Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,828, Evert Decker, New York

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New York
Decker, Evert
R2828

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Benjamin T Terwilliger [signature]
David Winfield [signature]
Abraham Sparks [signature]

John Jansen one of the judges &c [et cetera] as aforesaid

I John Jansen One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Ulster Do hereby declare that it is My 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. I further Certify that John A Bevier the Aforesaid Deponent is a Clergyman in the Church as aforesaid in Said Town - and that Benjamin Terwilliger David Winfield and Abraham Sparks the Aforesaid Deponents are highly respectable men and that the Statements of all the Aforesaid Deponents are entitled to the highest Credit.  And I do hereby further Certify that the Said Evert Decker the Said Applicant has Long been reported and generally believed to have been a revolutionary Soldier And I hereby further Certify that it appears Satisfactory to Me that it is [illegible] [illegible] for the Said Evert Decker to Attend Court from bodily infirmity & general debility.  Witness My hand this 16th Day of July 1832
the Words "& General debility) were Interlined in the Above
John Jansen [signature] One of the Judges &c

State of New York
County Clerks Office JS [initials]:  Ii, Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County of Ulster and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County do hereby certify that John Jansen Esquire was on the day of the dates of the foregoing Pension Application and Affidavits and Certificate a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly Commissioned and Sworn as such Judge.  And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe the Signatures "John Jansen" Subscribed to the said foregoing application of Evert Decker for a pension and the the aforesaid foregoing Affidavits and Certificate to be genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this twenty fourth day of July 1832.
Jacob Snyder [signature]

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Such circumstances as now occurs to him & to the 6th interrogator
he states that he now received a discharge in writing from the 
service - that from the 5 mo service in December 1777 he was discharged 
Colonel Paulding as aforesaid at which time the request was called
together & discharged.
To the 7th interrogation that he is acquainted with almost every inhabitant
of said town that Benjamin Terwilliger David Winfield ( )
can sparks & a number of others are on (concurrent) and know of the said 
Services as set forth that he is personally acquainted with the minister of 
the church in Shawangunk that he is and has been a member of 
said church in full communion for more than 20 years that he has 
been frequently an officer in said church.
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an 
-nuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the 
pension note of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
before me. Evert x mark Decker
John Jary One of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for
the county of Ulster ()
One of the Judges & as aforesaid 
We Benjamin Terwilliger David Winfield and Abraham Spacko inhabitated in
the Town of Shawangunk having carefully attended to the administering to the
said Evert Decker the said oath in his foregoing statement and having
carefully examined the same do i usually depose and say that
we are personally knowing the facts set forth therein that we have 
seen and know of the said services having been performed as therein
set forth that the said Evert Decker was a near neighbor & fellow
soldier - Virtuous and hardy this 16th day of July 1832
Sworn and Subscribed 
This said 16th day of July 1832
See over

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1st - Unpack and at Marbletown and New Town and Rochester and Wawasing - that he did not receive a regular discharge but was dismissed at Shawangunk - That next he was classed in the summer of 1778 from the regiment of Col. Hardenbergh for 1 month and served in the company of Capt Matthew Jansen on the frontier . that in the years 1779 & 1780 he was classed from the same Regiment. for at lest 6 times (and more) for the term of one month each time and placed under the Command of Capt. Robinson and Captain Matthew Jansen and served on the frontier as aforesaid that when he was under Capt. Robinson he was in the Regiment of Col Johanns Jansen and when in the company of Capt Matthew Jansen he was in the regiment of Col Paulding that it is utterly out of his power to tell at what time of the year he was classed and served that it is so long ago and his memory has failed somuch that he cannot say more definitely at what time he served that his whole time of service as set forth was for 2 years 2 1/2 months for two years of which he claims a pension. That he was classed at the time in the year 1780 when the Celebrated Indian Thanks [illegible]. Made an attack upon the house of Col. [illegible]. That he & others followed the Indians across the mountain and found two young ladies & one old man they had carried along killed and scalped. That this deponent is now a resident of Shawangunk aforesaid that he has no documentary evidence of said service. That refer the [illegible] specially [illegible] by the said judge upon the said oath as aforesaid. That to the Interrogatories prescribed by the War department he answers to the first. That he was born in the Town of Kingston in the County of Ulster aforesaid in the year 1752 to the 2nd that his age is recorded in the Reformed Dutch Church in Kingston aforesaid that he was baptized by the Reverend W Monches that he has his age recorded in the family bible that the same sets forth that he was born the 16th day of October 1752. 3rd that he was living in Shawangunk aforesaid at the commencement of the Revolutionary War that he has lived there ever since except when in the service as aforesaid. 4th that he has detailed such circumstances as are embraced in said interrogatory in his foregoing statement. 5th That he has detailed a brief account of the ongoing in the said 5th Interrogatory in his foregoing statement and oath that in his first five months service he has detailed an account of said enquiries in the other services as above set forth he has embraced a general account of.

