Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,602, David Van Horne, Continental Res. New York City In 1801

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Van Horne, David
N. 24,602
Ludlow, Sarah C.
{ B. Mt. 2260-300 capt. Issued Feb. 26, 1794 No papers.
Res. New York City in 1801 (Former Widow)
CONTENTS

No 2260 - To the Geographer of the United States, or to the Surveyors appointed by him to survey the Military Lands.
You are hereby required to survey for David Van Horne a Captain of Lees Regiment of Infantry in the Service of the United States in the late War, Three hundred acres of Land, in any of the Districts appropriated for satisfying the Bounties of Land, due to the late Army of the United States, and return this Warrant to the Board of Treasury, agreeably to the act of Congress of the ninth day of July, 1788.
Given at the War-Office, this twenty sixth day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety four
Registered
J. Stagg Junr. Clerk.
H Knox. Secy of War.
I certify that the within Warrant is the only one which appears by the records in this Office to have issued to Captain David Van Horne of the Mass ts line.
W m Gordon Dept t of War Bounty L d Office Novem r 2 nd 1833

Reported to Agent, see letter
New York 1282
Sarah C. Ludlow, deceased who was
widow of David Vanhoorne who was a Captain in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 463 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. & end 5 th June 1843 when she died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of August 1843 and sent to Mrs. A. J. Floyd, N o 130 Greenwich Street, New York.
Payable to Augusta J. A. Floyd the only surviving child of Sarah C. Ludlow, decd.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1. Page 108

8407 ✓ Declaration Mrs Sarah P. Ludlow
NY.
act 7. July 28
m 88. d 01.
adm d 23:5. capt. $463.33
Henry Northrup - Present -

State of New York } On this sixth Day of September 1842 and City of New York } Personally appeared before me Robert H. Morris Mayor of said City of New York Sarah C. Ladd was a Resident of said City Aged seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law with an oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefits of the Pro- vision made by the acts of Congress passed July 7 th 1835 and the 23 rd of August 1842. Granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the war of the Revolution. That she is the widow of David Van Horn who was a Captain in the Army of the Revolution but that she is unable to state the line Regiment or Corps to which he belonged. The countries through which he marched or the battles in which he fought or when he entered the service or left the same All of which being before her in time of marriage with him but that he was a Captain in most propriety and certain as he during his life time received a land warrant from the United States for the Pension due him for his services as a Captain aforesaid which said warrant remained in her possession propriety from the time of his death until the fall of 1833. when she and her Daughter Augusta F. A. Floyd sold the same to Henry C. Van Horn She has not at this time any record or documentary evidence of her husband's rank or services neither does she know of any living witness by whom she can prove his services She says that her maiden name was Miller that she was married to Captain David Van Horn in the house of her father Christopher Miller in the said City of New York on the Twenty third Day of February 1788 by the Revd Abraham Beach an Episcopal Clergyman that her husband the said Captain David Van Horn departed this life on the day of January 1801 that she remained his widow until the 1804 day of

Then Then she again intermarried with Daniel Ludlow in the said City of New York. That the said Daniel Ludlow her her second husband departed this life about the  on June 15 th years since 18 and that she has remained a widow from that time to the present day. Sarah C. Ludlow
Also at the same time personally appeared Anthony Day Esq r an attorney at Law and a person well known to me and who I hereby certify to be a witness of credibility. Who being also duly sworn according to Law says that he was well acquainted with David Vanhorn reputed to have been a Revolutionary officer and his wife Sarah C. He cannot at this day say at how early a period he knew them but thinks it was as early as 1795. He also knew her as the widow of said David Vanhorn, again he knew her after her second marriage with Daniel Ludlow and he has known her as the widow of the said Daniel Ludlow from his death to the present day. And he says that Sarah C. Ludlow who signed the foregoing declaration in his presence is the identical person which he knew as the wife and widow of David Vanhorn and of Daniel Ludlow and for that he says the most. Sworn to and subscribed before me Anthony Day This sixth of September 1842
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at New York this day and date as before named. The interlineations & alterations were made by me during the examination before the deposition was signed by the deponent. Robert Morris Mayor of the City of New York

