eighty years or thereabout and that France was a faithful soldier
[signed] Abraham Dewitt
I do certify that Abraham Dewitt Well known to me did appear before me on the 8th day of December 1836 Subscribed & was duly Sworn to the above affidavid and is a man of respectibility and can be relied on for truth & varasity 
[signed] Tobias Wynkoop 
Justice of the peace of Ulster Co.
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Cornelius Langindyke Deposition to 3 months service, the same as
Abraham Dewitts Deposition
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State of New York
Ulster County} ss.  Cornelius Langindyck of the Town of Saugerties County of Ulster & State of New York of the age of 78 was soldier of the revolutionary war being duly sworn deposes & says that he has been well acquainted with Wilhalmus France of Ulster County from boys to the present time, that this deponent and said France served as private Soldiers in the said war in a company of Rangers commanded by Capt Derick Westbrook  Col Paldings Regiment  they [illegible] expedition with this army to the West Susquehanna Tioga & does know Abraham Dewitt of Saugerties was in the same company this deponent thinks it must have been in the year of 17 1780 or 1781, and this deponent does know that said Company Scouted along the Catskill mountains Shandaken Pepacton and along the Delaware & for the full term of three months  And this deponent does know that said France did serve the full term of three months a good and faithful Soldier And was discharged in Ulster County by Major Dewitt & do not know France [illegible] Knows they were School boys together 
[signed] Cornelius F Langendyck  + his mark
Cornelius Langendyck well known to me subscribed with his Class and was duly Sworn to the above affidavid the 8th day of December 1836 before me and I do further certify that he is of a sound Mind & Memory a man of truth and Varacity and is entitled to full credit 
[signed] Tobias Wynkoop 
Justice of the peace of Ulster County
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We Peter A Overbagh a clergyman residing in the town of Saugerties in the County of Ulster and Henry H. Schoonmaker of the town of Kingston in said County hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Wilhelmus France who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Seventy seven years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, that we concur in that opinion 
[signed] Peter A. Overbagh  Henry W Schoonmaker
Sworn and subscribed the day and month aforesaid [illegible small print]
C & A. Hardenburgh}  Abm Deyo}  John Jansen} Judges
had the court 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 it appears to them that Peter A Overbagh who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Saugerties in Ulster County, and that Henry H. Schoonmaker who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Kingston in the said County of Ulster and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit 
I Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Ulster, Do Hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Wilhelmus France for a Pension 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourteenth day of September one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two
[signed] Jacob Snyder
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Leonard Krows  6 Mar 1776
Wilhelmus France
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State of New York 
Ulster County } ss. Leonard Krows of the town of Esopus Ulster County aged 73 years a soldier of the Revolution, being duly Sworn deposeth and Saith, that he is well acquainted with Wilhelmus France a Soldier of the Revolution and now an applicant for a pension, that this deponent was in the service of the State of New York in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war and was in the company commanded by Captain John S Dewitt, Lieutenants Abraham G Van Aken and Cornelius Dubois in the Regiment of Colonel Johannes Hardenburgh, and well knew the said Wilhelmus France, that the said Wilhelmus belonged to same company and Regiment with the deponent That this deponent saw the said Wilhelmus France in said Service for about Six months in the Year 1776, and knows that the said Wilhelmus Continued to Serve in said Corps in the capacity of a private soldier until he was discharged and this deponent further saith that he always understood that the said Wilhelmus [illegible] for the course
[REMAINDER IS OBSCURED BY OVERLYING CERTIFICATION. CERTIFICATION CONTINUES]
[signed] Leonard Krows
Peter Van Gausbeck Jr. one of the Justices of the peace of Ulster County

I do Hereby certify that any personally acquainted with Leonard Townsend Krows who was Signed and Sworn to the foregoing affidavit before me  That he is a person of credibility and that his statement is entitled to credit 
[signed] Peter V Gaasbeck Jr.
Justice of the peace
Kingston  Dec. 24 1832

