Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28927, Anthony Van Santvoord, New York

SERVICE
New York.
NUMBER
195 Van Santvoord, Anthony      S 28927
CONTENTS

5888
New York
Anthony Van Santvoord of Albany in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Schuyler of the Regt commanded by Col Coyle in the New York line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Feby 1833 and sent to Hon J. P. Lansing Nat Reps.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 — $30 00 Semizant. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 10 00 $40.00
d. Feby 17. 1852
{ Revolutionary Claims Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Chas. Cannwell Clerk Book D Vol. 5 Page 148

No 2. 654 Anthony Van Santvoordt
Declaration
July 17 1834
P.O.
Supplementary Declaration annexed
$20 per am
Hon. G. G. Lansing H.R.
DECLARATION
STATE OF NEW-YORK
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress...
...and served as process server... ...to the said... ...the following declaration... ...to obtain the benefit of the act of... ...who being first duly sworn according... ...to the oaths of... ...not against... ...personally appeared...

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, COUNTY of Albany } ss.
On the thirteenth day of July 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the Justices of the Justices Court in the City of Albany now sitting, Anthony Van Santvoord a resident of the City of Albany in the county of Albany and state of New York aged about seventy one 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 act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated: That in the year 1777 he entered the service of the United States and was engaged for four months at the City of Albany by order of Genl. P. Van Rensselaer in preparing fortifications for the Army. In 1778 he went out with the Militia as a private in the Regiment commanded by Col. Ab. Cuyler and marched on an expedition to Fort Hunter to disperse the disaffected Tories in that quarter, this was in the spring of the year; from thence he was ordered with the rest of the Regiment under Col. Cuyler to Stone Arabia, and remained in service until the commencement of winter until the end of the campaign. That he, when ordered on that duty, very frequently performed mounted guard in and about the City of Albany and its vicinity and that he is confident and believes that he was engaged in that duty for at least one month. That in 1779 he was ordered out with the Militia in the months of August, July & August to march to Fort Plank, Fort Plain, Schoharie Creek and elsewhere on the Mohawk River to protect the inhabitants against the incursions of Indians and Tories, and to enable the farmers to secure their harvest and was out to the end of the campaign. In the fall of 1779 he was ordered to march to Saratoga and remained there in service until he was discharged. That he doth verily believe, that if the different terms of in the United States Service which he the Declarer performed in the Revolutionary War had been merged from time to time, they would have amounted to a period of two years and upwards: 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 to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Anthony Van Santvoord
WE Isaac Ferris , Church in the City of Albany  the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church , residing in the City of Albany and Christian Miller  Treasurer of said Church residing in the said City hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Anthony Van Santvoord who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy one 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 day and year aforesaid.
Isaac Ferris - Past. of 2 o Ref. Prot. Ch Christian Miller Treas. of said Ch
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 the Reverend Isaac Ferris who hath signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the City of Albany ; and that Christian Miller who has also signed the same, is a resident of the said City of Albany and is a credible person, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
I John G. Watson Clerk of the Justices Court in the City of Albany DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court, in the matter of the application of Anthony Van Santvoord for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this thirteenth day of July A. D. 1832
John G. Watson Clk etc.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
N.Y. 28927
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Anthony Van Santvoord a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1777 Issued at various times until 1782 Pvt. Philip Van Rensselaer William Stearn Abraham Cuyler N.Y.                                                   
Battles engaged in, none stated Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated Date of application for pension, July 13, 1832 His cl. was at Albany N.Y. Residence at date of application, Albany N.Y. Age at date of application, 71 years. He died Feb 17, 1852 from L.B.
Remarks: No data as to his family.  Recd. for Int. Dept. bty 5888 Issued Feb 20, 1833 $20. per annum from Mar 4, 1821 Act June 7, 1832 N.Y. Agency
Respectfully,
I have not used different tenses as soldier was not Commissioner. clear in his statements of them, and as "place of death" was wanted in Mr. Russell's letter of Feb 21, 1916 I have referred him to Auditor for date of death also.

