Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,940, Jacob Horn, Continental New York Agency And Residence
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Continental | Horn, Jacob | S, 44.940
BLW - 1898-100
New York agency and residence
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16.944 R
New York
Jacob Horn
of Windham in the state of N York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Hazen of the Pennsylvania
line, for the term of 16 months War

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on 
the 20 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of May
1820
and sent to Munsen Buel
Catskill, New York.

Arrears to 4th of March 1820 $179.96
Semi-anl. all'ce endign 4 Sept 48
22m' 11/30 4/31
$227.96

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

Continued
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State of New York
Green County SS On the fifth day of September 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record called the Common Pleas Court for the County of Green, Jacob Horn aged sixty six resident of the town of Windham in the County of Green who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declareth that he served in the revolutionary war as follows In Captain Loyds Company in the Congress regiment so called and that the original declaration of the said Jacob Horn for the benefits of the Act of Congress entitled an Act for to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War bears date the twentieth day of April 1818 to the best of his knowledge and belief and I inscribed on the pension List Roll of the New York agency by certificate Number 16 947 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale of in any other manner whatever disposed of my profits or any part thereof with intent thereby to so diminish and bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress Entitled an Act to provide or certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States for the revolutionary war passed the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property [illegible], contracts or debts due me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
Inventory of property
I have no Income
I have no deed or lease of any real property in my own or trust right or treasury
Personal Property
Two broken tin pail kettles of some worth $3.50
One iron pott worth 1.00
One trowel and tin shovel and frying pan 2.00
One storm gugg and pott and three old pails 1.62
Four earthen bowls and one earthen coffee pot .67
One pair small flatt irons one churn two or three old broken knives + forks an old Basin .94
One old Hogg pail some old Churts 1.50
Five old chairs 1.25
One old wheel and chart 1.37
One old old saddle and bridle 1.10
Two small piggs .75
One old half bushel two old barrels 1.12
One old horse collar and iron wedge 1.19
$16.91
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I have a wife whose name is Elizabeth aged fifty seven I have two sons living with me under age and one daughter named Elizabeth who is thirty two years old who was married to Obadiah Murray who inlisted in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve in Major Forsiths Rifle Company and has never returned since she has one child with her she lyes on my + hands for support who has been sick for many years unable to do any thing of state my oldest son I named Jeremiah aged eighteen Jacob aged fifteen my wife has been sick for more than three years has not been able to do but very little in the family I have to trade or [illegible] am a common labourer I have for some years unable to do but very little Labour and for more than one year past have been unable as my Labour having a complaint upon me which the doctors call the Consumption which will I expect soon carry me out of this world I have no other means of support other than what I set fourth here and I do really stand in need for the assistance of my country for support.
Jacob Horn
X
His mark
 
Sworn this 5th day of September
1820 in Open Court
Charles C Abeel Dept Clerk
The Court estimates the pentioners property contained in his inventory at sixteen dollars ninety one cents [illegible] September 5 1820
Thomas E Baker
Munson Buel
Benjamon Haxton
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I Wm VanBergan Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in + for the county of Greene Do certify that the ongoing oath + the schedule there to annexed are truly correct + I do further certify that is the Opinion of the said Court that the [illegible] account of value of the property exposited in the aforesaid schedule as sixteen Dollars ninety one cents In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand + affixed the sesal of the said court on the 5th Day of September 1820
Wm Van Bergan Clk
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Memorandum of the personal property of Jacob Horn A Pentioner 
Two broken tin pail Iron kettle, worth $3.50
One iron pott worth 1.00
One trowel one fine shovel and frying pan 2.00
One storm gugg and pot and pott and three old pails 1.62
Four earthen bowls, one earthen pott coffee pott .67
One pair small flatt irons one Churn two or three old knives and forks and one old basin  .94
One old Hogg pail and some old churts .50
Five old chairs 1.25
One old wheel and chart 1.37
One old saddle and bridle 1.10
Two small piggs .75
Half Bushel Two old barrels 1.12
One old Horse Collar one Iron Wedge 1.10
Total amount $16.91
As witness our Hands
David Bell
David S Richmond
Peter Horn
Jeremiah Horn