[OVERLYING CERTIFICATION]
State of New York
Ulster County Clerk's Office,
I Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior, Esquire, was on the day of the date of the certificate of the annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Ulster duly authorized a take affidavits &c and further that he was well acquainted with the hand writing of the said justice and verily believe the
signature "P.V. Gaasbeck Jr." subscribed to the Certificate of the said annexed Affidavit to be genuine .
In testimony whereof I have herewith subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County, this fourteenth day of September 1832
[signed] Jacob Snyder
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State of New York 
Ulster County } ss.  Leonard Krows of the town of Esopus Ulster County aged 73 years a Soldier of the Revolution being duly Sworn deposeth and saith, that he is well acquainted with Wilhelmus France a Soldier of the Revolution and now an applicant for a pension, that this deponent was in the Service of the State of New York in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, and was in the company commanded by Captain John L Dewitt, Lieutenants Abraham G Van Aken and Cornelius Dubois in the Regiment of Colonel Johannis Hardenburgh, and well knew the said Wilhelmus France. that the said Wilhelmus belonged to same company and Regiment with the deponent That this deponent saw the said Wilhelmus France in said Service for about “Six” months in the year 1776 and knows that the said Wilhelmus continued to Serve in said Corps in the capacity of a private soldier until he was discharged  and this deponent further saith that he always understood that the said Wilhelmus [illegible] for the course of “Six” months, that the said Wilhelmus France was discharged at Haverstraw in Rockland County where the whole company was discharged, that the said Service commenced in the Month of June, and ended in December of said year. that this deponent was during said service at Long Island, New York, Kingsbridge and White plains  was in the battle of White plains, & marched from thence to Peekskill, crossed the River at Verplanks point and was discharged at Haverstraw and further saith not 
[signed] Leonard Krows
Subscribed and sworn the 11th of September 1832 before me Peter Van Gaasbeck one of the Justices of the peace of Ulster County
I do Hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Leonard Krows who was Signed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit before me  That he is a person of credibility and that his statement is entitled to credit 
Kingston Dec 24 1832 
[signed] P V Gaasbeck Jr.
Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Ulster County Clerk's Office,
I Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior, Esquire, was on the day of the date of the certificate of the annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Ulster duly authorized a take affidavits &c and further that he was well acquainted with the hand writing of the said justice and verily believe the
signature "P.V. Gaasbeck Jr." subscribed to the Certificate of the said annexed Affidavit to be genuine .
In testimony whereof I have herewith subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County, this fourteenth day of September 1832
[signed] Jacob Snyder
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Wm [Wilhalmus] Emerick  aff   1
for                                            3
Wm[Wilhelmus] France           3
                                               1
                                               8 M [months]
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State of New York
Ulster County } ss.  Wilhelmus Emrick of the town of Saugerties Ulster County aged 73 years, being duly sworn deposeth & saith that That he is well acquainted with Wilhelmus France a soldier of the Revolution, and now an applicant for a pension [side note: Schaharie (Schoharie)] that this deponent was in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war and was in the company commanded by Captain Moses Cantine as a Volunteer to old Schoharie that the said Wilhelmus France belonged to the same company with this deponent, that this deponent saw the said Wilhelmus in said Service for One Month in the Year [blank] and knows that the said Wilhelmus Continued to serve in said Corps in the capacity of a private soldier until he was discharged that the said Wilhelmus was discharged at Christian Field in the town of Saugerties
And this deponent further saith that he was in Captain Philip Swarts Company, that the said Wilhelmus France belonged to the same company that this deponent saw the said Wilhelmus in said service for Three Months in the [MIDDLE PORTION BLOCKED BY CERTIFICATION OF CLERK’S OFFICE]
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deponent was in the company commanded by Captain Matthys Dederich Stationed at big Shandaken in Ulster County and knows that the said Wilhelmus belonged the same Company, and Served there for “One” month as a private soldier
[signed] Wilhalmus Emrick
Subscribed & Sworn this 

[OVERLYING CLERK"S STATEMENT]

State of New York
Ulster County Clerk's Office,
I Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior, Esquire, was on the day of the date of the certificate of the annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Ulster duly authorized a take affidavits &c and further that he was well acquainted with the hand writing of the said justice and verily believe the
signature "P.V. Gaasbeck Jr." subscribed to the Certificate of the and annexed believe to be genuine .
In testimony whereof I have herewith subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County, this fourteenth day of September 1832
[signed] Jacob Snyder
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State of New York Ulster County } ss. Wilhelmus Emrick of the town of Sungerties Ulster County aged 73 years, being duly sworn deposeth & saith that That he is well acquainted with Wilhelmus France a soldier of the Revolution, and now an applicant for a pension [side note: Schaharie (Schoharie)] that this deponent was in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war and was in the company commanded by Captain Moses Cantine as a Volunteer to old Schoharie that the said Wilhelmus France belonged to the same company with this deponent, that this deponent saw the said Wilhelmus in said Service for One Month in the Year [blank] and knows that the said Wilhelmus Continued to serve in said Corps in the capacity of a private soldier until he was discharged that the said Wilhelmus was discharged at Christian Field in the town of Saugerties And this deponent further saith that he was in Captain Philip Swarts Company, that the said Wilhelmus France belonged to the same company that this deponent saw the said Wilhelmus in said service for Three Months in the Year [blank], and knows that the said Wilhelmus continued to serve in said Corps as a private Soldier for the term of Three Months as aforesaid, and was discharged at Shandaken to the best of his belief
And this deponent further says that in the year 1779 he was in the Company of Captain Evert Bogardus at fishkill, and that the said Wilhelmus France was in the Company of Captain John [illegible], and knows that the said Wilhelmus France Served in said Broadhead Company for Three Months in said Year, and that the said Wilhelmus France was discharged at Fish kill [Fishkill] in Dutchess County that he was a private Soldier also in this service.
And the said deponent further sais that he this deponent was in the company commanded by Captain Matthys Dederich Stationed at big Shandaken in Ulster County and knows that the said Wilhelmus belonged the same Company, and Served there for “One” month as a private soldier [signed] Wilhalmus Emrick 
Subscribed & Sworn this
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16th day of September 1832 
Before me P.V. Gaasbeck Jr. one of the Justices of the peace of Ulster County 
Ulster County ss. I Do Hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Wilhelmus Emerick, who has signed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit. that he is a credible person and that his statements are entitled to credit 
Kingston [illegible] 1832 . 
[signed] P. V. Gaasbeck Jr.
Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Ulster County
In the matter of the application of
Wilhelmus France
P.V. Gaasbeck Jr., Atty.

