Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42548, Peter Turner, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
New York
Turner, Peter.
S. 42 548
CONTENTS

901
New York
Peter Turner Private New York Line 4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 th of May 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of June 1818 and sent to the care of Garret Van Jugen Esq r Albany .
Arrears to 4th of 4 th Sept r 1818 , Semi-annual ending
3 mos 15 d 4 3/4 $ 26:35
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Van Cottandt
Matervliet Albany Co.

State of New York City of Albany
On this twenty Seventh day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred & Eighteen, before me the Subscriber, One of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Albany, Personally appears Peter Turner aged fifty Seven years, Resident in the Town of Watervliet in the County of Albany in the said State, who being by me first duly Sworn, according to law, doth, on his Oath make the following Declaration, in order to Obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for Certain Persons engaged in the land and naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary War". That the said Peter Turner enlisted in the City of Albany in the Year One Thousand seven hundred and Seventy five in the Company Commanded by Captain James Robichaud and in the Regiment of Infantry Commanded by Colonel James Livingston; that he continued to Serve in the said Caps and in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt and in the Service of the United States until the year One Thousand seven hundred and Eighty three, when he was discharged from Service at Newburgh in the State of New York where the American Army was disbanded: that he was in the Battles at Saratoga at the taking of Burgoyne, and at York Town at the taking of Cornwallis, and that he is in Reduced Circumstances and stands in need of the Assistance of his Country for Sup-

hundred and eighty three, when he was discharged from Service at Newburgh in the State of New York when the American Army was disbanded: that he was in the Battles at Saratoga at the taking of Burgoyne, and at York Town at the taking of Cornwallis, and that he is in Reduced Circumstances and stands in need of the Assistance of his Country for Support, and that he has no other Evidence now in his power of his said Services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day & Year aforesaid
Peter - his X Turner mark
Gerrit W. Lansing
I Gerrit W. Lansing Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Albany as aforesaid, do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Peter Turner did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, Pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress. — May 27 th 1818. —
Gerrit W. Lansing
I George Merchant, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Albany do hereby Certify, that Gerrit W. Lansing Esquire is one of the Judges of the said Court, and that his signature to the foregoing is of his own proper hand.

writing. In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my Name (and) affixed the Seal of the said Court of Common Pleas the 27 th day of May 1818. — George Merhake Elton

[No. 1....Declaration.]
I Peter Turner of the Town of Waterkill in the county of Albany — in the state of New-York, Do, according to the act of the Congress of the United States of America, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and "naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," make the following DECLARATION under oath, that is to say : I do solemnly declare , that I am a resident citizen of the United States, to wit, in the town, county and state aforesaid, and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support. I do further declare , that I was a private soldier — in the War of the Revolution , and that I served as such in the said war of the revolution, against the common enemy, until the end of the said war,
That I belonged to the company commanded by Captain Smith in Col. Philip Van Cortlandts — regiment, and in the line of the State of New York . And I do further declare, that I entered the said service the  some time in the year — one thousand seven hundred and Seventy five — and left the said service on the  in the year — one thousand seven hundred and  Eighty three — having left the same by reason of my being honorably discharged therefrom, at the termination of the said Revolutionary War.
And I do further declare, that I hereby relinquish all claim to every and any Pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, or of any individual state. Witness my hand, this tenth — day of April — in the year one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen .
WITNESS
W. H. Mercer W. H. Livingston
Peter Turner mark
[No. 2....Judge's Certificate.]
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } To wit : COUNTY OF ALBANY, }
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the tenth — day of April — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen at the city of Albany, in the county of Albany, and state of New-York, before me Gerrit H. Lansing — Esquire, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas — in and for the County of Albany in the said state, duly appointed, qualified and sworn, (the same Court being one of the Courts of Record of the said state) personally came and appeared, the before named applicant Peter Turner — who resides in the town, county, and state mentioned in the above declaration, and in my presence subscribed the foregoing Declaration ; and also before me then and there he was duly sworn to the truth of the facts contained and set forth in the said declaration.—And it appearing to my satisfaction, as well from the said declaration under oath, as from such other evidence as was in the power of the said applicant to produce, that the said applicant served in the Revolutionary War as aforesaid, against the common enemy, and that the declaration aforesaid under oath of the said applicant is in all other respects true, I do therefore certify and transmit the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, according to the requisitions of the act of Congress in that case made. Given under my hand and seal at the city of Albany , in the state of New-York, the day and year first above mentioned in this certificate.
Gerrit H. Lansing

two sets of declarations supposed to be the same person, Cert: N o 2955, inclosed with N o 901, issued & transmitted.