A Register of Marriages for the Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York
Dr. Beach's Register of Marriages
(170
Twenty fourth (24 th ) day of February One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Eight (1788)
David Van Horne & Sarah Miller
I William Berrian Rector of Trinity Church in the City of New York do certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures City County and State of New York ss. I William Berrian above named doth depose and say, that I hold the Office of Rector of Trinity Church in the City, County, and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Church, with the exception above named as certified by me,
Sworn to before me this seventh day of September 1842 Isaac Labagh Commissioner of Deeds
W m Berrian

STATE OF NEW-YORK. CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } ss.
I, NATHANIEL JARVIS, CLERK of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Isaac Lubagh before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the time of taking the same a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized to take the same, and that I believe the signature of said Commissioner thereunto subscribed is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, the 8 day of September 184 7 .
Nath Jarvis Clerk.

Copy of Capt Vanhous Will

The People of the state of New York; To all to whom these presents shall come, or may concern, greeting: Know Ye that we having inspected the records and proceedings of the late Court of Probates of this State, which by law, have been transferred to, and deposited in the Office of the Register of the Court of Chancery, of said State, do find a certain will there remaining, in the words following, to wit:
In the name of God, amen, I, David Van Horne, being weak in body, but of a sound mind, do make this my last will and testament, in manner following;
Imprimis —I will that all my just debts and funeral charges be paid by my executors hereinafter named—
Item —I give and devise all my estate, real and personal to my beloved wife Sarah Van Horne, and my beloved daughter Augusta Van Horne, and to their heirs and assigns forever; and in case my said daughter shall die without issue, and my said wife survives her, I give and devise all that part of my real and personal estate hereby devised to my said daughter, to my said wife her heirs and assigns forever.
Lastly —I do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my said wife, and my father in law Christopher Miller, Executrix and Executor, of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me heretofore made—
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and seal the eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one
Signed, Sealed and delivered by the Testator, as and for his last will and Testament in the presence of us
David Van Horne

Ab m A. Lansingh T. V. W. Graham Enoch Leonard Ab. Van Vechten
Also a certain probate hereto annexed in the words following, to wit:
Be it remembered that on the eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, personally appeared before me Leonard Ganswoot, Judge of the Court of Probate of the State of New York, Abraham A. Lansing who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he saw David Van Horne sign, seal and declare the foregoing Instrument as and for his last will and testament; that at the time thereof the said David appeared to him to be of disposing mind, memory and understanding, and that he subscribed his name thereto as a witness in the presence of the Testator, that he also saw Theodorus V. W. Graham, Enoch Leonard and Abraham Van Vechten subscribe their names thereto as witnesses in the presence of the Testator and in the presence of each other.
Leonard Ganswoot -
"Endorsed"
The last will and Testament of David Van Horne, Esquire, Recorded & Probate issued
30 th May 1801 -
All which we have caused by these presents to be Exemplified, and the Seal of our said Court of Chancery to be hereunto affixed. Witness Reuben H. Walworth Chancellor of our said State, at the City of Albany, the third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
J. S. Porter, Register,

General Land Office I. Thomas H Blake Commissioner of the General Land Office do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a paper on file in this Office — In Testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the said Office to be hereunto affixed at the City of Washington the 26 th day of August 1842
Thos H Blake Commissioner

David VanHorne on roll Col. M c R. Lee Map. Comd 5 June 1777, disch. -gld in April 1779.

