Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 25065, for John Spoor, New York

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Service: New York

John Spoor
Rachel

Number: W25065

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9809
R

New York

John Spoor of Pompey in the state of N. York who was an Ensign in the regiment commanded by Colonel Van Schaick of the New York line, for the term of three years.

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

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th of April 1819 and sent to Joshua Forman (illegible), Onondaga hollow, N. York

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 9 mo's, 23/91. 198.06
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819        120.00
                                                                   $318.06

Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818

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(illegible) (illegible) to J. Forman, (illegible) 5 June 1822

Syracuse, N.Y.

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Reported at Hon H.S. Conger 2 July 1850

New York, Albany 536
Rachel Spoor

widow of John Spoor
who was an Ensign
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 240 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of June 1843 and sent to Johnson Hale
Syracuse, N. York

Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol 1
Page 113

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3047
4249

Application of Rachel Spor for a pension under the act of July 7, 1835.

v M  8 March 1781

Ad'D 1 July 1837

Admitted
Ensign 2 years

For further information if required - (illegible) Virtury (illegible) regt master at (illegible) Onondaga Co, New York, (illegible) whom the certificate is granted may be (illegible) for the applicant.

(illegible name)

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"The Eighth of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one John Spoor and Rachael Fris were married."

State of New York
Columbia County ss.

I Richard Sluyter do hereby certify that I am the Regular Pastor of the first Reformed Dutch Church in the town of Claverack and the successor in the ministry of the said Church to the Rev. John G. Gibherd, and I do further certify that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Church the original of which extract is in the hand writing of the said John G. Gibherd and that the above extract is a true copy of the said original Records with the exceptions of the date which is Expressed on the Records in (illegible) ligeble figures as follows  8th March 1781

I Richard Sluyter above named depose and say that I hold the office of Pastor of the first Reformed Dutch Church in the town of Claverack in the County of Columbia and State of New York and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Church with the exceptions above named as certified by me. 

Richard Sluyter

Subscribed and sworn before methis 3rd day of December 1838 and I certify that the above deponant is well known to be as a credible witness
Peter Snyder, Justice

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State of New York
Onandago County: On this seventeenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty-eight, personally appeared before the [subretey] a Judge of the Court of ? in the County of Onandago. Aforesaid this court of record. Rachel Spoor a resident of the town of Lafayette in the County aforesaid aged eighty six years who was duly sworn according to law oath on her oath made in following [oulu] witness in order to abstain the benefit of the pensioner made by the art of [Cenngnp] dated July 7.  "on granting needs pay and pensioners certain widows" Here is the widow of John Spoor who was an ensign in the New York line of the Army [Newt the Oceer] not nedlrt in Regiment in  [nicla] and he renew on the length of he served. She believes he was while in the service during the Revolution and previously was afterward [?]. She  has Documentary or other proof by which his said pension can proceed. She knows That he applied for [determined] a previous from the government of United States for his said service and that he continued to draw his pension to the time of his death which was in July in the year eighteen hundred thirty four. That she is advised and believes that her said [?] must have moved his said [?]. Pensioners of the campaigner if pensionary at the time of  pensionary his said pension and she refers for proof after his service

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to the proof on which the said pension was granted. She further declares that she was married to the said John Spoor on the Eighth of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty one and that her husband the aforesaid John Spoor died on the first day of July in the year one thousand Eight hundred and thirty four - that she was not married
to him prior to his leaving the service but
the marriage took place previous to the
first of January in the year seventeen
hundred seventy four viz: at the time above noted.
Sworn to & Subscribed before me this Day and
year first above written and certify that I am
satisfied that the Deponent is unable from Bodily infirmity to have attended the Court of Common pleas personally to make the
said Declaration in open Court and 
I am satisfied that her Declaration is true and entitled to full credit
Johnson Hall
a Judge of Onondaga
Common Pleas
[signed by] Rachel Spoor

