Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18921, Francis Conklin, New York

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(8-1776)
SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Conklin, Francis
W. 18921
Hester
CONTENTS

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New York 4799

Francis Conklin
Westchester Co. in the State of New York
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Verplank of the Regt commanded by Genl Mc Dougall in the N. York line for 22 months

Inscribed of the Roll of N. York City at the rate of 73 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Increased from $20

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of March 1840 and sent to Hon. J. Q. Adams H.R.

Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending

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Increased from $20
Letter to Pension Agent 21 March 1840
Letters to N. York  Albany Agents
11. April 1840
New Certificate issued 22 May 1840
Sent to Hon. J.Q. Adams, House of Representatives

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Reported

Date of Widow's death not on AB

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2243
New York City
Hester Conklin
widow of Francis Conklin
N.Y.
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 73. Dollars 33.

Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Nov 1848. and sent to

hon. Wm Nelson M.C.

Recorded of Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, page 40 Vol. 4

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9903

Claim for service under [illegible] disallowed. also first term of three mo which is deemed one of civil contract

admitted for 6 mo.

20$

To the said affidavit in his 
In testimony whereof I have hereby affixed my seal of office and inscribed my name this 14th day of September 1832.  H. Bayles

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State of New York
Westchester County

On this thirtienth day of August - in the year 1832 personally appeared before me Rahaman C. Austin a commissioner authorized to do certain duties of a Judge of the Supreme court in the State of New York at chambers in & for the said county of Westchester Frances Conklin a resident of the town of Conklin & in the said county of Westchester & State of New York aged about seventy six 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 7th 1832  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated -
That he first entered the said service of the country at the commencement of the Revolutionary War, the particular time this deponent is unable to state, at Haverstraw in Rockland County and State of New York, as a volunteer under Lieutenant John Waldron of the said county of Rockland, That at the time this deponent served three months as near as this deponent can now recollect, during which time this deponent was principally employed in building & preparing the docks for the ferry between Verplanck's

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Verplancks Point & Stoney Point, commonly called Kings Ferry, and in building some huts or houses on the west side of the river near said Ferry for the use of the army principally for the use of the commissary department - that after rendering the tour of service aforesaid this deponent removed from Haverstraw aforesaid with his fathers family to the opposite side of this river in the said town of Cortland & county of Westchester aforesaid, and soon after this deponent was employed with a number of the other inhabitants of the said town of Cortland about the time & just before the British came up the North or Hudson river, in collecting the cattle in the said town of Cortland and driving them to the north towards Fishkill, That this measure was adopted and this service performed as this deponent always understood by the advise or direction of General McDougal & to avert the cattle from being taken by the British who were then expected daily to be up said Rivers - That this deponent after assisting in collecting cattle as aforesaid went with others in charge of them towards Fishkill, This was in the fore part of July, and on or about the tenth of July of the year the British took Stoney Point

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This deponent with the party who had the charge of said Cattle at a place in Phillipstown called Peekskill hollow was taken prisoners by a party of Refugees commonly known as Cowboys under the command of Jo McKeel - when this deponent was carried prisoners to the City of New York where he was confined as a prisoner in the Sugar Town, and a part of the time in the Quaker meeting house, for a period of eighteen months or about that time, and was exchanged & discharged from said Friends after being in confinement until about the end of the year following his capture, or the beginning of the year thereafter. That when he was released he was taken under charge of a British guard to Elizabethtown New Jersey & there delivered over & were received by Commissary Pintar when this deponent returned with his father who had been a prisoner during the same period to their residence in Cortland town aforesaid.
This Deponent further saith, that the summer after he was discharged from his imprisonment as aforesaid he served in the militia under Lieutenant Benjamin Dyckman in the company

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of which James Cronk was Captain (said Cronk being at the time a prisoner) that he served under said Dyckman at different times during two summers on scouting parties and as guards, in different parts the upper part of the county of Westchester which service in all was at least six months. for periods of from one week to twenty or thirty days - 
That this deponent has no documentary evidence in his possession or in his power of his said services, and that he know of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services other than John Peterson whose testimony is hereto annexed - 
To the several interrogatories put to the deponent agreably to the directions contained in the instructions from the war department in cases of this nature, the deponent answers & says,
That he was born in Haverstraw in Rockland County State of New York in the year 1756 -
That he has no record of his age - That he resided in Haverstraw aforesaid when first called into service that ever since the Revolutionary war he has resided in Cortland town in Westchester County & state of

