Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28920, Jacob Van Orden, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Vanorden, Jacob
S. 28920
CONTENTS

New York 29789
Jacob Van Orden of New York in the State of New York who was a private in the com d commanded by Captain Serndus of the reg t commanded by Col. Hays in the New York line for 16 months private
Rockland Co.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 53 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Feb y 1835 and sent to Hon J. P. White H.C.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept r 34 186.65 Semi-ant. allowance ending March 25 26.66
$213.31
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Jam. Bays Clerk, Book 82 Vol. 4 Page 78

Application of Jacob Van Orden for a pension.
18305
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Admitted Private 16 months susp.
Hon. C. P. White

State of New York
City and County of New York } Gs. On this fifteenth — day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable the Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace of the City and County of New York Jacob Van Orden a Resident of the City of New York in the County of New York and State of New York aged seventy four years who first 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 4 th 1832.
That he was born at Goshen in Orange County State of New York in December 1758. he has a record of his age in his family bible; at Clarkstown in Orange. (now Rockland) County when aged eighteen years, and on the 15 th day of August 1776. he enlisted for five months. in Captain Derondas Company of Col Coopers Regiment attached to General Clintons Brigade, William Thompson was Sergeant Major of the Regiment — deponent crossed the River to Peekskill where Captain Derondas, Captain Nichols and Captain Van Orden's Companies remained the other companies of the Regiment were detached to White Plains, In July 1777 the declarant was discharged and went home but he received no written discharge.
A few days after his return home declarant went to Goshen and joined Capt. Furness Col Hays Regiment Company of which company the declarants father was Lieutenant one Smith was Major of the Regiment about the 1 st day of August 1777 and deponent continued in that company until the month of April 1782 when he removed to Closter during the period he was in Captain Furness Company they were employed in guarding the frontiers of the State of New York in the Counties of Rockland & Orange, they were almost continually engaged in active service and had numerous encounters with the British and refugees, they frequently mounted behind the men of Major Lees Regiment of

Light Horse and went in pursuit of the enemy, declarant and his company were at Tappan when Andre was executed, he recollects when General Wayne took Stoney Point he was there after the morning after it was taken, he has principally resided in New York City since the Revolutionary war, he hereby relinquishes all claim to any pension whatever except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State. he has no documentary evidence
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid } in open Court
Richard Hatfield
clerk
Jacob Van Orden

State of New York City and County of New York } Jo. James Vanderbilt of Clarkstown County of Rockland and State of New York aged seventy five years being duly sworn says, that he has been acquainted with Jacob Van Orden from Child- hood that in August 1775. Van Orden joined Captain Jacob Derondas Company of Col Coopers Regiment New York State Militia attached to the Brigade of General James Clinton, Van Orden enlisted for five months in that Company, he enlisted at Clarkstown and crossed the River to Poughkeepsie, deponent and Van Orden were in the same company, Van Orden served out his time and was discharged deponent has frequently met him during the Revolutionary war and has no doubt that said Van Orden served during the whole of the Revolutionary war, that such is the received opinion of persons residing in the neighbour- hood of deponent, and deponent further saith that said Van Orden was a very active patriot and a zealous and determined soldier, and hath always been considered a man of honor and integrity and deponent verily believes the statement made by him of his revolutionary services to be correct and true.
Sworn this 7 th day of August 1832 Before me }
James Vanderbilt
J. R. [unclear]
Recorder of the City of New York

State of New York City and County of New York } Gs. We George Hadley and Stephen Hadley of the City of New York being duly sworn say that they served during a part of the Revolutionary war in they served in Captain Turnures company Col Hoays Regiment of General Clintons Brigade that they were so in service in that company from the summer of 1777 until the close of the war, and at various periods, they further certify that they are well acquainted with Jacob Van Orden that he served in such company to the best of these deponents recollection from the summer of 1777 until the spring of 1782, that said Van Orden was engaged with these deponents in guarding the frontiers of the State of New York in the Counties of Rockland and Orange, and they put full faith and confidence in his statement hereto annexed, not only from his well known character for truth and veracity but also from these deponents personal knowledge of his services.
George Hadley Stephen Hadley
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
Richard Harfield
Clerk

