Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21989, for Samuel Post, New York

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(3-1776) 

SERVICE
New York

Post, Samuel 
Gertrude

Number
W 21989 

CONTENTS

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20 089

New York
Saml Post 
of Ulster in the State of N York
who was a Segeant in the Comp commanded
by Captain Dewitt of the Reg. commanded
by Col. Snyder in the N. York
line for 9 ms sg 
15 mi 

$45
50 

Inscribed on the Roll of N York
at the rate of 95 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of Aug 1832 and sent to Hr H Broadhead
Modua 

Arrears to the 4th Ma 33 $190
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sep 22 47.50
$237.50

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Go C Stiles Clerk, 
Book E Vol. 3 Page 71

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State of New York 
Ulster County} ss On tis 17th day of April in the year one thou-
sand eight hundred & thirty three personally appeare before me one of the Justices in and for the County of Ulster Samuel Post of the town of
Saugerties Ulster County after being duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath make
the following additional declaration to the
one hereunto annexed and to answer the objec-
tions in the accompanying brief marked in red
ink as follows
viz 1st to the marked V He the said applicant 
declares that on or about the first of May in the year
1780 he volunteered in the service of the United States 
in Capt. Westbrocks Company & served until about 
the first of August of said year making a Service of 
three months that in the same year & imme-
diately after he again voluteered in said service
in Capt. Matthew Dedrick company and con
-tinued in said service until about the first of 
of November following makig a 
time of three months or months
He further says that in the spring of the year 
1781 he again volunteere in said service in
Capt Moses Yeomans Company of Rangers 
for six monhs & continued in continued 
in said service untill sometime in the fall 
or at the end of the full term of six months
as aforesaid
He further says that on or about the first of April in the year 1782 he again volun-
teered in said servie in Colonel Abbot Pau-
ldings Regiment Capt Henry Abbot Pauding Company
for nine months and continued in said 
Service untill about the first of January 1783 
or untill duly discharged
He further says that in the above mentioned serv-
ices and in all the services [crossed out] he neglected to ment [end crossed out]

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stated in his former Declaration he has neglected to mention that in the years 1781 to 1782 he 
served in the capacity of Searjant in the year 1781
under Capt. Moses Yeomand & 1782 under Capt.
Henry Paulding the residue of his Revolutionary 
Services as a private soldier which he positi-
vely swears to be true according to the best of his recollection
2nd in answer to the objection marked in red ink
to the objection XV see the certificate of the Jus-
tice appended
3rd to objection no XVI see also the former Declaration amended 

Samuel Post

Sworn and subscribed the day 
and year above written 
before me Myrnerd Post Justice of the Peace 

I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Samuel Post and that he is a man of truth & veracity and that his statement is entitle to full credit
Mynerd Post Justice of the Peace

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of
Congress passed the 7th June 1832.

State of New York
Ulster County} ss On the Eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeare in open court 
before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Ulster County, being
a court of Record for said county proceeding according to the course of 
common law, with a jurisdiation unlimited in poiint of amount, and 
keeping a record of then proceedings having a clerk and a seal of their
own, Samuel Post, as resident of the Town of Saugerties 
in the county of Ulster aged Seventy one 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 the 7th June
1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the 
following named officers and served as herein state, to wit, 
That on or about the first of May in the year 1777 he volunterre as a 
private solider in the militia service of the State of New York in the 
Revolutionary War, in the Company commanded by Capt. Henry
Schoonmaker in Col. Sweder Regiment for Four month
underground at Saugerties sailed from there in the Sloop "Poly" to
Fort Montgomery and then joined the army commanded by Genl
Clinton, remained there until the first of September following & 
then returned to Saugerties and was then there discharged
by Capt. Schoonmaker. 

And this applicant further declare that in the same year 
1777 immeiately after the return from the above service he again
volunteered as a private soldier in the said service of the State
of New York in the said Capt. Henry Schoonmakers company 

[in margin]
4 mos
Peter J Winne
No 1

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for one month, on an expedition to Schohary.
And he further declared that immediately after his
return in the same year 1777 in the fall he again
volunteer as a substitute as a private soldier in
the said service for one Jacob Mower, in Capt. John Demitts company went to Saratoga, and there served
the army under the command of Genl Gates and a 
few days before the surrender of Genl Burgoyne was 
ther discharged aftter a service of one month. 
And he further declares that in the Spring 
of the year 1778 he again volunteered as a private 
soldier in said service in Lieutenant Post Company
for one month and was stationed as a frontier guard
in the Town of Shandaken Ulster ounty, as was then 
discharged, but does not recollect any person
alive who an testify of the three last mentioned ser-
vices of one month each. 

