Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,666, David Brush, New Jersey

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New Jersey
Brush, David
S 44666

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18.608
New York
David Brush
Ulster Cy in the state of New York who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Spencer of the New Jersey line for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of May 1818. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th of Dec 182? and ????
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1821  
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1822
318.47
48
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$366.47
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
Mar 1 1820

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District of New York
Ulster County
On this 24th day of August 1821 personally appeared before me David Brush of the town of Marlborough in said County who being by me just duly sworn according to law, deporth and saith that on the 11th day of May 1818 before James Kain Esq then a Judge of the court of Common Pleas for the said County of Ulster, he made an application 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" and that the same was transmitted to the Secretary for the department of war and that the said application was returned by him stating on the back thereof for "want of proof of the applicants reduced circumstances " or words to that affect that then the said James Kain being Deceased he went before Jonathan Dubois Esq then a judge of the said court, and before him proved satisfactorily his reduced circumstances that the said application and papers accompanying the same were enclosed and sealed and directed to Beverly Kain Esq his attorney at Law? ?? and just in the front office at New Pattz and that since that time they have never been heard of and are supposed to have been lost. 
s/ David Brush

Sworn and Subscribed
before Me Jonathan Dubois
First Judge of the Ulster Common 
Pleas the 24th August 1821

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District of New York
Ulster County
On this 24th day of August 1821 personally appeared before me
Richard J Woolsey Esqr of the town of Marlborough in said County
who being by me first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that he saw the within named application of the said David Brush which
was made before James Kain Esqr after it was returned from the office 
of the Secretary for the Department of war stating on the back thereof for want of proof of the applicants reduced circumstances, or words to that affect that the deponent then went with the said David Brush before Jonathan Dubois Esqr then Judge &c. and there testified to his reduced circumstances
that then the said papers were enclosed & sealed & Directed to Beverly
Rain Esqr attorney for the said Brush at Shawangunk and
that the deponent himself delivered the same in the Post office at 
New Paltz and since that time they have never been heard of
as this deponent can ascertain-
s/ Rich Woolsey

Sworn and Subscribed
before me Jonathan Dubois
first Judge of the State common
pleas the 14th August 1821

I do hereby certify that Rich J Woolsey Esqr the above
deponent is a man of strict truth and undoubted veracity
by
s/ Jonathan Dubois

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I hereby certify that the aforesaid application of the
said David Brush which was made before James Kain Decd
after it had been returned from the office of the 
department of war for some deficiency was brought before
me then a Judge of the Court of Common pleas for
the County of Ulster and that the said Richard I Wooley
Esqr then testified before me to the reduced circumstances
of the said Brush and that agreeable to the best of 
my recollection. I enclosed the said papers sealed them
and Directed them to Beverly Rain Esqr Shawangunk
and delivered them to the said Richd J Woolsey
s/ Jonathan Dubois

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State of New York
Ulster County Ss

I Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County of
the County of Ulster do hereby certify that Jonathan
Dubois by whom the within affidavit was taken was
at that time first Judge of the Court of Common
pleas of the County of Ulster duly qualified
according to law. That I am well acquainted with
the hand writing and verily believe that the
name "Jonathan Dubois within written is the
proper hand writing of the said Judge
In witness
whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and
affixed my official seal the 19th September 1821
s/ Jacob Snyder Clerk

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State of New York
Ulster County Ss.    on this Nineteenth day of
September 1821 personally appeared in open Court before the
Judges of the Court of Common pleas of Ulster County at a Court
of Common pleas held at the Court house in Kingston in said County
being a Court of record within the said State with a Jurisdiction
unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of their 
proceedings with the power of fine and imprisonment, having a Seal
and Clerks of its own David Brush aged 72 years who
being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the provision made
by the Acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and of the
1st May 1820 that he the said David Brush enlisted at
Fort Montgomery in the State of New York for the term of three
years on the day of June 1777 in the company 
commanded by Captain John Sandford of the Regiment 
commanded by Colonel Malcomb in the line of the State of
New York on the Continental establishment that he 
continued to serve in the said corps until he was transfered to
Colonel Spencers regiment which was in the year 1779 that
continued to serve in the said Colonel Spencers Regiment or
in the service of the United States until in the year 1786
when he was regularly discharged from the service in the
State of New Jersey, that he was in the Battle of Monmouth
with and that he is in reduced circumstances and stand
need of the assistance of his country for support and 
he has no other evidence now in his power of his
and services. and in pursuance of the act of the 1st May

