Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,905, Hendericus Van Wagenen, New York

New York
Van Wagener Hendericus
P 10,905
CONTENTS

Wendreich Van Buren
N. York
Swan and
Lot to J. V. Gausback
Oct 18. '34
Hon John Thompson
May 26, 1858.
Rev Jeremiah Eckert. P3237
10905
Act 7. June 3. 2

House of Representatives - Washg. May. 19. 1838.
Hon D.C. Whitney Chair of Pensions
Will you inform me whether Heinrich Van Wigen of Esopus. Ulster Co. N.York, is on the Pension list & Entitled to receive it &c. -
His friends suppose he is, but for some reason he gets nothing Application was made in 1832 or 3. -
Truly Yours R. Thompson Me

Acts of July 14, 1866, and March 3, 1873.
10,905
P. O. Hendrickson Regt.
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 REJECTED
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Declaration,
IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF THE 7th JUNE, 1832.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, COUNTY OF Ulster } ss.
On this Sixth day of September in the year one thousand Eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County of Ulster aforesaid, now sitting, Hendricus Van Wagener a resident of the town of Eoopus in said County, aged Seventy Three 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.
 1 st In answer to the first interrogatory he says - That he was born in the town of Hudson , County of Ulster and State of New York on the 27 th day of September 1760 -  2 nd That the Record of his age is contained in the book of baptismal Records of the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church of the town of Hudson aforesaid -  3 rd That at the time he was called into service he lived in the said town of Hudson , County and State aforesaid - Has lived there since the Revolutionary war, and now lives in the town of Eoopus in said County & State -  4 th That he volunteered into the United States Service -  5 th There were no Regular Officers nor Continental troops where he served.  6 th He never he received a written discharge, but was verbally dismissed at the End of his service - 
And the said Hendricus Van Wagener declares that in the year 1778 he served as a Volunteer and private soldier in the revolutionary war for the term of Nine months and more in the Company commanded by Captain Philip Swart Lieutenants Van Aken and Teer penning and Ensign Osworth all of whom are now dead in Colonel Paulings Regiment, that he has no documentary evidence thereof that this service was performed at Warsing , Shandaken , Woodstock , & Hudson some part with the Captain, and the rest under the Subalterns, at the above different frontier posts in Ulster County .
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 any Agency in any State.
Sworn to and Subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Hendricus Van Wagener
Samuel St. John James L. ... Henry ... } Judges

WE, Benjamin Van Keuren a Clergyman, residing in the town of Esopus in the County of Ulster and State of New-York, and Marius Van Aken of the same town, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Hendricus Van Wagener who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy three 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. }
B. Van Keuren Marius Vanaken
Samuel Stillwell Charles Leake Henry Wynkoop Judges
CERTIFICATE OF THE COURT.
The Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ulster in the State of New-York, sitting this tenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred thirty four at the court-house in Kingston in said County, do hereby declare their opinion, after 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 Benjamin Van Keuren who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Esopus in the County aforesaid, and that Marius Van Aken who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Samuel Stillwell Charles Leake Henry Wynkoop Judges
I, Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Ulster in the State of New-York, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Hendricus Van Wagener for a Pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this tenth day of September 1834
Jacob Snyder

State of New York, etc.
In the matter of the Application of
Minimus
Of Hendricus Van Wagenen
J. V. Gaasbeek Esq. Agent-
Stuyvesant

State of New York Ulster County
ss p: Jeremiah Bickert of the town of Esopus in said County aged 73 Years a Soldier of the Revolution, being duly sworn deposes & says that he is well acquainted with Hendreus Van Wagener, a Soldier of the Revolution, and now an applicant for a pension, that this deponent was in the service of the United States, in the Revolution ary war and was in the company of infantry com- manded by Captain Philip Swart. Lieutenants Hendreus Fursuming & Abraham G. Van Alen & Lieutn Theophilus Bloworth all of whom are now dead in Colonel Pawling's Regiment & well knew the said Hendreus, that the said Hendreus belonged to the same company and Regiment with this deponent, that this depo- nent saw the said Hendreus in said service for some months or more in the year 1778 and knows that the said Hendreus continued to serve in said caps in the capacity of a private soldier until he was discharged, and this deponent says that he always understood that the said Hendreus volunteered for the said term of service above mentioned -
Subscribed & sworn this 21 st day of July 1834 Before me J. V. Gausbeck Justice of the peace
his Jeremiah Bickert
Ulster County ss: I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Jeremiah Bickert who has sworn to the above affidavit before me, that he is a person of truth and veracity & that his statement is entitled to credit -
J. V. Gausbeck for A. Pease

State of New York
Ulster County Clerks office Esq: I. Jacob Bryde Clerk of the County of Ulster and Clerk of the Court of Commonpleas of Ulster County do hereby Certify that Peter Van Gesselbeck Junior Esquire was on the day of the date of the within affidavit a Justice of the peace in and for the said County duly authorized to take affidavits &c and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe his signature sub- scribed to the Certificate to the within affidavit to be genuine In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court and County this tenth day of September 1834.
Jacob Bryde

Benj. Hayter V. J. A. - Hayter Power of Attorney Hendrick Van Wagener New York
Filed 28th Sept
Paid M. V. Wheeler
J. C. Nassau Present

POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
STATE OF New York
COUNTY OF Ulster
Be it known that before me
M c Wheeler a Justice of the Peace of said County personally appeared Henry Van Wykoven Mary Van Klief & Hannah Cole only surviving and heirs of Hendrickus Van Wykoven deceased who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that they are the only heirs of Hendrickus Van Wykoven now deceased who was a revolutionary soldier as they believe in the State of New York - and that he died on the 24 day of March 18 39 and that our mother, named Margaret who died on the first day of December 18 42 and that they were married on the 30 day of November in the year 17 82 and that they were residents of the town of Epoufette in the State of New York and that they resided there all their lives died there and that their Deponent resides in said town of Espopus and that furthermore that we BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of substitution, F. E. HASSLER, of Washington city, D. C., as our true and lawful Attorney for us and in our names and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government and State officers our rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land that may be due us as heirs at law of Hendrickus Van Wykoven who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law they may be entitled.
In witness whereof, they have on this 6 day of September 1852, hereunto signed our names and affixed our seals,
Witness: M c Wheeler Witness: Catherine Shayler
Henry Van Wykoven Mary Van Klief Hannah Cole
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify, that Henry Van Wykoven, Mary Van Klief & Hannah Cole have always by the community been known as the children of Hendrickus Van Wykoven now deceased and that I have known the family more than thirty years Dated on this sixth day of September 1852.
M c Wheeler J. P.
State of New York County of Ulster } to wit: State of New York & County of Ulster  ss
I hereby certify, That M c Wheeler Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of aforesaid County Court, this fourteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
John G. Montanye Clerk.
* If a Widow applies, state "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband." † State under what act pensioned, or when pension commenced, if a pensioner—and amount of pension.