Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9,284, Peter Van Kleek, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Van Kleek, Peter Seaman Catharine
N o 9.284
Former Widow
CONTENTS

Ohio, N o 4195.
Catharine Seaman, deceased formerly widow of Peter Van Kleek N.Y. who died on the 19 Sep r 1777- of Portage in the State of Ohio who was a Sgt in the Co commanded by Captain of the commanded by in the line for 8 mo 19 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh, at the rate of 43 Dollars 16, Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Vending 13. Sep r , 1842, when she died,
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Apr d 1845 and sent to E. Hathaway
Arrears to the 4th of Hampton Ohio. Semi-annual allowance ending Pay t to Rebecca Black & Sarah Jones only sur v . Children, of Catharine Seaman. { Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3. }
Recorded by F. L. Swann Clerk, Book C Vol. 4 Page 192.
repl. see Let to agt. Apr d 21. 1845 letter to M rs E. Hathaway Oct 10. 1845.

I Cornelius Bogert, Clerk of the Corporation hereinafter named, do certify that the following is an extract from Liber 6. of the Records of Marriages of the Minister, Elders, and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant, Dutch Church of the City of New York, in my possession, except the date. viz:
Pieter Van Kleek v Catharina Weldenbogaart
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the common seal of the said Corporation by their authority this Eighteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty four
Cornelius Bogert P.
State of New York
City and County of New York p:
Cornelius Bogert, of said city, being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is the Clerk of the corporation mentioned in the above certificate, and has the custody of their records, and that the above is a true extract from Liber 6. of the said records, except the date which is entered on said records in words and figures as follows to wit; at one end of the entry "Jan. 6"; at the other end "1773" and "Jan 6" And deponent further saith that the above is the common seal of the said corporation, and was so affixed
Cornelius Bogert P.
by their authority. Sworn this 18 th day of December 1844 before me.
R. L. Schuyler Notary Mayor of the City of New York.
my Mother Henry came there and told her husband that he had Enlisted and wanted him to Enlist and go with him and he went with him and found his old Captain whose name was Wright and his Brother and Capt Wright urged her husband to Enlist and he Enlisted for three years or during the war under Capt Wright as she supposed in Colonel Coeurlandts Regiment he then came home and stayed a few days and then went into the service and that her said husband did not return home again but was killed in battle at the taking

The State of Ohio }
Portage County p }
On this 4 th day of October A. D. 1844.
Personally appeared Before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting in and for the said County of Portage and State of Ohio Sarah Jones wife of William Jones a resident of Hiram Township in said County of Portage and State of Ohio aged 56 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain for the children of Widow Catharine Seaman who died in Hiram aforesaid September 13 th 1842 The benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 that her mother the said Catharine Seaman was the widow of Peter Van Klief a Revolutionary soldier who was killed in Battle at the taking of Burgoyne that she has often heard her said mother relate the Revolutionary services of the said Peter Van Klief heard her say that she was married to the said Peter Van Klief at the City of New York before any of his Revolutionary service which was about the year 1772 by a Minister named Whitmore and that her name was before married to the said Peter Catharine Bogart and that she and her said husband lived at the City of New York in the commencement of the war and her said husband soon after Enlisted into the Continental service for three months and that when the British landed or was a landing at New York her said husband came home in the night and told her she must immediately leave the City for the British was landing and he helped her on board of a vessel and she went to Fishkill and after his said three months service for which he had Enlisted had expired he came to her at Fishkill and stayed a short time and that his Brother Henry came there and told her husband that he had Enlisted and wanted him to Enlist and go with him and he went with him and found his old Captain whose name was Wright and his Brother and Capt Wright urged her husband to Enlist and he Enlisted for three years or during the war under Capt Wright as she supposed in Colonel Courtlandt's Regiment he then came home and stayed a few days and then went into the service and that her said husband did not return home again but was killed in battle at the taking
Sworn

