Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,909, Thomas Van Woert, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Van Woert, Thomas Diana
R. 10,909
CONTENTS

No 14.480
Diana Van Woert widow of Thomas N.Y.
Act 7. July 1838.
To Jas Mullen. Dec 29/57
10909

10,909
P. O. Diana Vanvoerd
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____ REJECTED _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

State of New York } In this seventh day of Town of Athens } December A. D. one thousand County of Greene } eight hundred and fifty, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid Diana Van Woert aged seventy seven years, a resident of Athens in the State of New York; who being duly sworn according to law, declares, that she is the widow of Thomas Van Woert de- ceased, who was a private in the war of the Revolution. That her said husband enlisted at Albany on the first day of April A. D. one thousand seven hundred and seventy- seven for the term of nine months and served under Colonel Ganservoort in the defence of Fort Stanwix in the campaign of that year, and continued in actual service in said war, for the term of his enlistment and was honorably discharged at Albany on the first day of January A. D. one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight; which discharge has unhappily been lost since his decease.
She further states that she was married to the said Thomas Van Woert in Athens, on or about the twentieth day of June A. D. one thousand seven hundred and ninety, by one Thomas Dumunn a clergyman and that her name before her said marriage was Diana Murphy, that her said husband died at Athens, on the seventeenth day of December, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, and that she is still a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the pension to which she may be entitled under the act, which was passed July 7, 1838, entitled her "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" Diana Van Woert Mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
James Muller - Justice of the Peace, The deponent could not write her name had no Education James Muller Justice

STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss. Greene County Clerk's Office. }
James Mullen deposition
I, JACOB VAN ORDEN, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that
before whom the annexed
was made, and whose name is thereto subscribed, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized to take the same, and that the signature thereto subscribed is genuine.
WITNESS my hand and official seal, at Catskill, this 10th day of Oct 1851
J Van Orden Clk

State of New York County of Greene Town of Athens
On this twelfth day of December A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid; William Hollenbeck a resident of Coxsackie in the State of New York; who duly sworn according to law: Says that he was present at the time stated in the foregoing affidavit of Diana Van Woert and saw her married to Thomas Van Woert by the Rev. Thomas Dumunn. And deponent further says - that of his own personal knowledge he knows the aforesaid Thomas Van Woert to have been the very identical Revolutionary soldier set forth in the foregoing deposition, and that he served as therein stated - and further the deponent saith not.
his William X Hollenbeck mark
and subscribed to before me, the day and year aforesaid. James Mullen Justice of the Peace.
Perhaps the department will inquire why an earlier application for this has not been made - if so - the following is offered as a sufficient reason: Thomas Van Woert, has taken preliminary steps for applying in his own name under the act of June 17th, 1832 which he was seized by the disease which after some eighteen or twenty months carried him to his grave - his wife being illiterate and poor could do nothing for herself and could not find anyone to interest themselves on her behalf accordingly she did not make any effort to get the pension to which she was entitled on account of the services of her husband until 1880 when a neighbor of hers obtained a widow's pension - this induced her to collect what testimony it was in her power to obtain at this late day, and after all has been prepared for nearly a year, she has only been induced by her necessities to consent to lay her claims before the department.
Dated Athens Sept. 11th, 1887
James Mullen - - Justice of the peace