Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,585, for Adam Lohnes, New York

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Service New York
Lohnes, Adam         W. 24,585
            Elizabeth       B. L. Wt. 26065-160-55

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6.304
New York Albany
Elizabeth Lohnes
widow of Adam Lohnes
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Ensign
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
85 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
16th day of November 1854
and sent to 
F. A. Dickens
Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 120 Vol. 4

on side: Reg fm 58-No 28286

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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7, 1832.
Form for State Troops, &c.

State of New York
County of Rensselaer   ss.
On this seventh day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of Troy Mayen Court now sitting, Adam Lohnes a resident of ____county of ____ and State of New York, aged seventy eight 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That he entered the service of his country in the Revolutionary War in the year 1777 as a private in the company of Militia, commanded by Cornelius Parson in the regiment commanded by Henry K Van Rensselaer, that in that year he was ordered out to Fort Edward to visit the ___of the Hostile ___  and remained there about one month he was then permitted with others to venture home and gather the harvest which was left standing and growing on the ground. This deponent during the same year after harvest served under Christopher Tillman as Captain & received the commission of Ensign the date of which he cannot remember as the same has been lost, but believes it was in 1776 or 1777 - that Samuel McChesney was lieutenant - was then ordered

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to go to(Potomac?), Peter Schuyler commanded as Colonel, but after their arrival at the destined place, Col. Butler took the active command, he continued there some time & was then ordered out on the Mohawk river, and was in the battle when Gen. Herkimer was killed, he was continued there, being then an Ensign, until he was ordered to go to the north to Fort Ann on the Hudson or North River - Was in the engagement when Col. Henry K Van Rensselaer was wounded - was ordered out next to Stillwater and was in the battle under Gen. Gates when Burgoyne was taken, that he was then in a Company commanded by Capt. Philip Harvey, in which this deponent was then Ensign, Sebastian Lohnes was first Lieutenant & Abraham Robison 2nd Lieutenant - that he this deponent has served in the Revolutionary War as an Ensign more than two years after he received said commission - that his residence was then in the town of Brunswick N. Y. then the county of Albany but now the county of Rensselaer where he continued to reside until about 16 years ago when he removed to the town of Pittstown in the county of Rensselaer N. Y. where he has resided ever since, till last spring when he came to Schaghticoke where he now resides - that he is now seventy eight years of age and very feeble - that he can establish the facts above stated by his brother Sebastian Lohnes, Christopher File & Abraham Roberts - that he has lost is commission and evidences of service, and at this time has no paper documents he can refer to.

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G. 913

In the matter of Adam Lohnes
Application to obtain pension


Ennssn

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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Adam (his mark) Lhones

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Archibald Bull Clerk

We, Christopher File residing in the County of Rensselaer and David Bryan residing in the same County hereby certify that we are acquainted with Adam Lhones who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Signed: Christopher File
David Bryan

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Archibald Bull Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their 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. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Christopher File who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the said County of Rensselaer and that David Bryan who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same County and that both are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit & that there is no clergyman in the County of the said Adam Lhones who is acquainted with him

I, Archibald Bull, Clerk of the Troy _____ Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Adam Lohnes for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this eighth day of August 1832
Archibald Bull, Clerk

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State of New York
Rensselaer County  SS

Personally appeared before me the undersigned first Judge of ____County Adam Lohnes who being duly sworn deposeth and says that by reason of old age & infirmity and the consequent loss of memory e cannot recollect all the officers under whom he served during his services of the Revolution, but that in addition to those mentioned in his previous and foregoing affidavit he served under Captain Henry Tinker in 1777 or 1778 in whose company this deponent was ensign, that he served under Capt. Tinker after the services as heretofore stated as performed under Capt. Christopher Tillman that as served under Captain Tinker about four months as near as this deponent can recollect that he, this deponent, entered the service under Capt. Tinker as a volunteer in Rensselaer County, that they marched to Fort Edward and at the expiration of said term of service he was discharged but received no written discharge - That also after the services as before stated by this deponent on the Mohawk River under Col. Peter Schuyler & Col. Butler & after the battle where Gen. Herkimer was killed, and during the latter part of the war, the exact year this deponent cannot recollect, he served as a volunteer & Ensign and marched from Brunswick ___ ___ V. T. __ the Mohawk under the command of Neal McNiel as captain, that Col. Henry K Van Rensselar was colonel and that this was after the said Henry K Van Rensselaer was wounded that he this deponent served under the said Mc Niel one year and a half as near as this deponent can recollect. That he this deponent always volunteered at the different times he entered the service. That he this deponent received a commission of Ensign in the year 1776 or 1777 signed by George Clinton then Govenor of the State of New York that the same has been lost and this deponent cannot tell what has become of the same

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That this deponent is now so infirm that he is not able to attend a court and that since this deponents first affidavit was made Sebastian Lohnes named in said affidavit has died, that Christopher File and Abraham Roberts who are mentioned in this deponents former affidavit are personally knowing to the services of this deponent as a soldier & Ensign in the Revolution. And further this deponent saith not.
Adam (his mark) Lohnes

Sworn this 25th day of December AD 1832 before me
H Knickerbacker first Judge of Rensselaer Counter

State of New York
Rensselaer  SS
I Henry R. Bristol Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Herman Knickerbacker before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of said affidavit First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Herman Knickerbacker and do verily believe his signature thereto subscribed to be genuine.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the said County this 14th day of January 1833
Henry R. Bristol Clerk

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In the matter of
Adam Lohnes
Application for Pension

admitted
18 mo. Ensign
5 mo. private

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State of New York
Rensselaer County  SS