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New York where he now resides That he first entered the service as a volunteer, That the service in which he was engaged when taken prisoner was in pursuance of the order or direction of General McDougal, as the deponent thus & ever since [illegible], altho there was no person having a particular command of the party at the time That the service rendered under Lieutenant Dyckman near as a militia man & was ordered out as such, to protect the inhabitants of the upper part of Westchester County and their property from the incursions & depredations of the cowboys & torys -
That he never received any written or regular discharge in the neighbourhood in which deponent resides to whom he is known & who can testify to his character as to veracity and their belief on to his services as a soldier of the revolution are David Lent Esquire & Col. Peter Goetschins,
And this Deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of this

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Agency of any state
This deponent further saith that there is no clergyman in his neighbourhood now residing there, that the clergyman or minister sent there for a number of years has lately left said place - This deponent also says that from bodily infirmity he cannot attend the courts in said county of Westchester without greatly hazarding his health & perhaps endangering his life - 

Francis Conklin, his mark

Sworn to & subscribed this 13th day of august 1832 before me - 
R.C. Austin a commissioner to perform certain duties of a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of New York residing in the county of Westchester

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We David Lent & Peter Goetschins residing in the town of Cortland county of Westchester & State of New York do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Frances Conklin who has subscribed & sworn to the preceeding and annexed declaration & have been well acquainted with him for more than twenty years last past, that we believe him to be of the age of seventy six years, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & imprisoned as such as stated in his said declaration & that we concur in that opinion.

David Lentz
Peter Goetschins

Sworn this 6th day of September 1832 before me
R.C. Austin Sup
C Commissioner

And I Rahaman C Austin the commissioner to perform certain duties of or Judge of the supreme court before whom the preceding declaration and act were made do declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed the the war department that the above named applicant Frances Conklin was a revolutionary

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soldiers served as he states, and I further certify that it appears to me that David Lent & Peter Goetschins who signed the preceeding certificate are residents of the town of Cortland in the County of Westchester & state of New York are credible witnesses and that their statement is entitled to credit and I also certify that the said applicant by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to appear in any court of Record in the said county of Westchester.
R.C. Austin Sup
Ct Commissioner

State of New York Westchester County I Nathaniel Bayles clerk of the said county of Westchester do hereby certify that Rahaman C. Austin whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate & declarations is a commissioner to perform certain duties of a Judge of the Supreme Court of said State at Columbus in & for the said county of Westchester duly commissioner & sworn into office as such
In Witness whereof

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I have hereuto set me hand & seal of office at Bedford in said county this 11th day of September in the year 1832

N Bayles Clk

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State of New York
John Peterson of Cortlandt town in said county a pensioner being duly sworn says that he knows Frances Conklin of said Town, that he knew him in the revolutionary war, That this deponent knew said Conklin when a prisoner in the city of New York, that this deponent was a prisoner in the sugar house in New York and was with said Conklin at the same time he was such prisoner, that this deponent was transferred to one of the prison ships & said Conklin was left in the sugar house - That this deponent was in Col. Van Cortlandts regiment, and therefore had no personal knowledge of said Conklins military services but this deponent always understood & believes, that said Conklin served his country during the Revolution in the militia upon the lines in the county of Westchester
John Peterson his mark

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I Robert McCord and if the justices of the peace in & for Westchester County do hereby certify that John Peterson who signed & sworn to the within affidavit is before me personally known to me, that he is a Revolutionary pensioner & is a person of good character & entitled to full credit & belief - 
Sworn to & subscribed before me September the 3rd 1832
Robert McCord Justice

I Nathaniel Bayles Clerk of the county of Westchester State of New York do certify that Robert McCord Esqr whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and that I believe the signature subscribed to the said affidavit is his

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 14th day of September 1832

N Bayles Clerk

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399
Hester Conklin
N.York

Act 17 June '44

Married 1787
husband died 11 July '46

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State of New York
County of Westchester} ss  
On this thirtieth day of October 1846 before me Henry White one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for said county personally appeared Hester Conklin aged about seventy eight years and a resident of said county who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 17th 1844.  That she is the widow of Francis Conklin who was a private soldier in the War of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States and that he died on the eleventh day of July in the Year one thousand eight hundred and forty six and at the time of his death left this declarant a widow, and that she still remains a widow.  Declarant further saith that she was married in what is now known as the Town of Courtland, county and State aforesaid, on the twentieth day of May in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven.  Declarant further saith that the names of the officers under whom her husband served as Captain Jacobus Cronk – her husband the said Francis Conklin resided during the Revolutionary War in the county of Westchester and State of New York where she believes he performed said service.  Declarant further saith that she has always understood and believes that during said War her husband was taken prisoner and confined for some time in the old Sugar House in the city of New York, the length of time her husband was in the service or in prison, Declarant can not now recollect with certainty. – Declarant further saith that her maiden name was Hester Brown.  Hester Conklin, her mark
Subscribed and sworn to before me this thirtieth day of October 1846
Henry White one of the judges of the Courts of said County of Westchester
I Henry White Judge as aforesaid hereby certify that the said Hester Conklin from age and infirmities is unable to appear

