Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,429, Richard Williams, Mass.

SERVICE
Nassau
Williams, Richard Jane
NUMBER _____
W 18.429 B L Mt 724-100
CONTENTS

4021. New York City
reps. by Let to Pen. aft may 23 d 44
Jane Williams deceased widow of Richard Williams, who died 6 March 1837. who died on the 9 June 1832 of Mass in the State of N York who was a Private in the commanded by Captain of the reg commanded by Col Patnam in the Mass a line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York City at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 9 June 1832 and ending 6 Mar 1837 when she died
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of May 1844 and sent to Henry Wortham, Present
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending payable to Eliz a Pierce, Mary Mandaville and James Williams. Children of R & Jane Williams & the legal rep s of Henry and Isaac Williams dec d w th Revolutionary Claim, are also children of said { Act July 4, 1836, Rich d & Jane Williams dec d { Section the 3 d
Recorded by Fleming J. Swann, Clerk, Book C, Vol. 11, Page 134,

7634 New York.
Richard Williams
of Cortlandt in the state of N. York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the M. J. Smith's line, for the term of 4 years. War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence the 10 th of April 1810.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th of March 1819 and sent to A. John Constant, Esq. Parksill, N. York.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 \frac{21}{30} \frac{4}{31} 86. 63
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 40. 00
$ 134. 63
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Cortlandt West Chester County.
Miss Ann Dreyer Parker Hill, New Chester Co. New York

(-724)
Richard Williams prio: 5 th Mass: Regiment
Warrant issued Dec. 30 th 1867
Hon. Caleb Tompkins

Rich d Williams priv. Putnam's Mass Reg t 1779 to 1783. 10 April 1818
Admitted
Richard Williams

State of New York } Westchester County }
Richard Williams being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is now a resident of the town of Cortlandt in the county of Westchester and state of New York, that he is now in the fifty eighth year of his age and is indigent and reduced circumstances & needs the assistance of his country for support. This deponent further saith that he enlisted as a soldier in the Army of the United States to serve during the Revolutionary War at West Point in the state of New York in the spring of the year 1779 in a company commanded by Captain Joshua Benson in the fifth Regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Col. Putnam in which company and Regiment this deponent served as a private soldier until the 9 th day of June in the year 1783 when this deponent was honorably discharged from the service by the Commander in Chief at Newburgh in the state of New York -
This deponent further saith that the annexed paper is a true copy of the discharge above mentioned, that the original was sent the winter last past to Caleb Sampson Esquire a Representative in Congress from the county of Westchester aforesaid

for the purpose of obtaining the lands this deponent considers himself entitled to by as such soldier as aforesaid, which discharge this deponent is informed and believes was deposited by the said Tompkins in one of the Public offices at the City of Washington -
Sworn & subscribed this tenth day of April 1818 before me
# John Constant
his Richard X Williams mark
Worcester County ss. I, John Constant an Bate of New York Esq. & J. P. John Constant an of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Worcester aforesaid do hereby certify that on this tenth day of April in the year 1818 the above named Richard Williams who is personally known to me appeared before me & made oaths to the preceding affidavit by him subscribed & that I am well satisfied of the truth of the facts therein stated & selfaths.
# John Constant

Copy
By his Excellency, George Washin- gton Esquire General and Commander in Chief of the forces of the United States of America
Whereas to certify that the bearer hereof Richard Williams Soldier in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment having faithfully served in the United States four years & upwards and being entitled for the war only is hereby discharged from the American Army — Given at Head Quarters the 9 th day of June 1783.
G Washington
By his Excellency
Commander
J Trumbull M c Intosh
Registered in the Books of the Regt. H Marble adjutant

within Head Quarters June 9 th 1903 The certificate shall not avail the bearer as a discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive treaty of Peace, previous to which time and until proclamation thereof shall be made. He is to be considered as being on furlough
George Washington
copy of a discharge to Richard Williams

