Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,205, Andrew Bodley, New York

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Service: New York
Bodley, Andrew
or Bodly
or Boadley.

Number: S46,205
B.L.Wt 1442-100

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15.088 R
New York
Andrew Bodley
of New Paltz in the state of N. York who was a Private in the regiment command Colonel van Cortland of the N. York line, for the term of Six years.
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Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commen the 15 of June 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of Sept and sent to D Brodhead @ Kingston New York.
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Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819.
Semi-annl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820. 
14 Mo 20/30 

117.3
48.0
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$165.3
{Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th, March 18__}

Continued

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Andrew Bodley
Private 
Col Van Cortlandt's Regt
New York Line
1777-5 years
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The A____  can't move must that he served as stated in the within Declared on by ____  ____ and did inter___  P_____

Pension Office 23rd April 
Admitted 

Secretarys Office
Lee Lev. State of NY. 
Certificate filed with
Jeremiah Devoes papers

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State of New York
Ulster County ___  on the fifteenth day of June 1818 before me the subscriber first Judge  of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County personally appears Andrew Bodley aged 57 years and upwards resident in New Paltz in the said County of Ulster, 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 be the said Andrew Bodley enlisted in the State of New York according to the best of his remembrance in Spring of the year 1777 for during the war in the company by Captain Strong, Colonel Henry B. Livingston while Regiment was afterwards reduced and he transferred in his company commanded by Captain Israel Smith in Colonel Van Cortlandt's Regiment that he continue to serve in the aid corps or in his service of the United Stages until the close of this war when he was discharged from service in Oranje County in the State of New York. That he was in these Battles at the taking of Burgoyne, taking of Cornwallis, and the General Sullivan's against the Indians. And 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.
Sworn to and declared before me. The day of year aforesaid.
Andrew Bodley

Lucas Elmendorf

I Lucas Elmendorf Judge as aforesaid do certify that at

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Common Enemy(?) as stated in his above mentioned Declaration and that he continued to serve as aforesaid for nine months and upwards and also that he is in reduced circumstances and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony __ and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. June ye 15th-1818.  Lucas Elmendorf

Ulster Clerks Office to the above named Lucas Elmendorf Esq is duly qualified as first judge of the Court within mentioned of this name above within signed in his own hand writing Witness the seal of said County of of which I am Clerk Dated June 15 1818.  CH. Tappen Jun.

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Andrew Bodley
15.088
7 Sept 1819

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State of New York Ulster County
On the 6th day of July 1820 at a court of common pleas held at the village of Kingston in the county of Ulster of the same being a court of Record proceeding  according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of of the amount keeping a record of its proceedings personally came in open court Andrew Bodley aged sixty years resident in Marbletown in Ulster County who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows. He enlisted in Captain Strong's company in Coll Henry B Livingston Regt of United States regular troops that he remained  in the service for the period of six years and two months and received an honorable discharge from George Washington that he assisted in the capture of Bougoine and Cornwallis that his original Declaration bears date the 10th day of June 1818 That he has received a pension the certificate of which is numbered 15088 and do solumly 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 other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to by so to diminish it as to bring myself within the

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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 subscribed by me.  
              his
Andrew X Bodly
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Schedule
Real Estate  I possess one acre of land with a small log house on it the place I now reside and bought with my pension money $28-.

Personal Estate 
One Cow $12-Five old chairs .75 Six plates .37 six cups and saucers .75 one cooking pot .50 3 knives and forks .25 
Also necessary Bedding and clothing.
My family consists of myself and wife who is infirm. My occupation was that of a mason. But my infirmities disqualify me from pursuing it. 
             his 
Andrew X Bodly
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Sworn to subscribed and declared in the year of July 1820 of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ulster in open court before Lucas Elmendorf first Judge of said Court. 
I Christopher Tappen Jun.
Clerk of the Court of common Pleas of Ulster County in the State of New York do testify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the originals filed in the Office of said Clerk and that in the opinion of the said Court-Andrew Bodly is dependent on the A=aid of his country for support and that the total amount in value of the schedule aforesaid is forty two dollars. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court  July 6th 1820
Ch. Tappen Jun.

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Bounty Land
For Revolutionary Service-Claim of Heirs
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(No. 1.)
State of New York 
County of Ulster    }SS. 

