Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 14,831, Abraham Weed, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York.
Weed, Abraham.
8 14.831
Carded
CONTENTS

New York N o . 28,502
Abraham Weed of Saratoga Co, in the State of N. York who was a Private in the _____ commander by Captain _____ of the Regt. command by Col. Livingston in the N. York Troops line for 20 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 d day of April 1834 and sent to Hon. J. Cramer N. R.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 199.98 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 st Sep. " 33.33
$ 233.31
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book E Vol. 4 Page 129

182 10 Abraham Weed
Exonerated
Received of the
Admitted
Private 20 months
Hon. J. Brame

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
Feb. 17 34
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, showing the Service of Abraham Weed
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     1777 Spring 15 Col Van Schoonhoven Capt Collins 73 Guns Battalion   " Col Van Schoonhoven Gen Schuyler N.Y.   discharged in the fall 2 Trans Col Van Cortlandt Col Livingston   1778 9 Capt Ball    He performed more than eight months service a minute more   
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this                      day of                      personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of                      in the county of                      and State, Territory or District of                      aged (c)                      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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)                      , with                      and served in the                      (e) regiment of the                      line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I                      of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of                      for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of                      &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the                      and C. D. residing in (the same)                      , who has hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with                      , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the                      and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the                      and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,                      Clerk of the Court of                      do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this                      day of                      &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his

alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.  6. { To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? { To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it? 
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

State of New York County of Saratoga : ss
On this 1 th day September 1832 personally appeared in open court before
The Judges of the court of Common Pleas now sitting Abraham Weed a resident of the Town of Greenfield in the County of Saratoga and State of New York aged seventy three years who being 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 7 th 1832 That he was born in the Town of Stamford County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut on the 12 th day of May 1759 according to the record of his fathers large family Bible consistently he was 73 years old the 12 th day of May 1832 he came with his fathers family in the year 1769 at the age of ten years to reside in the town of Ballston then Albany County State of New York at that time an entire wilderness country, resided there previous to and during the whole of the revolutionary war Ballston then being a frontier town was constantly annoyed and harassed by the Tories and Indians from Canada at the first commencement of the war he equipped himself and volunteered in a company of militia commanded by Captain Jeranus Collins in Col Van Schoonhoven Regiment for the defence of the country on said frontier he was never without his arms by his side day nor night constant alarms by the inroads of the enemy was taking place on one of those incursions of the Indians and Tories in the year 1777 they made a large number of the inhabitants of Ballston off for Canada he with the said company of Captain Collins was ordered out and they marched in pursuit of the enemy through the Woods and over took them near the Sacandaga River recaptured thirty two of the party and in this expedition of fifteen or twenty days brought them back back prisoners to Ballston. It was the constant practice of the enemy piloted by the Tories to surprise in the night the leading and influential men friendly to the to the country and take them off prisoner to Canada

In one of those incursions in 1780 they took General Goodon prisoner and others off prisoners from Ballston & at an other time in 1781 they surprised in the night & took Judge White and others, when the alarm of the capture of Judge White was made he marched by order of Capt J White with his company barefoot through the woods in pursuit of the enemy when they arrived to the Gladerossers Creek he took a comrade by the name of John White whose health was poor upon his back with both their equipments and roaded through the creek. They pursued the enemy for a number of days without success they having eluded their march and took Judge White and others off with them to Canada. in in the spring of 1777 he commenced a seven months service was attached to Col Vonschoonhoven regiment in General Schuyler's division was marched from Schenectady for the relief of Fort Stanwix then besieged by the enemy under Sir John Johnson met an express informing that the siege was raised and returned. he marched under General Schuyler to the north and was with him in his retreat from Stillwater afterwards in that same year he served in Col Cootlandt's Regiment and marched to meet Brig General Burgoyne at Saratoga Stillwater while at he was transferred from Col Cootlandt's Regiment to Col Livingston's Regiment in General Dickinson's Brigade and and marched with the American troops against General Burgoyne at Saratoga, he was at the battle capture and surrender of General Burgoyne's Army in October 1777, and marched back with the American troops to Albany, and late in the fall was discharged from seven months service by a Col Hays or Hight (he thinks was the name) which discharge is now lost, again in the year 1778 he served in the nine months service under Capt Stephen Ball of Ballston was stationed with the American troops at West Point at the expiration of the nine months service in the winter he was discharged the discharge lost