Richard Williams
Nº 23
76 34
Cortlandt Town Westchester Co
15 Mar '19
NY
- En

Westchester Common Pleas State of New York
At a court of common pleas held at Bedford in and for the County of Westchester on the fourth Monday in September in the Year One Thousand Eight hundred and Twenty
PRESENT the Honorable William Jay Jonathan Ferris Stephen B. Hoffman Esq. Judges of the said Court
Westchester County ss. Be it Remembered, That on the Twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the said Court of Common Pleas
in open court, the said court being a court of record for the State of New York being a Court of record created such by Statute and proceeding according to the Common Law with unlimited amount in jurisdiction
Richard Williams aged Sixty four years, resident in Cortland in the said County of Westchester 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 the service of the United States under Capt. Buel about Four Years & six Months previous to the close of that war, was attached to the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Col. Rufus Putnam in a Company commanded by Joshua Benson, in which Regiment he continued to serve, as a private, until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged near Newburgh in the State of New York
and that his original declaration is dated the Tenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen and that his pension certificate is No. without any number and bears date the fifteenth day of March in the Year 1819

AND I do solemnly 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 manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the 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, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, to wit: An old log house, and about two acres of Ground situate in the Town of Cortlandt aforesaid valued at
One Cow — value
One Hog — value
Two Tables — do
two pots Iron — do
1 Pail, 6 plates & 3 platters do
5 old Barrels & 2 Trammels
3 Knives and 5 Forks
One shovel & Pongs
One Chair & 1 band stool
3 Milk pans & one frying pan
four old chairs
(Signed) Richard his  X Williams Mark
I do further swear that my family consists of myself, my Wife aged about Sixty three Years and a grand daughter aged about three Years and a grand son aged thirteen Years — that I am unable to labour for a living in consequence of my age and infirmities, being upturned in both my sides
Sworn in Open Court (Signed) Richard his  X Williams mark
this 25 th day of September 1820
Before me.
H. H. Douglas

I,
William Regua
Clerk of the Winchester Common Pleas
Do hereby certify, That the foregoing Deposition and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is One hundred and thirty Pounds
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this Fifth day of October 1820
Wm Regua Clerk

6061
Jane Williams Ld. NY
Act 4 July 36

State of New York
Westchester County } ss:
At a Court of Common Pleas held in and for said County, at the town of White Plains on the 27 th day of September A.D. 1843 personally appeared in Open Court James Williams a resident of said County who being duly sworn according to Law makes the following declaration for the purpose of obtaining in right of his late Mother Jane Williams the benefits of the provisions of the Act of Congress of the fourth of July A.D. 1836 says that his late father Richard Williams was a Revolutionary Soldier and United States Pensioner for several years and departed this life in said County on or about the ninth day of June A.D. 1833 leaving a widow Jane Williams who also departed this life in said County on the sixth day of March A.D. 1837 - that this deponent knows not when his said father Richard Williams entered the United States Service as such Soldier as aforesaid, or the particular line or Corps in which he served or when he left it, but has always understood that he served to the close of the war - he knows that his said father Richard Williams drew one hundred acres of land from the United States in right of such service and refers to the Vouchers and Rolls at Washington City on which he drew bounty land and a pension, to furnish the necessary evidence of such services. he knows not when his said father Richard Williams and his Mother Jane were married, or by whom they were married, neither has he any Record or Documentary evidence to establish such facts or where to find any, or where to find any living witnesses to prove such marriage - he says that he was fifty one years old last March and that he had five Brothers and Sisters older than himself all by single births viz. Richard now deceased Jesse who went to Sea more than forty years ago since then not heard of. Isaac who died about the tenth day of the present month, Henry now deceased, Elizabeth Pierce (widow) now living, this deponent and Mary wife of Cornelius Mandaville - that he makes the foregoing declaration for the purpose of obtaining from the United States the Pension or Annuity due his late Mother Jane Williams from the day of her husband Richard Williams death until the day of her death. sworn and subscribed in Open Court, James Williams the day and year above named.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at White Plains this 27 day of September A.D. 1843. Charles F. Purdy Clerk

Dep. d by the Hon. M c Jenkins.
Docum. t in a Revol. y claiming Nich a Williams of the 5 th Mass ts Regiment.
There is no authority for the delivery of the warrant.
The authority is enclosed & the warrant made out
W m H. Grant
Nov. r 25. th 1818

HEAD-QUARTERS, June 17th 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Richard Williams
Courtland Town December the 29 1817 I Richard Williams do give all my note and title of this debt to my friend James ... and since for work Richard Williams his mark Richard Williams Purvis
Richard Williams E. & M. 724-100. Ms.

By His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Richard Williams, Soldier in the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment, having faith- fully served the United States Four Years & upwards and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the Sixth day of June 1783.
G. Washington
By His Excellency's
Command,
Dunsmore Sw Sp
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
H. Noble
Adjutant.