We George Hadley ~ a clergyman residing in the City of New York and Henry Van Houten residing in the City of New York hereby certify that we are well acquaint- ed with Jacob Van Orden who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
Richard Haefele
Clerk
George Hadley
Henry Van Houten
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matters 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 George Hadley who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the City of New York and that Henry Van Houten who has also signed the same is a resident of the City of New York, and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
R Pike Recorder
James Palmer
H.P. Robertson Atty

J. Richard Hatfield Clerk of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Clerk of the Court of Oyer and terminer in and for the City and County of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Van Orden for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Court to be affixed this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Richard Hatfield
Clerk

New York Rev. Jacob Van Arsdale
4th March 1834
Suspended letter 15 March 1834 To
Hon C.P. White Lett to Bng d Scarborn 17 Nov r 1834

28920 Rev INVALID.
File No. 26,920
Jacob Van Orden
His Rev War
Act: 1 st June 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 495
[Arrangement of 1870.]

by James L. Lawrence Esq. J. D. Cannon Hon. B. P. White Office

House of Represen s
March 5. 1834
Sir
I enclose the application of Jacob Van Arpen for a Pension which I hope will be found Correct.
With great respect
Your obed Serv t
C. B. White
J. L. Edwarde Esq r - Ve.                      Ve.                      Ve.

October 21. 1836
Pension Office
Asst G Jacob van Norden N.Y.
Attn: De Wm. Bass Brewery up stair Washington.
Pension Office

New York Oct. 17. 1834.
Hon: Ransom Ladd, Secretary of war,
It is understood that a very aged man by the name of Jacob Van Riper, has applied to the General Government to be placed upon the pension list for services performed in the war of the revolution. His fellow Soldiers are already upon the pension list, and Mr. Van Riper, intrusted his papers and his affidavit in regard to the services he performed and also his claim to a pension to a man by the name Lewis who has not received any answer, (as he says) from the department. Mr. White one of our representatives says that he has wished to do every thing to favor the claims of the old Gentleman, yet this has nothing to interest a Member of Congress, for it is different from Executive power of laws that have already passed.
The principal object of this is to to elicit the fact whether these claims were ever produced to the department by Mr. Lewis, who has had the sole control of them for forty years.
An answer to this will inceedingly oblige Your Most Obit.
Benj: Dearborn.

Clarkstown, Jan'y 8 th 1835
Hon. Sir
I herewith inclose the original Declaration of Jacob Van Oelen with the accompanying Affidavit of Claus Vanhouten and Andries Onderdonk, two respectable citizens of the County, in which is set forth the manner of the service performed by the men in Capt Tenure's company and the number of men on duty at a time as near as the recollection of the said deponents now recollect the same—
The five months service of the said Van Oelen is now supported by the testimony of James Vanderbilt (see the original Declaration) by the testimony of Gerrit Oblinis (see the latter part of the Affidavit of John Hutton and—Gerrit Oblinis annexed to his amended declaration lately sent) and by the above named accompanying Affidavit and his Militia Services by the above persons and the affidavits of George & Stephen Haely, annexed to his original declaration—
In your letter of the 5 th of December last you state that in his declaration "He alleges to have rendered two months from Spring of 1781 to the fall, and in the next paragraph sets forth the same service" if so it is an error of myn in the draft— thereof and not perceived by me or him before sworn to and forwarded, the true intent and meaning thereof was to set forth two month services in each of the years 1777-1778-1779-1780 & 1781. and one month in the year 1782. anything contrary thereto please to overlook—
His claim then will be for sixteen months service in all which I think stands as well supported by testimony as any claim presented and by giving it as early attention as possible you will oblige a poor old soldier of the Revolution
James L Edwards Esq.
I remain Respectable Sir Your Ob t Servant Daniel Pyle