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State of New York 
Onondaga County SS: Polly Spoor [illegible cross out] (a) a resident of the town of [Pompey is crossed out] (B) Lafayette in the County and state aforesaid being duly sworn deponent saith that she has heard the above Declaration of Rachel Spoor & can attest she knows the contents thereof. That from her earliest recollections she has known the said John Spoor to long as he lived and the said Rachel to this time. They being her parents that from her earliest recollection they were known & reputed as husband & wife and were accepted and treated by respectable people of their acquaintance untill the death of the said John Spoor, attest while he lived they cohabited together as husband and wife from the earliest recollection of this deponent.
This Deponent knows that her said father was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818. at the Rate of two hundred & forty Dollars a year to the time of his Death
The Deponent further saith she knows that her said mother remains a widow not having married since the death of the said John Spoor & further this deponent saith not

"been" error at {a) 
"Pompey"  error at (B)
[Signed] Polly Spoor

Subscribed and sworn to before me this  7. Dec 1830 & I certify that I am acquainted with the above Deponent and that she is a credible witness
Johnson Hall Judge
of Onondaga Common Pleas

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State of New York
County of Onondaga SS:  I Elijah Rhoades Clerk of the County of Onondaga aforesaid & Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in & for the said County & keeper of the Seal of the said Court hereby certify that Johnson Hall & again before whom the within deposition or Declaration of Rachel Spoor was made & before whom the within Deposition of Polly Spoor was made is now & was at the time the said Depositions were made a Judge of the said Court of Common pleas in & for the said County duly commissioned & Sworn attest his authority under such commission was then & yet is in full force & that the said Court is a court of Record - I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Johnson Hall and that I am well satisfied that his official signatures to the said two within Depositions are his genuine Signatures In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand &  affixed the Seal of the said Court the same being the official seal of the Clerk of County of Onondaga this 25th day of December AD 1838
E. Rhoades Clerk
[Round Seal in lower left of page is illegible]

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John Spoor 
$125.47. 9809

Right side:
John Spoor

Con
J.S.E.

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State of New-York, ss:
Onondaga County
On the third day of March 1829, personally appeared in open court in the court of common pleas in and for the county of Onondaga, being a court of record proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of their proceedings, John Spoor aged Seventy one years, resident in the Town Pompey in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: that he enlisted in Captain Thomas De Witts company in Col Peter Gansevoorts Regiment in the New York line of the Revolutionary Army in the year 1776 and served four years and was appointed an Ensign in 1776 in the same regiment & so continued till discharged as aforesaid, that he is now a pensioner of the United States under the act of the 18th March 1818 and holds pension certificate No. 9809
and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Nineteen acres of very poor land in the town of Pompey worth not over 5 dollars per acre = 95
1 old chest owned since the year 1778 worth - .50
 2 white ash meet Barrels worth $1. one half barrel (whites ash) worth 3/one old barrel and small churn 7/  - 1.25
1 set of tea cups and saucers 2/ 1 sugar bowl and cream cup 2/6 - .56
1/2 doz. Com Spoons (old) worth 3/ 1/2 doz knives and forks 4/ - .27 1/2
1 doz com plates (old) 2/ 1 salt cellar (glass) 1/ - 37 1/2
3 milch pans (tin & old) 4/ 4 wooden Keelers 2/ - 1.50
2 small earthen plates 1 quart 1 pint cup worth 3 / - 37 1/2
1 pair of very old and irons with feet off worth 6/ - 75
1 small shovel & tongs 6/  1 Kettle and pot and spider old  10/  2.00
1 crak griddle 3/ 1 skillet old 2/ flour cask 6/ - 1.37 1/2
cash $3. one cow which I owe the whole for- $12 - 15.00
7 sheep 35/ 2 bovine 12./  - 5.62 1/2
amt  including cow not pd for - 125. 17 1/2

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Cash $3. one cow which I owe the whole for $12 - 15.00
7 Sheep 35/ 2 bovine 12/ - 5.62 1/2
amt including cow not pd for 125. 17 1/2
That he has a wife aged about sixty nine years and a daughter about about 3 years of age both weekly and infirm. The wife not able, but the daughter when in health is able to support herself, which are the family, who live with him. I am a cripple myself and owe not far from two hundred dollars of honest debts
[Signed] John Spoor

Subscribed & sworn in open Court this 3d day of March 1821
[Signed] Joshua Forman first Judge Onon. Com. pleas

I, [Thomas Adams is crossed out], Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Onondaga, do hereby certify that the foregoing statement and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is one hundred twenty five dollars and seventeen cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this seventh day of March 1821.
[Signed] Daniel Moseley Clerk of the court for the County of Onondaga.

