Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10969, Jacob Vosburgh, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Vosburgh, Jacob
R. 10969
CONTENTS

In the matter of } Jacob Vosburgh } for Pension.
No 35.388
Jacob Vosburgh 2 nd NY.
out 7 June '32

State of New York
Monroe County } ss On this sixth day of September 1852 personally appeared in open Court before Selah Mathews Judge of the Rochester City Mayors Court now sitting Jacob Rosburgh a resident of said City of Rochester in said County & State aged Eighty two years on the 29 th day of July last past who being first duly sworn according to law doth in his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That some time in the spring of 1777 he enlisted as a volunteer in the Militia of the State of New York under General Schuyler but what particular day a month in said Spring Declarant cannot positively state but from his best recollection & belief and from the circumstances of its being about the time Albany Ticonderoga and Fort Stanwix were first declared to be in the Northern department. And at the time when General Schuyler first took command of the Northern department thinks it was in or about the first day of May 1777. That this declarant was in the Skaneateles a battle of Briskany where the enemy consisted of Germans Tories & Indians. That this Declarant was in the battle where General Herkeman fell - That this Declarant was in the service & recollect well the time when the news came that General Gates was to supersede Gen Schuyler - That this Declarant was in the battle of Saratoga - and also in the battle which soon followed in which Colonel Breynan was killed and also General Fraser (British leader) was slain - That this Declarant was one of the fourteen hundred posted in the heights opposite the ford of Saratoga That this Declarant was in the battle at Stillwater That this Declarant was in the service under General Gates when Burgoyne surrendered himself & army to the Americans which took place in the latter part of October or first of November 1777 that this declarant then marched to

Albany - That this Declarant was in the skirmish on Herkima flats or German flats when the whole flats were laid waste by the Indians under the Command of Brant. That this declarant was one of the four hundred Militiamen who went in pursuit of the Indians as far as Doloneston plantation on the Onadella river where three bodies of the Americans were found dead who were taken prisoners by the Indians. This transaction in Herkima flats took place in the latter part of August 1778. That this Declarant was in a battle when a Man by the Name of Abell was Captain & Van Renselaer was Colonel in which fight Captain Miller was wounded in the shoulder & that by a rifle ball & that he this declarant help carry the said Abell from the battle ground. & that this Declarant at one time during the war marched in pursuit of the Indians through the wilderness as far as Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain. And that during that campaign this Declarant had nothing to subsist upon but roots which he dug with his own hands for the space of three days. That this Declarant was in the Battle at Clarenville & also in the Battle at Bemus Heights that this declarant continued in the Revolutionary service until the war was closed or peace proclaimed & received compensation for his services as a private and that this declarant was regularly discharged & received his discharge in writing but since that time but at what particular place or time this declarant does not recollect nor has he been able to ascertain said discharge has been lost. That this Declarant has no documentary evidence of the his services the time of his entering the service or his discharge. That this Declarant knows of no persons now living who from personal knowledge can make affidavit relating to that fact. That this Declarant was acquainted with Schoukenin Vosburgh W m Von Volkenburgh W m Vosburgh & Jeremiah

Miller & c who this declarant thinks belonged some part of the time in the Revolution to the same Regiment this declarant belonged to or at least some of them That this declarant in 1838 thought he would try to obtain a pension & for that purpose sent to their place of residence in order to obtain their affidavits of his service but ascertained all were dead except Schuyler Vosburgh & Wm Van Valkenburgh who belonged to the Regiment to which declarant belonged but a short time. And consequently this Declarant supposing their affidavits not sufficient proof deferred applying for a pension until the present That this Declarant in the same year that he was discharged & from proclama was married
That his wife is still living with him in said County and is ten days older than this Declarant. That this Declarant and wife are both unable to take care of themselves. That this Declarant after ascertaining in 1838 that all his Brethren Revolutionary soldiers were dead with whom he was acquainted except the two above named & supposing their affidavits not sufficient proof of his the Declarant service in which to found an application concluded not to ask his Country for a pension; but from necessity and from a consideration of his services in the Revolution in this Declarant now asks for a pension. That this Declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not in the pension roll of the the agency of any state That at the time this Declarant volunteered he was a resident of Columbia County in the State of New York Subscribed & sworn this } his 6 th day of September 1842 } Jacob V Vosburgh Alfred Ely his Mark
Clubs gills Mayinouch of the City of Rochester.
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 certify that it appears to them that Stephen I Groves who has made the annexed affidavit is a Clergyman resident in the County of Monroe & State of New York. And that Elias Beach who has also made affidavit is a resident of said County & State. And also that Franklin Clarke who has made the annexed certificate - And before whom the said Groves & Beach made affidavits is now an Acting Magistrate of said County of Monroe in the Town of Penfield duly appointed as such and that each of them are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit
Selah Mathews Recorder of the City of Rochester
I Alfred Ely Clerk of the Mayor Court of the City of Rochester do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Vosburg for a pension. And that the annexed affidavits of Stephen I Groves Elias Beach were taken before Franklin Clarke who is now a Justice of the peace of said County of Monroe & who has been duly elected as such Justice and that the above is the signature of Selah Mathews who for their day subscribed the same & who is now Judge of said Court of the City of Rochester September 6 th 1842
Alfred Ely
Clerk of the city court of the City of Rochester.