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State of New York and District of New York County of Ulster SS
On this 16th day of July 1832 personally appeared before me John Jensen one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Ulster County Evert Decker aged 80 years who being first 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 June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States  under the following  named officers and served as herein stated.
That in the month of June 1776 he was a volunteer in the  Regiment of New York Militia. That he volunteered in Shawangunk Ulster County for 5 months in the Company commanded by Capt. Gilespy in the Regiment of Col. Hardenbergh that he served for said time that he was marched from Shawangunk where he bolunteered to New York City. that he was d;uring said service in the battle of Brooklin Heights when the enemy first landed from Staten Island about August. That Gen Sullivan was in command in said engagement. That Maj Fisk was also there. That they returned from the said battle to New York City across the east river that the  next engagement he was in was in New York and was marched from thence to Kingbridge where he was sick. That from Kingbridge he was marched to White Plains. that he was in an engagement at that place about September. That General Washington was in command in said engagement. That from White Plains he was marched to Pesko Hill & from there to New Burgh and was then discharged. That none of the said company received a written discharge. That his next engagement was for 2 1/2 mosnths that he volunteered in Shawangunk under Lieutenant Commandant Brigs in the Regiment of Col Paulding. That he volunteered in Shawangunk and was marched to Remapen and Pyaumay in New Jersey at which places he served for said term. That he volunteered about the 1st of Jany. 1777 and was discharged at Remapen after said service.
That next in April 1777 he volunteered for one year in the company of Captain Matthew Hunter in the Town of Shawangunk in the Regiment of Colonel A. Paulding in regular militia service that the said company of Captain Hunter was employed during said term as a guard along the frontier and was sometimes divided in different places. That our duty was to guard the frontier along Shawangunk Mountains in Ulster and Sullivan County that during said years service he was in no regular battles but in [illegible] excursions after Indians and times that & part of said time he was at

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State of New York
County of Orange

be it known that on this 14th day of May AD 1856. Before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally aproned Isaac Decker resident of Pine Bush in said county, and made oath according to law that Evert Decker who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and who has heretofore made application for the pension act of - 
that he is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to the fold with such additional evidence or arguments as any agent may who in scope cuting said claim.
Countermanding and evoking all Powers of attorney and austerity heretofore given. I hereby constitute and appoint S.J. Bowen of Washington City my true and lawful attorney and propagate the claim of Evert Decker
for any amount of Revolutionary pension or incure of pension or any claim for Bounty law that may burden and I hereby authorize my said attorney to examine all papers or documents in to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere to file additional evidence or argument,  nd to recur for my exclusions benefit, the certificate that may be effort for said claim, which said certificate I wish made payable at the New York Agency to appoint one or more and to do all things that I might or could do much personally satisfying and confirming all my said attorney and agent shall lawfully do in the pension. 
Isaac Decker

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Sworn to Subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that I believe the said Isaac Decker    to the dincty inherited in said claim as set forth and to the inherited hath this alleged

 Orange County 
Clerk's Office 
SS. I, Chas Drake, Clerk of said County and the County Court of said County (a Court of Record,) do hereby certify that Henry Mole, Justice of the Peace whose name is subscribed to the annexed application this affidavit, was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace of said county, duly elected and qualified and having full power to take the same; and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe that the signature Henry Mole subscribed to the said declaration affidavit is genuine. In witness whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court and county, this 17 day of May 1856. 
Chas Drake, Clerk

