Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4,164, Abraham Goutches, New York
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(8-1776)

SERVICE                                                  NUMBER

New York (3)      Goutches, Abraham      R 4,164
                          or Gortches
                          Gortchius, Rachel

CONTENTS
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No 12093
Rachel Goutches
           Abraham
N.Y.
Act. 7 July '38

Vs. Hon. JB V.s caveat.
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State of New York   Rockland County
Township of Clarks Town ss:

On this twenty fourth day of May 1845 personally appeared before me --
Joseph P Brower a Justice of the peace in the town and the county aforesaid
Rachel Goutches the Widow of Abraham Goutches deceased, and who is now a resident of the State, County and Township aforesaid and who is now an applicant for a pension in virtue of the services of her said husband which were rendered the United States in the war of the Revolution and she[,] the said widow and subscriber hereto, having petitioned for her pension through the Agency of a Abr C A Lay - of the City of Kew Garden. Sometime in or during the year 1844 = and having had no report therefrom or information on or pertaining to the same since that time, she does hereby impower substitute and appoint WH Harrison of New York as her lawfull attorney and agent in these premises to attend the securing for her her pension according to law, and she does hereby revoke all former powers of attorney to the abovenamed C A Lay or any other person that she has or may have given for the above purpose and the new request that, all subsequent Business and Communications pertaining to her claim for a pension may be conducted by or through WH Harrison her present agent for that business and she does hereby request the department, at their earliest convenience, to communicate to her said agent, all the facts and particulars appertaining to the same --
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And she does father [further] request should there be any deficiency of proof in support of her claim that, the same may be made known to her through her same agent --
                                                                             her
Sworn to and subscribed                        Rachel    X   Goutches
on the day and year                                             mark
above written
Joseph P. Brower
Justice of the peace
----------------------------------
State of New York
County of Rockland

I Abraham Hogenkamp, Clerk of the said County do Hereby Certify that 
Joseph P. Brower Esq. before whom the affidavit of Rachel Goutches was taken, was at the time of taking the same Justice of the peace in and for said County Commisioner + sworn and duly authorized to take the same and further that his signature is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County the 3rd day of June 1945.
Abm Hogenkamp, Clerk
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State of New Jersey
Passaic County          ss:

On this eighth day of October ... in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five personally appeared in open court before the Superior Court of Common Pleas held in and for said County Lydia A Bell aged fifty-six years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law declares that she is a daughter and an heir at law of Rachel Goutches and Abraham Goutches -- She says that she is now the legally appointed administratrix of the estate of her mother the aforesaid Rachel Goutches as will more fully appear by papers hereto annexed  She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining pension money that is due to the aforesaid Rachel Goetches, she says that said Rachel Goutches died at Clarkstown in Rockland County in the State of New York on the ninth day of May in the year Eighteen hundred and forty-seven that there are now four of the children of said Rachel Goetches the aforementioned whose names are Lydia A Bell [,] Letty Housewell [,] Hannah Blackett and Phebe Knapp -- that these are all the children of said Sarah Goetches now alive[.]  She makes this declaration for the purpose
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of obtaining the benefit of the act of the 7 of July 1838 -- She says that she has not ever applied for said pension previous to these presents but that she believes that her mother did make an application in her lifetime She says that as near as she can learn her father and mother were married at Clarkstown in Rockland County in the State of New York on the tenth day of May in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty-nine.
                                                                             her
Sworn to and subscribed                      Lydia  A    X    Bell
before me the day and year                                mark
first above written

Peregrine Sandford Judge
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John Wrigley and Benjamin D Doremus [spelling unclear] who being each of them duly sworn according to law depose and say that they are acquainted with Lydia A Bell who has made oath to the foregoing affidavit that she now resides in Passaic County in the State of New Jersey that these deponents also reside in said County that said Lydia A Bell is the same person [erasure: is the person] that she has represented herself to be in the above affidavit [.] They further testify that they are not interested in this claim or in the prosecution of the same.

Sworn to and subscribed                         John Wrigley
before me the day and year                    Benjamin D Doremus
last above written and I
certify that I am not interested
in this claim or with its prosecution[.]
I further certify that there was
one erasure made in this affidavit 
before it was sworn to[.]