Sarah C. Sudlow formerly widow of David VanHorn New York
Suspended
See let. to Sept 1842 Thos. J. Northcut.
Act 7 July 1838

key
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24,602
Sarah C. Spudlow Wid of David Van Horn Capt Rev War
Act Mar 3 rd 1843
Index : Vol. A , Page 447
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1805
New York
Sarah G. Sutherland, formerly widow of
David Vanheine, dec d who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 24 th Jan y . 1801 of City of N.Y. in the State of N.Y. who was a Captain in the Corps, commanded by Captain [blank] of the Reg t commanded by Col [blank] in the N.Y. line for 23 mos. 5 ds
Inscribed on the Roll of N.Y. City at the rate of $46.3 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of October '42 and sent to Henry Southup, Present Annuity to the 4th of March 1841.
Semi-annual allowance ending Oct. 23 rd Aug 1842 $ 2316.65 [Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Theo. Smooty Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2 Page 88
Reported. Letter to S. S. Van Klief 26. April '43

Memorandum for Miss Liddon Blair

Memorandum
David Van Horn was a Capt. of Lee's Regt. believed to be one of the 16 th Additional Regiments authorized by resolution of Congress of 27 th of Decr. 1776. What time he entered on the rank in which he was commissioned I know not but all of which I presume will be found in our War Office. but Mr. Hagner will not receive or give the necessary evidences unless called for by the Commissioners of Pensions. It will be found in Mr. Gordon's office that he drew a warrant for 300 acres of land as a Capt. of Lee's Regiment allowed to the Massachusetts line. It will also be there seen that he became a supernumerary officer on the 9 th of April 1779 —
The Commissioners of Pensions is able to ascertain for for what length of time in service entitled to be placed on the list as a member of the Society of Cincinnatti . David Van Horn was a member of that Society. I have seen his Commission as Certificate as Dismissal. It is a family relic of his Daughter who would not part with it further. The Commr. do does not recognize it as evidence of the length of service although the by laws or regulations of that order expressly provides for the length of service which would entitle the officer etc. yet in the case of Capt. John Hart of the South Carolina line this Diploma was produced but was not deemed satisfactory evidence. Mr. Edwards will please take this claim up at an early day.

Col. James L. Edwards Commissary of Pensions Washington D.C.

Shaburk L. Hand
March 15. 1842
Col James L. Edwards
Commissr of Pensions
Dear Sir
By the within letter I have been requested by my old friend Mrs. Daniel Ludlow (late widow of Genl Van Horn a Revolutionary Officer) to present her claim for Pension under the act of March 3 d 1843. Will you have the goodness to forward to me her Certificate as early as you can - as it is very material. The full proof with regard to the service & death of her husband having been filed in your office at the application of Mrs. Ludlow under the resolution of Aug. 4 th 42 -
With great regard your. Mr. Pres. J. Law. L. Hand

2568
July 21 '43
NY Mar 3 d 1843 Sarah Sedgwick
James Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D B #463: 73 per c
Payable to Augusta T. A. Floyd her only surviving child up to the day of Sarah C. Sedgwick's death, viz 5 June 43
Cert: to M rs A. T. Floyd N o 130 Greenwich street New York

City of New York
July 19 th 1843
James Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I have enclosed my declar- tion for the arrearages of pension due my mother Sarah P. Suddlow deceas- ed. You will confer a favor by transmitting to me at your earliest convenience the necessary papers to obtain the payment
With great respect yrs
Augusta T. H. Lloyd 130 Greenwich St

Department of State, September 24 th 1842.
G. W. Crump Esquire, Acting Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir,
The examination requested by your letter of the 21 st instant, has been made, but nothing has been found in relation to the services of Captain David Van Horn.
I am, Sir,
Your obed t . Servt.
Fletcher Norton
Acting Secretary.