Submitted
2 years private
80$

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John Ed Schoonmaker
for
Wilhelmus France  9 Mar 1782

allow?
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State of New York
Ulster County } ss. John E. Schoonmaker of the town of Kingston Ulster County aged 69 years a Soldier of the Revolution being duly Sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Wilhelmus France a soldier of the Revolution and now an applicant for a pension. that this deponent was in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary war in the Militia of the State of New York, and as in the company commanded by Captain Livingston, Lieutenants Van Deusen and Dubois in the Regiment of Colonel Weisenvelt and well knew the said Wilhelmus France that the said Wilhelmus France belonged to the same company and Regiment with this deponent, that this deponent saw the said Wilhelmus France in said service for Nine months in the year 1787 and knows that the said Wilhelmus continued to Serve in said Corps in the capacity of a 
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[signed] John Ed Schoonmaker Martin Post + his mark
Sworn and subscribed 7th day of September 1832 before me Peter Van Gaasbeck one of the Justices of the peace of Ulster County
Ulster County ss. I Do Hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with John Ed. Schoonmaker & Martin Post, that they are both credible persons, and that their Statements are entitled to credit.
Kingston Dec. 24th 1832.
[signed] P. V. Gaasbeck Justice of the peace

[OVERLYING CLERK'S CERTIFICATE]

State of New York
Ulster County Clerk's Office,
I Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior, Esquire, was on the day of the date of the certificate of the annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Ulster duly authorized a take affidavits &c and further that he was well acquainted with the hand writing of the said justice and verily believe the
signature "P.V. Gaasbeck Jr." subscribed to the Certificate of the and annexed believe to be genuine .
In testimony whereof I have herewith subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County, this fourteenth day of September 1832
[signed] Jacob Snyder
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State of New York 
Ulster County } ss. John E. Schoonmaker of the town of Kingston Ulster County aged 69 years a Soldier of the Revolution being duly Sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Wilhelmus France a soldier of the Revolution and now an applicant for a pension.  that this deponent was in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary war in the Militia of the State of New York, and as in the company commanded by Captain Livingston, Lieutenants Van Deusen and Dubois in the Regiment of Colonel Weisenvelt and well knew the said Wilhelmus France that the said Wilhelmus France belonged to the same company and Regiment with this deponent, that this deponent saw the said Wilhelmus France in said service for Nine months in the year 1787 and knows that the said Wilhelmus continued to Serve in said Corps in the capacity of a private Soldier until he was discharged, and his deponent Saith that he always understood that the said Wilhelmus France was drafted in the term of nine months and this deponent saith that the said term of Service commenced in the beginning and April of said year and ended in the beginning of January next ensuing, that said Company were Stationed on the frontiers as a guard in the House of Johannis Van Etten around which this deponent assisted in building a fort of [illegible], and that Lieutenant Van Deusen and the Command of said fort that the said Wilhelmus France and the whole company were discharged in Kingston at Evert Bogardus by Major Van Benseltoten
[signed] John Ed Schoonmaker  Martin Post  + his mark
Sworn and subscribed 7th day of September 1832 before me Peter Van Gaasbeck one of the Justices of the peace of Ulster County 
Ulster County ss.  I Do Hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with John Ed. Schoonmaker & Martin Post, that they are both credible persons, and that their Statements are entitled to credit.
Kingston Dec. 24th 1832.
[signed] P. V. Gaasbeck Justice of the peace
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State of New York Ulster County ss. I Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Ulster and Clerk of said County do hereby certify that the signature of Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior to the certificate of the Credibility to the affidavits annexed John E. Schoonmaker, Martin Post Wilhelmus Emerick Leonard Krows is the proper hand writing of Said Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior one of the Justices of the peace of Ulster County - Witness my hand and seal of office this thirty first day of December 1832.
[signed] Jacob Snyder
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No 151
Wilhelmus France
80