PAID
18 3/4
22
11
Henry Northrop Esq. Washington D.C.

Additional Affidavits in support of the claims of the children of Mrs Laura Williams

State of New York
Westchester County ss: John Jones of the town of Cortlandt, in said County, being duly sworn says that he is now eighty four years old and that he resided in said town before and during and after the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain and was acquainted with Richard Williams during that time, that said Richard was a soldier in the service of the United States of America during said War. And deponent says that he knew said Richard Williams before said war and that said Richard worked for said deponent's father. that deponent remembers distinctly of hearing of the marriage of said Richard with Jane Crouthite the woman with whom he afterwards lived as his wife so long as this deponent knew them, that such marriage took place about three years before the close of said war as nearly as deponent can state. and deponent is positive that he knew said Richard and said Jane living together as husband and wife some two years or more before said Richard left the service of the United States as a soldier for the same - that deponent also knew them for many years after the close of the war and that they lived together as long as deponent knew them as husband and wife and were generally regarded as such, and brought up quite a large family of children - that deponent lived in the vicinity with said Richard and Jane before and during and after the said war. and deponent says that he has not resided in said town and county for about 25 years until the last few years, since the death of both Richard and Jane - that when he left this place said Richard and Jane were living and that when he returned they were both dead as he was informed and believes to be true. And deponent says that he was in no way related to said Richard or said Jane either by consanguinity or affinity. that he did not see them married but that he knew them living together as husband and wife before the close of said war and heard of their marriage at the time it took place as afore said. and further says not
Subscribed and sworn before me this twentieth day of February 1844 { John Jones Philip Blapp Justice Peace for Westchester County

State of New York
Westchester County, } ss:
Sarah Jones of the town of Cortlandt in said County, being duly sworn, deposes and says that she is in the sixty seventy fourth year of her age and is the wife of John Jones in the foregoing affidavit, named and that they were married about the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty three, that previous to her marriage with said Jones she resided in said town and was acquainted with Richard Williams a soldier of the United States in the Revolutionary War, that she lived in the vicinity where said Williams lived - that she well remembers of hearing of his marriage with Jane Crowkite at the time said Richard and Jane were married and that it was about three years before the close of said War, and that deponent also recollects distinctly, that said Richard and Jane were living together as husband and wife before that said Richard left the United States service and they so lived together until deponent with her husband the said John Jones removed from said town and County, and which was long after said war had closed - that this deponent never saw the house of said Richard and Jane, who were keeping house at the time , both before and after the end of the war, that it was then, and ever since, so far as this deponent has any information, has been understood by all the neighbors that said Richard and Jane were husband and wife - that they had a family of something like seven or eight children, and deponent says that she and her said husband returned to reside in said town about two years ago - and that she has learned since her return to said town that both Richard and Jane Williams are deceased - And deponent says that she is in no way related to or connected with said Williams or said Jane his wife or with any of their descendants, nor are any of her children or descendants in any way related to the children or descendants of said Richard & Jane's children either by consanguinity or affinity, and further deponent says not.
Sworn and subscribed before
me this twentieth day of February 1844.
Sarah Jones
Philip G. Clapp Justice of the Peace for Westchester County

Westchester County ss: Maria Covert of the town of Cortlandt and County of Westchester being duly sworn says that she was acquainted with Jane Williams the widow, of Richard Williams a Revolutionary soldier, and the mother of James Williams of said town and County - that deponent recollects distinctly, the last sickness of said Jane Williams. that said Jane died on or about the Sixth day of March in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty seven - that this deponent was present as near as deponent can recollect when said Jane Williams expired, that deponent assisted in laying out and shrouding said Jane after she had expired and that deponent attended the funeral of said Jane. And this deponent says that she was in no way connected with or related to the said Jane or her husband Richard Williams nor is she in any manner either by Consanguinity, or affinity, related to the Children or descendants or any of them, of said Richard - Jane Williams. nor is she in any manner interested in obtaining any pensions or any thing of like kind from the United States for or in behalf of the Children or descendants of said Richard and Jane. And further this deponent says not!
Sworn before me this 20 th day of February A.D. 1844. Maria Covert
Philip Blapp Justice of the peace for Westchester County
Westchester County ss: Henry B. Odell being sworn says that he knew Jane Williams the mother of James Williams and the widow of Richard Williams a Revolutionary soldier. that he lived in the neighborhood where she lived, in the town of Cortlandt in said County, when she died, and that she died about the Sixth or so, in March 1837 - and that he attended her funeral. And deponent says he is not in any way to his knowledge or belief related to said James Williams or any of the descendants of said Richard and Jane, nor is he in any manner interested in obtaining a pension or back pay from the United States on the account of any of them. And further says not.
Sworn before me this 20 th day of February 1844. Henry B Odell
Philip Blapp Justice of the peace for Westchester County