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in open court. I further certify that she is identical person described in the foregoing declaration and I have no doubt as to the truth of her statement as set forth in said Declaration, and I further certify the reason of her not writing her name is she having never been taught

Henry White one of the judges of the courts of Westchester County

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State of New York, County of Westchester}ss * Munson I. LOCKWOOD, Clerk of the County aforesaid, DO HERERY CERTIFY, That Henry White Eqs whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, and endorsed thereon, was, on the day of the date of the said certificate, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said Count said County, residing in the said county, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorised to take the same.  And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Judge and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate is genuine. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said county, the Sixteenth day of November 1846 Munson I Lockwood Clerk

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State of New York County of Westchester} ss H. John Constant being first duly sworn according to law deposeth that he is in the seventy fourth year of his age and a resident of the county and state aforesaid. That he is a son of the Rev Silas Constant who was a clergyman and resided during and after the Revolutionary War in the county and state aforesaid. And deponent hath in his possession the original journal & record of marriages in the handwriting of his said father the said Silas Constant.  And that he finds there recorded the marriage of Francis Conkling to Hester Brown as having been solemnized on the twentieth day of May in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, except that the date there appears in fair legible figures as follows, viz 21th May 1787.  H. John Constant 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13 day of November 1846 Ward B Howard 

State of New York County of Westchester} ss Cornelius D. Westbrook, Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in the Town of Courtland, County and State aforesaid, being first duly sworn according to law Deposeth that he has examined the Journal and record of marriages above referenced to and verily believe said Journal and Record to be original and genuine. * also in this record of the Reformed Dutch Church of Courtland Town of which this deponent is now the Pastor.  The Baptism of several children of Francis Conklin and Hester his wife is there recorded.  Cornelius D. Westbrook  Pastor of R. D. C. of Courtland Town
Subscribed and Sworn to before me this 13 day of November 1846  Ward B. Howard}  Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with H. John Constant and Cornelius D. Westbrook above named, and have the most implicit confidence in their statements as above set forth, and I further certify that I have examined the record above offered too & fully concur in the foregoing Ward B. Howard

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State of New York,
County of Westchester, ss. 
I Munson I. Lockwood Clerk of the County aforesaid DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that Ward B Howard Esqr whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed Instrument, and endorsed thereon, was, on the day of the date of the said certificate, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the said County, residing in the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorised to take the same.  And, further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate is genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said County the Sixteenth day of November 1846

Munson I Lockwood Clerk

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May 26, 1936 Brig. Gen. George W. Mclver 
The Cordova Washington, D. C. 
Francis Conklin, W. 18921 
Thomas Conklin, W. 17456 BA-J/MLB 
Dear Sir: Reference is made to your letter of recent date, in which you request the Revolutionary Wax records of Jacob Lamb, Lieutenant Abram (or Abraham) Lamb, both of Westchester County, New York, probably Montrose (Cortlandtown), New York, and of Thomas and Francis Conklin, of the same locality. 
There are no claims for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolution of a Jacob Lamb of New York State, or of any Abram or Abraham Lamb. Such claims are the source of Revolutionary War data furnished by this office.  Records have been found for Francis and Thomas Conklin which are furnished as follow: 
FRANCIS CONKLIN W. 18921 The data herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 18921, based upon service of Francis Conklin in the Revolutionary War. Francis Conklin was born in 1756 in Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York; the names of his mother not given and name of father not designated. 
While residing in Haverstraw, New York, he volunteered in the fall or winter of 1776 and served three months as private under Lieutenant John Waldron, in a company of artificers engaged in building a storehouse at Verplanck's Point. He enlisted in the fall of 1777 and again served three months as private under Lieutenant John Waldron engaged in building the dock at King's Ferry.  After this tour, he moved with his father's family from Haverstraw to Cortlandtown across the river in Westchester County, New York, where he was employed in driving cattle to Fishkill to places of safety.

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He enlisted in June, 1779, when Verplanck and Stony Point were attacked and taken by the British and served as private in Captain James Cronkhite's New York company, and while serving on this tour was captured by the British and held a prisoner of war for about eighteen months in New York City, in the North Sugar House and the Quaker meetinghouse, then exchanged and returned home in company with Thomas and John Conklin, his father and brother (the father not designated) who were taken prisoners with him. After his release from prison he served in the Revolutionary War at different times on short tours, amounting to at least six months, as private under Lieutenant Benjamin Dyckman in the company of which Captain James Cronkhite was captain but who was then a prisoner.