Wilhelmus France three months
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This is to Certify that I Wilhelmus France of Kingston in the County of Ulster & State of New York have served as a Soldier for the term of three Months on the frontier of this State Under Capt Derick Wesbrook & Lieut. Martinus Humble in the year 1780 
I the said Wilhelmus France have [illegible, Bargend?] and said unto James Roe of Kingston & his order all my  [illegible] Subsistence which is due for my Service for the consideration of three Dollars, and the said James Roe is hereby Empowered to Receive my said Wages & In [illegible] money from the pay Master that is or shall be a sufficient for that purpose and the said James Roe [illegible, Regent?] shall be a sufficient Voucher to the said pay Master  Witness my hand & seal the Eighth Day of April 1783
[signed] Wilhelmus France + his mark
Witness present
[signed]
Hendrick Birch
Jannetie Emrick
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Kingston May 2d 1786
I pledge to pay to Mr John Van Duesen the full amount of all my pay Coming to me for Service in the year 1773 [illegible] to in Capt. Philip Swarts Company Col. John [illegible] Regt. This receipt shall be your exchange [illegible, paper?]
your humble servt
[signed] Wilhelmus France  + his mark

Witness
[signed] Major Yeomans
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Stephanus Myer Deposition
Martin Post
[Joseph Davis, crossed out]
3 months service near Fish kill
I Do further certify that I am well acquainted with said Stephen Myer that he is entitled to full credit as a Witness
[signed] Matthew DuBois
Court Justice
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State of New York 
Ulster County ss: Stephanis Myer of the Town of Saugerties in the County of Ulster and State of New York aged 77 years, being duly sworn deposes and says that he has been well acquainted with Wilhelmus Frans [France] of the Town of Kingston in said County from an Early period in the Revolutionary War down to the present time, and know the fact from his having served with him that the said Wilhelmus Frans in the early period of the revolution was enlisted and served as a private in Capt John Brodhead’s Company of three months when during which period they were stationed in the Highlands near Fishkill in the County of Dutches, and he verily believes that the said Wilhelmus Frans Served out his full time for which he was enlisted Which service to the best of his recollection in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six the age of Myer is 77  cannot State the time how long
[signed] Stephen Myer   + his mark
Stephen Myer Testified by Best of his Knowledge that Frans served under Capn John Broadhead
Subscribed and sworn the 20 day of August 1836 before me Matthew Dubois Justice [of the] Peace

[Ulster County ss.  Martin Post Joseph Davis John J Birch and Peter B. Myer all of the Town of Saugerties say this, crossed out]

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and Martin Post Depose and says that he Served with Wilhelmus France in the revolutionary war at Fishkill under Capt. John Broadhead three Months
[signed] Martin Post + his mark
Subscribed and sworn August 22 1836 before me 
[signed] Matthew Dubois Justice Peace
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State of New York 
Ulster County ss: Stephanis Myer of the Town of Saugerties in the County of Ulster and State of New York aged 77 years, being duly sworn deposes and says that he has been well acquainted with Wilhelmus Frans [France] of the Town of Kingston in said County from an Early period in the Revolutionary War down to the present time, and know the fact from his having served with him that the said Wilhelmus Frans in the early period of the revolution was enlisted and served as a private in Capt John Brodhead’s Company of three months when during which period they were stationed in the Highlands near Fishkill in the County of Dutches, and he verily believes that the said Wilhelmus Frans Served out his full time for which he was enlisted Which service to the best of his recollection in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six the age of Myer is 77  cannot State the time how long
[signed] Stephen Myer   + his mark
Stephen Myer Testified by Best of his Knowledge that Frans served under Capn John Broadhead
Subscribed and sworn the 20 day of August 1836 before me Matthew Dubois Justice [of the] Peace

[Ulster County ss.  Martin Post Joseph Davis John J Birch and Peter B. Myer all of the Town of Saugerties say this, crossed out]

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and Martin Post Depose and says that he Served with Wilhelmus France in the revolutionary war at Fishkill under Capt. John Broadhead three Months
[signed] Martin Post + his mark
Subscribed and sworn August 22 1836 before me 
[signed] Matthew Dubois Justice Peace
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Adam Brink & Martin Posts Dep } 8 months Service under Capt Livingstons Compy at Van Ettins in Waghhonk [?]
I do further certify that am well acquaint with the said Martin Post and Adam Brink and that they are Entitled to full Credit as a Witness 
[signed] Matthew Dubois [illegible] Judge

