Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10968, Jacob Vosburgh, New York

SERVICE
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New York
Vosburgh, Jacob
R. 10968
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Acts of July 14, 1902, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
10,968
P. O. Jacob Vosburgh
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Jacob Vosburgh New York Oct 7 June 1832 Rejected letter to H. B. Sturgis No. 24 '32
Revo: Oct 7. June 32

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Jacob Vosburgh
NY
July 28 PM
Office 3 N 2575
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10968

State of New York Albany County } ss
On this 21 st day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Albany now sitting Jacob Vosburgh a resident of the City of Albany in the County of Albany and State of New York aged Seventy 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 th 1832. That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as here in stated. In the Summer of 1779 he was enrolled as a Volunteer & private in a Company of Militia and marched from the City of Albany where he resided (taking what was called the old Johaharie road) to Schoharie County and was stationed at the old stone church then used as and called the upper fort. No regular troops were stationed here. He was absent on duty one month. The only officers he can now recollect were Major Van Buren & Lieutenant Levinus Winne. And he further declares that in the Summer of 1780 he was again enrolled as a Volunteer private in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt Jacob Laursing and marched taking the same route as before from Albany to Schoharie and was again stationed at the upper fort. He saw no regular troops here. He was absent a month. His other officers as now recollected were Col Philip Schuyler and Major Abraham Tonda. And he further declares that in the Summer of 1781 he was again enrolled as a Volunteer and private in Captain Jacob Laursings Company of Militia and went to Schoharie & was again stationed
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at the upper fort. He does not recollect seeing any regular troop was absent one month and the only other officer at this time he recollects was Major Abraham Fonda And he further declared that in the summer of 1782 he was again enrolled as a volunteer and private in Capt Jacob Lansing's Company of militia and marched from Albany by the way of Schenectady Fort Hunter and the other places on the Mohawk river to Fort Plain that after having been here a month and better went to Boormans Creek where he remained near a month longer and then returned home having been absent two months and more. The names of his other officers as now recollects by him were Major Abraham Fonda & Lieutenant Levinus Winne. In giving the names of the officers for each of the above times that he was enrolled and turned out he may owing to the lapse of time since those services were performed have fallen into some mistake but as to the services themselves he speaks positively and unequivocally and declares that they were performed And he further declares that he was during the whole of the revolution when at home called upon every week and frequently three times in a week either to stand guard for the protection of the City at night or when duty were given to turn out or to attend the drills which were so numerous at this period And that these services last-mentioned thus rendered would taken together be equal to at least four months militia duty. And he further declares that the services above rendered by him amount to Nine Months duty. And he further declares that he was born in the City of Albany in the County of Albany State of New York in the year 1762 that he has resided in the said City ever since and that the only record he has of his age is contained in his family Bible. He has no documentary evidence of his

aforsaid Services and never had any. That the aforesaid officers are to the best of his knowledge and belief all dead and if not he is unacquainted with their places of residence and that there is no person now living to his knowledge who can testify to his said services or any part thereof except what has been sworn to by Abrah and Fosburgh whose affidavits accompany this his declaration. 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 or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of New York.
Sworn to & subscribed the day Jacob Fosburgh
year aforesaid
J. G. Watson Clk
WE Isaac Ferris a (long) man residing in the city of Albany and Anthony Sanford residing in the same place here by certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Fosburgh who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy 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 & subscribed the day
year aforesaid
J. G. Watson Clk
Isaac Ferris
Anthony Van Sanford
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further

Certifies that it appears to them that Isaac Lewis  Jacob Vorburgh who has signed the preceding Certificate is a clergyman resident in the City of Albany and that Melkum Sampson who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
I John G. Watson Clerk of the Court of Justice of the City of Albany do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jacob Vorburgh for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of our Justice Court office this day of one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
John G. Watson Clerk
State of New York
Albany County } ss Abraham Vorburgh being duly sworn deposes and saith that he is acquainted with Abraham Jacob Vorburgh of the City of Albany and has heard the foregoing declaration of the said Jacob Read & knows that the stories therein mentioned as having been rendered by the said Jacob in 1782 as one of the Motives of the State of New York were so rendered by the said Jacob and that he the said Abraham belonged to the same company and was with him at the same time
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid J. G. Watson Clerk
Abraham by Vorburgh mark
We the undersigned Justices of the Justice

Court of the City of Albany do hereby certify that on the twenty first day of July Eighteen hun- dred and thirty two personally appeared before us, in open court Abraham Verburgh the witness named in who made the foregoing affidavit of services rendered by Isaac Verburgh in the above statutory war that we are acquainted with him and that he is entitled to credit and that he made his mark in signing said affidavit because he had never been taught to write
S. G. Watson Clk
Gerrit S. Dorr C. H. Mear
Judges of the Superior Court