State of New York Westchester County ss. I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with John Jones, Sarah Jones, Mariah Covert & Henry C. Odell who made the several affidavits within by them subscribed, before me on the 20 th February 1844 in a pension case of the heirs of Mrs. Jane Williams and that each and every one of them are witnesses of credibility. Attest this 10 th day of April 1844
Philip Bliss justice of peace for Westchester County
1844
Henry Northrop Esq. Washington
D.C.
1844 in support of the claim of the children of Mrs. Jane Williams

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
County of Westchester,
ss.
MUNSON I. LOCKWOOD,
Clerk of the County aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That
Philip Clapp
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 Twenty first day of February 184 4
Munson Lockwood Clerk.
Printed at "THE CHRONICLE OFFICE," Sing Sing.

Printed at "THE CHRONICLE OFFICE," Sing Sing.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, County of Westchester,
} ss.
MUNSON I. LOCKWOOD,
Clerk of the County aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That
Philip Clapp
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 tenth day of April 184 4
Munson Lockwood  Clerk.

April 13 1844
James L. Edwards Ble Adenauer Jane Williams
Ebenezer to Commissioner of Customs Present

Washington City 15 th of April 1864 Sub 1
Sir I have been accused by you of complaining of time thrown away on me. This I cannot help. I can and always shall complain when requisitions are made by you and these requisitions complied with, that there is then some new quickened to harass and wear out the patiences and often the means of the applicant in obtaining the boon awarded him by his country through a Department of the War Department in criticizing the evidence in support of the claim, In many cases I have that carried further than in this case of the widow of Richard Williams for this purpose of showing the consistency of the Department I give a copy of your letter of the 2nd of Febry last and the letter of the 15 th instant.
Your letter of 2nd Febry says the proof of marriage is not satisfactory. I am sure she knew the parties before Williams left the service must be positively as to the period when they were married as that they were living together as man and wife before he left the service and the testimony of some disinterested person must be produced to show when she did. Such Sir is this letter of 2nd of Febry a evidence who had already sworn to the day of the death and who was in no way a disinterested witness by implication an interested witness.
But Sir to meet this new requisition the party swore and said on other evidence both as to the time when they were actually living together as husband and wife and the day of his death and all I am sure that they are not related as interested in the event - The magistrate omits to certify the credibility of the witness (and so far a valid objection until so certified) - But now Sir mark the lastest requisition of 2nd Febry it is required that I am sure I should prove their living together as man and wife before he left the service but now when a witness swears that he knew Williams before the war that Williams (being a Quaker) worked for him before that he heard of the marriage with Jane Brantite that such marriage took place about three years before the war ended and that he is positive that he knew them living together as husband and wife some two years or more before the war ended. Thus after describing on 2nd of Febry the evidence required to wit that he knew them living together as husband and wife before he left the service, but now when the evidence

I state that he knew him before the war that he was his father that he heard of his marriage with Jane Crankite about three years before the war ended he is positive that he knew them living together as husband and wife two years before the war ended. He holds the evidence does not establish the marriage with the facts of the  negroes  or  servants  to  the  Blairs within the said act such is the logic now adduced —
That still more strange and extraordinary he was a son of the church - - such as have been by implication this act of so great a son - a son of the Massachusetts. You would not have known him from the present before the war. enlisted after went into the Massachusetts line and there a son - son of the Massachusetts line - I have been white of the town of Court- - land and lived to get there as a husband and wife before the war ended this ask the Church that a man in the state of New York should not list in to the Massachusetts line. Should not be a son in the Massachusetts line any son be white in Courtland New York & so on
Now Sir I would respectfully remark that there is not a school boy who has read Revolutionary history but knows that after the Patriots evacuated Manhattan in the Spring of 1776. That during the revolution they were never for three more than three days in the city of New York.
and at New London Connecticut. That corps is mostly the New England Troops say from 1875 to the end of the war - were principally located on the coast line and vicinity in the state of New York, West Point, Stony Point, New Paltz, Poughkeepsie, Peekskill, H. H. and under the command of Col. Gen. Putnam while the commander in chief was to the south Gen. Ferry and etc and after say August 1875 the commander in chief was located in that section of country, that it was the great point of concentration of the Northern Army where all the Northern Continental Troops were . As the Commissioner was an officer in the late war I would respectfully ask if there was any thing to prevent a man disposed to enlist from entering into any books that he placed on the line of any state that he pleased and again if there was any act or law prohibiting a soldier from carrying if he thought proper so to do. Then I would most respectfully ask where the strength of Richard Williams living in the heart of the camp as it were from 1874 to 1875 at enlisting and into the Massachusetts line . They were having at least a majority of all the troops in that section of the country and located there most of the war and again I would ask where the strength of this man after enlisting and on to the Massachusetts line  Army and into his own neighborhood from which he probably was never marched fifty miles, out of the New England Troops as he has said, being principally located on the coast line and vicinity from 1877 to the end of the war but