State of New York
Green County SS David Bell David S Richmond Peter Horn and Jeremiah Horn of the town of Windham in the County of Green and state of New York depose and say that they have been acquainted with Jacob Horn for a number of years and am personally acquainted with the family and communities of the said Jacob Horn well known him to be a very poor and needy person with a family he has a wife by the name of Elizabeth and three children under the age of twenty one he has one daughter who was married to one Obadiah Murray who we are informed inlisted under Major Forsith in his Rifle Company about the month of August one thousand eight hundred and twelve and has never since she has one child with her she is and has been for four or five years much out of health and has nothing to depend upon but what the said Jacob gives her in support with her child and that the said Jacob is a very weak and infirm old man unable to do but very little for his other support. We further swear that we verily believe that the said Jacob Horn possesses no real property by deed or lease in his own or with rights. If so we must have known it we think we further swear that we have been called upon to apprise the personal property of the said Jacob Horn we have been to his House and an Inventory has been made out of all his goods and Chattels of every name and nature as we verily believe to be true from our own knowledge and from the information of all his neighbors which Inventory is made out on the head of this page articles named and carried out with the price and value [illegible] we do further swear that the Inventory so apprised is the full amount in Value which is in the aggregate valued at sixteen dollars and ninety one cents
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And no more excepting his bedding necessary for his family and wearing apparel the said David S Richmond has not been acquainted with he said Jacob so long as the other witnesses
And further saith not
David Bell
David S Richmond
Peter Horn
Jeremiah Horn

Sworn and subscribed this 28th day of August 1820 before me Munson Buel one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for the County of Green 
State of N.Y.
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Jacob Horn, Copy
Horn
10.947

Chal. C. Abeel
Catskill

Nov 14
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The People of the State of New York to all to whom these presents shall come or may concern… [illegible]

Know ye that we having inspected the Record & proceedings remaining in the office of our Surrogate of the County of Greene do find there a Certain Record in the records & figures following to wit- “The last will and Testament of Jacob Horn of the town of Windham County of Greene and state of New York… In the name of God Amen. I Jacob Horn considering the uncertainty of the mortal life and being of sound mind & memory (blessed be God for the same) do make + publish this my last will + Testament in manner + form following (that is to say, I will & bequeath that all my Just debts and funeral expenses shall be paid out of my personal property. I first bequeath unto my beloved wife Elizabeth all my real Estate while she lives & after her death I will & bequeath unto my youngest son Jacob Horn Junr. all my property both real + personal to have + to hold as his own forever providing that he pay (or cause to be paid to each + every of my children after the decease of myself + wife the sum of one dollar to wit, To my son John one dollar To my Daughter Caty one dollar To my daughter Betsey one dollar to my Daughter Hannah one dollar to my son Peter one dollar To my daughter Peggy one dollar to my daughter Jane one dollar to my daughter Amy one dollar to my Daughter Julie one dollar to my Daughter Mary Anne one dollar To my Son Jeremiah one dollar. And I do hereby appoint my wife Executors & my friend Samuel M Garcy Executor administrator of my last will & Testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
Signed sealed published + declared by the above named Jacob Horn to be his last will + Testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the Testator
Abijah Daty
Ezra Desbrow
Rival Blair

Jacob Horn
X
His mark

Be it Remembered that at a Surrogate’s Court held at the town of Catskill in the County of Greene on the 10th day of April 1832 before me Dorrance Kirtland Surrogate of the said county the foregoing
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Last will & testament of Jacob late of the said county was duly proved before me by the oaths of Abijah Daty + Ezra Desbrow two of the subscribing witnesses to the said will who respectively made oath that they saw the testator Jacob Horn execute the said will + publish + declare the same one his last will + testament + that the said Testator was at the time of such Execution of sane mind memory + understanding.
Dorrance Kirtland

All which we have caused by these [illegible]. [illegible] the seal of office o and said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed witness Dorrance Kirtland Esq Surrogate of the said County of Greene at Catsakill in said County the eleventh day of October 1832
Dorrance Kirtland
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John Horn

I William Van Bergan Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Greene and State of New York Do Certify that Munson Buel was a Judge of Said Court on the twentieth day of April 1818. That I am well acquainted with his Hand writing and that the signature of the said Judge to the above affidavit or Declaration of John Horn is Genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court aforesaid this 21st day of May 1818.