of Burgoyne that the said Peter Van Keuck was by her said mother supposed to of been an Ensign at the time he was killed that a man by the name of Loosey who was in the same battle and was wounded in his knee told her the said Catharine that he the said Loosey stood by her said husband when he was killed and that her said husband was an Ensign and bore the stand of Colors and that when her said husband was killed that he the said Loosey took and bore the stand of Colors that she and her family of two children lived at Fishkill after her said hus- band was killed and that Gen Washington was informed that her husband was killed in battle called on her in person and gave her a written order on the proper officer to supply her and her children with rations which was done that she sailed down to New York City under the first American flag that went down to New York City before the British left the City and was there when the British left the City that the said Catharine made proof of her said husbands services in the Revolution and obtained for herself and children a patent for a tract of land in Warlins prom- ised to be given as bounty land by the Legislature of the state of New York said patent was dated 13 th day of September 1792 that the said Catharine was married to Peter Seaman in the City of New York about the year 1787 and that the said Peter Seaman died in said City of New York in the year 1802 and the said widow Seaman moved to Warlins and lived on said Soldier land twenty years then moved to Hiram Township Portage County and State of Ohio and lived with her daughter the said Sarah and her husband William Jones till her decease which to place as above stated on the 13 th day of September 1842 that the said Catharine has only two children living one by her first husband and one by her second husband their names are as follows Rebecca Black a widow aged about 70 years Sarah Jones wife of William Jones said Rebecca resides in Canajuga by State of New York she further states that her said mother was never married after the death of her father the said Peter Seaman and remained a widow when she died she refers to the annexed proof and prays that a certificate may be granted her and her said sister to draw the pension that her said mother was intitled to
Sarah Jones
Sworn to and subscribed this 4 th day of October A.D. 1844 in open court before Ebenezer Newton , President Judge of 3 d Circuit Ohio

The State of Ohio Portage County ss 3
I William Coolman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Portage in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that the Hon Eben Newton before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken was at the time of taking the same President Judge of the third Judicial Circuit of said Court in said State of Ohio (and within which Circuit is the County of Portage) duly commissioned and sworn and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty third day of October AD 1844
William Coolman Clerk By Horace Y. Dake Deputy.
... in value at the taking

State of New York Cayuga County } ss
On this the 29 th day of November A.D. 1844
Personally appeared before me Horace Perkins a justice of the peace in and for the said County of Cayuga and State of New York Rebecca Black a resident of Seneca in said County and State aforesaid aged seventy years who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on her said oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain for herself and her sister Sarah Jones a pen- sion that was due her mother at her decease under the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 that her said mother Catharine Seaman was the widow of Peter Van Bleek a Revolutionary Soldier who was killed in battle in the Revolutionary war and that Robert Wilson was Administrator of the Estate of the aforesaid Peter Van Bleek and obtained from the war office of the United States a land warrant for 100 acres of land as bounty land on account of said Peter Van Bleek's Revolutionary services and that said heirs obtained from the State of New York a tract of land pro- mised to be given as bounty land by said State that her said Fath- er Peter Van Bleek and her said Mother Catharine Bogart before were married to said Peter were married about the year 1772 at the City of New York by a minister named Whitmore that her said mother was again married to Peter Seaman in the City of New York about the year 1778 and that the said Peter Seaman died in said City of New York in the year 1802 and that the said Catharine Seaman died in Hiram Portage County & State of Ohio September 13 th 1844 and that the said Catharine was never married after the death of her said husband Peter Seaman and remained a widow when she died that she has heard it always related that her father the said Peter Van Bleek in the fore part of the war went into the service from the City of New York a tour of three months and was in a battle on Long Island that her mother moved to Fishkill and stayed till the war was over then moved back to the City of New York that after her said Father served out his said three months tour he enlisted for during the war and was killed in battle that he held the office of Sergeant or Ensign in the war that she and her sister Sarah Jones is the only chil- dren of her said mother that survived her and that her