8 months service at Van Ettens  Waghhonk
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Ulster County ss.  Adam Brink and Martin Post mentioned in the foregoing Deposition of Gerrit Constable being both of the age of 77 being duly sworn depose and say that they served with the said Wilhelmus Frans [France] during the revolutionary at the Frontier station in the Town of Kingston in the County of Ulster, at the House of Johannes Van Etten was enlisted under Lieutenant John Van Dusen for the period of Eight months and that they were enlisted in the same service for the same length of time, and they verily believes that the said service was performed in the year [blank] by the Best of the Recollection in the year 1780 or 81 and they verily believe that the said Wilhelmus Frans served out the full time for which he was inlisted
Adam Brink  Martin Post [illegible] Van Ettens in the Revolution [illegible] he cannot Recollect
[signed] Adam Brink  X his mark
 Subscribed and sworn the 26 day of August 1836 before me Matthew Dubois Justice Peace

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Martin Post testified and says that he served with Wilhelmus France at Johannis Van Etten under Lieut John Van Dusen Eight Months
[signed] Martin Post X his mark
Subscribed and sworn the 22d Day of August 1836 before me
[signed] Matthew Dubois Justice Peace
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Ulster County ss. Adam Brink and Martin Post mentioned in the foregoing Deposition of Gerrit Constable being both of the age of 77 being duly sworn depose and say that they served with the said Wilhelmus Frans [France] during the revolutionary at the Frontier station in the Town of Kingston in the County of Ulster, at the House of Johannes Van Etten was enlisted under Lieutenant John Van Dusen for the period of Eight months and that they were enlisted in the same service for the same length of time, and they verily believes that the said service was performed in the year [blank] by the Best of the Recollection in the year 1780 or 81 and they verily believe that the said Wilhelmus Frans served out the full time for which he was inlisted
Adam Brink Martin Post [illegible] Van Ettens in the Revolution [illegible] he cannot Recollect
[signed] Adam Brink X his mark
Subscribed and sworn the 26 day of August 1836 before me Matthew Dubois Justice Peace

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Martin Post testified and says that he served with Wilhelmus France at Johannis Van Etten under Lieut John Van Dusen Eight Months
[signed] Martin Post X his mark
Subscribed and sworn the 22d Day of August 1836 before me
[signed] Matthew Dubois Justice Peace
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Abraham Dewett & Cornelius Langendyck } 3 mo service in 1777 or 1778
I do further certify that I am well acquainted with the said Abraham Dewitt and Cornelius Langendyck and that they are Entitled to full Credit as Witness 
[signed Matthew Dubois late Justice Peace

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[incomplete] elaers Disposition

In Jacob Longyaer’s
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State of New York Ulster County ss. Cornelius Langendyck and Abraham Dewitt Came before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace makes Oath that Wilhelmus France Served in the Revolution War under Capt West Brook [Westbrook] as Ranger for three Month in the year 1777 or 90 the Deponent says he served the same time the hole Period with France [some text obscured] 
[signed] Abraham Dewitt
of Saugerties Ulster County
[signed] Cornelius Langendyck + his mark 87 years old

STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF ULSTER. } ss I, Charles W. Chipp, Clerk of the County of Ulster, DO HEREBY CERTIFY That Matthew Dubois whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed & foregoing affidavits and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same: And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificates of proof or acknowledgment are genuine. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 6 day of April A. D. 1831 
[signed] Charles Chipp Clerk.
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State of New York Ulster County ss.  Cornelius Langendyck and Abraham Dewit Came before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace makes Oath that Wilhelmus France Served in the Revolution War under Capt West Brook [Westbrook] as a Ranger for three Month In the year  1777 or 90 the Deponent says he Served the same time the hole Period with France.
Dewitt is 78 years [signed] Abraham Dewitt
[signed] Cornnelius Langendyck  + his mark   Langendyck is 87 years old
Subscribed and sworn the 20th day of August 1836 before me 
[signed] Matthew Dubois Justice of the Peace
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Mechanus Bank 
New York 18th July 1831 
Sir
I enclose for your examination the papers in the law of Wilhelmus France a Private $56.66 per annum under the Act of 7th June 1832, who has been Suspended, and reduced from $80 to $36.66 per annum, in Letter 26th June 1837 
Very Respetfully 
Your obt Servt
[signed] J Rovillard 