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Sworn to  subscribed and acknowledged before me in the day and year above written and i hereby certify that I believe the said Isaac Decker    to the distinctly inherited in said claim as set forth, and to the identified party therin alleged the more Isaac Decker interlon as the evidence before signing. 
Henry Mole of the 
From in for Orange County

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Reg No
12-80 New York
Evert Decker
Revo.y. 2828
Suspended
See let to Hon le Bold
Apr 16, 1834
Set to Isaac Decker Oct 20 1843
" " H. H. Sylvester 16 Sep. 1864
" " Hon. T. McKissick 30 Apl 1850
Set 7 June '32

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1890 Nov 11
Mr. Beckweth - history personally  [illegible]
2828
Evert Decker
REJECTED

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Evert Decker
Joseph Ellis agent
Blooming Base Sullivan County NY

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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the last War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:
7th Oct 1780 Evert Decker priv $7.10 5 days
STATE OF NEW YORK, Comptroller's Office, Albany, Nov 25th, 1843
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 1, now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following offiers, viz:
First - under Capt. Matthew Jeansen in Col. Johannes Johnsons Regt.
Philip Phelps Dep Comptroller

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Evert Decker which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes. The judge certifies the inability, but does not state in what it consists
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled.
IV. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX.Has the Clerk given his certificate?
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other sea?

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. +If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she , or they are persons of credibility? Yes - but the witnesses do not give a detailed statement of the facts to which they intend to depose.
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an [illegible], as to have  a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. +Are the papers auth;enticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*Quere V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory,* state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, 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 his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For ____ year _____ months, and ____ days, I served as a _______. For ____ months and ____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New York
Decker, Evert
NUMBER
R.2828
CONTENTS

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Washington City Dec 9 1813
Sir
Send in some addl. inf. in the case of Everett Decker and William Holliday of N York claimants for pensions under the act of Jun 7 1832
[illegible[ Respectfully H.H. Sylvester
Hon J.L. Edwards

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Bloomingburgh Oct 17th 1843
Dear Sir
I wish you to re examine the pension papers of Everet Decker he aplyed under the act of 1832
You may find his name on his aplication writen Evert K B Decker he might not of aded the middle leters pleas answer the same to me. Isaac Decker
Yours Very Respectfully Hon JL Edwards

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J.L. Edwards Esq
Evert Decker died 1832 or 1833- shortly before his death proof of his services was sent to the Department by James N. Mitchell. Decker served in the Revolutionary War, and it is supported by his friends that he was an ensign during that war. 

Jacob Decker served during the Revolutionary war and he also served in 1814 in the Company of Capt. Thos Bruyn- Both these men were of the county of Ulster and State of New York. 

Their friends are poor and illiterate and note able to spend money to agents. On that account, I would respectfully request that these representatives may avoid whether they have claims on the government or not. Your obedient servant, T.M. Kissack

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REv. J.C. Broadhead
17 July 3I

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State of New York
County of Ulster
I john Jansen the aforesaid judge before whom aforesaid original declaration of Evert Decker the aforesaid deponent who has before me subscribed and sworn to the original declaration and named from this Pension Department marked as objectionable in the annexed "Brief Objections" No. 11. That the said judged at forth in what is a likely of the said Evert Decker consisted. I therefore is answer to the said Objection No 11 and is answering the said certificate by me on said original declaration do certify that the said Evert Decker appeared to me to my full satisfaction to be utterly unable to attend court which court is held 30 miles from the residence of the aforesaid deponent owing to infirmity and general debility apparent to my satisfaction the result of sick and old age. And I do further certify that it was consistent for the said Evert Decker to produce a Minister of the Gospel to certify the reported services and that the neighboring minister and pastor of the church to which the said Evert Decker a member was being socially settled in the congregation and can be expected to have an acquaintance sufficient for said certificate. 
3rd day of February 1833 John Jansen

United My hand this 
the Said Judge of Said County
of Ulster 

Ulster County 
Clerks Office SS I, Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County of Ulster and Clerk of the Court of Commonlaw of Ulster county do hereby certify that John Jansen was on the day of the date of the above certificate one of the judges of teh court of common law of Ulster County and that i am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge and verily believe his signature to the above certificate to be genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have here unto subscribed my name and the seal of said court and county this thirtieth day of March 1834. Jacob Snyder.