Francis Conklin was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Cortland, Westchester County, New York, where he was still living in 1840. He died July 11, 1846. 

The soldier married May 20, 1787, in Cortland, New York, Hester Brown. The date and place of her birth and names of parents are not given. Their marriage was recorded in the Journal and Record of Marriages of the Reformed Dutch Church of Cortlandtown, New York. It was stated that the baptism of several children of Francis Conklin and his wife, Hester, vere recorded also in that journal, but no names of children were stated. 

Francis Conklin's widow, Hester, was allowed pension on her application executed October 30, 1846, at which time she was aged seventy-eight years and a resident of Westchester County, New York, In 1848, she was living in Cortlandtown, in that county. 

THOMAS CONKLIN 
W. 17456 
You are furnished herein the record of Thomas Conklin as found in pension claim, W. 17456, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. 

The date and place of this soldier's birth and names of his parents are not given.

Thomas Conklin crossed Long Island Sound and enlisted with his brother, John Conklin, and served from July 10, 1779, to November 10, 1780, as private in Captain James Cronkhite'e company, Colonel Samuel Drake's New York regiment, and while in service was taken prisoner by the British, no further details of service given.
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The soldier died early in September, 1793, in Cold Spring on Long Island, but was then a resident of Now York City. 

Thomas Conklin, of Huntington, New York, married March 27, 1777, in the Village of Fresh Pond, a part of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, Sarah Titus; the date and place of her birth and names of parents were not stated. 

After the death of Thomas Conklin, his widow, Sarah, married, date not given, one Douglas, of Huntington, New York, who did not live more than four or six months. She then married William Place of Huntington, in July, 1815. They lived in Huntington until his death in August, 1827. A few years after the death of William Place, his widow, Sarah, moved to Williamsburgh, Kings County, New York, where she resided with her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Ackerly, widow of Samuel Ackerly who died in 1821. She was still living with Elizabeth Ackerly in 1836. 

May 5, 1843, Sarah Place, aged ninety-two years and a resident of Williamsburgh, New York, applied for pension due her on account of the Revolutionary Wax service of her former husband, Thomas Conklin. Her claim was allowed. 

Thomas Conklin and his wife, Sarah, had eight children; their names were as follow: 
Gilbert Conklin, born April 11, 1778
Martha Conklin, born April 13, 1779 
Jonathan Titus Conklin, born  April 9, 1782 
Elizabeth Conklin, born April 1, 1784 
Hannah Conklin, born April 2, 1786 
Richard Conklin, born July 3, 1788 
Experience Conklin, born June or July 5, 1791 
Thomas Conklin, born May 3, 1793, in New York City. 

In 1843, one Abel K. Conklin was Justice of the Peace in Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, his relationship to soldier's family not shown. 

In the same year, Deborah Platt, aged seventy-sight years, made affidavit in Suffolk County, New York, that Thomas Conklin's oldest daughter lived with her after the soldier's death until she was twenty years of age, and that the youngest daughter, Experience

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Conklin, also lived with her and remained until she married, the name of the husband of Experience not stated, nor was any relationship given between Deborah Platt and the family of Thomas Conklin. 

In 1843, one Solomon Ketcham, aged eighty-six years, made affidavit in Suffolk County, New York, that Sarah Titus who married Thomas Conklin, when a girl lived in the home of his father, whose name he did not give nor did he state any relationship between the two families. 

Very truly yours A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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1936 May 26 Hist to Brig Gen W. McIver (rec ltr in clm W.17456 of Thomas Conklin) MDB

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Rev WIDOW, & c.
File No. 18921
Hester Conklin
Widow of 
Francis Conklin
Pri Rev War
Act: Feb 29 '48
Index: - Vol. A, Page 150
[arrangement of 1870.]

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law

Fra Conklin
4799-NY
Hon John Quincy Adams


Hon. J.Q. Adams 
HR

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W.Cole
Immediate attention

Col Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington DC

FREE 

Wm Nelson

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4799
New York

Francis Conklin
of Cortland on the State of New York who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain of the Regt commanded by Gen McIver in the New York line for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 20 dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832  $30
Semi-Anl allowance 4th ' 33  10
$40

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk,
Book D Vol. 5 Page 158

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Letter to Lewis H Pierce 30 Aug. 1839
to S Knapp " " "
to Hon J.Q. Adams 30 Dec 1839

Let. is Hon. J.H. Anderson
Dec. 21, 1846

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V 399
Hester Conklin

Let. to Hon. J.H. Anderson
Dec. 21, 1840

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J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

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Brooklyn May 13, 1839

Sir,
Enclosed is the application of Francis Conklin for increase of pension under the act of Congress passed 7: June 1832  Mr Conklin is under the impression that he did not relate all the particulars of his service & imprisonment in his original declaration. The occasion I do not know. There is above claim of evidence that he was taken prisoner and confined as such in the city of New York as specified in the accompanying papers.