And this applicant further declares that about the 
first of April in the year 1779 he again volunteered as a 
private soldier in the said service of the State of New York
in Capt Hunter's Company in Col Albert Paulding's
Regiment for nine months rendevouzed at Marbleton 
Ulster County marched from there to Shandaken built a 
fort around the house of one Long year, marched from
there West with the intent of Joining Genl Sullivan
in his expedition against the Indians. When we arrived 
near the Susquehanah River understood a letter had
been found stating that Genl. Sullivan was some days 
in advance being nearly out of provisions. Returned 
to Shandaken and went from there to Stoney 

[in margin] 
1 mos
Wm Myer
No 2

1 mos
Peter J Winne
No 1

9 mos
Same witness 
No 1

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Point, continued there untill some time in December
following (being out of provisions) he with the said company
& Regiment went to Poughkeepsie and was there disharged
some time in January followin (1780) by Colonel
Paulding in person.

And this applicant further declares that about the 
first of April in the year 1780 he again volunteered as a 
private soldier in said service of the State of New York in 
Capt. Westbrook's company in Colonel
Pauldings Regiment for three months entered the 
Company at Saugerties Marched from there to Kingston 
from there to Beg Shandaken nd from there to the 
West near the Susquehanah River, got out of provisions
and returned to place caled Sachawack
in the town of Wawaising. Continued there and in 
the neighborhood untill the full term of three months
was expired and was then there discharged. 

And this applicant further declares that on or 
about the first of May in the year 1781 he again volunteered 
as a private soldier in the said service of the state of New York
in Capt Matthew Dederuolo 's Company in Col Snyders 
Regiment for three months as a frontier guard
and was stationed part of the time at the House of one
Peter Short in the Town of Woodstock in the County of 
Ulster and the residue of the three months at the 
house of one Longyear in the town of Shandaken and
was there discharged.

[in margin]
3 mos 
Abm Dewitt
No. 3

3 mos

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And this applicant declares that on or about
the first of May in the year 1782 he again volunteered 
as a private soldier in the said service of State of New York
in Capt. Moses Yeomans Company in Col. Snyder's 
Regiment for six months as a frontier guard and
was stationed at the house of one Philip Houghtaling in
the town of Kingston Ulster County, for a part of the time
and the residue he was part of the time at the house of
-- in Woodstock and sometimes ranging along
the frontier in the more Western part of the County and 
continued in said service untill the full term of
Six months was expired and was then discharge

And this applicant further declares that early in
the spring of the year 1782 he again volunteered in the same service as aforesaid in the Company commanded
by Capt Henry Paulding in Col Albert Pauldings
Regiment for nine months and was stationed at Ben-
jamin Sanders, Tobias Wynkoop and Evert Wynkoop 
all in the town of Saugerties and also on Woodstock
and a Frontier guard and continued in said service until 
about the first of January following (1783) and was 
then there discharged after the full term of nine 
months, (received a written discharge) 

And he further declares that he positively served
as above state the full term of three years & one month
But through age and infirmity he is not so positive 
as to dates and officers. Yet he verily believes that the 
dats and officers are also correct. 

[in margin] 
6 Mos 
Abm Dewitt 
No 3

9 Mos
Zack Short
No 4

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And he further says that he was born on the Town of 
Saugerties in Ulster County in the year of 1761. 
That he has a record of his age in his Fathers Bible
That he lived in said town of Saugerties when called 
into service and that he has sine the Revolutionary 
war lived fifteen years in Catskill Greene County
and the Remainder in said town of Saugerties and that he lives there now.
That he volunteered & was a substitute as before stated 
That he remembers no officers save those stated 
That he never received a written discharge.
And that he has given in the certificate the
names of those who can testify as to his char-
acter for truth and veracity. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whateve to a pension
or annuity except the present and declares that his
name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any 
State. 

