Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10946, Cornelius Vedder, New York

SERVICE
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New York
Vedder, Cornelius Harriet
R. 10946
B.Y. Wt. 43.513-160-55.
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212032 Act Mar 37 Sept 13 th /38
Harriet Vedder via Cornelius Vedder dec Ohio
at Garrit V Bucklin - Col. Frank Fisher 4357 5 NY. Mil-
Private NY. Mil-
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Ad. 160 acc Sept 11/56 Dodge
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35.357 Flaminius Kidder pension papers
NY.
acq 7. June 32
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H. S. M. Gates ATR

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832
State of New York } County of Wyoming } ss-
On this Nineteenth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty One personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Wyoming aforesaid now sitting Carmel Nedder a Resident of the Town of Cattle in the County of Wyoming and State of New York aged Eighty one 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, 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated -
That in the fore part of May in the year 1776 he entered the service as a volunteer at Albany in the State of New York for the term of One year - he did not join or unite with any company or Regiment but volunteered under Captain Aaron Van Duzer at Albany aforesaid and the next day after he so volunteered at Albany he was put into the magazine room or elaboratory to making Cartridges in Albany aforesaid under the said Aaron Van Duzer and David Fandy who super- intended the making of Cartridges - He drew his rations out of the store owned by Jeremiah Wendell and John Fisher was quarter master. He worked at making Cartridges in Albany aforesaid for the term of One year which was the fore part of May 1777 and was then discharged

but received no written discharge - He was dis- charged by the said Aaron Van Breezer - Then the next day after he was so discharged he volunteered again under the said Aaron Van Breezer but for no particular period and continued on making cartridges at Albany aforesaid for the term of five months longer from the first of May 1777 till the fore part of October 1777 - That he served in the last period the full term of five months and was then in the fore part of October 1777 dis- charged by the said Aaron Van Breezer, but received no written discharge - That he ser- ved in the whole just one year and five months as above stated at Albany aforesaid in making cartridges for the United States - That he was born in Albany aforesaid on the thirteenth day of March in the year 1760 - That when he was called into service he lived in Albany aforesaid - That since the Revo- lutionary war he has lived in Brunswick New York - Canajoharie, Schoharie, Schoharie County - Catskill New York and that he now lives in Otter aforesaid That he was called into service as a volun- teer - Colonel Van Schraeck's Regiment was stationed in Albany when he was in the service - He was acquainted with the said Colonel and Abraham Ten Eyck his paymaster - He also knew Colonel Willet and Colonel Gansvoort - That he never received a written discharge - That he has no documentary evidence of his service and that he does not know of any person now living by whom he can prove his service - The names of the persons in my neighbourhood to whom I am known

are Colonel V. Spencer - Josiah Smith Ephraim Whaley and Salmon Wheat who can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution - That his name was called every day and generally by the said Colonel Van Duzer and when he was absent, the said David Fundy called the Roll and this Declarant answered to his name every day - That a guard was kept around the building night and day and his name was on the Roll of the said Colonel Van Duzer - That he be- longed to no Regiment as he ever knew for he was never embarked in any Regi- ment to his knowledge as his whole busi- ness was in making carriages as aforesaid - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the pres- ent and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State - On reflection he thinks he can prove part of his services by living witnesses
Sworn to and Subscribed S  his  Cornelius  X  Vedder the day and year aforesaid J mark Said in open court J N. Wolcott Clerk

We Salmon Wheat a clergy man Resident in the Town of Warsaw in the County of Wyoming and Conrad V Spencer residing in the Town of Athens in the said County of Wyoming do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Cornelius Viddon who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Eighty one years of age; that he is reputable and biliable in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Salmon Wheat
Conrad V Spencer
Sworn to and Subscribed This 19 th day of October 1841 in Open Court N. Wolcott Clarke
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 above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states - And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Salmon Wheat who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the Town of Warsaw and that Conrad V Spencer is a credible person and their statement is entitled to credit -