he was attached to and served in a regular organized militia company in Ballston during the whole war when not ordered to march to other places and never failed to turn out at a call or alarm and march against the enemy those calls and alarms were constant living as he did on the frontier settlement and in the vicinity of the seat of war for a considerable time and that he honestly thinks that in addition to the seven months service in 1777 and the nine months service 1778 as above stated, making sixteen months service, while attached to the regular army, that that he was ordered out and performed more than eight months hard service in an organized militia company during the war in all the alarms marches stations and excursions in the woods to detect annoy and keep of the enemy from committing depredations on the frontier, amounting in the whole time to more than two years service. And that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service
And he 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 the agency of any State
Donald M c Leod
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Thomas Palmer Clerk

We Theophilus Redfield a clergyman residing in Town of Greenfield County of Saratoga State of New York and Howell Gardner residing in (the same) place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abraham Weed who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy three years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion Theophilus Redfield Howell Gardner Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court (Signed) J. Collier Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Theophilus Redfield who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Greenfield County of Saratoga and State of New York and that Howell Gardner who has also signed the same is a resident in the Town of Greenfield County and State aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit

Abraham Weed 13 230
Address West Greenfield Saratoga County State of New York

I Stearns Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Saratoga do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Abraham Weed for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office office this Fourth - Day of September one Thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Stearns Palmer Clerk

Amended Declaration

Amended Declaration of Abraham Weed Saratoga County, ss
Personally appeared before me the under signed Justice of the peace of the Town of Greenfield County of Saratoga Abraham Weed and being duly sworn deposeth and saith that in answer to the thirteenth question in the brief sent to him from the War department to which question is affixed the only negative to the questions contained in the said brief, that he has no documentary evidence and that proof by a living witness can not be had. — (and that with respect to the terms of all his militia tours during the war it would be impossible for him to tell with absolute precision but he volunteered and joined a regular organized militia company in Ballston at the commencement of the war as stated in his original application and was completely equipped and under orders to march at a moments warning which he always obeyed and considered himself constantly on guard and so bound to the orders of his officers and the cause of the country that he did not for more than three years pretend to do any regular civil service except by short broken and detached intervals and the length of those militia tours were some times fifteen and twenty days some eight and ten days some two and three days and frequently one day and a night at a time, but he cannot state the exact time in all cases, but is fully confident that he performed actual regular militia service more than eight months, and that his service in the regular army was as stated in his original application for a pension Sworn and subscribed this 30 th day of May 1833 Before me Stafford Lapham Justice of the peace      Abraham Weed

State of New York Saratoga County
In J Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Stafford Lapham before whom the within Affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name sub- scribed to the said Affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature
Witness my hand and seal of Office the first day of June 1833
A Goodrich Clerk

New York
Rev:
A Weed
Suspended
let. to How de Gardiner
12 Aug t 33
See letter Jan. 2. 1834 to Hon. J. Cramer. do to same 22 nd Feb. 1834
Act. of June '32

