Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44219, Augustus Wilkie, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Wilkie, Augustus
S. 44219
CONTENTS
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New York
Augustus Wilkie, Sergeant, N.Y. Army U.S.
At Spencerville N.Y. 2 d April 1818.
Certified W th April 6, 1818. I sent to Hon: M c Layle House of Rep s U.S.
Auth d to 1 st Sept r 1818. 5 31 / 31 mo. $ 40.77
(Rev. J. Blair, Act d 18 th March, 1818)
Van Collandt
New York line, 3 years - 1777-
Charles Clinton
Disbursed at New York 1818 to for Pensions Battalion N.Y. Ar. Inf.
11 2400 (7) 21 2/3
5 40 77

44 219 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 44 219
Augustus Wilkie
Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 570
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New-York, } ss. County of SARATOGA, }
ON this twenty second day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, in the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, the same being a Court of Record for the said County, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment, e Augustus Wilkie
aged seventy years, resident in the said County, in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: For the term of three years and four months from and after the month of March in the year 1776 as a sergeant first in the company in the New York line commanded by Capt. Hambleton in Colonel Troup's Regiment for one year next in Capt. French's company in Colonel Gault's Regiment two years after which he hired a substitute who served in the same regiment in his room during the war he further served personally for months in Capt. Mason's company in Colonel Livingston's Regiment.
That his original declaration was made on or about the second day of April 1818 and that his Pension Certificate is numbered One hundred and Sixty six .
AND I 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, 1818; 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.
Augustus Wilkie
Sworn to and declared on the twenty second day of August 1820 before me in open Court
Thomas Palmer Clerk
I, Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga hereby certify that the foregoing Deed and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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 sixty five dollars and Forty Eight cents.
IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty second day of August 1820
Thomas Palmer
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga.

A Schedule of the Real and Personal Estate of the Pensioner in the affidavit hereto annexed named, he necessary clothing excepted) in pursuance of the act within mentioned.
Real Estate I have None -
Personal Estate
a bond and Mortgage executed by Joseph Hodgson for the security of the payment of Two hundred dollars dated the tenth of October 1818. in which bond & mortgage I have Recd fifty seven dollars and seventy four cents leaving a balance due on said bond and Mortgage of one hundred and forty two dollars and twenty six cents. Payable by installments with interest from date which will all become due the tenth day of October 1822. Bond $142.26. Interest $18.22. $160.48
One common Pine Chest
2.00
$162.48
The said Augustus Wilkie owes on a note executed by himself to Thomas Wilkie.
$20.00
one ditto to Jeremiah Wilkie.
16.75
$36.75
he is by occupation a carpenter but totally disabled by age and infirmity from pursuing it or performing any other labour his constitution very much broken and of a weak and debilitated habit. he has wife child nor home Augustus Wilkie
Sworn to in open court
Francis Palmer Clerk
Augustus Wilkie
Copy

To the Secretary of the Department of War.
I John Taylor one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Saratoga in the State of New York Do hereby certify that Augustus Wilkie the within named deponent is personally known to me, and from my acquaintance with him believe the within deposition to be true, and it appearing to my satisfaction that the within named deponent served in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, & that the said deponent is entitled to the benefit of the act entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" Approved March 18 th 1818 - Dated the second day of April 1818 -
John Taylor

State of New York Saratoga County ss.
Augustus Wilkie of the town of Charlton in the county of Saratoga being by me duly sworn, declares on his oath before me that he this deponent enlisted as private soldier  orderly sergeant in the continental establishment in the revolutionary war in the company commanded by Capt. Gerrit Vedder in the Regiment commanded by Col. Wynkoop in the New York line some time in the month of March in the year 1776 for one year, and that he this deponent faithfully served his country in the capacity of a private  was aforesaid, during the above period, and legally and honorably discharged at Schenectady in the state aforesaid, some time in the month of March in the year 1777. And this deponent further saith that he again enlisted as a private soldier  non commissioned officer in the continental establishment in the war aforesaid at Schenectady in the company commanded by Capt. French in the Second New York Regiment commanded by Col. Philip Van Cortland, in the New York line some time in the month of April in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven for three years, and that he this deponent faithfully served his country in the capacity aforesaid, in person for about two years, and this deponent further saith that he obtained a substitute in his room to serve the remainder of the war, by the name of John Jacques who served until the close of the said war. and that he this deponent was regularly discharged at Newburgh in the said state about the first of May 1779. And also this deponent further saith that he is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from his country for support. and further this deponent saith not.
Subscribed & sworn to, the second day of April 1818 — before me
Augustus Wilkie
John Dyer one of
the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in & for the County of Saratoga in the state of New York.

I certify that John Taylor is a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Saratoga & that the within are his signaturings - April 13. 1878
John M. Taylor
The application of Augustus Walker to the Secretary of the Department of War to be placed on the pension list. . . . .
Commit.

To the Secretary of the Department of War.
I John Taylor one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Saratoga in the State of New York Do hereby certify that Augus- tus Wilkie the within named deponent is personally known to me, and from my acquaintance with him believe the within deposition to be true, and it appearing to my satisfaction that the within nam- -ed deponent served in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, & that the said deponent is entitled to the benefit of the act enti- -tled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the united states in the revolutionary war" Approved March 18 th 1818 - Dated the second day of April 1818 -
John Taylor