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May 8
John Spoon
8 May 1818 Ensign 
Van Schaick regt N York '76 till. 80- wanted the judges certificate of the reduced circumstances of the party.
Adm.
Judge Forman

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State of New-York,
Onondaga County, SS:
On this Eighth day of May 1818, before me the subscriber, First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said county of Onondaga, personally appears John Spoor aged Sixty eight years, resident in the town of Pompey in the said county, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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 he the said John Spoor was appointed an ensign in November 1776- the third Van Schaick Regiment of the New York line; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the month of March 1780 when he was discharged from service in Morris Town in the state of New York that he was taken prisoner by the Indians at Fort Stanwix in July 1777 and was detained about six months and had his commission taken from him that after his exchange he joined his regiment and was in Sullivans expedition to the westward in the State of New York- that he was dismissed from service, on account of some ungentlemenlike conduct alledged to have been done by him in an affray at a tavern in which several officers were engaged and for which he refused to make an acknowledgement to a superior officer concerned as he did not feel himself to blame. That he was in actual service about three years besides his imprisonment with the approbation of his superiors. That the annexed Commission was made to supply the place of the one he lost - That he is now a cripple that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
[Signed] John Spoor

Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed] Joshua Forman

I, Joshua Forman First Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Spoor 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 had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, Onondaga May Eighth 1818. - and I do further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said [illegible] Spoor is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support Mar. 20.1819
[Signed] Joshua Forman

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In reply to your request of [a blank line is here]'
received. [a blank line is here]
for a statement of the military history of John Spoor
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or [or is crossed out. the word "and" inserted] his widow's) application for pension
file in this Bureau.
W.F. 25065.
[the text below is in table format]
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT. 
Nov. 21, 1776 to Mch 1780
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
[here the date Mch1780 is carried over from previous column]
RANK
 Ensign



OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Thomas Davitt
COLONEL.
STATE.
Peter Gansevoort 
STATE
N. Y.

was taken prisoner by Indians
at Fort Stanwix, in July, 1777, and
detained about six months.

Battles engaged in:  Sullivan's Expedition [aka Sullivan Clinton Expedition of 1779]

Residence of soldier at enlistment: not stated
Date of application for pension: May 8, 1818. His cl was al
Residence at date of application, Pompey, Onondaga Co, N.Y.

Age at date of application, 68 yrs.
Remarks: He mar. Mch. 8, 1781, at Claverack, Columbia Co. N.Y. Rachel Fries; he died July 1, 1834 and she was allowed pension on her ap. ex. Dec 2, 1838 while 36 yrs old and a resident of LaFayette, Onondaga Co, NY.
A daughter Polly was alive in 1838
Very respectfully,
6 -- 2866
Commissioner.

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Albany N.Y.

John Spoor [illegible], on roll act 1818 to what time period?

John Harry Esq

Died 1st July 1834 pd to that period

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Albany 3047
Rachel Spoor
widow of John Spoor
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818
and who died on the 1st July 1834
of Onondaga Co. in the State of N. York
who was an Ensign in the
[blank line here] commanded by Captain [blank line is here] of the Regts [possibly for regiments] commanded
by Col. Van Schaick in the N. York line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 240 Dollars ------ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of June
1839 and sent to Victory Birdseye, 
Pompey, N.Y
Arrears to the 4th of March '39
720.00
Semi=annual allowance 
ending 4 Sept-
120.00
$840.00 [$720+120=$840 is shown vertically on the side]
Act July 7,
1838.
Recorded by D. Brown
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 100