42 5 48
Rev INVALID.
File No. 42, 5 48
Peter Farmer
Ph. New York
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Box:—Vol. 8 , Page 577
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1833 L c Van Klief Esquire Washington City

Rec'd 11 Nov 1830.
2220
L. L. V. Kluck Esq.
Albany 2 d Nov. 1830.
Dear Sir
An old revolutionary Soldier by the name of Peter Turner has applied to me some assistance it appears that he gave John Ogden Dey of Albany a Power of Attorney to receive his pension, dated 22 nd September last for his pay since 1826. - Turner has repeatedly called upon this answer is that he has not received an answer I called upon him this morning with Turner, his answer was that he had not rec d . an answer from Washington. - Turner is of opinion that he has rec d . the money - Will you my dear Sir have the goodness to call at War & Treasurers office & make the necessary enquiry, and let me know the result - if he should not have rec d . the money there should be an error in the Papers you will please to note it - your answer directed to me at Albany will confer a particular favor. We have a busy time of it at our post - we shall do well I have just heard from my old County. (Rensselaer). That as well as our will do well - Yours. in haste
Jeremiah Schuyler

Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Cons d
with
Invalid file
# 42.548
Apr 15th
by the sum

V. Revolutionary Claims The Honorable Samuel D. Ingham Secretary of Treasury Washington City D. C.

War Department, Pension Office. November 11, 1830
Sir, I herewith return the memorandum in the case of Peter Turner. No claim of this man has yet been presented at this Department. I presume that it is one of the cases which arise under the act of May 15, 1828. Perhaps Mr. Dickens, or some one in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, may give you the information required for Judge Hasward.
I am, respectfully, Your Obedt. Servt. J. S. Edwards
John Moore Esq. Chief Clerk. General Land Office.

Mr. Dickins will oblige me by giving me the required in- formation, as desired in the within memorandum to Gen. Van Rensselaer and E. Haysard
Nov. 11.

Albany. 22 d October 1830.
The Honorable Samuel D. Ingham. Secretary of the Treasury Department.
Sir
About 5 or 6 weeks ago I forwarded to your address. an application, & Power of Attorney of Peter Turner a Revolutionary Soldier, to be placed on the Pension List and to receive the back pension that may due him. The Application was made under the act of Congress passed 15 th May 1828. and the application sent to your Department in conformity to directions issued from thence. Not having heard from your Department any thing relating to this business, I addressed another letter to you a fortnight since, on the subject. to which an answer has also not been received. I am impertuned almost daily on this subject, in consequence of not hearing from you. I am fearful that the first letter addressed to you on the subject has in some way miscarried or been overlooked and consequently. this and the importunity I am accosted with, must be my apology for addressing you again on the subject - I am Sir
Yours. Respectfully. John Ogden Dey

Albany April 13. 1818.
The Honorable Secretary of the War Department,
Sir,
The inclosed Vouchers are forwarded to the War Department, for the purpose of procuring the applicant named in them, to be placed on the Pension List. —
Be pleased, Sir, to forward to me, as soon as possible, the certificate of the application being granted. —
I have the honor to be,
Very Respectfully,
Your most obedient Servant
J. A. Van Ingen Agent for the Applicant.

Septm 27 th 1830 and Nov 13 th

No 27 Sept 1830.
2152
Albany 22 d September. 1830
Honorable S. D. Ingham
Secretary of Treasury
Sir
accompanying this. you have application and declaration of Peter Turner a Soldier of the Revolutionary Army, for a claim of Pension. with a Power of attorney to myself to draw the money that may be due him - The cause of this late application is the ignorance of the claimant as to his right of a Pension - Should there be any defect in any part of the papers you will be good enough to state what they are and send particular instructions for our government -
I am
Sir
Yours Respectfully
John G. Lundy

(2955.)
New York 4
Master Turner Private Capt Smith New York line — 1775 — 8 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York — at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 10th of April 1818 —
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of Septem r 1818 and sent to James Van Inden Albany New York —
Arrears to 4th of Septem r 1818 } 38.66 2 mo 25/30 Semi-ann. acct ending 4 March 1819 40. $ 88.66
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
✓ Naturalist Albany Co