On this third day of January AD 1833 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Rensselaer Abraham Roberts who being duly sworn deposeth says that he is now seventy eight years of age and that he is the same person described in the application of Adam Lohnes for a pension, and that he is now acquainted with the said Adam Lohnes and knew him previous to and during the whole of the Revolutionary War, that he is knowing to the services stated in the two affidavits of the said Lohnes at the time and under the officers stated in said affidavits both of which this deponent has had read. And this deponent further says that he has seen the commission of Ensign of the said Adam Lohnes and he believes he received said commission in 1776 or 1777. That he i this deponent is personally knowing to the services of the said Adam Lohnes in the revolution as set forth in said affidavits and that he this deponent was frequently in the service with the said Adam Lohnes and further this deponent saith not

Abraham (his mark) Roberts

AB The seventy eighth & part of the ninth lines erased - And the words "the application of Adam Lohnes for a pension" & all noted before subscribed and sworn to

Subscribed & sworn to before me
Jacob P. Wagar Justice Peace
in and for the County of Rensselaer
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with Abraham Roberts the above deponent and that I believe him to be 78 years of age & I further certify that said deponent is a man of truth and veracity
Jacob P. Wagar Justice

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State of New York
Rensselaer County

On this third day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for the said county of Rensselaer Christopher File who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is now seventy four years of age and that he is the same person mentioned in & who has subscribed to the certificate of Adam Lohnes on the seventh day of August 1832. And this deponent further says that he was acquainted with the said Adam Lohnes previous to and during the whole of the Revolutionary War that he is personally knowing to most of the services of the said Adam Lohnes in said war and set forth in the affidavits of the said Adam Lohnes both of which affidavits this deponent has ___ read, that this deponent also knows the fact that the said Adam Lohnes was Ensign and this deponent thinks he received his commission as ensign in 1776 or 1777. That he this deponent served under the said Lohnes whilst he served as Ensign that he this deponent knows that the said Adam Lohnes was in the actual service of the Revolution and served with the said Lohnes a number of times himself. That he this deponent is knowing to the officers mentioned in the said Lohnes affidavits and that they served under other officers but by reason of old age and the loss of memory he this deponent cannot recollect all of the officers under whom they served and further this deponent saith not
Signed: Christopher File

Subscribed & sworn before me Jacob P. Wagar Justice Peace in and for the County of Rensselaer

I hereby certify that I am acquainted with Christopher File the above named deponent & that I believe him to be 74 years of age. And I further certify that the said deponent is a man of truth & veracity
Jacob P. Wagar Justice

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Elizabeth Lohnes Widow of Adam Albany Agency Act 1836
for Francis A Dickins

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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24,585
Elizabeth Lohnes Wid. of Adam Lohnes 
Ensign Rev. War

Act Feb 2d 1848
Index:Vol. A, Page 444
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Adam Lohnes
application 
to be restored
to Pension list

S33 Vol 8 page 77
$2.42 - 12 days
(1779)

Hon A. Bockee
HR

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State of New York Herkimer County SS
Neal McNeal of the Town of Danube in the County of Herkimer being duly sworn saith that he was himself a soldier in the Revolutionary War and held a Captains commission and rank in the service of the United States from the spring of the year next after the capture of the British Genl. Burgoyne at Saratoga until the close of the War; also saith he was well acquainted with Adam Lohnes now of the town of Pittstown (formerly of the Town of Brunswick) in the County of Rensselaer - that said Lohnes held the commission of Ensign in the spring of the same year and deponent believes he was appointed Ensign first in that spring, and deponent saith that Lohnes was attached to the company of this deponent & served therein from the time aforesaid nearly or quite all the time until the close of the War, and during that time performed and discharged the duties of Ensign in said Company and was respected as such. This deponent saith that his company was attached to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Van Renssalaer in the service of the United States.
This deponent saith he recollects well of seeing the commission of said Lohnes & examining the same at the time he was sworn into office as Ensign in the City of Albany: Deponent saith that he recollects this distinctly from the circumstance that this deponent was at the same time sworn into office as Captain - and saith that said Lohnes & deponent received their commissions from a man whose name was Fisher or Vischer & who then held the trust of and acted as chairman of the committee of safety at the City of Albany and saith they were sworn into office as aforesaid in the spring of 1778 he believes either in the month of May or June of that year. This deponent saith said Lohnes was with deponent and his company as such

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(left margin)
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Ensign in the service of the United States up the Mohawk River to Forts Fox, Walrath, House & Herkimer in the year 1778 and was engaged in that service at least one month and twenty days.
And from thence marched to Schenectody and remained there about three weeks, and from thence marched to Fort Ann on the North River and was gone there sumthing over four weeks, from thence marched to Fort George at Lake George and then had a long tour; but deponent cannot recollect how long with any precision but from deponents best recollection he believes they were there in that region of country actively engaged for two months. From thence marched to Saratoga and remained there in said service four weeks and one day. From thence marched to Palmertown called a tory settlement and was there in said service about five weeks. From thence marched to a place called St. Coix lying on the north side of the Hoosic River in the now County of Washington and remained there about sixteen days. From thence marched to Fort Edwards and remained there some weeks, but deponent cannot recollect with certainty how many - and thence returned again to the City of Albany & remained there and in its vicinity until peace was declared and they were discharged at the City of Albany.
And this deponent further saith that the said Lohnes was out on several other tours of service with deponent during the period between the reception of his commission and the close of the war as aforesaid but this deponent cannot now detail the same with precision; And this deponent saith that from his actual knowledge and according to his best recollection and belief, the said Adam Lohnes served with this deponent as such Ensign and was in actual service subsequent to the dates of his aid commission and before his discharge as aforesaid for the period of two full years and upwards -

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In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 18th day of March A.D. 1836
Henry R. Bristol Clerk