JW Benson
Justice of the peace
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State of New Jersey
Passaic County            ss:

I Silas D. Canfield, Clerk of the said County of Passaic, do hereby certify that Peregrine Sandford was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, at the time the first affidavit on this sheet was sworn to before said court and that his signature to said affidavit is genuine[.]   I further certify that John Bensen before whom the joint affidavit on this sheet was sworn to was at the time said affidavit was sworn to was a justice of the peace in the County and State aforementioned duly qualified by law to administer oaths and that his signature to said Joint Affidavit is genuine[.]

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Patterson in the State of New Jersey this eighth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty-five.

[stamp]                                  Silas D Canfield
                                                               Clerk
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No 12093
Rachel Goutches
NY

WH Harrison    Aug 11/45
DDT Benedict   Sept. 3/56

Act 7 July 1938
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[lined out:  Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873]

4464
P.O.
Rachel Goutches
Service:

Enlisted:  REJECTED  ____________, 18
Discharged:   ____________________, 18
Application filed:   ______________, 18

Alleges:


Re-enlisted:


Attorney:
P.O.

________ Recognized.     ________ Contra
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Dear sir

I have been informed Rachel Goetchous widow of Abraham Goetchous is applying for a pension.  I was well acquainted with Abraham and am acquainted with Rachel[.]  She resides now in our town, Clarkstown.  Abraham has often told me he in the Revolutionary war was out in and about Newark New Jersey garding [guarding] and scouting against the British forces and he did every opportunity, smuggel'd [smuggled] cattle and supplied them with beef all he could.  He stated he got a great deal of money from them and had several times almost been caught by the Americans.  She is the second wife of Abraham Goetchous[.]

Clarkstown, June 10 '45                             Yours with great respect
J. L. Edwards                                                J. B. Van Houton
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Gallipolis Ohio Aug. 27/56

Hon Sir, inclosed you will find Evidence in the claim of Rachel Goetchess widow of Abraham Goetchess to a pension under act of July 7th 1838[.] please send your answer to and at this place[.]

Yours Respectfully
Daniel D T. Benedict

 



Hon J Minot
Com. of Pensions
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Jas L Edwards Esq.

Sir I herewith send you the revocation and transfer of Rachel Goutches together with the power of attorney authorizing me to attend to her claim for a pension And will you please inform me if her claim has been asserted and if so, what if any report has been made on the same, 

                            And thus oblidge, Yours, 
New York             Respectfully,
June 11, 1845      Wm H Harrison
                            [address]
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Rockland County  )
Surrogates Office  ) s:

I Edward Pye Surrogate of Rockland County, State of New York do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me that Abraham Goetchuis and Rachel Goetchuis his wife are dead and that Lydia A Bell Letty Howell Hannah Blawvelt and Phebe Knapp are their only living children by their marriage, that said Abraham Goetchuis died at Clarkstown in Rockland County aforesaid on the fifteenth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of the Surrogates Court at Clarkstown this eighteenth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six

[seal]          Edward Pye Surrogate
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Letters of Administration                                                    Sold by Janesne & Bell
EXCELSIOR [seal]

The People of the State of New-York, TO
Letty Ann Bell a daughter of Abraham Goetchuis of Clarkstown
County of Rockland State of New York
deceased intestate
Send Greeting:

WHEREAS the said deceased, at the time of his death, was an inhabitant of the County of Rockland ---
by means whereof the ordering and granting administration of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased, and also the auditing, allowing and final discharging the account thereof, doth appertain unto us; and we being desirous that the said goods, chattels, and credits may be well and faithfully administered, applied, and disposed of, do grant unto you the said 

          Letty Ann Bell

full power by these presents, to administer and faithfully dispose of all and singular the said goods, chattels and credits; to ask, demand, recover, and receive the debts which unto the said deceased whilst living, and at the time of his death, did belong; and to pay the debts which the said deceased did owe, so far as such goods, chattels, and credits will thereto extend, and the law require: hereby requiring you to make, or cause to be made, a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased, which shall or have come to your hands, possession or knowledge; and the same so made to exhibit, or cause to be exhibited, into the office of the Surrogate of the said County, at or before the expiration of three months from the date hereof, and that you obey all orders of the said Surrogate; touching the administration  of the said estate, and render a just and true account of administration, when thereunto required; And we do by these presents depute, constitute, and appoint you the said 

          Letty Ann Bell

Administratrix of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits which were of the said deceased,

In Testimony whereof, we have caused the seal of office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed.  

[seal]

Witness, Edward Pye Surrogate of the said County, at his office in Clarkstown the eighteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.

Edward Pye 
Surrogate