Very Respectfully 
your Obt servt
Lewis J Pierce

Brooklyn NY

JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

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J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

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Brooklyn
Dec 18. 1839 
Sir 
Some months since we sent you the declaration of Francis Concklin for increase of pension under the Act of June 7: 1832 Instead however of accomplishing the object for which said declaration was made we were so unfortunate as to be instrumental in depriving him of the pittance that was preciously allowed of him. You referred us for proof to the Comptrollers Office Albany. The documents in that office are very imperfect previous to the year 1779 (the year said Conklin claims to have been taken prisoner) so that the fact of our not being able to obtain proof of service there, is by no means satisfactory evidence that no service was performed.  In fore instance we find upon the books of said Comptroller notice of a large payment to the officer under whom said Conckling claims to have served but no payment to any one of the privated. We find no mention of the name of Francis Conckling previous to Nov 10 1780 when it appears that he in company with Thomas Conckling & John Conckling received the sum of £42 S13 P4 each. There is notice of no other payment under that date, so that it would appear to be a just conclusion that this was the remuneration which said Conckling received for the imprisonment noticed in his declaration in company with his father & brother.  That he was taken prisoner while under arms appeared from the fact of his being paid for the time he was imprisoned.  John Peterson his witness informs us that he always understood and that it is the general impression among those who are familiar with the circumstances of said Concklings imprisonment that he was taken prisoner while under arms, and that his service driving cattle was military service.  He is ready to make oath to this statement if required. It is well known that great depredations were made by the Tories upon the

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cattle in Westchester County during the revolutionary war in order to supply the British forces in New York City that the mliita. Dragoons of that county were constantly on the alert to apprehend these tories of that this comprised a large proportion of their services. Such being the case we would respectfully submit whether there is any discrepancies in Mr Concklin's supplemental declaration? Mr. C. is a very worthy man and would not wittingly make a false statement [illegible] to relieve himself from the extreme poverty he suffered.

The records at Albany being imperfect during the years in which Conckling claims to have served, we would respectfully inquire if there is any good reason why he should not be allowed for the six months service sworn to by his original artificers in addition to the time of his imprisonment, proved by the certificate of the comptroller of New York?

We are very respectfully
your Obt Svts
Lewis & Pierce

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Francis Concklin

Act 7 June 1832

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The number and amount of certificate issued by the treasurer of the State of New York for levy's and militia services continued from Book V III

To whom given

1780 No 10  42994 Thomas Conckling Priv  42  13 4
42995 Francis Conckling "  42  13  4
42996 John Conckling " 42  13 4

State of New York
Comptrollers office
Albany Dec 18. 1839

I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book 9 now remaining in this office, and that it appears from the service book that the officer under whom the service was performed is not stated.

I further certify that the above all the payment charged on the same page of the 10 Nov 1780.

Batis Lake
Comptroller

For 34

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Francis Concklin
Application for Increase
Additional Evidence
Act 7 June 1832


Hon. J.Q. Adams H.R.

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State of New York
County of Westchester

Francis Conklin of the town of Courtland in said County being duly sworn further testifies & declares that his father and brother mentioned in his original declaration are both taken & confirmed with him as prisoners in New York City in like manner as he himself was taken & confined with him as prisoners in New York City in like manner as he himself was taken & confirmed as stated in his said declaration & for a like period to wit the said Thomas & John. And this declarant further testifies that he received several small sums as pay for his services & that he received the sum of L42 or thereabouts in remuneration for his said term of imprisonment & several years subsequent to the war of the revolution.

Francis Conklin his mark

Subscribed & sworn before me this 28th day of January 1840

David Lent J Peace

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State of New York
County of Westchester
John Peterson of the town of Cortlandt in said County aged being further duly sworn testified & says that during his confinement in New York City as a prisoner to the British, particularly refered to and described in his affidavit made in the application of Francis Conklin for increase of pension. That the father & brother of said Francis Conklin. to wit Thomas & John Conknlin were both confined with him and as this Deponent believes for a like period of time.

John Peterson, his mark

Subscribed & sworn this 28 day of January 1840 before me  And I certify that John Peterson is a credible witness
Daniel Haines Comr of Deeds

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State of New York
County of Westchester 
I Thomas H Fisher acting clerk of said county do hereby certify that David Lent before whom the foregoing supplemental declaration of Francis Conklin purports to have been taken was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for said county duly commissioned & sworn & that Daniel Hains before whom the accompanying deposition purports to have been taken was at the time thereof a commissioner of [illegible] in & for said county duly commissioned) & qualified & that their signatures to said declaration & deposition are genuine.