Wm Van Bergan Clerk 
[crossed out: John Horn]
A private
Congress, or Hazen’s regiment.
20. April, 1818.
Jacob Horn
White’s Cy May ‘78

Deserted 19 Dec ‘78
Joined February 1782
Inadmissible
Pension
Certificate cannot be granted unless the Judge is satisfied that from the reduced circumstances of the applicant he requires the support of the country + will annex his certificate thereof.
Munson Bue, Esq.
Judge,
Lexington, Green Co:
New-York
Rec’d. 27.May, 1818.
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Green County SS I Munson Buel one of the Judges of the court aforesaid do Certify from the Testimony of Jacob Horn and the oath of Jesse Blakeslee for the witness Jesse Blakeslee in no shape interested for the avail of this application and do further Certify that I have been personally acquainted with the said Jesse Blakeslee for a number of years and do know him to be a man of truth and veracity and I am satisfied that from the reduced circumstances of the applicant he needs the assistance of his country for support
Munson Buel
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State of New York
Green County SS On the Twentieth day of April in the Year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscribed one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Green and State of New York personally appeared John Horn Resident in the Town of Windham in the County of Green and state aforesaid aged sixty four who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the provisions made by the 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 the said John Horn was taken prisoner at Bennington a Soldir under General Burgoin after being taken Inlisted in the month of June in the year one thousand seven Hundred and seventy eight in the state of New York in the Company Commanded by Captain Loyd in the Regiment called the Congress Regiment that he continued to serve in the said Corps about nine months and he there left the service and went back to the British Troops and there remained until Cornwallas was taken and he was carried a prisoner to Lancaster in Pennsylvania accidentally at his arrival there heard of the Proclamation of his Excellency General Washington at that time given and offering a free pardon and restoration to all deserters from the American Army who would return to their Regiment, and duty and service the said John Horn says that he immediately returned to his Company and Regiment and was restored and there continued to serve in the said Corps In the service of the United States untill peace took place In the month of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty three when he was honourable discharged from the service at New Windsor in the state of New York andthat he is now in reduced Circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and has no other Evidence now in his possession of his service but the affidavit of Jesse Blakeslee accompany the proceeding.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Munson Buel

I Munson Buel one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the COunty of Green and State of New York aforesaid do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that he said John Horn did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and Testimony taken and heard before me to the secretary for the war department persistent to the discretion of the aforementioned Act of Congress given under my hand and the seal of the Court the twentieth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Munson Buel
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Jacob Horn
No. 1898
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PRINTED AT THE ENVOY OFFICE, HUDSON, (N.Y.)

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

State of New York
County of Greene SS.

I Jacob Horn, Son and heir 
at Law, to Jacob Horn deceased, do upon oath, testify and
declare, that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, Jacob Horn,
aforesaid, about, or in Year, 1777 entered, or enlisted into the service of the United
States, for the term of "During the War:" and, that, he served in Regiment No.
of the Infantry Line, commanded by Colonel Hazen,
and that, he continued in the service aforesaid, until the close of the War, when he was reg-
ularly discharged from the said Regiment of the Infantry Line
commanded by Colonel Hazen; I further declare that said Jacob
Horn died at Windam in said county in the year 1830
and that he was a a Revolutionary Pensioner at the time
of his disecase
I further declare, that
I have never received a Warrant for the Bounty Land promised to Jacob Horn
aforesaid, on the part of the United States, nor do I believe he has ever received it, or
transferred his claim, in any manner, whatsoever:—
THEREFORE KNOW
All Men, By These Presents, that I Jacob Horn aforesaid, do hereby
constitute and appoint LEWIS WAKELEY, of Greeneville, in the State of New-York, to
be my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name, to demand and receive, from the 
Secretary of War, of the United States, a Warrant for the quantity of Land due to me and
to the other heirs of Jacob Horn as aforesaid. In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my  and seal, this
day of April 1832
his
Jacob X Horne
mark

County of Greene - SS.
Personally appeared before me Stephen Tryon a Justice
of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid Jacob Horn subscriber
to the above declaration, who acknowledged the power of Attorney therto subjoined, to be
his free act and deed; and likewise made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing 
declaration. Dated this tenth day of April 1832.
Stephen Tryon, Justice of 
the Third

STATE OF New York
County of Greene SS.
In testimony that the above written
Stephen Tryon was a Magistate, duly authorized to administer oaths,
and take acknowledgments, &c. in the State of New York at the above
date, and that his name there subscribed, appears to be his usual signature; I have here-
unto affixed the Seal of the said County and subscribed my name, at Catskill
this 26th day on May 1832.
William T.B. Heermance.
Clerk of Greene County.
State of New York.
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Albany Decemr 1st 1832

Sir

I hereby acknowledge the receipt of Bounty Land Warrant No 1898 issued to “Elizabeth Horn “widow and devisee of Jacob Horn deceased, in trust, for “the benefit of Jacob Horn Junr Son and desiree of said Jacob “Horn deceased, who was a Soldier of Hazens Regiment of the Army of the American Revolution
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Sims Wakeley

William Gordon Esq
Bounty Land Office
War Department
Washington
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44940
Rej INVALID
File No. 44940
Jacob Horn
Priv. Rev. War.

