Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23101, John Gibson, New York

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Livingston County SS. Donald McDonald Merchant of Caledonia
in said County and Alexander Simpson Farmer of the same place, severally aged more than forty years, being duly sworn depose and do say, - that they have each been acquainted with John Gibson who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration, for him the said McDonald for the last fifteen years or more, and by him the said Simpson for the last thirty
years or more, they severally having lived for the most part of said periods
in the same town with the said Gibson, that they believe the said Gibson to be seventy six years of age or more - That he
is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that they concur in that opinion
And they, the said deponents do further say that, the said Gibson lives in a back and [retired?] part of the Town, and
has so lived since his residence in the town of Caledonia in said County of Livingston - that he is much at home and has
but little intercourse with the Inhabitants of said town who are mostly emigrants from Scotland since the revolution
[illegible] whom the revolution and its incidents are seldom spooken [spoken] of. That there are two clergymen residing in said
town, one of whom is an emigrant from Scotland long after the revolution, and the other not having resided in the
town more than about six years - that from the infirm State of the said Gibson's health, and his retired situation and habits, and from the other circumstances above stated, we are informed & believe, that the said Clergyman, [feell?] and declare a reluctance to give the certificate required, from their want of a clear and distinct knowledge of the matters to be certified
to - and from our knowledge of all the facts and circumstances of the case, both as it respects the situation of the said Gibson
and the habits and situation of the said Clergymen, that their inability to certify is well founded-
Sworn & Subscribed this
17th day of January AD 1833
before me, Willard M. Smith first 
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in
& for the County of Livingston
[signed] Donald M. Donald
[signed] Alexander Simpson

I, Willard M. Smith First Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas in and for the County of Livingston, State of

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John Gibson Alby. Act 7 June 1832
to what time paid.
Pen office
April 27 1839

pd to 4 Sep 1836
JH

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To Giles F. Yates, Esq

Margaret Gibson
Widow of John Gibson--claim for arrears from 4 March 1836 to 26 Sept. 1836-
NY
Act 7. July 38
80$ from 4 March '36 to 26 Sept. 36
G.F. Yates
Atty