Witness my hand & official seal this eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty.
Thos H Fisher Act Clk

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State of New York Dr to. Francis Conckling  Jur 
To my Pay as a Private in Capt James Kronkhite’s Company Colonel Samuel Drake's Regiment Militia from 10th July 1779 to 10th November 1780 being the time I was in Captivity is 16 months, @ 5 3/4 p month 42.13.4 

Audited 1st April 1786 State of New York Comptroller Office Albany January 22. 1840}

I hereby certify that the above is true extract from 13 weeks B of audited accounts for 7 now remaining in this office. Philip Phelps Dept Comptroller fer 31C

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JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

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Brooklyn Feby 17th 1840. Sir Enclosed is additional evidence in support of the claim of Francis Concklin to increase of pension. There are no pay rolls or other evidence of payment made to the W.C. county militia previous to 1779, among the documents on file in the office of our Comptroller, save payment made to commanding officers. It is however believed that said Militia performed the greater part of their service previous to said year. We would therefore again respectfully inquire if there is any good reason why the said Francis Concklin should not be allowed for six months service sworn to by his original Certificates in addition to the time of his imprisonment as proved by the accompanying documents? 
We are respectfully your obt svt Louis & Pierce 

J.L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions

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Payment to be made
at Albany 
by T W Olcott, Esqr
Agent for paying pensioners in the Agency of Albany

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E.2. Vol. 4.
Page 12, by D. Brown,
Clerk

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WAR DEPARTIENT REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. I certify that in conformity with the law of the United of the 7th June, 1832, Francis Conklin of the State of New York who was a Private in the War of the Revolution 
is entitled to receive Seventy three dollars and thirty three cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi- annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year. This certificate issued in lieu of one dated 24th January 1833, cancelled. [seal] Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty.   
J. R. Poinsett   Secretary of War. 
Examined and Countersigned} J.L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.

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Mar 28 1840
No Evans

James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
[illegible]
City of Washington

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Albany Pension Agency
March 24, 1840

James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir

In reply to your letter of the 21st [illegible] reputing the case of Francis Conklin, a pensioner under the Act of June 7. 1832, I have to state that his name is not found in any books.
Very Respectfully your obt svt

Thos W Olcott
[unreadable] & Pension agent

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Apl 9 1840
Fra Conklin
[illegible]

James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
[illegible]
City of Washington

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Albany Pension Agency
April 7.1840

James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,

In reply to your letter of the 21st [illegible] respecting the increase of Francis Conklin's pension I have to state that his name is not found on our books.
Very respectfully
your obdt servt
Thos W Olcott
Pention agent

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F. Conklin
New certificate sent to Hon. J.Q. Adams House of Representatives 22 May 1840

JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Hon. J.Q. Adams
H.R.

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Brooklyn April 9th 1840

Sir
Pension warrant no 4799 was issued to Francis Concklin upon the 21st March 1840. and endorsed "Payment to be made at Albany by T.W. Olcott Esq" to  The name of Francis Concklin has not as yet been inscribed upon the books of the agent at Albany or New York City. We would enquire whether it is designed that Mr Concklin a resident of Westchester County should draw his pension in Albany? We suppose that the endorsement was erroneous.

Respectfully
Your Obt Svt
Lewis & Pierce

Hon J.L. Edwards
Com of Pensions

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The Honl Joseph H Anderson
In Congress
Washington D.C.

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P.O. Peekskill  1 Dec 1840

The Honl J.H. Anderson
Dear Sir I enclose to you the papers of the widdow of Francis Conklin a late pensioner. for the double papers of obtaining the pay due him up to the date of his death, and to obtain for her the half pay to which she is entitled since his death.
Will you have the goodness to present them to the commissioner of pensions at your earliest convenience
I believe they conform in every respect tot he rules laid down in the pension acts. The widdow is very indigent and actually requires aid at this inclement season of the year. This claim has been then long delayed by reason of no one to attend to it for her before. I have paid but little attention to Pension Claim for many years past.
Respectfully yours
Ward B. Howard

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State of New York
Westchester County ss John Foster of the Town of Cortland and County aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose and say that he this deponent  was employed to dig the grave in which this body of Francis Conklin late of the Town of Cortland aforesaid a pensioner was buried  Who died on the Eleventh day of July 1846 and was buried on the 12th day of July last part in the Town of Cortland aforesaid 
Sworn & subscribed & his mark affixed before me this 30th day of Dec 1840

John Foster his mark

Witness to the mark of John Foster
David W Travis
Calvin Frost

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Washington Jany 4 1847

Hon J.L. Edwards

Sir
I know Ward B Howard to be a Justice of the Peace, and I am also personally acquainted with Calvin Front one of the witnesses to the march of John Foster Please inform me if this is all that will be necessary to enable the widow to obtain the back pay of her late husband and half pay to herself from the time of his death

Very respectfully
yours
Joseph H Anderson

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Giles F. Yates Esq
Schenectady
New York

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1776  0.3.0 Paid John Waldron - Rockland Co employed in building dock at Kings Ferry
1.6.0 prisoner Employed to drive the cattle to a place of safety - while thus employed taken prisoner
0.6.0 Capt Crouth. Lieut Dyckman

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Francis Conklin N.Y. Act 7 June 1832 $73.33 per an 
To what time was he last paid s.

