Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,339, for Peter Renway, New York

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Continental (New York)

Renway, Peter
S.46.339

BLW 1582-100

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3-230
Cert.
No. 9421

Petr Renway
Private
Company: Oliver
Regmt.:  Col. Hazens N.Y.
Continental

Act of 1828

Allowed

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I, Samuel D. Ingham, Secretary of the Treasury do hereby certify that the annexed papers ae the original papers received at the Treasury Department in relation to the claim made in the name of Peter Renway and the warrants and drats issued for the payment of the same under the Act, entitled "An Ac for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved 15th May 1828.

Give under my hand
and the seal of the 
Treasury this

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1550

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an Act for the relief of certain serving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" affirmed on the 15th of May 1828.  I, Peter Renway of Bemis Point in the County for Clinton in the State of New York and hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued with service until its termination, at which periods, I was a private in Captain Oliver's Company and Col. Harsens' Regiment of the New York line, and I also declare that I afterwards received certificates for the reward of eighty dollars, to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of May 1748; and I further declare that I was not on the 15th of May 1828 in the pension list of the United States.

Witness my hand this sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty-nine.

Peter Renway

C.K. Averill

Before Mr. Calvin K. Averill, a Justice of the Peace in the County of Clinton in the State of New York personally appeared this day Nicholas Constantine and Joseph Labe of the said County who did severally make oath that Peter Renway by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally refuted and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution in a manner as therein stated; witness my hand and seal this sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty=nine.

C.K. Averill

I, Smith Mead, Deputy Clerk of the Court of the County of Clinton in the State of New York do hereby certify that Calvin K. Averill before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace and duly authorized to administer oaths, the testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 21 day of February A.D. 1829

Smith Mead

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Peter Renway

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State of New York
Clinton :  ss:

Peter Renway, aged 73 years being duly sworn doth depose and say that he enlisted into General Harzens' regiment in Captain Oliver's Company as a private in the Army of the Revolution at Albany in 1776, that he enlisted for and during the war and continued to serve in said regiment until the close of the war when he was honorably discharged and deponent further saith that he was in the battles of Brunswick and Saratoga and White Plains and the skirmishes and that he lost his discharge in 1786 from his pocket and he never seen it since and further deponent saith not.

Peter Renway

Sworn before me this 16th day
of February 1829
C.K. Averill, J. Peace

State of New York
Clinton County : ss:

I, Nicholas Constantine, aged seventy-five years being duly sworn doth depose and say that I am acquainted with Peter Renway who made his mark to the foregoing Affidavit; that said Renway and this deponent enlisted into General Harzens regiment at the same time in the City of Albany in 1776; that he is known to said Renway serving in said regiment in Captain Oliver's company through the war and to the close; that he was discharged at the same time deponent was in 1783; that this deponent was in Capt. Goslins' Company, but recollects of seeing said Renway often; that said Renway was wounded in the leg in the battle at White Plains and further deponent saith not.

Nicholas Constantine

Sworn before me this 16th day
of February A.D. 1829

C,J, Averill, J. Peace

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State of New York
Clinton County: ss

Joseph Lebe, aged seventh four years being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is knowing to Peter Renway in General Harzens' regiment in the Army of the Revolution until the war was ended and that said Renway was discharged in 1783; that this deponent served in the same regiment and was personally acquainted with said Renway; and further deponent saith not.

Joseph Lebe

Sworn before me this 16th
day of February 1829

C.K. Averill, J. Peace

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Peter Renway

Affidavit

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State of New York
Clinton County :  ss:

Peter Renway, a Revolutionary soldier being duly sworn doth depose and say that in the retreat of the American Army under the command of General Montgomery from Canada in the year 1775 he joined the regiment of Col Hazen at Chantilly as a volunteer and continued in said regiment until they arrived at Albany when he enlisted into Captain Olivers' company in the regiment aforesaid for and during the war and that he actively served in said regiment until 1783 in the month of June as he believes when he was discharged from the service;  his term of service having expired by the terms of his enlistment; and this deponent further saith that he received an honorable discharge; that two years afterwards remember he lost his discharge and has never been able to find it; that he was in the battle at White Plains and New York and at the surrender of Cornwallis; next he was at the Battle of Brandywine and deponent further saith that he was discharged at the time aforesaid at headquarters New Albany; that his discharge was signed by General Washington; and further deponent saith not.

Peter Renway

Sworn before me this 31st day
of March 1829

C.K. Averill, J. Peace

The Battle of Brandywine underlined before signing

C.K. Averill, J. Peace

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Peter Renway, additional evidences 942
Additional afft. of Nicholas Constan for of Peter Renway claim 350 
Rec'd 23 April 829

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State of New York
Clinton County } B. Nicholas Constantine being duly sworn doth depose and say that he first sum Peter Renway at Albany in 1776. I was then a soldier in Captain Oliver Company in Col Hazens Regiment. That this deponent was in the same Regiment and served through the whole war that this deponent was in teh battle of New York, Branden adn at the taking of Cornwallis & he is knowing to said renway being engaged in teh same battles & that afterwards, when this deponent and discharged in 1783 said Renway

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