Samuel  Post

Sworn to and subscribed 
the day and year aforesaid
in open court.
A Hardenbough
John Jansen
Abm A Deyo 
Judges

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WE, Peter A Overbagh a Clergyman, residing in the town of 
Saugerties in the County of Ulster and State of 
New York, and  of the same town, hereby certify, that we 
are well acquainted with Samuel Post who has subscribed and sworn
to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy Nine years of 
age; that he is repute and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a solider of the Re-
volution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Peter A Overbagh
Henry Wynkoop

Sworn and Subscribed
the day and year aforesaid.} 
in open court
A Hardenbergh 
John Jansen
Abm A Deyo} Judges

CERTIFICATE OF THE COURT

The Court of Common in and for the County of Ulster in the State of New
York, sitting this thirteenth day of September in  the year 1832
at the court-house in Kingston in said County, 
do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories pre-
scribed by the War Department, that the above name applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as
he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Peter A. Overbagh 
who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the 
town of Saugerties in the County aforesaid, and that Henry Wynkoop
who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and a credi-
ble person, and that their statement is entitle to credit. 

A. G Hardenbergh
John Jansen
Abm A Deyo } Judges 

I, Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the
County of Ulster in the State of New York, do herby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Samuel Post
for a Pension. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this
thirteenth day of September 1832.
Jacob Snyder

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No 2

Wm Myer 
for Samuel Post 

afft 
1 month

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No 1

Peter Winne 
for 
Samuel Post

afft 
4.1.9- mr
 14

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State of New York
Ulster County] ss. Peter J. Winne of hte town of Sauger-
ties in the county of Ulster, aged Seventy three
years, a soldier in the revolutionary war, being duly
sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with 
Samuel Post, a soldier of the revolutionary war, and
now an applicant for a pension, that this deponent was
in the militia service in the Revolutionary war and 
was in the company commanded by Captain Hendrick Schoon
maker in the Regiment ommanded by Colonel Johannis
Snyder and well known that the said Samuel Post
belonge to the same company and Regiment with this deponent, that his deponent saw the said Samuel Post
in the said service for four months or more in the 
year 1777 and known that the said Samuel Post
continued to serve in said Corps in the capacity of a 
private soldier until he was discharged that the said
company sailed from the said town of Saugerties in a 
Sloop name the "Polly" down the Hudso River and
landed at Fort Montgomery where they remained the 
said four months, and where they were discharged
about the first of September in the year 1777 afore
said. And this deponent further says that this 
deponent and the said Samuel Post served for the 
term of one month in the said Regiment and
company as volunteers to guard the frontiers in the 
town of Shandaken in said county of Ulster that the 
said service was performed in the Month of April 1778. 
And this deponent further says that he enlisted in 
in the company command by Captain Hunter in Colo
nel Albert Pauldings Regiment of Militia in th 
month of May 1779 and know that the said Samuel
Post belonged to the same company and Regiment and 
served in said Corps in the capacity of a private soldier
that this deponent assisted in building a fort in the town
of Shandaken around the house of one Claud Longyear
that the said corps intended to cooperate with General 
Sullivan in his expedition to the West, but came too 
late, three days, and had to

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return, that the said Regiment marched from Shandaken 
to Stoney Point sand remained there till about the 16th 
day of December and went from thence to Poughkeepsie
being out to provisions, and remained there until the
expiration of the term of nine months, where they 
were discharged, that this deponent and the said Samuel Post Served in the said corps as private
soldiers for the whole of the said term of nine months. 
and Subscribed before me
day of September 1832
P.V Gausbeck Jr
Justice of the Peace

his 
Peter J x Winne
Mark

State of New York 
Ulster County} ss I do hereby certify that I am personally
acquainted with Peter J Winne that he is a credible
person and that his statement is entitled to credit  
P.V. Gausbeck Jr
Jus of the Peace

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State of New York
Ulster County Clerk's Office} ss
I Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, do hereby certify, that Pete Van Gaasback Junior Esquire, was on the day of the date of the Certificate to the annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and fo the said County of Ulster, duly authorized to take affidcits & c; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the signature P.V Gaasbeck Jr subscribe to the Certificate of the said annexed Affidavit to be genuine
In testimony, whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County this twentieth day of September 1832
Jacob Snyder

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State of New York 
Ulster County} ss. WIlliam Mye of the town of Saugerties Ulster County aged years a Soldier of the Revolutionary war being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainte with Samuel Post of the same town a Soldier of the Revolutionary War and now an applicant for a pension that this deponent was in the Militia service nd was in te Company of Capt John Dewitt in the Rvolutionary war and well knows that the said Samuel Post belonge to and served in the same company and that this deponent saw the said Samuel Post in 