   Period when the service was rendered Duration of the Claimant's service Rank of the claimant Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service Proof by which the declaration is supported   years months Days     1776 — — 15 private Col Vanschoonhoven Capt Collins 73 years Ballston N.Y. Col John Ball his own oath & circumstances   1777 — 3 — private Gen Schuyler Col Vanschoonhoven Capt Collins Ballston N.Y. Col John Ball Do — Do   1778 — 9 — private Gen Morgan Lewis Col Housaw Capt J. Ball Ballston N.Y. Col John Ball — Do — Do   1779 — 2 15 private Col Vanschoonhoven Capt Collins Ballston N.Y. Col John Ball — Do — Do   1780 — 2 15 private Col Vanschoonhoven Capt Collins Ballston N.Y. Col John Ball — Do — Do   1781 — 2 15 private Col Vanschoonhoven Capt Collins Ballston N.Y. Col John Ball Do — Do   1777 — 4 — Teamster Col Von Eustlands Col Livingston Ballston N.Y. Col John Ball — Do — Do   Aggregate 2 0 0 for which he asks a pension Houkauer Weid per H. Laddner  

The within is sent merely to learn if we have rightly comprehended the instructions of the department if we have we think our case fully made out, if not we pray for further indulgence and instruction. Mr Weed desires to express his gratitude to Mr Edwards for the information given him of the life and residence of his old acquaintance and friend Col John Ball immediately on the receipt of which we repaired to his residence and obtained his testimony herewith transmitted, not having heard of Col Ball for some years Mr Weed supposed he was dead or removed to some parts to him unknown.
In behalf of Abraham Weed, Howell Gardner
Hon James L Edwards

To the Hon. J. L. Edwards. Pension Office Washington
Sir.
The following explanation in the case of Abraham Weed an applicant for a pension is hereby submitted. Mr. Weed who is a neighbor of mine, requested me to assist him in making out his papers. He gave me the facts of his service as to time and place, and the name of his commanding officers, which I sent to the department as may be found in his papers there. But I learn that the difficulty at the department is, that his name is not found on the rolls of the regiment in which he alleges to have served. On a reexamination of his case I find, that although he did actually perform the service, at the times and places and under the commanding officers, stated in those papers, yet an important omission was inadvertently made in detailing the kinds of service performed, which will account for his name not appearing on the rolls of the continental army. He volunteered to drive a team, which was pressed into the continental service at Schenectady. The following are the minute details of the case; a publick officer by the name of Harry Glenn, whether a Quarter Master or Commissary he does not know, was pressing teams for the expedition to Fort Stanwix, under the command of Col. Cottlelandt, he had pressed a team from Daniel Campbell of Schenectady who was considered not very friendly to the American cause, and refused to furnish a driver. Weed being acquainted with the parties volunteered to drive said team, which was then placed under his care. The waggon was loaded with cartridges of ammunition for the army, and marched with the regiment for Fort Stanwix. And after marching several miles they met an express informing them that the siege was raised, and they were ordered about, and directed to join the main army above Half Moon point. He continued with the same team, and while at Stillwater he was transferred with his team and waggon to Col. Livingston's regiment as stated in his former papers. He continued in the same department during that campaign. After the battle and capture of Gen. Burgoyne, he was ordered with his team to Albany, where late in the fall after having been out for four months he was discharged with the very same team and waggon, which he delivered though much worn, to the said Daniel Campbell at Schenectady. Under these circumstances, the fair presumption is that his name was never enrolled, notwithstanding his services were as important to the country as an enrolled soldier. In the nine months service which he claims as a volunteer at West Point, a part of his company was employed in the new Galley called Lady Washington to guard the river; a part employed in the Battaux at the ferry, and the remainder;

in cutting wood in the mountains for the use of the garrison. At the expiration of the said nine months service, he with his said company were marched to Fish kill and discharged. I have been thus particular in detailing his service in the above cases, which with three months service actually under arms under Gen Schuyler at the north, in the whole making sixteen months service, were in his original papers through mistake or misconstruction denominated continental services. When probably, in point of fact, they ought to have been denominated militia services, but occasionally attached to the continental army. In addition to this more than eight months actual hard service in a regular organized militia company, under the command of Capt of Francis Collins were performed by him in the defence of the frontiers at Ballston where he resided during the whole war. Making in the whole two years hard service in defence of his country, for which he now asks a pension.
Howell Gardner.
Saratoga County ss
Before me Charles Deake one of the commissioners for taking Affidavits in said County came Abraham Weed and being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the above explanation of his case as an applicant for a pension entitled entitled by Howell Gardner whose name is thereto subscribed, was entitled by his request and under his inspection and review, and is a true relation and statement of facts in that case according to his best recollection. Sworn and subscribed to this 22 nd day of January 1834
Abraham Weed
Before me
Charles Deake
Commissioner of Pleadings
I have for many years been intimately acquainted with Abraham Weed of Greenfield Saratoga County and no man has sustained a higher reputation for truth and probity, and has always been considered as a Revolutionary Soldier.
Mobramer
Feb 12th 1834