Act: 18 “ March 1818
Index:- Vol. 3, Page 233
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Jesse Blakeslee of Windham in the county of Green and State of New York being duly sworn Deposeth and saith that in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one he was acquainted with Jacob Horn and was present at the time the said Jacob Horn joined the regiment called the Congress regiment & that he was taken prisoner with him untill - and that he served in said regiment untill it was regularly discharged at New Windsor in the state of New York
Jesse Blakeslee
X
his mark

State of New-York
Green County SS Sworn this 20th day of April 1818 Before me Munson Buel one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Green, and state of New-York
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State of New York
Green County SS I, Jesse Blakeslee of the town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York deposeth and saith That at the time that General Cornwallas was taken in Virginia by the American Army he belonged to Captain William Munson Company in Colonel Hazens Regiment called Congress Regiment he well knows that Jacob Horn who is about to make an application for a pention did Leave his Company and Regiment and went to the british army as he supposes and was so said he well knows that there was a general Proclamation given out and read the the Head of the regiment he belonged To and the american Army In General given and by His Excellency General Washington offering free pardon and restoration to all those that had deserted and left their Companies and service that If they would Return to their Respective Corps and duty they should receive a pardon this deponent says this proclamation was given out a few days after General Cornwallas Army arrived at
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Lancaster in Pennsylvania from York Town in Virginia and this deponent further says that within a few days after the proclamation was given out and before the time limited for their return he see the said Jacob Horn when he returned to Colonel Hazen and his Company he knows that the Colonel and Captain both received him and made the proclamation and said his pardon was granted that he must return to his Company on a duty that he was present and see and heard all this from the said offices and this deponent further says that he well knows that he did return to his Company and duty and did perform duty as a good and faithful soldier for one year and six months or thereabouts afterwards and at the Close of the War had an honourable discharge from service at New Windsor in the State of New York that this deponent was a soldier in the same Regiment during the time this deponent says that this proclamation was Called Lady Washingtons proclamation
Jesse Blakeslee
X
His mark

Sworn before me the 25th day of August 1819
[illegible] a Commissioner for taking affidavits in the County of Green and state of New York
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State of New York
Green County SS Jacob Horn of the Town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York deposeth and saith that he formerly belonged to the Hessian Troops that he was taken a prisoner at Bennington by the American Army. That he soon after inlisted into the American service and continued to serve about nine months in the said service and then Left the American army and wwent back to the British army and there continued untill Cornwallis was taken and that he was carried a prisoner to Lancaster in the state of Pennsylvania immediately after his arrival at Lancaster he heard of the proclamation of His Excellency General Washington offering free pardon and restoration to all those who had left the service deserters who would return to their duty this deponent says that he immediately returned to his Company and regiment. That he went to his Colonel Hazen and to his Captain who told him to go to his Company and duty as usual that he was pardoned and this deponent says that he continued to serve in said Company and Regiment one
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Year and six months afterwards and that ge was then Honourably discharged at New Windsor in the State of New York and further saith not.
Jacob Horn
Sworn before me this twenty fifth day of August 1819
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I Munson Buel Judge as aforesaid do certify that John Horn has resided within a few miles of me for a number of years and from what I can learn and know of his circumstances he is about as poor as a man can be and live or stay
Lexington 8th of Oct 1819 Munson Buel
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I Munson Buel as aforesaid do Certify that the name of the applicant is Jacob Horn and not John this was a mistake of mine made in making out the declaration in having a son of that name
December 7 1819 from Jan 
Lexington Heights
Munson Buel
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Will the Judge, be so polite, as to state whether the applicant’s name is John or Jacob- each name is applied to him, and untill, one or the other is fixed as his name it is impossible, to act on the application

John Horn
Private
78 to 83
Hazen Congress Regt
[crossed out: Lexington N. York]
Hazen Regt.

X The name is Jacob
See certificate herewith

X [crossed out: Is the applicants name John or Jacob each are used, John in the first part of a declaration and Jacob elsewhere]

[illegible] 1818 Windham