State of New York
Ulster County Clerk's Office} ss
I Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, do hereby certify, that Pete Van Gaasback Junior Esquire, was on the day of the date of the Certificate to the annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and fo the said County of Ulster, duly authorized to take affidcits & c; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the signature P.V Gaasbeck Jr subscribe to the Certificate of the said annexed Affidavit to be genuine
In testimony, whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County this twentieth day of September 1832
Jacob Snyder

P.V. Gaasbeck Jr
Justice of the Peace

State of New York, Ulster: I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Wiliam Myer that he is a credible person, and that his statement is entitled to credit
P.V. Gaasbeck
Jus. of the Peace

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State of New York 
Ulster County} ss. WIlliam Mye of the town of Saugerties Ulster County aged years a Soldier of the Revolutionary war being duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainte with Samuel Post of the same town a Soldier of the Revolutionary War and now an applicant for a pension that this deponent was in the Militia service nd was in te Company of Capt John Dewitt in the Rvolutionary war and well knows that the said Samuel Post belonge to and served in the same company and that this deponent saw the said Samuel Post in said service for one month or more in the year 1777 and knows that the sid Samuel Post continued to serve in said corps as a private soldier untill discharged and that the said Compay was statione at Stillwater under the command of Genl Gates for the said term of one month and was then duly discharged being a few days after the Surrender of Burgoyne's Army in the onth of November in said year. 

William Myer 


Subscribed & Sworn this 12th day 
of September 1832 before me
P.V. Gaasbeck Jr
Justice of the Peace

State of New York, Ulster: I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Wiliam Myer that he is a credible person, and that his statement is entitled to credit
P.V. Gaasbeck
Jus. of the Peace

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Abraham DeWitt
for 
Samuel Post 

afft 36/9

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State of New York
Ulster County} ss. Abraham Dewitt of the town of Saugerties 
in the ounty of Ulser aged sixty nine years a 
Soldier in the Revolutionary war, being duly sworn deposeth and 
saith that he is well acquainted with Samuel Post
a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and now an applicant for a 
pension, that this deponent was in the Militia service of the 
State of New York in the Revolutionary war, and was in the 
company commanded by Captain Wesbrook in
Colonel Albert Pauldings Regiment and well knew the 
said Samuel Post that the said Samuel Post
belonged to the same company and Regiment with this deponent 
that this deponent saw the said Samuel Post in the 
said service for three moths in the year 1780 and knows 
that the said Samuel Post continued to serve in the 
said corps in the capacity of a private soldier until he was discharged that this deponent volunteered at Saugeties 
marched from thence to Kingston under Lieutenant 
Hummel from thence to Wawarsing and from thene to the fort at Shandaken and know that the said
Samuel Post served the whole of the said term of 
three months in said service and that the said 
company were all discharged at the fort at the town of Shandaken aforesaid. 
And this deponent further says that he this deponent was in the company of militia commanded by Captain Moses Yeomasns part of the time for himself and part of the time as a substitute that the said Samuel Post 
belonged to the same ompany with this deponent that this
depoent saw the said Samuel Post in the said Corps for the term of six months in the year 1781 that this deponent was stationed on the frontier then in 
the town of Kingston and range from one Philip Houghtaling in said town of Kingston through the town of Woodstock to one Tobias Wynkoop in the town of 
Saugerties in order to protect the frontier settlements fromt h incusrions of the Indians and tories. And that this deponent & the whole company of Captain Yeomans were discharged at Kingston in the beginning of January 1782.
Abraham Dewitt

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Sworn and Subscribed before me
the 12 day of September 1832
PV Gausbeck Jr
Justice of the Peace
State of New York Ulster Co.  I do hereby certify that I am per
sonally acquainted with Abraham Dewitt that he is a 
credible person and that his statement is entitled to 
credit. 
P V Gausbeck
Jus of the peace

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State of New York 
Ulster County Clerk's Office, } ss. 
I Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, do hereby certify
that Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior Esquire, was on the day of the 
date of the Certificate to the annexed affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for the
said County of Ulster, duly authorized to take affidavits & co, and further that I am
well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the
signature "P.V. Gaasbeck Jr" subscribed to the 
Certificate of the said annexed Affidavit to be genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of the said Court
and County, this twentieth day of September 1832. 
Jacob Snyder