Amended Declaration of Jacob Van Breden
It is
11-mo class duty too much

State of New York } ss. Rockland County }
On this fifth day of January 1835, personally appeared before the Subscriber, a justice of the Peace in and for the said County Claes Vanhouten aged 80 years and Andries Onderdonk aged 70 years, both residents in said County, who being duly sworn according to law, did Depose and say, that they were well acquainted with Jacob Van Breden (late a resident of New York formerly a resident in the said County) during the Revolutionary war, and knows that the said Jacob Van Breden did enlist at Nyack in the town of Clarkstown on or about the first of August 1776, for five months, in a company commanded by Capt Jacob Deronda in Col n A. Haske Hays Regiment, of which Regiment Gilbert Cooper was Lieutenant Col n that said the company was marched to Haverstraw, there crossed the Hudson River to Peaks hill and then went to Red Hill where they was engaged in making fortification and guarding and served until the month of January 177 1777, until the term of enlistment was expired when the said Van Breden with the rest of the company was discharged and went home—
And the said Deponants further depose and say, that the said Jacob Van Breden then resided in the beat of a company of Militia whereof Hendrick Ten Broeck was Capt n , in said Col n Hays Regiment, that early in the Spring of the year 1777, said company, by order of the Col n was classed into classes of four men each that a continual guard might be kept up to consist of the fourth part of the company at a time that each should perform his weekly tour of duty in rotation while those off of duty might have an opportunity to attend to their domestick concerns, in which capacity the said Jacob Van Breden did serve from early in the spring until winter in each of the years 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, and from Spring until September in the year 1782, and was stationed as a guard at Narrowsit Meadow at Sickle town, at Clarkstown, at Tappan town at the long and short Cloves, and along the Hudson River from Snedens Landing to Stony Point, and that the said Van Breden served not less than two months in each of the years 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, and not less than one—

month in the year 1782 — they being fellow soldiers with him in the five month service aforesaid and also served in the and belonged to the said Tench's Company —
That in the month of July 1776 the British Vessels of War first sailed up the Hudson River and anchored in said River opposite to Nyack and Haverstraw and continued therein until they for fear of the Ice sailed for New York, and every year thereafter until the month of September 1782, from as early in the Spring as the Ice would permit them to come up until as late in the fall or winter as judged prudent to lay, continued therein at different stations, and while they so lay in said river a continual guard was kept up along the same, and as they would frequently with their boats go either up or down the river and land for plunder if not prevented by the guards, which made it necessary to place guards at short distances apart along the river at Nyack from Snedens to the point of the Hook Mountain, a distance of about eight miles that said guards differed in numbers, at some places most dangerous there was generally from fifteen to twenty five men, at others from six to twelve which was commanded sometimes by the Capt. some by Lieut some by a sergeant some by a corporal, and the men belonging to Capt. Tench's Company was not always (all of them) commanded by Officers of the Company as they were stationed and officered by the Officer that had the command of the guard, but when guarding at Vanuyst Meadow at Sickle Town at Clarkstown at Tappan Town and at the long & short clove they generally were commanded by their Capt or Walter Van Orden the Lieutenant That by far the greatest part of the services as aforesaid performed by the men belonging to Capt. Tench's Company was performed along the River at Nyack aforesaid —
That they are now unable correctly to state of what number of men Capt. Tench's Company consisted of or how many men was out on guard duty at one time, as the numbers varied during the Revolutionary War, as some enlisted in the Continental line

same under Capt John Garner for two, three, and four months at a time, some under Major Lee, and some under Capt Bell which made the fourth part of the company that did duty there in to be more or less. But they are confident that the said Jacob Van Orden (who remained in said company from early in the Spring of the year 1777 until the close of the war) served not less than the time by them above set forth during the said war — Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
Claus Van Orden Andries Onderdonk
Daniel Johnson Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am acquainted with the above deponents Claus Van Orden and Andries Onderdonk and know them to be men of veracity whose statements are entitled to credit
Daniel Johnson Justice of the Peace
State of New York } Rockland County } ss
I, Abraham Hogenkamp, Clerk of the County of Rockland, Do hereby certify, That Daniel Johnson, before whom the foregoing Affidavits was taken and whose name is subscribed to the same and the above certificate, is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature subscribed to the same is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said county, this 18 th day of January 1835
Abraham Hogenkamp

