Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,574, Gideon Westbrook, New York

SERVICE
Westbrook, Gideon
NUMBER
New York
$ 22.574
CONTENTS
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Pennsylvania 18.920
Gideon Westbrook of Pike Co. in the State of Penn a who was a Dr in the Company commanded by Captain Courlwright of the Reg t commanded by Col. in the New York line of Troops -
11 Mos Private - $36.67
Inscribed on the Roll of Penn a at the rate of 36 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of October 1833 and sent to Edward Mott Esq r , Milford, Pike Co.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 91.67 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Mch 1834 18.33 1/2
$ 110.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. S. Sprague Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 15 Page 45

State of Pennsylvania } Be it known that before me Pike County ss } Francis H. Smith a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Wester Jennings - widow of David Jennings deceased and made oath in due form of law that she is the daughter of Gideon Westbrook the identical person who was a pensioner and is now dead and to whom a certificate of Pension was issued of which the following is a true copy
War Department
Revolutionary Claims
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7 th June 1832 Gideon Westbrook of the State of Pennsylvania who was a private during the revolutionary war is entitled to receive Thirty Six Dollars and Sixty Seven Cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4 th of March 1831 and payable semiannually on the 4 th of March and 4 th September in every year. Given at the War Office of the United States this 31 st day of October One thousand eight hundred & thirty Three.
Levi C. Gaf
Secretary of War.
Sealed 1892
Examined and
Concurred J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
That the deceased pensioner resided in the township of Westfall County of Pike and State of Pennsylvania for the space of twenty eight years past before his death and that previous thereto he resided in the state of New York.
From the foregoing That the deceased pensioner had two children whose names are Wester this deponent and Nichornia That the deceased pensioner resided with this deponent for many years prior to his death, to wit twenty years last past or more. That the said Nichornia if he be living resides as deponent supposed in Western part of the State of New York - that no certain intelligence had has been received from said Nichornia for more than six years past although several letters has been written and sent for him to his supposed residence in New York.
Further Saith Not
Wester J. Jennings
mark
Sworn & subscribed before me Erasure on the 10 th line from bottom & also on 18 th line from top
J. Francis H. Smith J. Pease

Know all men by these presents that I Hester Jennings Widow of David Jennings dec'd and daughter of Gideon West brook of the township of Mefford County of Pike and State of Pennsy- lvania the said Gideon having been a pensioner of the United States. do hereby constitute and appoint Henry R. Brookhead my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pensions in the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania the balance of said pensions from the 4 th day of March 1840 - to the 28 th day of December 1840 - being the day of his death.
Witness my hand and Seal this 26 th day of January Eighteen hundred & forty one Hester her Jennings mark
Sealed and delivered in presence of M c Clintock -
+ 18 (N) 41
State of Pennsylvania Pike County's
Be it known that on the 26 th day of January 1841 - before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Hester Jennings above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day & year last above mentioned.
Justice of the Peace 18 (N) 41
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State of Pennsylvania Pike County ss
I, Henry S. Mott Clerk and Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Pike County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania holden at Milford in and for said County. Do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that John Westbrook was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Thirty Six Dollars and Sixty seven cents per annum. was a resident of the County of Pike in the State of Pennsylvania and died in the township of Milford in the County of Pike and State of Pennsylvania on the 28 th day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and forty. that he left no widow or wife who survived him. but left two children whose names are Esther and Nehemiah that the said Nehemiah had remained unheard off for six or seven years past, and that Esther is the person mentioned in the foregoing Proceeding. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Milford this 26 th day of January A.D. 1841.
Henry S. Mott Proty
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Pennsylvania Pike County ss
I Henry S Mott Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County. do hereby certify that Western Jennings daughter of Gideon Westbrook the person mentioned in the foregoing Proceedings is desirous of drawing and receiving the annuities due on the
pension Certificate of Gideon Westbrook dec: without the intervention of any executors or Administrators of said Gideon Westbrook dec: and further I do hereby certify that Francis H Smith Esq: before whom the foregoing proceedings were had was an acting magistrate and that the signatures of said Smith to said proceedings purporting to be his are genuine that the said Smith was at the times of said proceedings duly commissioned as a justice of the peace and an acting magistrate in and for said County of Pike.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Milford this 22 nd February AD 1841-
H S Mott Proty
Philip Penn 1st Quarter 1841
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256 Westbrook, Gideon
Pike County ss.
I Henry S Mott Register for the Probate of Wills & Granting Letters of Administration in & for said County do hereby certify that neither Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration have issued to any persons on the estate of Gideon Westbrook late of said County dec: In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at Milford this 22 nd February AD 1841
H S Mott Register