James L. Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Tunis Osterhoudts Deposition
3 months service in  Cap. Westbrooks
Company in Dowarberg [?]
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State of New York
Ulster County } ss.  Tunis Osterhoudt of the town of Kingston in Ulster County aged Seventy now [illegible, appears?] being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted at Wilhelmus France of the same place Soldier of the Revolutionary War.  that the said France served during the said war in a Company of Rangers commanded by Captain Westbrook & Lieutenant [illegible, Samuel?] for Three months as a private and well remembers that the said Wilhelmus belonged to the same Company and served therein as a Private but this deponent cannot recollect whither the said Wilhelmus served the whole of the said three months - further says the Company to the best of his recollection was discharged at Stone Bridge on the town of Marbletown – 
[signed] Tunis Osterhoudt
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 30 day of [illegible]

STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF ULSTER. } ss I, Charles W. Chipp, Clerk of the County of Ulster, DO HEREBY CERTIFY That Peter Van Gaasbeck whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed & foregoing affidavits and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same: And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificates of proof or acknowledgment are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 6 day of April A. D. 1831
[signed] Charles Chipp Clerk.
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State of New York
Ulster County}Ss

Tunis Osterhoudt of the town of Kingston in Ulster County aged Seventy two years, being duly sworn deposes, and says that he is well acquainted with Wilhelmus France of the same place, a Soldier of the Revolutionary War.  That as the said Tunis Served during the said war in a Company of Rangers Commanded by Captain Westbrook & Lieutenant Homel for Three months as a private and well remembers that the said Wilhelmus belonged to the same company, and served therein as a private but this deponent cannot recollect whether the said Wilhelmus served the whole of the said three months.  Further says that the company to the best of his recollection was  discharged at Stone Ridge in the Town of Marbletown.

Tunis Osterhoudt

Subscribed now before me--
this 30th day of October 1835
P. V. Gaasbeck JP 

I certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Tunis Osterhoudt, that he is a person of credit and that the above affidavit was made before me on the day and year above [written?]--
P.V. Gaasbeck Justice Peace
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Benjamin Krows & Gerrit Constable } Depositions
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State New York
Ulster County ss.  Benjamin A Krows of the town of Marbletown, aged 77 years Garrit Constable of the town of Hurley aged 80 years being such Revolutionary pensioners of the United States personally appeared before me and being first duly sworn depose and say as follows –
The said Benjamin A Krows for [illegible] says that he is personally acquainted with Wilhelmus France of the town of Kingston in the County of Ulster that during the Revolutionary War this deponent Served for “One” month in the Militia Company commanded by Captain Dewitt Lieutenants Wynkoop & Terpenning Stationed at Little Shandaken in the year 1778 or 1779 and that the said Wilhelmus France Served as a private in the same company and for one month at the same time and place with an deponent.  And this deponent further says that this deponent was stationed at big Shandaken during said war for 8 months in Captain Hunters Company, in the 1779 and will recollect to have seen the said Wilhelmus France in the Militia service of that year at the same time & place for 1 month as private but does not remember in whose company
And the said Garrit Constable says that he served that said war in the Militia stationed at [illegible, Whauniptan Elien?] at a place called Waghkunk [? Shawangunk?] in the town of Kingston on the western bounds thereof in the Company Commanded by Captain Livingston Lieut. Van Deusen for the term of 7 months, and thinks in the year 1780 and knows that the said Wilhelmus France
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belonged to the same company and served at the same time and place with this deponent for the said term of 7 Months, and this deponent further says that he is personally acquainted with the said Wilhelmus France, and that he served as a private in said Company during said term of 7 Months & further says not –
[signed] Benjamin Krows  Garret Constable + his mark

Subscribed & Sworn this 19th day of January 1837 before me
[signed] P. Van Gaasbeck Jr Jus peace

I Certify that I am personally acquainted with the above deponents that they are credible persons & entitled to credit 
[signed] P. Van Gaasbeck Jr
J. Peace
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JL Edwards Esquire
Pension Office 
War Department
City of Washington

(In the margin on the side)
W Frans [France] May 15-
NY
[illegible]
act 1832
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James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

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NY
July 3d
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Mechanic's Bank
New York 1st July, 1835