88927 INVALID.
116 Vol. 1 Hist. 50-100-120 Russia
File No. 88927
Anthony Mandantoni
Rev Mr.
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 495
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Anthony Vandenturk July 7 June 1882
Suspended see letter to Van Engen Dec. 21 1882

Rev Ser
CHARLES W. RUSSELL INVESTMENT SECURITIES 100 State St. Albany, N.Y.
February 21st, 1916.
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I am desirous of straightening out a little genealogical matter in which I think you may be able to help me.
Did Anthony Van Santvoord volunteer in the Revolutionary War from Albany, Albany County, New York, and if so did he obtain a pension?
Will you please give me any information which may have been in his application, especially I would like to know where he died.
Thanking you, I am
Very truly yours, Charles W Russell

J L Edwards
War Department

Albany 11 January 1833
Dear Sir
I am sorry to find in yours of 21 st Dec r last to Mr Van Ingen that my Claims as a pensioner have been rejected and my papers placed on file on Account of my Explanations Offered in my last and Supplemental declaration are unsatisfactory as relating to the first and second as to the discrepancies between them, this may be and yet without any ill design, because reflecting on the term of service one day I might think different the next, for it is most so impossible that after a period of fifty Odd years that I should make a Statement of any transaction having occurred or transpired and yet due reflecting think it otherwise than I had stated it. But Sir if military service only is contemplated by the Act and no other then I withdraw my claim as to the term of two years & upwards as stated in my first declaration, but I took it for granted, the service done by me through the Revolutionary war, such as City guard, watching the prison and prisoners on account of any attempts made by disaffected persons, and to patrol the streets of the City at night to prevent any mischief by wicked or disaffected men, and likewise of making Market Cartridges for the army, All these and other labour that I performed for the army, I thought all where included in the pension Act, but if this is not case, I do still think I have a claim on Government for a pension, if it be no more then six months, since I never received the least Compensation for all my toils privations and hardships which I endured through the whole of the war - and now Sir I will leave it to your judgement or any candid reflecting mind whether it seems probable that a Young man a friend to his Country and willing and ready to enter on any service, that he should not have served as much as six months as a Soldier during a war more than five years of hard struggle danger on every side and calls for help

from different quarters, who would if able be inactive in such a time of alarm and distress. I wish you would seriously and deliberately consider my case, for it gives me to think you should form any hard thoughts concerning any statement made being incorrect or contradictory as if I meant to defraud - far be this from my intention, to do any thing willfully which I knew to be wrong - I may have erred but I feel sensible not willfully, & should you on this account deem it just to reject my claim which I hope you will not, but if you still feel satisfied that I am not deserving any compensation for my services rendered my Country, then I will thank you kindly if you will be pleased to send my papers back, so that I may be免ing where I have been so unfortunate as to err for I would not willfully exonerate or prejudge myself for all the amount of pension that all the pensioners in the Union may receive I remain your friend do unseen and personally unknown, yet wish you to enjoy the smiles of a kind providence on all your labors here below, and here after to be to be admitted as an heir of glory in the Kingdom of Heaven
I am Respectfully Your Ob t Servant
Anthony Van Santvoord
J L Edwards