State of New York Rockland County
On this twenty sixth day of November 1834 personally appeared before me Abraham D. Stephens, one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas, in and for said county, Jacob Kembleten late a resident in the City of New York, but now in the County of Rockland, who being first duly sworn according to Law, did declare and say, that he is the same Jacob Kembleten, who some time in the month of July, 1832 (to the best of his recollection) made a Declaration in Open Court, before the Judges of the Marine Court, in the City of New York, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, which Declaration was forwarded to the Commissioner of Pensions by Col n Burr or his partner Mr Lewis and returned to be amended, and after an amended declaration was made out and sworn to by him, his Declaration was again sent to the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, without the amended declaration being sent with it, as he has lately been informed, and since which time he has not been able to hear any thing respecting the same. He now prays that the Honorable the Secretary of war and Commissioner of Pensions will receive this as his amended declaration, in which he will set forth all his services during the Revolutionary war, as his memory now will enable him now to do, and hopes that every discrepancy that may appear between this and his original declaration may be contributed to the frailty of his memory. —
That on or about the first of August 1776, he enlisted at Nyack in the now county of Rockland, for five months, in a company commanded by Capt. Jacob Deronde, in a Regiment commanded by Col n A. Hawkes Hays, of which Regiment Gilbert Cooper was Lieutenant Col n who commanded the said company, and they was first marched to Haverstraw where they remained some time, and then crossed the Hudson river, to Peaks Hill and then went to Red hills, where they built a Fort, and remained there doing guard duty, until the first of January 1777, until the full term of his enlistment was expired, when he was discharged with the rest of the company and returned home. —

That early in the Spring of the year 1777. The Militia belonging in Col n A Hawks Hays Regiment was by order of the said Col n classed into classes of four men in a class so that a continual guard might be kept, to guard along the Hudson River from Snedens Landing to Stony Point, a distance of about twenty miles, and at many other places in the Now County of Rockland, and that he then belonged in a company commanded by Capt. Hendrick Tenure, in said Regiment, and was classed with the men in said company, and served not less than one week in each and every four weeks, from early in the until the month of December, and guarded at Nanmwit meadow, at Sickletown at Clarkstown, at the long Clove, and along the north river along Nyack and at Haverstraw, and served not less than two month in weekly tours, actual duty in the field, and was for a short time employed as a guide for Major Lee.
That early in the spring, in the year 1778, he was again ordered out to perform his regular tours of guard duty, and served until near the last of the year according at the stations aforesaid and at Tappan Town, and in the month of October went with Gen l M c Dugal to Schraalenberg, when he ordered to attack the British army which lay there, and served not less than two month in weekly tours in actual duty in the field.
That early in the Spring, in the year 1779, he was again ordered out to serve his tours of guard duty, and served until sometime in the month of December, guarding at the stations aforesaid, and served not less than two month in weekly tours, of actual duty in the field.
That early in the Spring, in the year 1780, he was again ordered out, to serve his regular tours of guard duty, and served until winter guarding at the stations aforesaid and served not less than two months, of actual duty in the field, in weekly tours.
That early in the Spring of the year 1781, he was again ordered out to perform his duty as aforesaid, and guarded at most of the stations aforesaid, especially along the North

1781 2-
river at Nyack from Snedens to Verelst's hook, and served not less than two months , in weekly tours in actual duty in the field.
1782 1-
That in the Spring of the year 1781, he was again called out to serve his regular tours of duty and served until the month of September, and served doing guard duty at the stations aforesaid, and served not less than One month , in actual duty in the field.
That all his services by him set forth from the Spring of the year 1777 to the close of the Revolutionary war, was in the company commanded by Capt Hendrick Tenmore, in Coln A Hewkes Hays Regiment, and his whole services was rendered as a Private Soldier .
That exclusive of the above recited services he did much other duty on alarms when all that was not stationed as guards was ordered out and was often marched to the Liberty Pole, to Schraalenberg, to Closter and other places in the State of New Jersey, which was from two to ten days at a time, and often had to serve tours of guard duty in the winter especially during the years 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780, but so many years have passed since the services was performed, and age and information has so much impaired his memory, that he is now unable correctly to state the time they were performed or the length of each tour of duty, and do duty, and doth hereby relinquish any claim therefor, and only claims to be allowed for the Sixteen Months services above specified, and declares that during the time of his performing the said recited services, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
That during about the first of July 1776 the British war vessels first sailed up the Hudson river and lay in said river in the Haverstraw and Tappan Bays until they for fear of being frozen in the ice sailed to New York, and returned every spring as soon as the ice would permit and staid until late in the fall or first of the winter until the fall of the year 1782, and during the whole time they lay in said river a guard was kept at different places along the same from Snedens Landing to Stony Point