I, John A. Boadley, son, and one of the heirs at law of Andrew Boadley late of the County of Ulster and State of New York but now deceased, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that to the best of my knowledge and belief, the said Andrew Boadley, was a private in the Second Regiment of Infantry belonging to the New York line, on Continental establishment, during the Revolutionary War. I do further testify and declare, that I have never received a  warrant from the United States for the quantity of land due the said deceased from the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his rights to it in any manner during his life time. And that the said deceased left a widow named Cornelia now living. 
THEREFORE, KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, John A Boadley as aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Col. JOSEPH WATSON my true and lawful attorney, for me, in my name, to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States , for the time being, a warrant for the quantity of land due in right of said deceased. And my said attorney I do hereby fully authorize and empower to constitute and appoint, one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purpose herein expressed, and the same to revoke at will. 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, 
24th day of Nov. A.D 1828 
John A. Bodley 
In presence of John ____}
(NO. 2.)
PERSONALLY appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the above named County, the above named John A. Boadley signer and sealer to the foregoing declaration and power of attorney and made oath in due form of law to the one, and acknowledged the other, and his voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein named. 
Sworn, subscribed, and acknowledged before me,
This 24th day of November
A.D. 1828 }  John A. Bodley 
(NO.3.)
State of New York 
County of Ulster  }SS. 
PERSONALLY appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, Cornelius Bodley and Mary Bodley both credible and disinterested persons, who being duly sworn, did depose and say, that they verily believe that Andrew Boadley named in the within declaration, signed by John A. Boadley served in the Nw York line, during the Revolutionary War: that they have understood that he died about four years since, viz. on or about the 17th day of March 1824 at Marbletown within the County of Ulster leaving a widow, and that John A. Boadley, Benjamin  Boadley son of Levi Boadley deceased, who was a son of said Andrew Boadley, Thomas Boadley,  Henry Boadley, Benjamin Boadley, Henrietta Boadley, Jane Boadley, Elizabeth Boadley, Hannah Maria Boadley- are the reputed and only heirs at law of him, the said Andrew Boadley. 
Sworn and subscribed before me, this 24th day of Nov. A.D. 1828} 
John Shipp  ___ of the ___     
Mary Bodley
Cornelius Bodley

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(NO. 4.)
State of New York
County of Ulster }SS. 
Surrogates office}
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this day, to wit: the first day of December Anno Domini, 1828, there has been adduced satisfactory proof to me Jonathan D. Ostrander Surrogate of said county by the depositions of Mary Bodley and Cornelius Bodley two credible witnesses, and other explanations and information submitted, that John A. Boadley who has made the declaration on oath, and has subscribed the power of attorney herewith connected, is a son and one of the heirs of Andrew Boadley late a private in the Continental army of the Revolutionary War, and that the other heirs of the said Andrew Boadley are Eight in number, viz. John A. Boadley, who is a son of the said Andrew Boadley and resides, or is supposed to reside at New Paltz within the County of Ulster and Cornelia Boadley who is the widow of the said deceased. Benjamin Boadley, son of Levi Bodley deceased, who was a son of said Andrew Bodley, Thomas Bodley, Henry Bodley, Benjamin Bodley, Henrietta Bodley, Jane Bodley, Elizabeth Bodley and Hannah Maria Bodley,
and that the above named persons are the  
 only heirs of the said Andrew Boadley known to be living. 
IN WITNESS OF ALL WHICH, I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal official, in my capacity of a Surrogate this first day of December Anno Domini 1828. 
(NO.5.) Jonathan D. Ostrander

State of New York
County of Ulster  }SS. 
I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That John Chipps Esquire, before whom the declaration, power of attorney, and deposition hereto annexed appear to have been signed and made, was, at the time of signing and making the same, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the county of Ulster aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified as such, and to all his official  acts as such, due faith and credit should and ought to be given. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at Kingston this first day of December 1828. 
(NO.6.)   Jacob Snyder Clerk of Ulster County 

INSTRUCTIONS
It is only requisite that one of the heirs should  sign the declaration and power of attorney. Although in the states of Maine, Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, and Vermont; the Judges of Probate, in New-York and New-Jersey the Surrogates; in South Carolina and George the Ordinaries; in Virginia, North-Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and the other Western States, the Courts of Record are considered as authorized to certify heirship; yet it is deemed expedient to accompany their certificates(which must be under seal, or their absence accounted for) with the evidence on which they may grant them, and hence the deposition No. 3, herewith, which is indespensible as to the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and North-Carolina, where it has been considered that no particular office is authorized to certify heirship, yet even in these it is advisable, to cause the certificate of heirship No. 4 to be signed by the officer charged by law, with the granting letters of administration and receiving the proof of wills. 

DECLARATION AS TO FILLING OUT THE BLANKS.
In the declaration, after the name in the first line, place the degree of relationship-After regiment in the 5th line, place infantry, artillery, dragoons, invalids, sappers and miners, Hazen or Congress, as the case may be, the other blanks sufficiently indicate the words to be supplied. 
In deposition No. 3, previous to the word widow, place the word a, or no, as the case may be; and in the blank which follows, place the names of all the heirs, having care after the name of each to state, his or her degree of relationship to the deceased; the other blanks sufficiently indicate the words to be supplied. In the certificate of heirship, No. 4, after the word proof, insert the words to me, or the court of  holden at as the case may require; and previous to the words and one, insert the degree of relationship of the person who signs the power of attorney. In the large blank, insert the names of all the other heirs, designating their relationship and residence; the other blanks sufficiently indicate the words to be supplied.

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Invalid
File No. 46205 Boadley 
Andrew Bodley
Private 
Col Van Cortland NY Line
Rev War
Act Mch 18, 1818
Index: Vol. ______, Page ____
[Arrangement of 1870]

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No. 1442
 Jno. A. Boadley son & other heirs of 
Andrew Boadley
Priv
N. York
to Jos. Watson 
D.C.

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Hon. Robert Taylor
War Department
Washington