Clerk,

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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
In congress assembled
To John Spoor
Gentleman Greeting. We reposing especial trust and confidence in your patriotism, Valor, conduct and Fidelity, Do by these presents constitute and appoint you to be
an Ensign in the third New York Regiment

in the doing of the United States, to take rank as such
from the 28 day
of November AD 1776 you therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of an Ensign
by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And
large it require all officers and Soldiers under your and be obedient to your order as
Ensign
And you are to serve and follow such order and directions
from time to time, as you shall receive for the full age of the United States or Committee of Con
for that purpose appointed Committee of the States or Commander in the for the time being of the Army of
the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the rites and discipline of War, in pursuance
of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue inforce untill he by this or a future Congress, the Co
Miller of Congress before mentioned a Committee of the States.
Entered in the War Office
and examined by the Board
A.
Attest
Witness this Cullency the President of
the Congress of the United States of America delate
day of
June
Independence:
1777 and in the
year of our
"
Hill Secretary of the Board of War
John

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Revy Widow, &c.

File No. 25065
Rachel Spool
Wid of John Spool 
Ensign Rev War

Act: Mar 3rd 1843

Index: - Vol. L, Page 230

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1914, Apr 21. History to Mrs. Neil Bosworth  FW

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55 Commonwealth Avenue
Elgin Illinois
April 15 -1914
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir-- Please give me the military
history of John Spoor who served in the
Revolutionary
pension
was and applied for per
I believe March 3, 1821
from
Onondaga County
New York can you give me
family
data concerning him? Can your
supply
the date of his death?
Respectfully
Mrs Neil Bosworth -

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One seal as follow:

Circular shows PENSION OFFICE U.S. D, APR 18 1914

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339

Admit Ensign $240
Albany Agency send to Johnson Hall
Sycamore N.Y.

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Acts of Congress of the 5 of March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7th 1838
State of New York
Onondaga County ss On this tenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before Joseph S. Cole a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid Rachel Spoor a resident of the town of Lafayette in the county of Onondaga aged ninety in a years & past who being first duly sworn according to law do on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 5 March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of John Spoor who was an ensign in the army of the revolution and served as this declarant believes in one of the New York regiments. That she received a pension under the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838. of two hundred and forty dollars per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow.

Rachel her x mark Spoor

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me Joseph S Cole Justice of the Peace

[illegible]
Polly Spoor
I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Rachel Spoor. The above named declarant and I further certify that she is not above to write her name on account of old age and boils infirmities and the word 'past' interlined before signing. Dated April 10th 1843
Joseph S. Cole Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
Onondaga County
SS. I Charles T. Hicks Clerk of said
County do hereby certify that Joseph S.
Cole whose signature appears to the within certificate, also
to the Declaration of Rachel Spoor within named was at
the date of said certificate and the date of the Jurat of said
Declaration, a Justice of the peace in and for the County
of Onondaga aforesaid duly elected and sworn, that
I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily
believe his signature to said Jurat and to said certificate
is genuine-
Witness my hand and the seal of the
Court of Common Pleas of said County at
Syracuse this 11th day of April AD
1843
Chas T. Hicks Clerk

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[stamp] FREE

[stamp] SYRACUSE N.Y. APR 12

354 
Apl 14 1843
NY
Mar 3 1843
Rachel Spoor

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

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Syracuse N.Y. April 11th 1843
Hon J. L. Edward
Dear Sir enclosed please find the
declaration of
Widow Rachel Spoon
claiming a Pension under the act
of Congress passed March 3 1843
Respectfully yours
-
Johnson Hall

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Columbia County,
Clerk's Office,
I, KILLIAN MILLER, Clerk of the County of Columbia, Do
hereby certify, That Peter Snyder
before whom the affidavit purports to
have been sworn, was on the day of the date of the same a
Justice of the Peace in and for said county. a further
that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said
Justice and verily believe the name of the said Justice
subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing
and signature
Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the
said county, this Seventh
day of December
1838
Killian Miller