Sir

Wilhelmus France a private at $80 per annum whose pension is Suspended by your letter of this [illegible] was paid to 4th of March 1835 on  the 20th of the Same month,
I am very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt
Geo Fleming [illegible]
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JL Edwards Esq.
Pension Office 
War Department
City of Washington
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Sir
After some length of time having intervened since your returned the enclosed Depositions of the proof of the personal services of Wilhelmus Frans [France] who had received his pension for some time and payment stopped upon which he went about and obtained the Depositions which were handed to you by Mr Sickles our member of Congress and were returned by him, as wanting the Certificate of the Justice that the witnesses were known to him personally to be credible witness & that the County Clerks Certificate and seal was required that the persons taking the Depositions were at the time acting Justices of the Peace these omissions are now supplied, and Mr Sickles informed me that on the Depositions being returned so amended the Pensioner would be reinstated –
In looking into the Depositions I find Adam Brink Martin Post and Garret Constable all testify to the service of Frans for 8 months in Capt Livingstons Company & Lieut Van Dusen [side note: 8 months]
Stephen Myer to 3 months service in 1776 in the High lands near Fishkill 
Abraham Dewitt and Cornelius Landondyck to 3 months service as a Ranger under Capt Westbrook on the Frontier in Schoharie in 1780 or 1781 also Tunis Osterhoudt to the same [side note: 3 months]
Wilhelmus Emerick to 9 months service in Coll Pawlings Regt under Capt Moses Cantines Company one of our Frontier Nations and that there monthly draughts from Spring till Winter & frequently saw Frans in that service and Jonathan Elmendorff to 4 months service of the Kings Frontier stationed at Tobias Wynkoop [side note: 3. Months {illegible} of a whole season from Spring to Winter in on other Season]
Jonathan Elmendorf to 4 months service at the Blue Mountains at Wynkoops [side note: 4]
I should conclude that here was as much as twenty one months service proved by the Witnesses who are all credible witnesses still alive and living in the neighbourhood where the service was performed
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all these witnesses are upwards of 80 years of age and the only ones of that age & time of service alive. Not a single officer in that service alive at this time and the memories of the Witness so impaired that the can no longer recollect the particular time of years of service., Now the War department have obtain the proof on which so many in this service having obtained pensions have been struck off is to us all mysterious All these witnesses are living in my Neighbourhood and several among them Wealthy aged Farmers and with great propriety can the Magistrates certify to their credibility that they are not more minute and distant is the effect of age & decrepitude & is not to be expected. [illegible, Our?] settlement where their services were performed was a Frontier during the whole war and continual draughts in each year of the revolutionary War were made from which no one was exempt and cash on hand to some of hire a substitute. Frans [France] was a hired substitute during all the war on this Frontier which every one who is still alive knows from personal observation or from general reputation but such Testimony which is the only remaining knowledge at this time is not admissible or received at the War department, consequently no pensioner if called on for new Proof, as Frans is cannot retain his pension for the want of the identity of Proof asked for –
He is now upwards of 80 and his wife also both unable any longer to support themselves by Labour, his case is one which merits consideration by the Department. Of his having performed more service than almost any Pensioner in the United is unquestionably and if he he is not to be restored in his former Proof and the Proof now forwarded then I do hope that the department will favor me with the Proof on which his pension has been discontinued  I shall be highly gratified at his pension being restored as a support for the remaining short period of his existence, that he may not be turned over to the Poorhouse, from this time- 
Yours . 
Kingston May 7th 1837. Lucas Elmendorf


J. L. Edwards Esq
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State of New York Ulster County ss. Jonathan Elmendorf of the town on Olive in the County of Ulster aged 86 years being duly sworn deposes and says that he has been well acquainted with Wilhelmus Frans [France] of the Town of Kingston in said County from an early period in the revolutionary war and that it was in the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six that the said Wilhelmus Frans served four months as a private Soldier in Capt Jeremiah Snyder’s Company of draughted men to serve on the Frontier in the State of New York and stationed at the House of Tobias Wynkoop at the Blue Mountains in Ulster County of said Frontier in the protection of said Frontier for the period of 4 months and that this Deponent during the same time of his enlistment also served at the same Station as a Trooper, and this Deponent further saith that the said Wilhelmus Frans faithfull performed the said Duty for which he was enlisted for the full time of his enlistment, and that Martin Post of the same place who this Deponent believes to be still alive also served with the said Wilhelmus France for the same time and at the same place 
[signed] Johnathan Elmendorph
Sworn & subscribed this 28th Day of January 1837 before me 
J J Tappen Just Peace 
I do certify that I am personally well acquainted with the above named Jonathan Elmendorf and that he sustains a good reputation and is entitled to full Credit as a witness 
[signed] J J Tappan Just of Peace
The same service as [illegible] to be [illegible] was performed under Capts Schoonmaker Snyder & [illegible] 

STATE OF NEW-YORK.
COUNTY OF ULSTER. } ss  I, Charles W. Chipp, Clerk of the County of Ulster, DO HEREBY CERTITY that John [last name illegible] whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed affidavit and thereon written, was, at the of the of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same: And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 6th day of April, A.D. 183?
[signed] Charles Chipp  Clerk.
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State of New York Ulster County Ss

Jonathan Elmendorf of the Town of Olive in the County of Ulster aged 86 years being duly sworn deposes and says that he has been well-acquainted with Wilhelmus Frans [France] of the Town of Kingston in said County from an early period in the Revolutionary War and it was in the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six that the said Wilhelmus Frans served four months as a private soldier in Capt Jeremiah Snyder's company of draughted men to serve on the Frontier in the State of New york and stationed at the House of Tobias Wynkoop at the Blue Mountains in Ulster County on said Frontier for the protection of said Frontier for the period of 4 months, and that this Deponent during the same time of his enlistment also served at the same Station as a Trooper, and this Deponent further saith that the sai Wilhelmus Frans faithfull [faithfully] performed the said Duty for which he was enlisted for the full time of his enlistment, and that Martin Post of the same place who this Deponent believes to be still alive also served with the said Wilhelmus France for the same time and at the same place.