independent of this many evidence that of numbers of others who testify to their early knowledge of them as husband and wife and particularly as to the age of their children and their size after reaching a dignitary on the 2nd of February last which was more than four years with - To again adopt some new requisition such things are the cause of general complaint to wit the habit of looking out requisition piece by piece and thus harassing and wearing out the spirit of the party and often his means in getting that which he knows himself entitled to but which a requisition in making new and repeated requisitions prevents his ever getting. Since it is too hard and must result in a case if prosecuted in a real organization of the Department over which you preside you are in little aware that the present officer has availed more of this cause of action by the head of that Department. There were before was heard or as dreamed of. To wit that from the general conference delay an action of the Department over which you preside. I am entitled in the troubling numbers of language with the map of the business of the country and which must and will result in an investigation of the many and repeated causes of complaint of quibble and and requisitions in detail to wit requisition after requisition which is made and a case which should not have required an hour to adjust and close is not the subject and business of oft and repeated demands. Requisitions etc and the time of the Department and the Treasury of the U.S. thus wasted in useless and prolonged altercation which should never have existed - You see far right that I know will send this back again if it suits you and so let it and then the question can be carried a step farther
Yours Disputant Henry Stone Phelps

To what time was Richard Williams of New York City Roll, act March 18. 1818, last paid?
Pension Office May 23. 1844
J. L. Edwards
Due 9 th June 1832, p st to the day of his death,
W. Boyan

State of New York, Westchester County } ss: Personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and of said County, Justus Gruite who being duly sworn according to Law says that he is now sixty six years of age, that he now temporarily resides at Brooklyn Long Island, New York, otherwise has always resided in the neighborhood of Peekskill in the aforesaid County, that he was always well acquainted with Richard Williams a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner and Jane his wife, he knows not when they were married where or who by , but says that Richard their oldest child and himself went to school together to the same teacher , that Richard was some two or three, surely not to exceed four years younger than him deponent, that at this time both the said Richard the pensioner and his wife Jane have been dead for some years, the latter surviving her husband a few years. And further he saith not. Sworn and subscribed before me } Justus Gruite this twenty fifth day of August 1843 } Joseph Strong justice of the peace in and for said County
State of New York, Westchester County } ss: Personally appeared before me the said subscriber a justice of the peace in and of said County Mrs. Wack who being duly sworn according to Law saith that she is now 85 years of age that during the Revolution she intermarried with a British officer whose father lived in the immediate vicinity of Peekskill, that she resided with her said husband about four years during said Revolution on Long Island , that at the close of the Revolution and restoration of Peace her said husband moved to Nova Scotia , that eight years thereafter they returned to Peekskill where they she has resided since that time. that at that time Richard Williams was living on the land of her father-in- Law, and had a wife and several children , she knows nothing as to when he was married where or who by. that he the said Williams and wife resided on the same