Revolutionary Pension Claim of.
Peter Turner. of the New York Line of the Revolutionary Army

Power of Attorney.
Know all Men by these presents that I Peter Turner of the Town of Waterlool in the County of Albany in the State of New York do hereby constitute and appoint John Ogden Dey my true and lawful Attorney with a power of Substitution, for me and in my name to receive from the United States, the amount of pay now due me under the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution approved 15 th May 1828. as a Fifer in the second regiment of the New York line of the army of the revolution. Witness my hand and seal this Twenty second day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of Jeremias Schuyler Cuyler Staats.
Peter his Turner mark.
Before me Cuyler Staats a commissioner of Deeds duly empowered to take acknowledgements in the County of Albany in the State of New York. Personally appeared this day. Peter Turner whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney, and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed. Witness my hand this twenty second day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty.
Cuyler Staats
Comfr. Deeds.
J. C. A. Ten Eyck Clerk of the Court of the County of Albany in the State of New York do hereby certify that by Cuyler Staats. before whom the foregoing power of attorney was acknowledged as a Commissioner of Deeds. In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 22 nd day of September in the year one thousand eight & thirty.
J. C. A. Ten Eyck clerk

Before me Guylus Staats a Commissioner of Deeds duly empowered to administer oaths &c in the County of Albany in the state of New York personally appeared this day John Ogden Dey the attorney named in the foregoing annexed power of Attorney, and made oath, that the same was not given to him, by reason of any transfer or of any attachment, levy or seizure, by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorised to be received but that the said pay is intended to enure wholly to the personal benefit of the person by whom the said power was executed. Witness my hand this twenty second day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty.
Before me Guylus Staats a Commissioner of Deeds duly empowered to administer oaths &c in the County of Albany in the state of New York personally ap- peared this day Jemimah Schuyler and Stephen P. Schuyler of the said County, who did severally make oath that Peter Turner , by whom the foregoing declaration and power of attorney was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a Soldier in the capacity of a Fifer in the Army of the revolution in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this twenty second day of September in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Guylus Staats.
Comf. Deeds.
J. Conrad V. Ten Eyck Clerk of the Court of the County of Albany in the state of New York. do hereby certify that Guylus Staats before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Commissioner of Deeds. duly empowered to administer oaths &c.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand. and affixed the Seal of the said Court. This twenty second day of September in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty C. A. Ten Eyck clerk

1904 Revolutionary Pension Claim
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution approved on the 15 th day of May 1828. I Peter Turner of the Town of Watervliet — in the County of Albany and State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the War and continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a Hiker in Captain Smith's Company of the Second Regiment of the New York line. And I also declare that I afterwards received a Certificate for the reward of Eighty Dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15 th day of May 1778. And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March or (May) 1828. on the pension list of the United States
Signed in the presence of. ? Jeremiah Schuyler
Peter his Turner mark.
Before me Guylers Staats a Commissioner of Deeds duly empowered to administer oaths in the County of Albany in the State of New York. Personally appeared, this day Jeremiah Schuyler and Stephen P. Schuyler of the said County, who did severally make oath that Peter Turner by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a Hiker in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this Twenty Second day of September in the year 1830.
Guylers Staats Comp Deed!

4 I, Conrad V. Ten Eyck, Clerk of the Court of the County of Albany in the State of New York do certify that Gayler Staats before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Commissioner of Deeds, and duly empowered to ad- minister oaths
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed fixed the Seal of the said Court this twenty second day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
C. A. Ten Eyck clerk

Payable 4 March & 4 th Septm r in each year Pr. Bk - U.S. New York

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the March 1818 Peter Turner — late a Private — in the New York line of the Revolutionary Army is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of eight dollars cents per month, to commence on the tenth — day of April — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this twenty fifth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War

No. of Original Application 1069 Revolutionary Claims.
1904
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
4 Dec 1830.
Peter Turner — of Watervliet — in the county of Albany — in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Fifer ————— in captain Smiths —————'s company, in the Second regiment of the New York line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary. F. A. Dickinson.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
7 th December 1830
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to ————— in the —————
It further appears that Peter Turner ————— is now on the pension list of the any ————— agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month.
The name of Peter Turner cannot be found among those of the 2 nd Regiment of the New York line, to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued —————
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On a re-examination of the certificates issued to the 2 nd Reg t of the New York line it appears that one for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars, was issued in the name of Peter Turner. 3 d Aud to Office.