Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 11968, Henry Young, N.Y. New York Residence Of Widow In 1838

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Young, Henry Mary
11968
New York residence of widow in 1838
CONTENTS

Claim of Act of
STATE OF New York } ss. COUNTY of Rensselaer }
Be it known, That on this twentieth day of January A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty two , before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace  Commissioner of Deeds in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mrs. Mary Young a resident of Troy in said County, and made oath according to law that she is the Identical widow of Henry Young (deceased)
who was a Revolutionary Pensioner  Soldier
at the rate of _____ Dollars per annum; that she has been informed that the said Pension ought to be allowed that she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me.
E Bell  J. Peace. Commissioner of Deeds Rensselaer County N.Y. Troy Edward A. Bell Commissioner of Deeds
Mary X. Young mark
Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Mrs. Mary Young who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
E Bell  J. Peace. Commissioner of Deeds Troy
I, _____ Clerk of the _____ Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that _____ before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is _____ signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this _____ day of _____ A. D. 185 _____
Clerk.

POWER OF ATTORNEY—Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Mrs Mary Young widow of Henry (Deceased)
hereby constitute and appoint D. L. & S. A. Peugh of Washington City my true and lawful Agents and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of Henry Young (Deceased) for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agents to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, with Certificate of death made payable to
to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my hand and Seal this 20 th day January
A. D., 1852.
her Mary X Young mark
Signed and Sealed in the presence of }
E Bell Henry Young
Mary Young widow of Henry Young deceased 20th Jan 52
By D. L. & S. A. Peugh Jan 30-52
STATE OF New York COUNTY OF Rensselaer } ss:
On this twentieth day of January A. D. 1852 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace  Commissioner of Deeds in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Mrs Mary Young and acknowledged the foregoing Power, of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, } the day and year aforesaid.
E Bell  Justice of the Peace Commissioner of Deeds Troy

STATE OF NEW-YORK, RENSSELAER COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, } ss.
I, HENRY A. CLUM, Clerk of the County of Rensselaer, do hereby Certify that E Bell whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, one of the Commissioners of Deeds of the County of Rensselaer, dwelling in said County; duly authorized to take such proof or acknowledgment. And that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Commissioner, and verily believe that his signature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine, and that said Instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New-York.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the seal of said County, this
20th day of January
A. D. 1852
H. A. Clum Clerk.

Frog Jan 26 th 1839
Sir,
In compliance with your orders I have applied to the Widow Mary Youngs and obtained her Family Record and here enclose to you, as you stated the proof of Marriage was not altogether satisfactory I hope this may prove sufficient to remove all difficulty and that the widow may receive the Pension that was lawfully due her Husband, I had previously examined the Church Records of the German Lutheran Minister who married them and could not find it on the Records but I am satisfied that the Records of that year (a season of great confusion) were not particularly attended to, for I found that there was very few names recorded that year not one to ten that there were in previous years - perhaps only those that were married at his house I had occasion to examine the Records of the Lutheran and Low Dutch Church Records at Albany for to establish the marriage of two widows and found there the same neglect - Rev. Mr Myers of Lutheran Church there told me the Records of his predecessors were very imperfect that under the colonial government they were not bound to keep a particular Record, it was a voluntary thing and when they went abroad to marry they rarely were Recorded I send you the best evidence I can possibly obtain with regard to the Officers he served under the old people are all dead (his contemporaries) I found but one man that knew any thing about it, in Albany County he was eighty years and upwards he knew Henry Young well and remembered seeing him at Schoharie on an expedition of three months and he was on the same but belonged to another corps but could not tell who his Officers were he being a cripple and for years confined to his chair could not walk I found it so difficult to move him to Albany for his affidavit that I abandoned it thinking it would not amount to any thing nor establish any thing more than Mr Myers testifies to, nor so much for Mr Myers was more in service and did more duty than any man in both Regiments - he did duty for three men his Father Capt Van Buren he lived with besides his own, and was out on nearly every expedition during the war - with regard to widow Youngs credibility as a witness in her own right I refer you to Hon. Mary Wail M.C. John Barrows -

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Claims —————
Washington. D.C.

To the Hon. James P. Edwards Commissioner of Claims
The Petition of Mary Young widow of Henry Young deceased a Soldier, of the Revolution Respectfully sheweth that she is the Lawful widow of the said Henry Young that her husband died before the act for granting Pensions, that he would have been a Recipient under the second act had he lived and prays that she may receive the Pension that would have been his had he lived from the time of the passage of the act and as in duty bound will ever pray —
Mary Young
Troy Sept. 17 th 1838

Sept 21
1742 NY 7 July 1838
Rev. James J. Edwards
Commissioner of Pension Claims
Washington
116611
Mary Brown
NY
1742

Sept. 17 1898
Sir,
I enclose you the vouchers to prove the military duty of Henry Young in the war of the Revolution, they are the best that can be obtained at this period, there are so few yet living that breasted the storm the first of the war, and of those few, many have their minds so impaired by age that you can get nothing particular or satisfactory, in this section the Militia Duty, was very arduous, the Frontier at the west was continually harassed, by Indians and Tories, and Militia were were continually being called on for its defence from the beginning of the war - The widow in this case as I stated in my testimony and all her connections are very respectable and so was her Husband in his lifetime - and there is not a shadow of doubt in this community of the oldest people that lived at time of her lawful marriage - her Uncle's Family I knew well they were of the first for Respectability on Albany Flats, & I know they are all dead -
Yours Respectfully John Barrows
Please address me Troy
Directed to the Hon. Henry Vail M.C.
P.S. The officiating Clergyman of the first Presbyterian Church being absent on a Journey for his health the oldest officer of the Church certified for her -

11.968
P. O. _____
Mary Young
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
REJECTED
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: List of suspended claims printed in 185-2 Shows cause
Re-enlisted: of suspension as follows: "For further proof + specification."
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

John Curran,
8 Nov. 1838
O. L.

War Department Pension Office Nov 8. 1898
Sir. The papers of Mrs Mary Young, widow of Henry Young have been examined and filed - There is no satisfactory evidence in relation to the claimants marriage; The bible leaf containing the family record should be transmitted to this office - In order to further investigation the names of the officers under whom the services of the claimants husband was rendered must be given -
John Barrows Esq, Troy N.Y.

1742
✓ N. York N. 1742 Mary Young of Ham litt to John Barrow N. 38 Copy returned sa let. to Ham. H. Date 8. March 1859.
Act 7 th July 1858

Hon. H. Vail
8. March 1839
OL

War Department Pension Office
March 28, 1839
Sir The papers of Mrs Mary Young whose claim is referred to in the enclosed letter are herewith returned. The claimant is required to renew her declaration in the manner prescribed by the regulations of the Department copies of which are herewith enclosed and designate the act under which it is intended to apply for a pension. The part of the bible leaf purporting to contain the family record from which that enclosed was taken should be transmitted to this office under the papers and authenticated by a credible witness who can say how long it has contin been in the family. The witness It should be made to appear likewise, by the certificate of the Rev. Mr. Wattwage & his successor that the records of the church marriage in which under the furnish no evidence of the claimant's before secondary proof can be admitted; The witness Asahel Myers should be certified credible by the Magistrate before whom he was sworn. Mr. Myers states that the claimant was drafted for nine months and that he found a tour of three months &c. In view of further investigation as to the names of the officers and the period an indispensably necessary
Yours Truly H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H.