to prevent their landing to plunder and distress the inhabitants residing along the said river.
That to his Original Declaration he had sworn as witnesses James Vanderbilt, Stephen and George Hadly and Henry Vanhorsten, by whom he is lead to believe that his five months services in 1776 under Capt d Deronde is fully specified and proven, and he will hereto annex such other testimony as he can procure to prove his services in Capt d Tenbroes company. —
That he was born in the town of Orange in the now county of Rockland, on the 11 th day of December 1750.
That the record of his age he has in his family bible copied from his fathers.
That he resided in the now town of Clarkstown in said county when he first entered the service, where he resided for 20 years, then move to Closter in the state of New Jersey where he resided three years, he then returned to his former residence where he resided three years then removed to the said town of Orange, where he resided four years, then removed to the town of Clarkstown, where he resided 4 years, then removed to the now town of Ramapo in said county, and resided there 8 years, then removed to the city of New York, and resided there 24 years, and now is now by age and infirmity unable to do any labour to support himself, and being poor he resides with his children, and remains a while with one and then with an other one of which now resides in the town of Clarkstown in the county of Rockland aforesaid. —
That his services was always voluntarily, agreeable to the classification of the company and call of his country.
That Gen l M c Dougal Gen l Clinton and Major Lee were with the troops in which he served.
That he never received a discharge in writing for any of his services. That James Vanderbilt, John Hutton, Garret O'Brien, and many other citizens of the county of Rockland, are personally acquainted with him, and have so been from his infancy and can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services.

as a Soldier of the Revolution. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me. Abm B Stephens Judge Jacob Van Orden
State of New York Rockland County ss On this twenty sixth day of November, 1834 personally appeared before me Abraham B Stephens, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said county, Garret O'Brien, aged 74 years, and John Hutton, aged 74 years, both residents in the town of Clarkstown, in said county, who being each respectively duly sworn according to law, did depose and say, that they was well acquainted with Jacob Van Orden, who has sworn to and subscribed the fore- going amended declarations, during the revolutionary war and ever since, knows that the said Jacob Van Orden did serve from the Spring of the year 1777, to the close of the said war, in a Company commanded by Capt. Hendrick Tenbroek, in Col. A. Hasbrouck's Hays Regiment, that the said Company in the Spring of the year 1777, was by order of the Col n classed in classes of four men each, that the fourth part thereof might serve where a guard was necessary — and the remainder be enabled to attend to their domestic concerns, and each to guard in his turn, that in that manner the said company served from early in the spring until winter in each of the years of 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780 & 1781 & 1782. That during the said years from Spring to winter thereof the British War vessels lay in the Hudson river oppo- sit Nyack and Haverstraw, and while they was therein a guard was kept at different places along the river at Nyack and Haverstraw, to prevent their landing to pillage the Inhabitants and take them prisoners, and a guard was kept at Nanuet Meadow, at Sackletown, at Clarkstown at Tappan Town, at the Long and Short clove, and that

The said Jacob Vanorden, did serve his regular tours of duty in the said Company doing Guard duty at the stations aforesaid, or most of them, serving from early of the in the spring until winter in each of the years aforesaid except the year 1782, in which year the guards was not regularly kept after the month of September, and are confident that the said Vanorden served not less than two months, in each of the years 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780 & 1781, and not less than one month in the year 1782, in weekly tours, in actual duty in the field, that the said deponants belonged to the same company, and served much of the time with him - and from their long acquaintance with the said Vanorden, know him to be a man of truth and veracity whose statement is entitled to credit. And the said Garret Oblenis for himself further deposeth and saith that on or about the first of August, 1776, the said Jacob Vanorden did enlist for five months in a Company commanded by Capt. Jacob Deronde, in Col o Hays Regiment and went from Nyack to Haverstraw, there crossed the Hudson River to Peekskill and then went to Red hill, where a fort was made, where the company remained until the first of January 1777, and was there discharged, that he this deponant served with him.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me
Abm B. Stephens { Judge
Garret Oblenis
John Mutton
I certify that I am well acquainted with Garret Oblenis and John Mutton the individuals sworn to the above affidavit and believe them to be men of truth and veracity whose testimony is entitled to the fullest credit. Abm B. Stephens
I, David Pye, Clerk of the County of Rockland, Do hereby certify, That Abraham B. Stephens, before whom the foregoing amended Declaration of Jacob Vanorden was sworn to and also the affidavit of Garret Oblenis and John Mutton

and whose name is subscribed to the foreat thereof, and the Certificate, is one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Rockland, duly commisi- oned and sworn according to law, and that his name— subscribed to each of them respectively is his genuine Signature. —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said County — this twenty sixth day of November, 1834
David Pyle