places to wit that of her late father-in-law af- terwards of Peekskill _____ until the day of the said Williams death, that his wid- ow Jane Williams survived him some years, she says that the said Richard Williams was a Revolutionary Soldier and a United States Pensioner for some years before his death. She knows not the number or ages of his children she only knows that his son James now residing in the village of Peekskill was the youngest or nearly so - not to exceed one or two children younger than himself, and further she saith not. Sworn and Subscribed before me } this _____ day of August 1843 }
State of New York }
Westchester County ss; Personally appeared before me the subscriber, a justice of the Peace in and for said County James Vanderville, who being duly sworn according to law, says that he is now eighty four years of age, that he was born, and brought up, and has always resided in the town of Cortlandt in the said County; that he was always well acquaint- ed with Richard Williams a Revolution- ary Soldier, and pensioner, and Jane his wife, that he does not recollect when, where, or by whom they were married; but that he knew their eldest son Richard from the time said Richard was born which was a year or two before the close of the Revolutionary war, till the time of his death, which happened but a few years since; that the said Richard Williams the father was a tailor by trade and and did the tailoring for the family of this deponents father; that the said Richard the father and the said Jane cohabited together as man and wife till a few years since, when the said Richard the Pensioner died leaving his said wife Jane him

surviving, but who has also been dead some six or seven years, and further saith not. Sworn and subscribed } James Muns before me this twenty fourth day of August 1843 Joseph Sharp Justice of the Peace in and for said County
State of New York }
Westchester County } ss: Personally appeared before me the subscri- ber a Justice of the Peace in, and for said County James Frost, who being duly sworn according to law says that he is now seventy three years of age, that he now resides, and has always resided in the neighborhood of Peekskill in said County that he was always well acquainted with Richard Williams a Revolutionary soldier, and Pensioner, and Jane his wife - that he knows not when they were married, where, or who by, but says that he knew Richard their eldest child from the time he was born until his death, which took place two or three years since - that Richard was about twelve years younger than this deponent: that at this time both the said Richard the Pensioner, and his wife Jane have been dead some years, that the said Jane survived her husband a few years, and further saith not.
Sworn and subscribed } before me this twenty fifth day of August 1843. }
Joseph Sharp Justice of the Peace in and for said County
James Frost
State of New York }
Westchester County } ss: Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Mrs. Jane Mitchell, who being duly sworn according to law, says that she was fifty seven years old on the eighth day of February last: that her uncle Richard Williams and Jane his wife lived from her earliest recollection in the immediate vicinity of her father, and that she was most intimately acquainted with them, always being near them from that time until the day of their death, that the death of her uncle Richard Williams took place about ten or twelve years ago: and that of her Aunt Jane Williams took place on the sixth of March 1837; that she had two cousins older than herself, and a third a very little younger than herself, to wit; Richard

the oldest, Jesse, and Elizabeth, all of them by single births they also had other children, to wit: Isaac, Henry, James, and Mary; that Richard and Henry are both dead, and that Jesse went to sea, and has not been heard of for forty or more years; that Elizabeth is now Elizabeth Pierce (widow) and Mary is the wife of Cornelius Vanderville; that she knows not when her said Uncle and Aunt were married, or who by, that her uncle Richard Williams was a Revolutionary Soldier, and was in the receipt of a Pension from the United States for several years before his death, and lived and died in the above named County, and further she saith not.
Sworn and subscribed before me this twenty sixth day of August 1843 - Joseph Strang just of the County in and for said County
her Jane X Mitchell mark
Westchester County ss:
I, Joseph Strang Justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Justus DeWitt, James Vanderville, James Frost, and Jane Mitchell, who severally testified to the affidavits by them signed, and that they are each of them witnesses of Credibility, and were made duly acquainted with the contents of the affidavit by them signed, before swearing and signing.
Certified by me this twenty sixth day of August 1843. Joseph Strang, Justice of the Peace in and for said County
State of New York
Westchester County } ss: Satisfactory evidence being produced to me, I do hereby certify, that it appears from such evidence that Jane Williams the widow of Richard Williams, a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner, departed this life on the sixth day of March 1837; and that Elizabeth Pierce (widow) Isaac Williams, James Williams and Mary wife of Cornelius Vanderville are her only living children. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed my seal of office at the town of White Plains in said County this 30 th day of August 1843. Alexander H. Phelps, Surrogate of said County -

State of New-York, County of West-Chester,
{ ss. I, CHARLES A. PURDY,
Clerk of the County aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY,
That, Joseph Swan whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed In- strument, 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. 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 thirtieth day of September 184 3
Charles A. Purdy
CLERK.