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I Abraham Sparks a Resident of Shawangunk in Ulster County New York after being duly sworn according to law do depose and say that I was intimately acquainted with Evert Decker of the Town of Shawangunk an applicant for a pension under the Law of 7th of June 1832 that this deponent was present at the twice the application was subscribed and sworn to by the said Evert Decker before John Jansen Judge of that the deponent is aged 70 years that he is sworn a Revolutionary Pension of the united States that he knew Evert Decker above named at the time of the Revolutionary War that department that he Evert Decker did in the Spring of the year 1776 volunteer for 5 months as a private in the company of Capt. Gilespy in the regiment of Col. Hardenbergh and did serve said term in the neighborhood of New York and White Plaines. i do also know that in the month of April 1777 he did volunteer for 12 months in the company of Captain Matthew hunter in the Regiment of Col. Paulding and did serve for said term of 12 months along the frontier of Shawagunk Mountain. that this deponent knows further that in the years 1779 and 1780 he the said Evert Decker was claped for several terms of attack and did serve under Capt. Robinson in the Regiment of Col Johanus Jansen and in the company of Capt. Matthew Jansen and Col. Paulding's Regiment that the age of the said Evert Decker is about 82 years and further this deponent saith not. Abraham Sparks

Sworn and Subscribed
this 5th day of September 1833
Before me James N. Mitchell Commsioner of Judges

I David Winfield a Resident of Shawangunk in Ulster County New York after being duly sworn accoring to law to depose and say that I am aged 74 years that from teh time I was a small boy I have been intimately acquainted with Evert Decker who has subscribed to and been sworn a declaration in order to obtain a pension before John Jansen by one of the judges in and for the county of Ulster that I do know that in the spring of the year 1776 he did volunteer for 5 months in the Company commanded by Capt. Gilespy in the Regiment of Col. Hardenbergh and did serve for said time in the State of New York. That I also know that in the fall of the year 1776 he that said Evert Decker did volunteer for 2 1/2 months under Lieutenant Commander Boyne in the Regiment of Col. Paulding and did serve for said term of time at Ramapo and Pyreming in New Jersey- that in the month of April 1777 he  the said Evert Decker did volunteer for 12 months in the company of Capt Matthew hunter in teh Town of Shawagunk in the Regiment of Col. Albert paulding and did serve for said term of time aforesaid along the frontier of Shawagunk Mountains. That I well know that said Evert Decker did serve for several terms of Clap duty of the month at a time and in the command of

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of Capt. Matthew Jansen in the Regiment of Col. Johanus Jansen on teh frontier in teh years 1778-1779 and 1780- I fully believe to the full extent of 6 months that I cannot set fortht he dates of the said services that I was myself not with him several times in the same service- that the said Evert Decker was an active and different soldier- and did much more militia duty in Albany and that he was a very near neighbor of mine and we were intimate friends and further that this deponent saith not. 
Sworn to and Subscribed before me
this 5th day of September 1832
James N. Mitchell Commissioner of Deeds 
David Winfield 

I Benjamin T. Terwilliger a resident of Shawagunk in Ulster County Aged 78 years after being duly sworn according to law do depose and say that the fact set forth in the foregoing affidacit subscribed and sworn to by David Winfield- above are substantially true that I was a fellow soldier on the same service and well know the truth of the said deposition. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 5th day of September 1835
James N. Mitchell Commissioner of Deeds 
Benjamin T. Terwilliger
I James N. Mitchell, the said commissioner before whom the aforesaid Benjamin T. Terwilliger, David Winfield and Abraham Sparks were sworn do certify that I am personally acquainted with each of last deponents and that they are respectable men and allotted to full credit written by hand this 5th day of September 1835
James N. Mitchell
Commissioner of Deeds
Ulster County
Clersk Office SS. I Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County of Ulster and Clerk of the Court of Commonplace of Ulster county to hereby certify that James N. Mitchell was on the day of the dates of the annexed affidavits of Abraham Sparks, David Winfield, and Benjamin T. Terwilliger- a commissioner of Deeds in and for said county duly authorized to take affidavits and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said commissioner and verify the signatures of said commissioners to the certificates of the aforesaid three affidavits to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have here unto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court and county this thirteenth  day of March 1834. Jacob Snyder