No. 1057
Moyamensing Bank, Philadelphia,
Mar 2 18 41
RECEIVED of the Moyamensing Bank, Agent for paying Pensions,
Thirty Dollars 04 Cents,
being for Mrs  Gideon Westbrook (Deed)  Twenty five Months' Twenty five Days' Pension, due to fourth day of March 18 40 to the twenty eighth day of December , 18 40 . for which I have signed Duplicate Receipts.
Dolls. 30 04
H. R. Woodhead

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936

State of Pennsylvania.
City of Philadelphia, ss.
Be it Known, That on the 2nd day of March 18 40 before the subscriber, one of the Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia, personally appeared Henry W. Brodhead the Attorney named in the foregoing Power of Attorney, and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any sale, transfer or mortgage of the pension, or arrears of pension, therein authorized to be received by him.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year abovementioned, before me, J. Solms J. A.
H. W. Brodhead

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State of Pennsylvania Pike County ss
In this twenty second day of January A.D. 1832 eighteen hundred and thirty three before the Honorable David Scott and John Root Esqrs & Daniel W. Dugman Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Pike now sitting appeared Gideon Westhook now a resident of Milford township in the said County of Pike now in the seventy second year of his age, 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 4th 1832. That according to the information he received from his parents, he was born on the 20th of September A.D. 1761 in Peenpack, State of New York, about four miles from Carpenter's or Station point that he resided in the State of New York, till he removed to Montague township in Sussex County New Jersey, where he lived about three years, and then about thirteen years since he moved into (then) Uppper Smithfield (now) Milford township Pike County Pennsylvania, where he now resides - That in the year 1775 or 1776 he was draft- ed in the New York Militia, at Peenpack, in the company commanded by Captain Moses Courtright, and Lieutenant Martinus Vecker, does not recollect the names of the other Officers; he joined his regiment at Fort Montgomery, does not recollect the Colonel's name. The army he thinks was under the command of General Clinton, he staid about two weeks, when he marched to Sidman's Cove on the North river where they staid about two weeks. They were then stationed on the West side of the North river to keep back the British fleet. On this tour he says he was out under Captain Moses Courtright about six months - That shortly after the termination of that tour he was drafted in the New York Militia in Captain Abraham Westfall's Company, and that he does not recollect the names of any of the other Officers either of the Company or regiment. That he with the Captain Abraham Westfall's company were stationed at a fort in Peenpack State of New York, about nine miles from Station point - that their duty was, the protection of the then frontiers from the incursions of the Indians, which at that time were frequent, and often at- tended with the massacre of some of the inhabitants and loss of property - that they also acted as scouts, or Indian spies - That while he lay at Peenpack with his company the fort was attacked by the Indians, and James Vanaken was killed in the fort, and Jeremiah Vanaken was killed on the same day on the outside of the

of the fort, and one of the Indians was killed. On this last tour he says he served and was out about six months - He further says, that through, and during the continuance of the revolutionary war, he was frequently called out in what were then called the Claps, to repel sudden eruptions of the Indians, and to act as scouts, or spies - and generally for the protection of the frontier inhabitants. he says that he has no documentary evidence, other than that annexed to this his declaration - that those by whom he could have proven his services, are for the most part dead, or moved to parts to him unknown, or beyond the possibility of his obtaining their evidence - that he does not recollect that he ever received a written discharge, and if he ever did it is lost - that there is no minister of the Gospel with whom he is acquainted, or who is acquainted with him in, or near his neighbourhood - that David Westfale - and Jacob Cuddiback are two old inhabitants and residents in his neighbourhood, and will as he deponent believes testify as to his veracity. 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.
Sworn & subscribed in open Court this twenty second day of January - A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty three
Gideon his Westfale Mark -
O. D. Seaman Pres.
State of Pennsylvania Pike County ss
We David Westfale and David Cuddiback  of the township of Milford Pike County Do hereby certify that we are acquainted with Gideon Westfale  we are acquainted with Gideon Westfale the applicant within named, who has subscribed and sworn to the above and foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be in the seventy second year of his age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
David his Westfale Mark
Sworn and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid
Jacob Cuddiback
O. D. Seaman

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 within and foregoing named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the clergyman now resident in the town of Milford, has resided but a short time in the said town, and has, as the Court is informed no acquaintance with the within named applicant. And that David W. Hale — and Jacob G. D. Reback — are residents of the township of Milford and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to Credit.
Richard B. Peaman — Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Pike and State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the above and foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Gideon Westbrook for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said Court at Milford this twenty second — day of January — A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty three —
Richard B. Peaman Clerk