Washington City Sept 10 th 1842
Dear Sir,
Enclosed you will receive the Declaration of Mrs Ludlow to enable her to draw a pension as the Widow of Capt David Van Horn, together with other papers for the same purpose. Also a note or Memorandum from My Father, with a request that you take this case up at your earliest convenience,
Yours Respectfully, Thos. Wortham

For value received, we do hereby assign, transfer and set over to Henry Northrup a order on right, title, interest and demand of in and to a Land Warrant N o 2360, issued by Henry Knox Secretary of War, on the 26 th day of Feb y 1794. for three Hundred acres of land, to David Van Horne, for his Services as a Captain of Lee's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line of the Army of the Revolution.
Witness our hands & seals this 31 st of October 1833.
Witness Jacob Morton
Sarah C. Ludlow (L.S) Augusta F. A. Floyd (E.S)
City County of New York Jr - On this twenty second day of October A.D. 1833, before me came Major General Jacob Morton, to me known who being by me duly sworn did depose and say that he resides in the city of New York that he is is well acquainted with Sarah C. Ludlow & Augusta F. A. Floyd who signed the above Receipt that they signed and acknowledged that they executed the same in his presence that Sarah C. Ludlow was formerly the wife of Capt. David Van Horne of the Revolutionary Army and Augusta F. A. Floyd is the daughter of said Van Horne, that said Capt. Van Horne died long since and that the widow afterward intermarried with Daniel Ludlow who has since deceased and the daughter married Doc t Floyd who has since deceased, and that they are the same persons who signed the above Receipt.
D.D. Williamson Comm r to take Acknowledgments, Affidavits, &c.

State of New York, City and County of New York } ss.
I, Abraham Asten, clerk of the City and County of New York, and clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said City and County, Do Hereby certify, That Don D. Williamson Esq. whose name is subscribed to the annexed certificate was on the day of the date thereof a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and authorized to administer oaths and to take the acknowledgements of Deeds and Instruments.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, the 22 nd day of October 1833.
Abm Asten
District of Columbia, Washington County } ss. Personally appeared before me the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and District, Henry Northup who being duly sworn saith that he is the present legal owner of Warrant N o . 2260, for 300 acres of land issued by the Secretary of War on the 26 th of February 1794, to David Van Horn for his services as a Captain in the Army of the Revolution, and assigned to him Deponent by the Devisees of said Van Horn, on the 28 th October 1833.
Henry Northup
Sworn before me John D. Clarke J. Pease

General Land Office
I Thomas N Blake Commissioner of the General Land Office do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a Paper on file in this Office
In Testimony Whereof I have caused the Seal of the said Office to be hereunto affixed at the City of Washington the 11 th day of September 1842.
Thomas N Blake Commissioner

Geo Wm Greenh Esqr Act Commr of Pension Present
A Northup Phila Sept 24. '42

Washington City 26th of Sept 1842
Sir I have thoroughly examined the Washington papers in the State Department and there is no such Regiment as Lee to be found there or any such officer as David Vanhorne. Neither is there any such in the records of the New York line at Albany. Nor as I believe in the records of the Massachusetts line at Boston. Most certainly no such Regiment is to be found amongst the Massachusetts line & Regts on file with the Washington papers - in part of the 16 additional raised by resolve of Congress of the 27th of Dec 1776. I have no recollection of seeing the rolls of any of them with the Washington papers but that of Grayson & Hovey. But that there was such a Capt as David Vanhorne is most clear. Who was clapped in Lee Regt one of the 16 Regts and who became supernumerary on the 9th of April 1779. This appears in the Gardner room where a warrant issued to David Vanhorne during his life for the bounty land due him for his services as a Capt who you turned to the same an ordinary last in a book in your office. There are the only sources that I know of where any evidence can be got of this service and rank.
The Commissioners in his report on this case required the widow to renew her Declaration stating the line to which he belonged. Such Declarations are to be made under oath. This woman knows not to what line or Regt he belonged as it would surely have been stated in her Declaration. I surely would have had this stated in her Declaration if she could have sworn to it. It is the only claim ever presented by me in which the line was not stated. Then it is most evident that it was omitted because the lady knew not to what Capt's Regt or line he belonged. She surely knew that he was a citizen of New York where he lived and died but was in Boston for a time during the Revolution. I doubt whether Capt Vanhorne if living would know more than that he was of Lee one of the 16 additional Regts. in showing this lady's papers to cover this defect in her Declaration I specially adverted to the land warrant drawn by Capt Vanhorne for the express purpose of proving that defect and of identifying him. - You have a copy of it with her papers and all the accompanying papers pertaining to that transaction from the Genl Land Office. Showing that the warrant issued to David Vanhorne a Capt of Lee was in the opinion of the widow of David Vanhorne thirty two years after his death and the rolls in the Gardner office will show that no warrant only were issued to an officer of any grade of the name of David Vanhorne. You in the course of it will find a very interesting