Pension office January 13th 1847

Paid to 4th March 1846
BLB

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N.Y. Peekskill 6 Nov 1848 I herewith send you this declaration of Hester Conklin the widow of Francis Conklin in order to be placed on the pension roll of widows under the Act of Feb 1848 – It should have been sent to you some time ago, but escaped my attention.  It will of course receive your usual prompt attention - My respectfully your obt svt W. Nelson 

Col. Edwards

P. S. It will be no news to you when this reaches you that New York has gone overwhelmingly for General Taylor and that this whole representation from this State in the next Congress are Whig with no chance here and there no exception.  W. N.

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No 399
Hester Conklin
mom of Francis
NY
Act 17 June 1844
Anw. 22 mo pri
$173.33 Per an
from 11 July 1846

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326
N. York City
Hester Conklin
widow of Francis Conklin
who was a private in the N.York line
Husbd died 11 July 1846

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 73 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on the 11 July 1846.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of Jany 1841
and sent to Hon. G.A. Anderson
House of Represents.
[Act of June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 2. Page 88.

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Payments to be made at New York by the Pres d US Br BK Agent for paying pensioners, in the Agency of
New York
Increase to $73.33 per ann

Cert: to Hon. J. Q Adams
H.R.

Recorded by Geo. C Stiles
Clerk, in Book D Vol 5
Page 158

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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Francis Conklin of the State of New York
who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army
is entitled to receive twenty
dollars and
per annum, during his natural life, commencing
on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the
4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States,
this
- 24 day of January
one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Examin
Count

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State of New York
County of Westchester} ss
On this 30th day of September in the year 1848 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in the County aforesaid Hester Conklin, a resident of the town of Cortlandt in the County of Westchester, with whom I am personally acquainted, aged about Eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.  That she is the widow of Francis Conklin who was a Private in the U. S. Line and died on the 11th July 1846.  And that the annual amount of pension she received under the act of 17 June 1844 was Seventy Three dollars and thirty three cents.
She further declares that she is still a widow, the reason Hester Conklin makes her mark is she cannot nor never could write.  Hester Conklin, her mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me  Wm. H. Briggs, Justice of the Peace in the Said County}

State of New York 
County of Westchester, ss
I , Munson I. Lockwood, Clerk of the County aforesaid, and also Clerk of the Courts in and for said County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that William H. Briggs Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and endorsed thereon, was, on the day of the date of the said Certificate, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the said County, residing in the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same, according to the laws of the said State.  And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said County Courts, the Third day of October 1848  Munson I. Lockwood, Clerk

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Application of Francis Conklin
for an Increase of pension under the Act of 7 June 1832

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Declaration In order to obtain an increase of pension under the act of Congress passed 7 June 1837 State of New York County of West Chester On this twenty fourth day of April 1839 personally appeared before me Joseph A. Constant a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said county Francis Conklin a resident of Cortland town in the County of Westchester and State of New York aged near ninety years. who having first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath spoke the following declaration in order to obtain an increase of pension under the Act of Congress passed 7 June 1832.    
That he is now a pensioner of the United States and receives a yearly stipend of Twenty dollars under said act of 7 June 1832 on account of services by him performed in the war of the revolution that he believes himself entitled to much larger pay on amount of other services and sufferings by him performed and endured during said War not specified and found in the declaration made by him in the matter of his application for said pension. That he omitted to set forth and prove said services as he did not at that time consider himself entitled to pension therefore but that he has since been apprised of his rights in this particular and therefore hereby further declares   That in the early part of the war declarant thinks in the fall & winter of 1776 about the first time that the British made an incursion up the North