said Sister Sarah Jones resides in Hiram Portage County and state of Ohio that she refers to the proof herunto attached and prays that a certificate may be granted her and her said Sister to draw said pension and that it may be payable at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
in presence of Horace Perkins James Eastman
Rebecca Black
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that the following words was interlined before signed to wit, were married, of Ohio. I also certify that I believe said Rebecca Black to be a person of truth and veracity
Horace Perkins Justice of the Peace
State of New York Cayuga County Clerk's Office
I Philip Van Andale Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Horace Perkins was on the 29 th day of November A.D. 1844. a justice of the peace in and for said County duly ap- pointed and qualified; and that the above is his genuine Signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said County this 29 th day of November A.D. 1844 Philip Van Andale, Clerk

6431 Catherine Seaman fm Nippon I. P. VanKleeck Feb. 20, 1845. Ohio
act 4 May 1836
2nd N.Y. Regt No 73 Killed 1777 Pvt VanKleeck Mar Enlisted 31 st July 1777 Killed 19 th Sep 1777. Serjt
6431

William & Sarah Joneses Declarations

The State of Ohio { Portage County } p
In this 8 th day of March A.D. 1844 Personally appeared Before the Court of Common Pleas no sitting in and for said County of Portage and State of Ohio William Jones a resident of Hiram in said County of Portage aged 57 years who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his said Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain for the children heirs of Widow Catharine Seaman who died at said Hiram September 13 th 1842 the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 that the said Catharine Seaman was the widow of Peter Van Kleek a Revolutionary Soldier who was killed in Battle at the taking of Burgayne that he the said William Jones is a son in law of the said Catharine Seaman and has often heard the said Catharine Seaman say that her first husband Peter Van Kleek was an Ensign in the Revolutionary war and that she was married to the said Peter Van Kleek at the City of New York before any of his Revolutionary services by a Minister by the name of Whitmore and that she lived at the City of New York in the commencement of the Revolutionary war and that he listed for three months and soon after the expiration of said three months he listed a- -gain for three years or during the war and was killed in Battle at the taking of Burgayne that the said Catharine Seaman made proof of the services of the said Peter Van Kleek in the Revolutionary war and also her marriage and other necessary proofs and obtained a Land Patent from the State of New York as bounty land on account of the services of the said Peter Van Kleek a certified copy is herunto annexed that the said Catharine was married to the said Peter Seaman about the year 1787 and that the said Peter Seaman died in the City of New York in the year 1802 and the said Widow Seaman moved to Manlius and lived with him the said William Jones on the said Soldier land twenty years and then moved with him the said Jones to Hiram Portage County State of Ohio and lived with him in said Hiram up to her death which was September 13 th 1842 and that she remained the widow of said Peter Seaman that the said Catharine Seaman has only two children living which are as follows Rebecca Black who is now a widow being the only child living by her said Husband Peter Van Kleek Sarah wife of said William Jones a resident of said Hiram the only child living by her second husband Peter Seaman that the said Widow Seaman partly prepared her proofs for a Pension before she died but was advised that she was not intitled on account of her second marriage therefore did not apply that he refers to the annexed proofs and prays that a certificate may be granted the said Catharine Seaman or her heirs to draw said Pension
William Jones

Sworn to and subscribed this 8 th day of March A. D. 1844 in open Court before Ebenezer Norton President Judge of 3 rd Circuit Ohio