May 22 nd 44
James L. Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Customs Present
Mr. Williams
W. Northcote Pres t

Washington City 22nd of May 1844
Sir
It is now upwards of four  seven months since the claim of the surviving children of Mrs. Williams widow of Richard Williams a Pensioner on the New York Agency has been before you
It is surely hard very hard that Claims are thus prepared the action are then, while others are admitted and passed in a few days
I have repeatedly written to by the party without being able to give them any satisfaction
A gentleman has here on Friday afternoon by the corner for New York and that place (Poughkeepsie) Will you Sir be pleased to dispose of this case by that time if practicable so that the gentleman can take the Certificate with him
These Representations are poor and muddy and this sum small as it is, is not withstanding an object to them and it is surely hard very hard that they should be kept thus long in waiting
I remain Sir your most obedient Henry Ware Junr

May 8 44
James L. Edwards Esq. Comm. of Patricians Present
J. Williams
Thos. P. Russell
[Faint, mirrored handwriting from the reverse side of the paper]

Washington City 1846
Sir
The claims of the surviving children of Mrs. Williams Deceased Widow of Richard Williams Deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner have now been with you about six months . It is now surely hard that claimants are kept thus long in suspense. The parties are continually writing me on the subject when I can only repeat the oft repeated reply not acted on mean while the parties complain and suspect me of neglecting their business. Surely claims that have been sufficed to lie as long as this has should claim a precedence and be disposed of.
I remain Sir Yours Respectfully Henry Ware Tuck

James L Edwards 4th of April 1844 Declaration to James Williams Case

Pension Office, April 4 th 1844
Sir
I return you the additional proof in the case of Jane Williams, deceased, under the act of the 4 th July 1836 that the credibility of the deponents may be duly certified. I also enclose you a copy of the regulations respecting proof as to the date of the marriage, and would remark that the proof in this case does not establish the date of the marriage with the required certainty to bring the claim within the said act.
It would be inferred from the statement of Jones that the marriage took place in 1780 or 1781, while the rolls show that her husband was in the Massachusetts Line from the early part of 1779 to the 9 th of April 1783, under an enlistment for the War. The witness, with a knowledge as he asserts, of Claimant's husband before, during and after the war, merely states, in general terms, that he knew they were husband and wife for two or three years before the end of the war. This is too vague to afford satisfactory evidence on a point requiring clear, explicit and positive testimony, fortified by details which would show that the Deponents are not mistaken as to dates.
I am, Sir, Very respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant,
J. L. Edwards
Henry Northrop, Esq.
Present,

(Copy)
Dunsmuir office February 3rd 1844
Sir
The evidence in the case of Sarah Williams against the widow of Richard Williams has been examined - The proof is not satisfactory as to the time when the marriage took place nor as to the time when she died. Some are the kind they went in before he left Williams left the land  must swear positively as to the period when they were married as that they were living together as man and wife before he left the service and the testimony of some disinterested must be produced to establish when she died. The evidence must be duly authenticated
Wm Hovey Clerk Trust Present
I am respectfully your obed Servt J. L. Edwards

Ellmore and son for Mrs. William Russian  Glaze
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Memorandum
The vouchers in the Section of Priority land and also in the Pension office for Daniel Williams under the Act of Congress of the 10th March 1818 will all show Richard Williams of Westchester County New York a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner . The Compt on this the son in making his declaration has not stated his name but has given ample Memoranda and Data to show the same and all the vouchers clearly identify the father of the applicant as a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner and who lived and died within that county from - Thus the notes in the Department will show that there was one Richard Williams and one only a Revolutionary Pensioner within the county and although there is neither record or parole evidence of marriage yet there is the most full and ample evidence of their living together as husband and wife prior to the close of the Revolution and so continuing to do to the day of their death -
H. B. Ware Clerk

Feb 26 1844
James,
G. H. Baker
Adolphus Jane Williams
copy with the Com
My Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Present.

Washington City 25th Feby 1846
Sir On the 12th of Octo last I filed with you the papers in the case of the children of Jane Williams deceased. The Widow of Abel Williams a Revolutionary Pensioner claiming the Pen- sion to which their mother became entitled under the act of 4th of July 1836. On the 3rd of Feby this case was reported on for the first time making a new requisition of evidence. This evidence is now furnished and herewith enclosed to meet the requisition. I have been minute in noting the time when this claim was first presented , when it was reported on by you making the requisition for further evidence. So that those affidavits may be filed in their proper place and the claim acted on in due time.
Yours respectfully,
Henry Ware Jr.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18429 Jane Williams Widow of Richard Williams Pris. Rev. War
Act: July 4 th 1836
Index:—Vol. M , Page 343
[Arrangement of 1870.]

n o 6061 Jane Williams, dec d . who was the wife of Richard Williams, dec d .
3 d section act 4 July '36
Payable to Elizabeth Pierce, Mary Manda- ville, and James Williams children of Richard and Jane Williams, and the legal representatives of Henry and Isaac Williams, dec d . who were also children of said Richard & Jane Wil- iams, dec d . up to 6 th of March 1837 when she died. $80 per ann. to commence June 9. 1832.
New- York City Roll.
Send cert: to Henry Northrup Present.