Jonatheen [Jonathan] Elmendorph

Sworn and subscribed this 28th Day of January 1837 before me
J. J. Tappen Just [Justice] Peace

I do certify that I am personally well acquainted with the above named Jonathan Elmendorf and that he sustains a good reputation and is entitled to full credit as a witness--
J. J. Tappen Jus [Justice] of Peace

The same Service as testified to by [struck through:  Martin Post]  as well was performed under Capts' Schoonmaker Snyder & Hummel mentioned in the deposition of Wilhelmus Emerigh which lasted from Spring till Winter.
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Hon JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
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Do. of Rep
28th Febry 1837
Hon J. L. Edwards   
Sir
the enclosed papers have been forwarded to me to be submitted to the Commissioner of Pensions. You will please communicate to me, the result of your investigation in reference to the object sought to be obtained by them.  I have known Mr France for some years & he is respectable and ignorant of his service. I have frequently heard of his losses during the late Revolutionary War as the destruction of his house and other property by Indians or Tories. 
[[illegible signature]
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J. L. Edwards Esquire
Pension office at the War Department
City of Washington

[vertical text]
[illegible]
Wilhelmus France
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Sir
In behalf of Wilhelmus France whose Certificate has been in my hands for some time past in compliance with your Directions contained in a Letter to Nicholas Sickles which he has just sent to me Directions to the Pensions Office his original Pension certificate, the new certificate I wish you to cause to be issued to me
Yours &c
[signed] [first name illegible, but poss. Lucas] Elmendorf
Kingston Ulster County June [day illegible] 1834 

J. L. Edwards Esq
U S Pension Office
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Payments to be made
at New York
by Presd U.S.B. Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners,
in the Agency of

New York

Recorded by Geo C Stiles
Clerk, in Book D [illegible]
page 88
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WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Revolutionary Claim 
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Wilhelmus France of the State of New York who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive Eighty dollars per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1834 and payable semi annually on the at 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year

Given at the War Office of the United States this 21st day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
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Wilhelmus France, Ulster Co. NY Act 7 June 1832, 
56.66 per ann [annum]
To what time was he last paid 
paid to 4 March 1848 
W Tyson
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[mathematical calculation]
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Saugerties, Augt 19th 1848

Dr Sir 
Enclosed I send you an other declaration for a pension, if correct you will please enclose the necessary papers directed to me at Saugerties Ulster County New York and oblige 
Your Obt Servt
[signed] J. P. Foland

Hon J. S. Edwards
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Payment to be made 
At New York
by the Presdt Mechanic’s Bk.
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency New York

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book [illegible]  Vol. 4[?] Page 23 by [illegible] 
Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, Wilhelmus France of the State of New York who was a Private in the War of the Revolution

is entitled to receive Fifty Six dollars and sixty six cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semi annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year  This certificate issued in lieu of one dated 14th January 1833 which is cancelled.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven

[Signed] J Poinsett
Secretary of War
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State of New York
Ulster County Ss

On this seventeenth day of August 1848 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the said county Hannah Price a resident of the town of Kingston in the County of Ulster aforesaid aged Eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2nd day of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolution War.  That she is the widow of Wilhelmus France, the identical person who was a pensioner and is now died, and to whom a certificate of pension was issued which is herewith surrendered, that the deceased pensioner resided in the Said Town of Kingston for the space of ninety two years, his whole natural life with the exception of about two years previous to last fall, during which time he lived in Greene County in the State aforesaid, that the said Wilhelmus France  died in July last past.  The deponent declares that she was married to Wilhelmus France previous to the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety four and that she is still a widow. 

Hannah France X her mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above within before me.  And I do also certify that the declarant is personally known to me and is entitled to credit and that the words certified [illegible]  
Thos [Thomas]  Poland Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Ulster County Clerks office ss.
I Benjamin M Hasbrouck Clerk of the County of Ulster Do Hereby Certify That John P Foland Esq., is a Magistrate as within and that the Signature "John P Foland Justice of the Peace" purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this Eighteenth day of August 1848.
BM Hasbrouck, Clerk