The People of the State of New-York, by the Grace of GOD, Free and Independent : To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting : Know Ye, That in pursuance of an act of our Legislature, passed the 6th day of April, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety ; entitled, "An Act to carry into Effect the concurrent Resolutions and Acts of the Legislature, for granting certain Lands, promised to be given as Bounty Lands, and for other purposes therein mentioned," We have Given, Granted and Confirmed, and by these Presents Do Give, Grant and Confirm unto
Peter Van Kleck All that certain Tract or Lot of Land, situate, lying and being in the County of Montgomery, and in the Township of Maulins known and distinguished on a Map of the said Township, (filed by our Surveyor-General, in our Secretary's Office, agreeable to Law) by Lot Number Sixty Seven containing Six hundred acres Together with all and singular the Rights, Hereditaments and Appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any Wise appertaining ; Excepting and Reserving to ourselves, all Gold and Silver Mines, and one hundred acres of the said lot to be laid out in a Square as nearly as may be in the South east corner thereof
and also five Acres of every hundred Acres of the said Tract or Lot of Land, for Highways : To have and to hold the above described and granted Premises, unto the said Peter Van Kleck his Heirs and Assigns, as a good and indefeasible Estate of Inheritance, for ever. On Condition Nevertheless, that within the Term of Seven Years, to be computed from the first day of January next ensuing the Date hereof, there shall be one actual Settlement made on the said Tract or Lot of Land hereby granted ; otherwise these our Letters Patent, and the Estate hereby granted, shall cease, determine and become void. In Testimony Whereof, We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent, and the great Seal of our said State, to be hereunto affixed : WITNESS our trusty and well-beloved GEORGE CLINTON , Esquire, Governor of our said State, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, at our City of New-York, this thirteenth Day of September — in the year of our LORD One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety — and in the fifteenth Year of our Independence.
Approved of by the Commissioners of the Land-Office, and passed the Secretary's Office, the 13 th day of September 1792
Lewis A. Scott Secretary
Geo. Clinton.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } Secretary's Office.
I Certify the preceding to be a true copy of certain Letters Patent as of record in this Office, in Book of Military Patents No. 8 page 164.
Arch d Campbell
Dep. Secretary
Albany April 5. 1841

The State of Ohio } Portage County } p
The Deposition of Evan Jones a resident of Hiram Portage County State of Ohio taken before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting in and for the County of Portage and State of Ohio this the 8 th day of March A. D. 1844 Being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his said Oath depose and say that he was acquainted with the widow Catharine Seaman of said Hiram Portage County, State of Ohio and that she the said Catharine Seaman died in said Hiram in September 1842 and that he is well acquainted with William Jones a son in law of the said Widow Catharine Seaman and that from his personal knowledge of the said William Jones he the said William Jones is a person of truth and veracity and that the said William Jones is a resident of Hiram in said County of Portage and that the said William Joneses wife's name is Sarah and that this deponent is fifty years old
Evan Jones
Sworn to and subscribed this the 8 th day of March in open Court before me
Eben Newton President Judge of 3 rd Judicial Circuit, Ohio
The State of Ohio } Portage County } p
I Horace Y. Beebe Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Portage and State of Ohio do hereby certify that the Hon. Eben Newton before whom the foregoing and annexed depositions were taken was at the time of taking the same and now is President Judge of third Judicial Circuit of the Court of Common Pleas in said State of Ohio duly commissioned and sworn to all whose official acts as such full faith and credit are due and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this ninth day of March A.D. 1844 -
Horace Y. Beebe Dep. Clerk

Levy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 9284
Catharine Lehman for Wid. of Peter van Kleek Sergt. Res. War
Act: July 14/36, Sec. 3.
Index:—Vol. 66 , Page 199
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Hon J. L. Edwards Commr of Pensions
Dear Sir
We have the Honor to herewith transmit to your office the Declarations of Rebecca Black and Sarah Jones claiming a Pension that was due their Mother Catharine Seaman Deceased under the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836 on account of the services of her first husband Peter Van Kleek in the war of the Revolution in addition to the proof herewith forwarded we would refer to the proofs of Robert Wilson Administrator of said Peter Van Kleek in obtaining the bounty land due the heirs of said Peter Respectfully Your Obedt Servants Kirtland Georgia County Ohio
February 7 th 1845
Elliott & Hathaway