Picksville December 24. 1818-
Sir,
Please to issue the warrants for revolutionary bounty lands to which I am entitled under the provisions of the act "to settle the accounts of the State of New York with the several States and the United States" passed March 11th 1817.
I am Sir your obedt Servt
Richd T Williams mark
To the Honble John Calhoun Secretary of War

Westchester County State of New York
I Personally appeared before me Lt John Constant one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for Said County Samuel Wheeler of the Town of Courtlands County of Westchester and State of New York late a sergeant in the fourth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Henry Jackson in the Revolutionary War - who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he this deponent is Personally acquainted with one Richard Williams who now resides in the Town of Courtlandt - and County of West- chester - and that the said Richard Williams enlisted for during the war in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col n Putnam and that the said Richard Williams faithfully served as a Private soldier in said Regiment and received an honorable discharge at the close of the Revolution and that the said Richard Williams is now living in the Town of Courtlandt aforesaid at which place he has ever resided since the Revolution & been Personally known to this deponent - and further this deponent saith not sworn & subscribed before me this 11 th day of September 1818 H John Constant
Samuel Wheeler

Town of Courtland aforesaid at which place he had ever resided since the Revolution & been personally known to this deponent - and further this deponent saith not I was & subscribed before me this 4 th day of September 1818 St John Constant
James Wheeler
Westchester County ss. I Elijah Crawford Clerk of the County of Westchester and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County. Do hereby certify that St John Constant, was on the day the above Affidavit was submitted one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Westchester aforesaid, duly com- missioned and sworn, - And further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of him the said St John Constant and believe the signature in the annexed Affidavit to be his proper hand writing
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the Seal of the Court of Com- mon Pleas of the County of Westchester this 5 th day of September 1818
Elijah Crawford Clk

Westchester County State of New York
6th Personally appeared before me H John Constant one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County
John Lattan of the Town of Phillips in the County of Putnam, & State aforesaid late a private in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary war, who being duly sworn doth depose and say that the this deposant is personally acquainted with one Richard Williams who now resides in the Town of Cottontail and County of Westchester and that the said Richard Williams enlisted for during the war in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Putnam and that the said Richard Williams faithfully served as a private soldier in said Regiment & received an honorable discharge at the close of the revolution, and that the said Richard Williams is now living in the Town of Cottontail aforesaid at which place he has ever resided since the Revolution & is personally known to this deposant and further this deposant knoweth not —
Robert Lattan
Taken & subscribed before me this 15th day of August 1818
before me
H John Constant

Wilshire County ss. I Elijah Cranford Clerk of the County of Wilshire, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Do hereby certify that J. John Constant, was on the day the above Affidavit was taken & submitted one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Wilshire aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn, — And further that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said J. John Constant and believe the signature in the annexed affidavit to be his proper hand writing —
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Wilshire this 5th day of September 1818. —
Elijah Cranford MK

When this Rich Williams Shall be duly identified, &c.

Westchester County State of New York
Is Personally appeared before me Robert M c Card one of the justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Samuel Wheeler of the town of Cortlandt Late a sergeant in the fourth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson in the Revolutionary war who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he knew Richard Williams was a soldier in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Mason of the State of Massachusetts aforesaid in the Revolutionary war This deponent further says he knew the aforesaid Richard Williams for three years in the Revolutionary war and has no doubt that he is the very same person as he has lived in the town of Cortlandt ever since the end of the Revolutionary war with the said Richard Williams never knew him to live any where else since the end of the of the Revolutionary war aforesaid and This deponent further saith not
Given and subscribed before me this 14 th day of February 1818
Sam l Wheeler
Robert M c Card justice of the peace
Samuel Wheeler is well known to me and I have reason to believe he is a man of truth as I have known him for thirty years or upward
Robert M c Card

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Williams, Richard GRADE Corporal LINE Lamb's artillery (New York)
WARRANT NUMBER 8053 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED June 19, 1790 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.