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1820, I do Solemnly swear that I was resident citizen
of the United States on the 18th day of March One thousand 
Eight Hundred and Eighteen 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 my
self within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled 
to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval 
vice of the United States in the revolutionary war passed
the 18th day of March one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen
and that I have not nor has any person in trust for
me any property or securities contracts or debts due me
nor have I any income other than what is contained in the
Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
Real Estate none, Personal property (necessary
clothing and bedding excepted) one lot of Shoemaker 
tools and bench, mostly worn out, one wash tub, two pail
4 Chairs, one Iron pot one Iron Kettle, one pr Longs
one old axe, one Hoe, one chest, Two stone pots, one small
Spider, Two tin pail, one Teakettle, 4 plates 1 Black
pot three cups & Saucers, five can knives & forks, five 
table spoons, one Pr Bellows, 1 pr Smoothing Irons, three
Tea Spoons, 3 Jugs, One small looking glass, one Table
Fiskin, 1 Barrell, one meal Tub, one Iron pltate hand
saw one rake, one sickle one small chain Tramond
One Iron Candle Stick. By occupation a shoemaker -
family - myself of wife not able to follow my 
occupation steadily by reason of advanced age - wife 
mostly blind. And this deponent further saith that on 
the 10th day of May 1818 the said David Brush made
a declaration made a declaration before James

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Kain Esqr (Decd) then a Judge of the Court of 
Common pleas of Ulster County in order to obtain the 
Provsion under the act of Congress of the 18th day of
March 1818-
s/ David Brush

Sworn to and subscribed
in open Court before the Judges
thereof this 18th day of Sep. 1821
s/ Hon. G. Hardenbergh one of the Judges in behalf
of said Court -

The value of the estate Inventoried determined by the
Court at Fourteen Dollars this 18 Sep. 1882.
s/ Abm G. Hardenbergh one of the Judges in behalf
of said Court -

State of New York
Ulster County Ss ⎬

on this Eighteenth day of September in the
year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and Twenty one personally
appeared in open Court the same being the court of Common pleas of
the County aforesaid, a Court of record proceeding according to the course
of the Common law, of unlimited Jurisdiction in point of amount the 
above Pensioner David Brush a resident of the town of Marlborough
in the County of Ulster who was sworn to and subscribed the above
s/ Abm G. Hardenbergh one of the 
Judges in behalf of said Court

State of New York
Ulster County Ss.
I certify in addition to the above certificate
that the within named David Brush at the time of the within applicantion
was and now is a resident of said Ulster County Sept. 18th 1828
s/ Abm G. Hardenbergh one of the
Judges of Ulster Co
pleas

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Ulster Common pleas September Term 1821-
The Court here are of opinion that the within David
Brush is dependant on the aid of his country for his
Support
s/ Abm G. Hardenbergh one of the Judges
of said Court in behalf of
said Court

State of New York
Ulster County } ss
I Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County of Ulster and
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County
Do hereby certify that Abm G. Hardenbergh whose
signature appears to the annexed affidavit was
at the time of taking the same one of the Judges
of the Court of Common pleas in and for said
County of Ulster duly commissioned and sworn
as such officer and that I am acquainted with
the hand writing of said officer and verily
believe his several signatures to the annexed
instrument to be his proper hand writing
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court and County this nineteenth day of
September 1821-
s/ Jacob Snyder Clk

Ulster County Clerks office ss. I certify the above to be a true copy of the
one on file in this office
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said Court and County this 19th day of
September 1821 -
s/ Jacob Snyder Clerk

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44666
INVALID.
Revy
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File No. 44666

David Brush
Priv Rev War
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Act: 18 March 1818
Index: -- Vol. 3  Page 61
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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District of New York Ulster County ss: On this 25th day of 
August 1821 personally appeared before me. Beverly Kain Esq
of the Town of Shawangunk in said County attorney and
Counsellor at Law who being by me first duly sworn
according to Law deposeth and saith. That on or about
the 11th day of May 1818 as near as he can assertain the time
before James Kain Esquire then a Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas for the said County of Ulster and Father of the 
Deponent, David Brush of the Town of Marlborough in
said County made an application 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 and that the Deponent as the
agent and attorney for the said David transmitted said 
application to the Secretary for the department of war
and that the same was returned by him stating on the back thereof for
proof of the applicants reduced circumstances, or words to that
effect as near as the Deponent can recollect the same and that 
the Deponent soon thereafter handed said application with
said objection thereon to the said David Brush for the purpose
of having said proof supplied and then returned to the 
Deponent and that the Deponent has not since then seen said
application nor any supplement to the same and if the same
has been directed to the Deponent the Deponent believe that the
same has been lost.
s/ Beverly Kain