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River he was employed within Company of Artificers at Versplanks point on said River for a [illegible] of about three months, That said Company was under the command of Capt John Walgram & was engaged in building a store house at said point  That in the fall of the next year to wit the year 1777 he was again employed with said Company of artificers commanded by Capt John Walgram for a like time of three months. in building a dock at Valplanks or old Kings ferry  That they commenced their work at this time in the all & worked as long s the weather would permit a for a period of three months
And that deponent further states that in the month of June 1779 when Vorplank to Stony Point were attacked & taken by the British he was called out with the company of Militia to which he belonged & after there further while they new retreating from the enemy he was taken prisoner by a party of "Ressingees" under one Joe McNeil or Mc Neil in the Fishkill mountain and conveyed by them to New York City where he was confined for a period of eighteen months and twelve or thirteen days. That he was first confined in the north sugar house afterwards in the Quaker meeting house and in a meeting house the name of which delcarent cannot remember  About in this last place he suffered from an attack of the small pox That he was confined for most of this period of eighteen months in [illegible] in said sugar house which was guarded by Sergeants Hallen & Hummingham. That at this time of his capture he was a member of & on service with the compy commanded by Capt James Cronk who was also taken prisoner at the same time and he further declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State

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except on that of the State of New York from which he received the pension aforesaid, and whereby relinquishes every claim to a pension said to such as he is entitled to under said act of 7 June 1832
Subscribed & sworn the day and year aforesaid

Francis his x mark Conklin

Before me Joseph A Constant one of the Judges of the County Courts in & for the county of Westchester

And I Joseph A. Constant Judge of aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion that Francis Conklin the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served, and was confined, as he states. And I do hereby certify that said Francis Conklin is entirely credible to attend court by reason of old age and consequent bodily infirmity.
Joseph A Constant

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State of New York
County of Westchester ss
The deposition of Jacob Lamb of the town of Cortlandt in said county aged seventy years who being duly examined deposeth & saith. That he is well acquainted with Frances Conklin the same person refered to & described in the accompanying papers as an applicant for increase of pension That he was well acquinted with said Conklin during the War of the Revolution & known that he was engaged therein as a private of militia in the service of the United States That during said war this deponent lived in the town of Cortland in the County of Westchester & made the residence of said Conklin  That some time during said war said Conklin was taken by the enemy coneyed as a prisoner to New York City & confirmed there as a prisoner of war for a period of at least eighteen months: that he was not an eye witness to the capture a confinement of said Conklin but so notorious was the fact at the time of its occurrance that deponent does not doubt its truth. He knows that he was absent from home for said period of eighteen months & that he was universally reputed to have been a prisoner in the hands of the British & to have been confined in the sugar house in New York City & Deponent further says that he believes that said Conklin was captured as aforesaid in the

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summer of the year 1779. And further deponent saith not

Jacob his x mark Lamb

On this 11th day of March 1839 personally appeared before me Jacob Lamb of the town of Cortlandt in said county & made oath in due form of law that the facts set forth in the above deposition by him subscribed an true & I certify that said Jacob Lamb is a credible witness

David Lent Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
County of Westchester
The Deposition of John Peterson of the town of Certtentt in said county aged eighty five years who being duly examined deposeth & saith that he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and is now a pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress passed March 18, 1818. That during said war he was well acquainted with the Francis Conklin the same person refered to & described in the accompanying papers as are applicant for a pension. That in the year 1779, when this deponent was confined as a prisoner in New York City, said Francis Conklin was also confined as a prisoner of war in the hands of the British and remained in confinement as aforesaid for a period of at least eighteen months Deponent reputedly saw said Francis Conklin during said confinement, was with him most of the time in the north Shegar house in the City of New York and well knew that he was detained as a prisoner of war by the enemy. And further that he is the same person who now

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received a pension for services in said war. & is an applicant for an increase of pay
John Peterson his mark

On this 11th day of March 1839 personally appeared before me the undersigned John Peterson & made oath in due form of law that the facts set forth in the within deposition by him subscribed and I certify that he is a credible witness.
Daniel Hains Com of Deeds.

State of New York
County of Westchester
Clerks Office
Clerk of said county do hereby certify that Joseph A Constant before whom the foregoing declaration of Francis Conklin purports to have been sworn was at the date thereof an associate judge of the court of Common Pleas in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that David Seal before whom the accompanying deposition of Jacob Lamb purports to have been sworn and at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for said county duly commissioned & qualified & that David Haines before them the accompanying deposition of John Peterson purports to have been to him [illegible] date thereof a Commissioner of Deeds in & for said county duly commissioned & qualified and I do further certify that

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& that David Haines before whom the accompanying deposition of John Peterson purports to have been taken was at the date thereof a commissioner of Deeds in & for said county duly commissioned & qualified. And I do further certify that I have examined the signatures of said Yoseph at Constant. David Seal & Daniel Hains to said said declaration & depositions with their accompanying certificates and that the same are genuine
Witness my hand & official seal this 7th day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty nine.
Note "Francis" written on [illegible] before execution. "May" interlined & 
"April" erased
John H. Smith Clk