admitted the fact of the land warrant received by his widow the satisfactory evidence. Then surely in this case it should be admitted where there is not a set of papers in your office made out more full and explicit than those of colon Ludlow, except the Line to which he be- longed . I have to ask of you to do me the kindness to reexamine this case. And I Truly oblige Sir Yours Respectfully
Henry Clay M c Clure

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 3 d March 1843
Sarah C. law of N. Y. Lualow, deceased, formerly widow of David Vanhorne, who was a Captain in the Revolution, was entitled to a pension at the rate of four hundred and sixty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum and having died on the 5 th June 1843, the amount due, from the 4 th March 1843 to the time of her death, is payable to Augusta T. A. Floyd, the only surviving child of said Sarah C. Lualow, deceased.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 1 st day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty-three
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
Commissioner of Pensions.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3 rd March 1843 granting pensions for one year to Certain widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 1838.
State of New York } City & County of New York } ss: On this fourteenth  Nineteenth day of July A. D. 1843, before the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York in the State of New York aforesaid personally appeared Mrs. Augusta T. A. Floyd a resident of the City of New York in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Arrears of pension due her mother Mrs. Sarah C. Ludlow at the time of her death under the provision made by the Act of Congress passed March 3 rd 1843 granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the daughter and only surviving child of Mrs. Sarah C. Ludlow Dec d . That her mother the said Sarah C. Ludlow was at the time of her death the widow of Daniel Ludlow and formerly widow of Captain David Van Horne and that her name was inscribed on the Roll of the New York City Agency as a pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress of 7 July 1838 at and after the rate of Four hundred and sixty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum. That her father the said David Van Horne for whose services her said mother drew the Pension aforesaid was a Captain in the War of the Revolution and served as such as Declarant believes for a number of years in the Regiment commanded by Colonel H. Lee.
Declarant further states that

her said Mother, Mrs Sarah C. Ludlow continued until the period of her death a widow as aforesaid and died the fifth day of June One thousand eight hundred and forty three - Subscribed and sworn to in open court this 19 th day of July A.D. 1843
Augustus J. A. Floyd
The word "nineteenth" interlined, on first page & figures "19 th " on 2 d page written over an erasure.
Andrew Warner, Clerk
The People of the State of New York by the Grace of God, Free and Independent.
To all to whom these presents shall come or may in any wise concern send greeting:
Know Ye that at a Court of Common Pleas held in and for the City and County of New York on the 17 18 th day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty three satisfactory evidence was adduced to prove that Mrs Sarah C. Ludlow the same person referred to in the foregoing declaration, had been a Pensioner of the United States under Act 7 July 1838 & 23 d August 1842, that she departed this life on the fifth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three That at the time of her death she was the widow of Daniel Ludlow and was formerly the widow of Captain David Van Horne That Mrs Augusta J. A. Floyd the Declarant within named is the only surviving child of said deceased and is of lawful age.
In witness whereof the Clerk of the said Court has hereunto placed & affixed his seal of office this seventeenth nineteenth day of July One thousand eight hundred & forty three. note - The word nineteenth in this certificate interlined, and the word Seventeenth erased. and the figures 18 th interlined & 17 th erased.
Andrew Warner, Clerk