Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11628, Timothy Vibbard, New York

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New York
Vibbard, Timothy
S. 11628
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14846 New York
Timothy Villard of Saratoga Co in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Balanz of the Reg t commanded by Col Waterman in the New York line for 12 1/2 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 45 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 day of July 1833 — and sent A Nash Ballston Spa NY
Arrears to the 4th of Mar '33 — $ 90.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep '33 22.50
$112.50
{ Revolutionary Claim, } • { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Ino. Cromwell Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 84

Reuben
11.628 INVALID.
File No. 11.628
Timothy Tibbard Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 389
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York County of Saratoga ss.
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Saratoga Timothy Vibbard, who, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the Periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:
  9 —  In 1775-76. For Nine months \ \ \ \ \    2 1/2  I served as a private —    2  In 1776. For two months & a half month I served as a    13 7/2  private, In 1777 For two months \ \ \ \ \    I served as a private — ; and for such service I claim a Pension. Timothy Vibbard
Subscribed & sworn this 9 th day of April 1833 { Before me Isaac Robertson of the Peace
I, Alpheus Goodrich, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Saratoga. Do. Certify That Isaa Robertson before whom the above affidavit purports to have been taken, was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and Seal of office this 10 th day of April 1833
A Goodrich Clerk

Timothy Vibbard
adm'd 13½ mo pri $45 amendment case
A. Wash. agent
Ballston Spa NY

State of New York Saratoga County
On this 26 th Day of December 1832, Personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Timothy Vibbard a resident of the town of Gatsburg in the County of Saratoga and state of New York, aged eighty-two years on the twentieth Day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, 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 in the spring of 1775 (thinks in the fore part of April) he enlisted for nine months and entered the service of the United States in a company commanded by Capt. Ezekiah Building of Colonel Watermans Regiment of the New York State troops for nine months service, that he joined the said company and Regiment at New Canaan in the County of Columbia and state of New York, and marched with said company and Regiment to Albany, where said Regiment was stationed for three or four weeks, from there he marched with said Regiment by the way of Half Moon, Stillwater, and Saratoga to Fort George, at the head of Lake George, where he with the said Regiment arrived some few days after Colonel Allen had taken Ticonderoga, that he served nine months in said company and Regiment, at Albany, Fort George, and Ticonderoga when he was discharged from service.
That in the spring of 1776 he entered the service of the United States, by enlistment in a company of Volunteers commanded by the aforesaid Capt. Ezekiah Building to keep Garrison at Fort Edward, on the on the North River above Albany, he marched with said company from New Canaan aforesaid by the way of Albany, Half Moon, and Stillwater to Fort Edward, and after having served as a soldier in said company at Fort Edward for about two and a half months General Schuyler evacuated Fort Ticonderoga, and a part of General Schuyler's troops came to Fort Edward, where he with the aforesaid company of Volunteers was discharged.
At the time of his service at Fort Edward as aforesaid, there was not any field officers at Fort Edward until the arrival of Genl. Schuyler's troops from Fort Ticonderoga.

On or about the 15 th Day of August 1777 he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in a Company of Militia commanded by the aforesaid Capt. Verelst Bauding, and marched with said Company from New Canaan to Stillwater and Saratoga, and was at the capturing of Genl. Burgoyne, at which time he was in actual service (thinks) rising of two months.
He has no documentary evidence of his services, and that he knows of no Person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service, other than the one whose affidavit is herunto annexed.
The first campaign of nine months service he gives the names of Colonels Waterman, Allen and Arnold.
The second campaign of two and a half months he gives the name of General Schuyler, there was no field officer at Fort Edward until after the evacuation of the Ticonderoga by General Schuyler as aforesaid.
The third campaign of two months service at the capturing of Genl. Burgoyne he gives the names of Genl. Gates, Arnold, Starks, Col. Waterman & Capt. Bauding.
He resided in the town of New Canaan in the County of Columbia and State of New York, when he entered the service of the United States as aforesaid, and that he continued to live at New Canaan aforesaid until about forty three years since when he moved into the State Vermont, and lived in the Towns of Wilmington & Bennington for about seven years, he then moved to Waterford in the County of Saratoga and State of New York where he lived about one year, he then moved to Ballston in said County of Saratoga where he lived about six years, he then moved to Glen Village in the County of Schenectady where he lived about five years, he then moved to Broadalbin in the County of Montgomery where he lived one year, he then moved to Proctorsville in the County of Saratoga, where he lived about six years, he then moved to Galway, where he has Resided ever since.
He was born in the town of Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut on the 20 th Day of October 1758.
He has a Record of his age, which is in the possession of his son Reuben Tibbets of the town of Pownal in the County of