I Nelson Wolcott Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original pro- ceedings of the County of Wyoming do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Cornelius Velder for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this nineteenth day of October in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty one
N. Wolcott Clerk
State of New York Wyoming County }
ss. Isaac Smith of the Town of Athens in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he has lived in said Town twenty seven years and is seventy nine years of age next March and that during the Revolutionary War he resided in Ulster County in the State of New York and that he is now a pensioner for Revolutionary services - And further this Deponent has lived a near neighbor to Cornelius Velder the foregoing Applicant for a pension named in the declaration for a pension herunto annexed for ten years and that the said Velder is a man of strict truth and veracity - And further this Deponent saith that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven in the month of July or August he this Deponent was at Albany and went into the magazine where persons were making cartridges and there saw the said Cornelius Velder at work making cartridges and the said

Widder then told this Deponent that he had been there making Cartridges more than a year and he saw a man there who was called Van Booyer and who appeared to have the charge of the persons that made cartridges - And this Deponent knows that the said Cornelius Vidder whom he saw in Albany as above stated is the same Cornelius Vidder named in the foregoing declaration for a pension
Subscribed and sworn to this 19 day of January 1842 before me
Isaac Smith
Moulton Farnham
Commissioner of Deeds of Wyoming County
Wyoming County ss. I the above named Moulton Farnham do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Isaac Smith and have been well acquainted with him for a number of years past and that he is reputable for truth and veracity and full confidence may be placed in his Affidavit - Dated January
19. 1842
Moulton Farnham
Commissioner of Deeds of Wyoming County
I know the above named Moulton Farnham, & that he has been, & I believe he is yet a Commissioner of Deeds in & for the County of Wyoming, legally authorized to administer oaths &c May 27. 1842
Seth W. Gates
Member of Congress

STATE OF NEW-YORK.
Montgomery County Clerk's Office, } ss.
Darius N. Perry Clerk
I, J. W. VAN DERVEER , Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that John Everson , Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgement to which this is annexed, was on the date of the same a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, in and for said County, and dwelling in said County, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the same, and that the said certificate of proof, &c., is taken, and the instrument to which this is attached is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said JUSTICE, and verily believe his signature to the said certificate is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my seal, at FONDA, this 14 th day of Sept 185 5 .
D. N. Perry Clerk.

State of New York Montgomery County } Personally appeared before me Francis B Pedder of the Town of Glen in the County of State aforesaid aged fifty four Years Being first Duly sworn according to Law Depaseth & Saith that he knew Cornelius Pedder In his life time also his wife Harriet who is still living that he thro Deponing has known Cornelius Pedder over forty years that he has examined the Family Bible which contains the Births Marriages & Deaths of Cornelius & Harriet Pedder Family & Children & is now In the possession of the Widow Harriet Pedder Cornelius Pedder's Widow In which I find Recorded the Name of Cornelius Pedder Under the Head of Births Cornelius Pedder Sept 14 th A.D. 1764 Harriet Gully July 18 th 1770 Marriages Cornelius Pedder to Harriet Gully by the Rev Thomas Karmyn 18 th October A.D. 1789 It appears by the Record that they were married as above stated Cornelius Pedder Departed this life November 9 th A.D. 1848 all of which I find in the Record In the Family Bible of Cornelius Pedder deceased Francis B Pedder
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 13 th day of September 1855 John Ervison Justice of the peace
I certify that I was present when the family Record of Cornelius Pedder was Examined by the said Francis B Pedder - and I also certify that the said Francis B Pedder is a man of Good Character and that his Word is to be relied on
John Ervison Justice of the peace

DECLARATION
Of a REVOLUTIONARY Widow who claims a Land Warrant under Act of March 3, 1855.
State of New York,
Montgomery County } On this 13 th day of September A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, personally appeared before me, a within and for the county and state aforesaid Harriet Fiedler aged 84 years, a resident of the Town of Glen Montgomery County in the State of New York, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Cornelius Fiedler deceased, who was a Private, Col. Frederick Fisher's Regiment in the District then of Caughnawaga Company commanded by Capt. Fiedler, Lieut. Garnet, 1st Bn. Poughkeepsie, Ensign Richard Schuman, in the War of the Revolution Then the County of Tryon served fourteen Days
She further states that she was married to the said Cornelius Fiedler in Caughnawaga District on the Eighteenth day of October A. D. 1804, by one Rev. Thomas Harnady, a Dutch Reformed Minister and that her name before her said marriage was Harriet Risley that her said husband died at Glen Montgomery County on the Ninth day of November A. D. 1848, and that she is now a widow. That her husband the aforesaid Cornelius Fiedler was born September 14 th A.D., 1764
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855, and she hereby requests the Commissioner of Pensions to forward her warrant to Hon. Van Buren Fonda, Montgomery Co. and appoint him my attorney to receive the same for me.
We Francis B. Fiedler and James Wynn marble residents of Glen Montgomery Co. in the State of New York, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Harriet Fiedler in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Francis B. Fiedler James Wynn
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
John Eversen Justice of the peace in and for said County of Montgomery aforesaid
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Application of Robert Shilow & Cornelius Keedy, for Revolutionary War
FOR BOUNTY LAND, Under Act March 3, 1855.
Presented by Henry Van Horn Treasurer Montgomery County N.Y.