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No 4

Zach Short
for 
Samuel Post

9 mos

Samuel Post
Pension Papers
14366

aomd
9 mo Sergt
15 mo pri
24 mo 

45

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State of New York 
Ulster County} ss Zachariah Short of town Woodstock in 
the county of Ulster aged years a Soldier of 
the Revolutionary war being duly sworn de-
poses and says that he is well acquainted 
with Samuel Post of the town of Saugerties
Ulster County also a Soldier of the Revolution-
ary war and now an applicant for a Pension
that this deponent was in the Militia levies
of the State of New York and was in the Com
-pany of Capt Henry Paulding in Col Albert
Pauldings Regiment and well knows that 
the said Samuel Post belonged to and served 


State of New York
Ulster County Clerk's Office, } ss.
I Jacob Snyder, Clerk of the County of Ulster, and
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, do hereby certify
that Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior Esquire, was on the day of the
date of the Certificate to the annexed affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for the
said County of Ulster, duly authorized to take affidavits & co, and further that I am
well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the
signature "P.V. Gaasbeck Jr" subscribed to the
Certificate of the said annexed Affidavit to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of the said Court
and County, this twentieth day of September 1832.
Jacob Snyder

first of January 1783. 
Sworn and subscribed before me
the 12 day of September 1832. 
P.V. Gaasbeck Jr
Justice of the peace

Zachariah Short

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State of New York 
Ulster County} ss Zachariah Short of town Woodstock in 
the county of Ulster aged years a Soldier of 
the Revolutionary war being duly sworn de-
poses and says that he is well acquainted 
with Samuel Post of the town of Saugerties
Ulster County also a Soldier of the Revolution-
ary war and now an applicant for a Pension
that this deponent was in the Militia levies
of the State of New York and was in the Com
-pany of Capt Henry Paulding in Col Albert
Pauldings Regiment and well knows that 
the said Samuel Post belonged to and served 
 in the same Company with this deponent
that this deponent saw the said Samuel Post 
in said service for nine months or more
in the year 1782 and well knows that the 
said Samuel continued to serve in said corps
as a private soldier untill this deponent
with the said company were discharged
and that the said company was stationed
in the town of Woodstock Ulster County 
and its annuity as a frontier guard when
this deponent with the said company were
duly discharged at the end of the full term
of nine months as aforesaid about the 
first of January 1783.

Sworn and subscribed before me
the 12 day of September 1832. 
P.V. Gaasbeck Jr
Justice of the peace

Zachariah Short 

[in margin] 
9 mos

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State of New York
Ulster County} ss I do hereby certify that I am personally
acquainted with Zachariah Short, tht he is a credible
person & that is statement is entitled to credit. 
P.V. Gaasbeck Jr. 
Jus. of the peace

Samuel Post 
Pension Papers 
14366

aomd
9 mo Sergt
15 mo pri
24 mo 

45

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Pen dept 24

1512

New York N. Leitz

Gertrude Post
NY
widow of Samuel post
who was a Private & Sgt. 
in the N. York 
ln 15 mo. Pri
9 " Sgt. 

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

Certificate of Pensions issued the 
24th day of Augt. 1843
and sent to Saml. M. Post
Saugerties 
N.Y. 

[Act of March 3, 1843.]

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 111

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2707 

Gertrude Post
declaration 

2605

Peter Gaasbeck 

agent

Kingston Ulster
County 

Adjusted
Sergt 9 mo 
Private 15 -"

Act July 1838

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State of New York 
Ulster County ss
Be it known that before the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeard the
Revd. Henry Ostrander who being first duly sworn according
to law doth on his oath depose and say that the following 
is a literal translation of the record of the Reformed Pro-
testant Dutch Church in the town of Saugerties in said
county to wit. 
"Married on June the twelfth one thousand seven 
hundred and eighty five, Samuel Post young man
and Gertrude Schoonmaker, young daughter, both
born in Ulster County and residing here"
The said Henry Ostrander doth farther depose 
and say that the following is a correct transcript 
of the record as written in the Dutch language con-
taining fair and legible figures and initial letters as follows. 
"Getrout, June 12 1785, Samuel Post, J all
& Gertrude Schoonmaker, J.D. byde geboreu in Ulster County 
& Woneude alhier." 
I Henry Ostrander, above named de
-pose and say that I hold the office of Pastor 
in the Protestant Reformed Dutch church in the 
State County and town aforesaid and that the 
above is a true extract from the record afore-
said. And further that the above named
Gertrude is now a widow and that she
is now living and has not been married since
the death of her first husband.
Henry Ostrander
Pastor of the R.P. Dutch
Church of Saugerties