Sworn and Subscribed
before me Aug. 25th 1841
s/ Albert R Terwilliger Justice
of the peace for the County of Ulster

I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the said
Beverly Kain Esqr and that he is a man of strict
and undoubted veracity
s/ Albert R Terwilliger

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State of New York
Ulster County
I Jacob Snyder Clerk of said County
do hereby certify that Aldert Terwilliger before
whom the within affidavit was taken was at
that time a Justice of the peace for the County
of Ulster duly qualified according to law
That I am acquainted with his hand writing
And verily believe that the name "Albert"
"Terwilliger" is the proper hand writing of the
said Justice. In Witness whereof I have
hereunto affixed my official seal and subscribed 
my name this 19th September 1821
s/ Jacob Snyder Clerk

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State of New York
Orange County } Ss
On this sixteenth day of August 1821 personally
appeared before me Samuel Sly Late a Sergeant in
the Revolutionary war who being duly sworn according to
Law deposeth & saith that he was acquainted with
David Brush in the year 1777 and that he was the
a soldier in Capt Sanford Company - Colonel
Wm Malcombs Regiment and the deponent further
Saith that the said David Brush was Transfer
to Colonel Oliver Spencers Regiment in the year
1779 and that he was in Colonel Spencers Regiment
with the said David Brush in the western Expedition
that from the year 1777 to the year 1780 he frequently
saw the said David Brush in the Army and
that he is fully satisfied that he served faithfully three 
years and that he was legally discharged
s/ Saml Sly

Sworn before me this
11th day of Aug 1821
s/ S W Eagar
[illegible]
Orange County

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State of New York
Orange County Ss
I James Kerr of [illegible]
 in said County do hereby certify
on oath that I am acquainted with
Samuel Sly who made the written affidavit
and that he is a man of [illegible]
and entitled to react-
s/ James Kerr

Sworn before me
this 16 day of August 1821.
/s S W Eagar
Commissioner before [illegible] Court

State of New York
Orange County
I David M. Westcott Clerk of the said County of Orange
Do hereby certify that Samuel W. Eager, Esq before whom the
two preceding affidavits were made was at the time of
taking the same, a commissioner in and for the said
County, duly authorized by law to take the same; that
I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily
believe that the name" W Eager" subscribed to the said
two preceding affidavits, is the proper hand writing of
signature of the said Samuel W. Eager Esquire
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand &
affixed my official seal the seventeenth day
of August 1821.
s/ D.M. Westcott

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No 1. The application of David
Brush to obtain his pension & also his
affidavit of a former application.-

No. 2 The witness of Geo. Gardiner
Esqr proving his services in the
revolutionary war

No. 3 The Testimony of Samuel Sly, also
proving his services in the revolutionary
war

No 4 & 5. The testimony of David Brush
and also of Richard I Woolsey
Jonathan Dubois & Beverly
Kain Esqr proving his former
declaration and the loss of his papers

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State of New York | 
Orange County | ss.
On this fifteenth day of August 1821 - personally
appeared before me George Gardner Esquire of
the Village of New Burgh who being duly sworn
according Law deposeth and saith that he
was acquainted with David Brush in the year
1777 and that he was then a Soldier in Capt
Sanford's Company Colonel Malcombs Regiment 
and this deponent further Saith that
When Colonel Malcombs Regiment was [illegible]
in the said Brush was transferred
into Colonel Spencer's Regiment - and that he
knew him in Spencer's Regiment, he is fully
Satisfied that he served faithfully three years
and that he was legally discharged-
Sworn before me the | 
day and year first above | George Gardner
above mentioned - | 
Joseph Morrell
a Commissioner &c

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State of New York | 
Orange County | ss  I do hereby Certify
that George Gardner Esq
the within deponent is a Man of truth
and [illegible] veracity.
Joseph Morrell
a Commissioner
Aug 16th 1821-
[right margin No 2]
State of New York | 
Orange County ss | 
I David M. Westcott, Clerk of the said County
of Orange, do hereby Certify that Joseph Morrell, by whom
the within affidavit was taken, was at that time a Commissioner 
duly authorized by law to take affidavits to be
had or used in any Court of Record within this State
That I am well acquainted with his hand writing and
verily believe that the name "Joseph Morrell" above &
within written is the proper hand writing of the said
Commissioner - In witness whereof I have hereunto
Subscribed my name and affixed my official seal the
17th August 1821.
DM Westcott