Chardon Geauga Co Ohio
September 1845.
Dear Sir
The heirs of Joseph Burk a Revolutionary Soldier alledge that said Joseph Burk served in the 4 th Massachusetts Regt under Colonel Shepherd and that he enlisted for and served during the Revolutionary War, that the said Joseph died July 4 th 1814 and that said heirs further alledge that said Joseph did not receive his bounty land that he was intitled to by virtue of said enlistment and service Please to inform us of the facts in the case, said Joseph was a resident of Chesterfield in the County of Hampshire Massachusetts.
The children of Catharine Seaman, according, Rebecca Black and Sarah Jones, is very much dissatisfied in regard to the amount of pension allowed them which was due their said Mother at her decease on account of the Revolutionary service of her first husband Peter Van Kleek who was killed in Battle They think there was some mistake in the department in not granting a full pension they say that notwithstanding he was killed in Battle his heirs was allowed bounty land the same as if he had lived and served to the end of the war and they think that the pension had ought to of been allowed accordingly Please to inform us Respectfully your O b Servant
Wm J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions Washington City D. C.
Elliott & Hathaway "

No 6431
Catharine Seaman also formerly Moth of P. Van Kleeck N Y
Act. 4 July 1836.
Adm o 8 mo 19 days Sergeant. #43 16 Graham
Commencing on 4 March 1831 and terminating on 13 Sept. 1842 the day of her death payable to Rebecca Black and Sarah Jones only surviving children of Catharine Seaman also
Elliott H. Hathaway Hamburg Ohio

April 7, 1845.
Dear Cousin Cath. Scudder,
Y. d. Edward's House of Pension, Washington City D.C.
Yours

State of Ohio Geauga County ss.
Deposition of Sarah Jones of lawful age a resident of Hiram in the County of Portage in the State of Ohio taken before me James Hathaway a justice of the peace in and for said County of Geauga & State of Ohio. taken in the Township of Hiram in said County of Geauga Being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on her said Oath depose and say that she is a daughter of Widow Catharine Seaman, deceased, who was the widow of Peter Seaman and was the widow of Peter Van Kleek (who was killed in battle in the Revolutionary war) before married to said Peter Seaman and that her said Mothers name was before married to said Peter Van Kleek, Catharine Wildenbogart as she has often heard her said Mother say was the Dutch name and that ever since she can remember the name has been called Bogart or Bogert and the "Wilden" left out that she well remembers of hearing her said Mother relate the circumstance of the "Wilden" being left out of her said mothers Maiden name and that she further states that Robert Wilson as Administrator of the said Peter Van Kleek obtained from the war office a patent for 100. acres of land which the heirs of said Peter Van Kleek was intitled to on account of the enlistment and service in the Revolutionary war of the said Peter Van Kleek and further this deponent saith not.
Sarah Jones
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1 st day of April A.D. 1845 and I further certify from my own Personal knowledge the said Sarah Jones is a person of truth and veracity.
James Hathaway Justice of the peace

THE STATE OF OHIO, GEAUGA COUNTY, ss.
I, Reuben St. John, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Geauga, in the State of Ohio, do by these presents certify and make known, that James Halthaway Esquire, before whom the annexed and foregoing Deposition was  has taken, and who has thereto, in his own proper hand-writing, subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such Deposition and now is Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly
commissioned and sworn, agreeably to the laws of the State of Ohio, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is, and ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Chardon, in said county, this 2 d day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty- five
Reuben St. John, Clerk.

Hambleton Geauga Co Ohio } April 1 st 1845.
Hon J. S. Edwards Comm of Pensions
Dear Sir we have
The Honor to herewith transmit to your office the Deposition of Sarah Jones to explain the discrepancy in her Declaration and the Declaration of her Half Sister Anna Black (claiming a pension due their mother Catharine Seaman deceased) and their said Mothers Marriage proof from Church Records that was forwarded to your office by us together with said Declarations and other proofs on or about the 7 th day of February 1845.
Respectfully Your Ob st Servants
Elliott & Hathaway