County of Albany Y s .
County of Albany Yo. Before the Justices Court of the City of Albany in open Court, personally appeared on the 12 th day of December 1832, Anthony Van Santvoord of the City of Albany, who was duly sworn according to law, that the following Statement by him subscribed, contains nothing but the truth, according to the best of his knowledge, recollection and belief, to wit:
That the original and supplementary declarations annexed, and which have been heretofore by him subscribed and sworn to, contain a true statement of facts, excepting in so far and in such parts thereof, as the same are amended, altered or added to, by the following explanatory remarks and declaration, to wit:
That a letter purporting to be written by J. L. Edwards, Pension Office, War Department, Washington, dated [blank] has been exhibited to this deponent by James Van Ingen of the said City of Albany; and that after a frequent perusal and deliberate examination thereof, and due reflection thereon by this deponent, he doth declare and say; That in respect to so much of the said original declaration as embraces the four months in the year 1877 in which he was engaged in preparing cartridges for the army, by order of Capt E. B. Van Ruysevelt, the same should have been made to read thus—
"That in the year 1777 previous to his being enrolled as a militia private in Capt. William Hun's Company, he was employed by Capt. B. B. Van Rensselaer in preparing Cartridges for the army; and that altho' then employed by him for four months in that year during the working hours of the day, he also did duty as a private in guarding the City and its environs by night, all the effective part of the militia having been marched off on different tours of duty, whereby it was rendered necessary that the aged and exempt as well as the yet unenrolled young men should perform the duty of mounting guard; and that as soon as this deponent came to the age for being enrolled, his said Capt. (Hun) informed him, that he had received orders from his Colonel to forbear enrolling this Deponent, & to permit him to continue the preparing of Cartridges for the army of which they stood in great need until the supply thereof was completed"
And that at the end of that part of the said original declaration included in bracket [ ] insert "for which purpose a special order was issued by Col. Wemple then Commanding Officer Fort Plain ," after the words " three months and an half ," insert the Supplemental
Southway San Juan being John G. Wapson Coll.

The Supplementary Declaration of Anthony Van Santvoord, an applicant for a pension under the Act of the 7th of June 1832, claiming for Services as a private in the Revolutionary Army, in the State of New York. That in the Spring of the year 1778 - he was ordered out a second time to march to Fort Hunter under Capt. W. Hunt, and did duty there and in its vicinity for four weeks ; and that in the Summer thereof he was ordered, by direction of Philip P. Van Rensselaer, then acting in the Quarter Master General's department, to prepare musket Cartridges for the United States army, in which he was employed for three months ; — and in the fall following was ordered out by Col. Cuyler with the Company commanded by Capt. W. Hunt, and Lieut. Visscher to march to Stone Arabia; and on his return to Albany, was dismissed, after having been in service for three weeks . [In 1779, as he has set forth in his former declaration, he was ordered out with the militia in July and August, and served in those months under the command of Capt. Hunt and Lieut. Visscher as a private in the Company commanded by Capt. Cuyler, and marched to Schoharie to garrison the forts there, and in aiding to repel incursions of the Indians and Tories, and in protecting the persons & property of the Inhabitants of that place, and also in affording them opportunities in the harvest seasons of reaping and housing their crops in which towns during those several years, and in the winter seasons thereof in guarding the city of Albany, and the public stores & property collected there for convenience and safety. In this Declaration, according to the best of his recollection, was engaged in the service of the United States for a period amounting in those several years of 1780 - 1781 & 1782 to sixteen months. All which foregoing Supplementary Declaration is now attested to by the Oath of the Declarant.
and served three months and an half . In the fall of the same year 1779, he was ordered by the Col. of the Regt. (Col. Cuyler) to march, & did march, to Saratoga, and remained in service there (until he was discharged and returned home) for a period of two months . In 1780, 1781, & 1782 he was ordered out by Col. Cuyler, and did duty as a private in the Company commanded by Capt. William Hunt.
and marched to Schoharie to garrison the forts there, and in aiding to repel incursions of the Indians and Tories, and in protecting the persons & property of the Inhabitants of that place, and also in affording them opportunities in the harvest seasons of reaping and housing their crops in which towns during those several years, and in the winter seasons thereof in guarding the city of Albany, and the public stores & property collected there for convenience and safety. In this Declaration, according to the best of his recollection, was engaged in the service of the United States for a period amounting in those several years of 1780 - 1781 & 1782 to sixteen months. All which foregoing Supplementary Declaration is now attested to by the Oath of the Declarant.
Subscribed & sworn to in open court, before the Justices Court of the City of Albany Nov. 2 d 1832 J. G. Watson Clerk
Anthony Van Santvoord