State of New York Saratoga County
ss - I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Charles Deake before whom the foregoing Affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same One of the Commissioners of deeds in and for the said County, duly authorized to administer Oaths - That I am acquainted with his hand writing, & verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affi- davit & the Certificate thereto to be his proper hand writing and signature -
Witness my hand & Seal of Office This sixth day of February 1834 - A Goodrich Clerk

Saratoga County ss Personally appeared before me Gilbert Puray One of the Justices of the peace in said County Col John Ball and being duly sworn deposes and saith that he has been personally acquainted with Abraham Weed from his boyhood before the revolutionary war and that he is a man of truth and that any statements he has made relating to his revolutionary services may be relied on his Father two Brothers and himself were among the most faith- ful and trusty whigs in Ballston during the trying times of the revolution. Some of them were constantly and all of them occasionally were in actual service during the war his Father was first an orderly Sergeant and afterwards a subaltern in Capt Tyrannus Collins company of militia in Ballston his Father and two Brothers are dead Abraham Weed is the only surviving one, and he will know Capt Tyrannus Collins and that he commanded a company of militia in Ballston during the revolutionary war and that said company was attached to Col Van Schoonhoven regiment and that the said Capt Collins according to this deponants best recollection and belief performed with his said company in the years 1776 - 1777 - 1778 - 1779 - 1780 & 1781 two years service and that this deponant well knew Abraham Weed was an enrolled soldier in the said Capt Collins company and that he done actual militia duty in said company according to this deponants best recollection and belief in all the above mentioned years (except the year 1778 when he was on duty at West point) amounting to eleven months service viz on the Ballston frontier in 1776 one half month under Gen Schuyler at Fort Edward in 1777 three months on the Ballston frontier in 1779 two months & one half month on the Ballston frontier in 1780 two months and one half month on the Ballston frontier in 1781 two months and one half month in all the above service the grade of Abraham Weed was that of a private soldier in the said Capt Collins company. And this deponant further saith that

= he well knew that his Brother Capt Stephen Ball in the year 1778 by the direction and under the warrant of Morgan Lewis's deputy Quartermaster General did enlist a company of volunteers who performed under the said Capt Ball nine Months service at West point and that Abraham Weed was one of that company, according to this deponent's best recollection and belief there raised and employed as stated by Mr Weed viz a part of said company on board of the row galley a part stationed at the ferry and a part cutting wood in the mountain for the use of the Garrison he remembers very well that he visited Capt Stephen Ball while on that station and at that time, and was then and there introduced by his said Brother to Col Hosiusho who was then at West point doing the duty of an engineer and said Capt Ball was under his command and direction at that time. — And this deponent further saith the well known Henry Glenn of Schenectady in the revolutionary war and that he was in the year 1777 a continental officer in the commissary department and did enlist teamsters for the continental service which were attached to Col Van Cortlandt's regiment and ordered for Fort Storrow where this deponent was then on duty and after the siege was raised at Fort Storrow said teams were as this deponent verily believes ordered back and joined the main army and marched against Gen. Burgoyne at Saratoga. John Ball
Sworn and subscribed at Schuylerville in said county this 28 th day of March 1834
Before me Gilbert Purdy Justice Peace
I am well acquainted with John Ball and know him to be a man of truth M c Grane Mc. C.
Albany - 21-1834