Camut 11 Mo Pr
Edward Mott Esq Milford Peter B Pa

State of Pennsylvania } ss. Pike County } 3
I, John H. Brodhead, Recorder of Deeds in and for the said County of Pike, do certify, that from the records of the said County in my keeping, it appears that Theodore Bowhannan, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was before the date of the taking thereof duly appointed and commissioned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Pike, that he was then acting and still continues to act as such, and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his official acts; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Theodore Bowhannan and believe his signature affixed to the annexed deposition to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Office at Milford in the said County of Pike this eleventh day of September A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty three.
J. H. Brodhead

Pike County Pa - State of Pennsylvania
Personally appeared before me the undersigned - a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Pike and State of Pennsylvania Gideon Westbrook the person in the annexed declaration mentioned who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the term of duty he served during the revolutionary War and which are recited in this declaration is to annexed - That by reason of old age and the concealment (of Memory) he did not wish to swear positively to the precise length of time which he had served and that therefore he said "about" he now swears that the term of the different terms of duty which he served are more than mentioned in his declaration - And also deposeth and saith that he served on the term commencing in 1775 or 1776, in which year for the Causes above mentioned he does not recollect he served Six Months - And that on his second term under the Command of Captain Abraham Portfall he served Six months - all further saith that on his first term  term he served as a Major John Decker belonging to the Regiment, which was as far as he recollects commanded by a Colonel Ellison - These two latter facts he has acquired the knowledge of, by enquiring of others -
Sworn & Subscribed the 26th. August 24 th 1833. the Word "More" in the tenth line first entered
Gideon his Westbrook Mark -
Before me - Thos Bawhman J.P.

Payments to be made at Philade Phia by Rev. W. P. Frank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Pa
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E Vol. 5 Page 65 by J. V. Sprague Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Simon Westbrok of the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private during the Revolutionary War is entitled to receive Thirty-Six dollars and Sixty-Seven cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 31 st day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty- three
L. Wood
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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State of New York Orange County ss
Before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Orange, personally appeared Levi Van Etten a resident of the said County, and now in the Seventy-sixth year of his age, who being duly sworn according to law saith, that he is well acquainted with Gideon Westbrook, now a resident of Pike County Pennsylvania, but formerly of the said County of Orange, and whom he understands is an applicant for admission into the United States. That the deponent knows that the said Gideon Westbrook was in the year 1775 drafted at Poughkeepsie, in the State of New York, in the New York Militia, in the Company commanded by Captain Courtwright, Lieutenant Decker, and he believes the regiment was commanded by Colonel Ellis. That he was drafted in the same company and that he and Levi Gideon Westbrook marched with their Company to Fort Montgomery, where he staid till he was discharged but does not know how long Levi Gideon Westbrook staid there. That he knows the said Levi Gideon Westbrook, was afterwards out in 1776 and served and was kept in clasp along the frontiers he believes in 1777 or 1778 and further saith not.
Levi Van Etten Subscribed this 4 th day of January A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty three
Levi Van Etten
Benjamin Buddelbeck justice
State of New York Orange County ss
I Asa Dunning clerk of the County of Orange and a clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Orange do hereby certify that Benjamin Buddelbeck Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit was sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Orange duly elected and sworn and residing in said County and further that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and hereby believe that the signature of Benjamin Buddelbeck subscribed to the said affidavit is his genuine signature.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 5 th day of January 1833 - Asa Dunning

State of New York Orange County ss 3.
I Benjamin Buddbach a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Orange aforesaid. Do certify that on the fourth day of January last past Levi Vanetten the deponent herein named, and who signed the within de- position appeared before me and I have to and subscribed to said within deposition on the said fourth day of January and I further certify that the said Levi Vanetten is well known to me and that he is a man of respectability truth & veracity, and entitled to full faith. Witness my hand and seal this fourteenth day of October A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty three.
Benjamin Buddbach ss 3.
State of New York
Orange County ss. I Asa Dunning Clerk of the County of Orange and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County. Do certify that Benjamin Buddbach Esq. whose name is subscribed to the above certificate was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly constituted and qualified in said County and further that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature "Benjamin Buddbach" subscribed to the said certificate is his genuine signature.
Richard P. D. D. D. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
Witness my hand and
Seal of office this 21 st day of October 1833
Asa Dunning Clerk

Revolution
22 574 INVALID.
File No. 22,574
Gideon Wellesley
His Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 441
[Arrangement of 1870.]