Sworn before me the
18th day of September 1838 
James Woodruff
Justice of the peace

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Declaration 

In order to obtain the benefit of the act
of Congress of the 7 July 1838 Entitled "an 
Act granting half pay and pensions to 
certain widows" 

State of New York
Ulster County ss. On this fourteenth day of September
one thousand Eight hundred and thirty 
eight personally appeared before the judges
of the court of common pleas held at the
town of Kingston in and for the county of
Ulster and State of New York Gertrude Post 
a Resident of the town of Saugerties 
in the county of Ulster aged seventy six
years, who being first duly sworn, according
to law doth on her oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of
the provision made by the act of Congress
passed 7 July 1838 Entitled "An act granting 
half pay and pensions to certain widows"
that she is the widow of Samuel Post
who was a Sergeant in the New York
militia during the Revolutionary war
and was pensioned under the act of Congress
of 7 June 1832 at the rate of Ninety five
dollars per annum as will appear from 
his pension certificate surrendered to the war
department.

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She further declares that she was married
to the said Samuel Post on the 
twelfth day of January in the year
seventeen hundred and eighty five
that her said husband the aforesaid Samuel
Post died on the first
day of January Eighteen hundred & thirty seven
that he was not married to him prior to 
his leaving the service, but the marriage
took pace, previous to the first of January 
seventeen hundred and ninety fourviz. at 
the time above stated. 

her
Gertrude x Post
mark

Sworn and subscribed on the
day and year above written 
before 
John Van Buren Fir Judge
Abm A Deyo Judges
Jacob Snyder

State of New York 
Ulster County} ss I John Ferguson Clerk of the County of Ulster do
hereby certify that james Woodruff Esq. whose 
name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit of the Rev. Henry 
Ostrander was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in
and for the County of Ulster aforesaid & that his signature to the 
said affidavit is genuine. 
I do also certify that the Hon. John Va
Buren, Abraham A Deyo & Jacob Snyder before whom the 
foregoing affidavits of Gertrude Post purports to have been subscri- 
bed and taken ws at the date of the same Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for the county of Ulster aforesaid and
that the signature to the said affidavits as above are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand

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and affixed the seal of the said County this 19th 
day of October 1838. 
John Ferguson Clerk

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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 
KEL 

November 14, 1930 

Miss Viola Post
Harriman 
New York

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in
the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 21989, that Samuel
Post, was born in 1761, exact date not stated, in Sauger-
ties, Ulster County, New York. 

While residing in Saugerties, New York, he volunteered
and served with the New York Troops as follows:

From about May 1, 1777, four months as a private in
Captain Henry Schoonmaker's Company, Colonel Johannes
Snyder's Regiment; immediately after the termination of 
this service, one month as a private in Captain Henry
Schoonmaker's Company and went on an expedition to Scho-
harie, and immediately after his return another month as 
a private in Captain John De Witt's Company and marched 
to Saratoga. 

From sometime in the spring of 1778, one month as a 
private under Lieutenant Post. 

From about April 1, 1779, nine months as a private 
in Captain Hunter's Company, Colonel Albert Paulding's 
Regiment. 

From April or May, 1780, three months as a private 
in Captain Wesbrook's Company, Colonel Pawling's Regiment, 
and immediately after the close of this service, three months
as a private and frontier guard in Captain Matthew Dederick's
Company, Colonel Snyder's Regiment. 

From sometime in the spring of 1781, six months as

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sergeant in Captain Moses Yeomans' Company, Colonel 
Snyder's Regiment. 

From April 1, 1782, nine months as sergeant in Cap-
tain Henry Pawling's Company, Colonel Albert Pawling's 
Regiment. 

After the Revolution, he lived in Catskill, Greene
County, New York, for fifteen years, then returned to 
Saugterties, New York, of which place he was a resident
when he was allowed pension on his application executed
September 11, 1832. 

He died January 1, 1837.

The soldier married June 12, 1785, Gertrude Schoon-
maker. She was also born in Ulster County and both were
residents of that county at the time of their marriage. 

She was allowed pension on her application executed 
September 14, 1838, at which time she was aged seventy-
six year and resided in Saugerties, New York.

No reference is made to children. 
The name Samuel M. Post appears, no relationship
to sildier and his wife shown. 

Very truly yours

Date of widow's 
death not on AB

E.W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.