Saratoga County S.S.
Before me Charles Deake one of the Commissioners for taking affidavits, came Salmon Childs and being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he has known Abraham Weed an applicant for a pension for 30 or 35 - years, and he has ever been reputed a soldier of the revolution. This deponent lived at Stillwater in the County of Saratoga in the Revolutionary war, and is well acquainted by personal experience with the trials hardships and suffering of the inhabitants of that frontier, which was for a long time the very seat of war. The inhabitants were constantly annoyed by the British Tories and Indians that infested the whole country from this place to Canada, And every man and boy who could shoulder a musket, and were friendly to the Country (for we had plenty of Tories among us) were kept in constant requisition to guard the frontiers from the inroads of the enemy. From the new settlement at Ballston where Mr Weed resided, to Stillwater is twelve miles, and we being both young I did not know Mr Weed personally at that time, but I did know that the friends of the country at Ballston partook largely of the sufferings and disasters of that day which we at Stillwater experienced. And this deponent is well satisfied from the relation which Mr Weed has made to him of facts, persons, places, and circumstances respecting the scouts, and skirmishes that took place in the woods in pursuit of the enemy, that he must have had personal knowledge of them, and that he has no doubt but that Abraham Weed actually performed all the service for the country, stated in his application for a pension. And this deponent further saith that such was the alarming state of the country at that time, that teams were frequently pressed into the continental service, and men volunteered to drive those teams and rendered long and important services to the country at a critical time, whose names probably were never enrolled with any particular regiment. And knowing as this deponent does, that frequent service of this kind was performed by the friends of the country, without any thought of record or enrollment will as he thinks very clearly account for their names not appearing on the regular rolls of any regiment or army.
Sworn and subscribed to this 31 st day of January 1834 Before me Charles Deake Commissioner of Dues Salmon Childs

I Charles Deake Commissioner hereby certify That Salomon Child who has sworn and subscribed to the within Affidavit is a man of the first respectability and standing in this community late the first Judge of the County of Saratoga for several years a member of the Legislature and also a member of the Convention to amend the Constitution of the State of New York January 31 st 1834 Charles Deake.
State of New York Saratoga County ss. I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Charles Deake, before whom the foregoing Affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same a Commissioner of deeds in & for the said County, duly authorized to administer Oaths &c and that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his hand subscribed to the said Affidavit & to the above Certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature — Witness my hand and seal of Office the sixth day of February 1834. A Goodrich Clerk

No 2
A Wind

Saratoga County ss
Before me Stafford Lapham one of the commissioners for taking Affidavits in said County came John Prior Asa C. Barney and John Pettit and being severally sworn disposed and said that they had been acquainted with Abraham Need for rising thirty years and that he has ever been reputed a soldier of the Revolution a man of truth and veracity and that we they have every reason to believe that he performed the service as stated in his application for the a pension
Sworn and subscribed to this 30 th day of January 1834
John Prior Asa C. Barney John Pettit Before me Stafford Lapham Commissioner D.
I Stafford Lapham commissioner hereby certify that the above named deponents Viz John Prior Asa C. Barney and John Pettit are men of respectable standing in this community having each of them been formerly Member of the Legislature of the State of New York and also have respectively filled the first offices in the Town in which they reside
January 30 th 1834
Stafford Lapham Commissioner D.

State of New York
Saratoga County
I, Alphus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Stafford Lapham, before whom the within Affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Commissioners of deeds in and for the said County duly authorized to administer Oaths, &c, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit & the Certificate thereto to be his proper hand writing and signature —
Witness my hand & seal of Office this sixth day of February 1834.
A Goodrich Clerk

State of New York
Saratoga County
I, Alpheus Goodrich, clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Gilbert Purdy before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County. And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and easily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of Office the Twenty ninth day of March 1934
A. Goodrich Clerk

Revised
14831 INVALID.
File No. 14831
Abraham Weed
Prin. Rev. War.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1. , Page 405
[Arrangement of 1870.]