State of New York,
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county, do hereby certify that date of the foregoing certificate, a
Clerk of the said
was, on the day of the
within and for the said County,
duly appointed and qualified, and that the signature thereto, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this day of
A. D. 185 .

State of New-York, COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
Albany, September 10 1855.
I Hereby Certify , That on searching the Records in this office for the Registry of Certificates issued in pursuance of a law, passed April 27, 1784, entitled "An Act for the settlement of the pay of Levies and Militia for their services in the late war, and for other purposes therein mentioned," I find the following, viz:
   NAMES. No. of BOOK. NO. OF CERTIFICATE. DATE. £ S. D. RANK AND NAME OF COMPANY OFFICER. RANK AND NAME OF FIELD OFFICER.     Comd. Veeder Private 7 31757 July 31. 1781 1 8 5 3/4 Ens. Richd Putman Col. Fredk. Fisher   Comd. Veeder " 7 31765 July 15. 1781 1 4 10 Lt. Garnt V. Bracklow " "   £ 2 13 3 3/4  
I have examined the Rolls for the items above set forth, and find them to be correct.
W. D. Vansell Clerk.
Kilip Thompson Comptroller.

10,946
P. O.
Cornelius Vedder
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

W No 35,357 Cornelius Pedder
N. Y. rejected. Let to Hon. S. M. Gates, ( May 28. 1842)
109 H C
Act 7 June, 1832

Wash n May 27. 1842
Sir
Herewith I enclose an application of Cornelius Vreden for a Pension -
Respectfully
Your O bt Servt
Seth M c Gatis
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comfr of Pensions

7 43.578
5 New Amys

212032
Hon J Minot
Chairman of Committee
Washington, D.C.

2/20/32
Hon J Minot Commissioner of Pension Washington D.C.

Yanda September 14 th 1855
Hon J' Minist Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir Inland here with
I Send Indased the application of Harriet Widow of Cornelius Veder Duesse for Bounty Laysols Due her Under the act of Congress passed 3 rd March 1855, Cornelius Veder In his life Made appli- cation to Giles Flyater Esq who was at that time a pension agent to procure pensions when Mr Flyater examined the books of C. Veder he found his Military Service Small It would not make the amount of time required by law as on the his Service were of a different nature above the Military Service, such as Scamming & Boating & looting Prussian to the army collecting up cattle & helping & slaying heresy for the army, the Veder Family were a very Comptable Family In the Revolution at that time the Father of C. Veder was Lieut Col Under Col Fisher & his Uncle Hon Veder was a Capt his uncle Simon Veder was a Captain the Family stood high In the Revolution & after they killed there were four Brothers two of them became Generals before the Battle they killed the officers of Judges Senators members of the assembly John the youngest Brother was also a Senator on one of the Council of appointment with the DeWitt Clinton faced upon the youngest part of the Family also here and leading men In our State Representations I have all the proof made out according to the require- ments of your office I have the Comptroller's Certificate of Cornelius Veder Military Service his Birth Marriage, & Death from his Family Bible which contains his Family Record, Will you please examine the case at once as you have all the proof together It can be done at once By so doing you will confer a favor on the Family & old respectable Lady Respectfully Yours A. H. Van Horn
her application is for much for the forest, but the amount she is high and she had a high application for her age & husband please let much & consider a pension & gratuity the old lady is well advanced in years & very much in need of help