He was a volunteer when he entered the service of the United States as aforesaid.
He received a Discharge from his Colonel Waterman, for the nine months service, which Discharge is lost or worn out, for the other terms of service he was verbally dismissed from service by his Captain.
He gives the names of Isaac Gurney Esqrs. Gilbert Swan Esqrs. Carlton Markham, Jonathan Duganne, Ebenezer Cook and Goddington W. Swan Esqrs., to whom he is known in his present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
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 and subscribed to in open court the day & year aforesaid Wm Goodrich Dep. Clerk
Timothy Villard
We Charles McCabe a clergyman residing in the town of Milton — in the County of Saratoga and State of New York and Jonathan Duganne residing in Galway, County & State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Timothy Villard, who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration; that we believe him to be eighty two years of age; that he is respected and beloved, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed, in open court The day and year aforesaid Wm Goodrich Dep. Clerk.
Charles McCabe Jonathan Duganne

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 within named applicant, was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Charles McLean who has signed the within certificate, is a clergyman resident in the town of Milton in the County of Saratoga, State of New York, and that Jonathan Edgcomb who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Galway, and County aforesaid is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit -
I William L. Goodrich Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Timothy Vebbard for a pension -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 29th day of December 1832.
W. L. Goodrich Dep. Clerk -

State of New-York Schenectady County } ss
On the 24 th Day of September 1832 Person- ally appeared before me Henry Lovett Justice of the Peace of the town of Glenville, and County of Schenectady aforesaid. Mary Dunning a resident of the town of Glenville aforesaid, aged 59 years on the 1 st Day of May last, who being by me first Duly sworn according to law Deposeth and saith that in the fore Part of the Revolutionary war & thinks in the Year of seventeen hundred and seventy five, she lived in the family of Timothy Vibbard, whose Declaration is here in order to obtain the benefits of the act of bene- fits Passed June the 7 th 1832, is herewith annexed, that in the spring of the year aforesaid the said Timothy Vibbard enlisted as a Soldier in Capt. Hezekiah Bawdeng's Company in Co- lonel Watermans Regiment of the New-York state troops for Nine Months, that the said Timothy Vibbard shortly after his enlistment left home equipped for the Campai- gn, and as was then said for Nine months service in said Company and Regiment, and Did not return home until after the expiration of Nine months, During which time and before and after that time, she lived in the family of the said Timothy Vibbard, and this Deponent further saith that after the Nine months service of the said Timothy Vib- bard as aforesaid, the said Timothy Vibbard was at several times at after at  was gone from home for weeks and mo- nths at Different times, as was then said in the service of his Country in the war of the Revolution, and that she is now, and has been well acquainted with the said Timothy Vib- bard ever since the Revolutionary war Mary Dunning
Sworn and subscribed to this 24 th Day of September 1832 before me
Henry Lovett Justice of the Peace
I the above named Justice do certify that for twenty many years past, I have been well acquainted with Mary Dunning, who has sworn and subscribed her name to the above affidavit, and that she is of good reputation in whose truth and unpartiality full reliance can be placed.
Henry Lovett Justice

State of New York, [redacted] County ss. John S. Vrooman Clerk of the said County, do certify, that Henry Lovett Esq. 1 before whom the within Affidavit was first to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and easily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper handwriting and signature. Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 27 th day of September 1832
John S. Vrooman Clerk