State of New York } Monroe County } ss. Elias Beach being duly sworn deposes and says that he is now a resident of said County and State and has been for 28 years last past That during that time he has been acquainted with Jacob Voorburgh the above declarant. That his Character for truth & veracity is good. That he has never heard it called in question. That he has examined the annexed Declaration that the Statements therein contained he this Deponent believes to be true - That he believes Declarant to be of the age represented in said Declaration. That he the said Declarant is reputed & believed in the neigh- bourhood where he resides to have been a revolutionary soldier. And that that is the general opinion so far as this deponents knowledge extends That this Deponent never has heard any doubts expressed relation to that fact and that he this Deponent concurs in that opinion
subscribed & sworn this 13 th day } Elias Beach of August 1842 before me Franklin Clarke J.P.
State of New York } Monroe County } ss. Stephen S. Graves a clergyman residing in the County of Monroe and State of New York being duly sworn deposes and says That he is well acquainted with Jacob Voorburgh who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that he believes him to be of the age represented in said Declaration That he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution. And that he concurs in that opinion. That his Character as to truth & veracity is generally reputed to be good sworn & subscribed this 27 th } day of August 1842 before me } Stephen S. Graves Franklin Clarke J.P.

State of New York
Monroe County, ss. I Franklin Clark, a resident of said County & State do certify that Stephen J. Groves is Now a Clergyman & has been some twenty Years of said County & State, and that Elias Beach is also a resident of said County & State, and that their characters for truth are good, and also that I have been acquainted with Jacob Fosburgh the above declarant twenty five Years & upwards, and that I believe him to be of the age represented in the above declaration, and that his character for truth & veracity is good.
Aug. 13. 1862
Franklin Clark Justice of the peace
Ms. A. 9. 2. 35. 388

State of New York Mannan County ss
Jehoyakim Vorburgh of the town of Kinder- hook in the county of Columbia and state of New York being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he has been acquainted with Jacob Vorburgh for more than sixty years. That said Jacob Vorburgh now resides in the town of Pinesfield in the county of Mannan and state aforesaid. That he formerly resided in the town of Claverack in said county of Columbia. And that said Jacob Vorburgh according to the best recollection and belief of this deponent in the spring or summer of 1777 and upon the taking of Bur- goyne, at said town of Claverack volunteered as a militiaman and marched to Fort Herkimer under the command of Col. Van Rensselaer, this deponent being in the same regiment. From Fort Herkimer after a skirmish in which this Comandant deponent was wounded, the said Jacob Vorburgh was marched to Lake Champlain and thence back to Fort Herkimer after four months service the said Jacob marched back to Claverack in said county of Columbia  Mannan , all which is according to the best recollection and belief of this deponent sworn to and subscribed the 28 th day of Feby 1838 before me Jehoyakim Vorburgh John R Hoes justice of peace mark
I certify that Jehoyakim Vorburgh who subscribed the above affidavit and swore to the same before me is a man of credibility and that he is returned a man of truth and veracity, and that I am acquainted with him - John R Hoes justice of peace

Columbia County ss 3 William W Van Valkenburg of the Town of Stuyvesant & aforesaid county & state being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he has seen the above named Jacob Boerburgh in the service of the revolution namely at Kinderhook as a night patrol or guard and has also seen him at Stillwater under the command of Col Abraham Van Kliefyne knows said Boerburgh to have been there weeks which being the whole length of time this deponent was there think the service at Stillwater was in the year 1780, & at Kinderhook was some time before, all which is according to the best recollection and belief of this deponent This deponent belonging to a different regiment from that of Jacob Boerburgh. Sworn and subscribed this twentyth day of March 1838 John R Hoes justice of peace  his William W Van Valkenburg mark
I certify that I am acquainted with the above named William Van Valkenburg and that he is a man of credibility & is esteemed a man of truth & veracity John R Hoes justice of peace

Sept 12 1842
Ms
Washington
To - Secretary of War Department Pension Office
Washington
Dist Columbia
1842 80 62

Mr Secretary of War
I am acquainted with the Applicant Mr Vosburgh and have been for a number of years. The fact of his being a soldier in the revolution I have never heard questioned. He moved from Claverack in the County of Columbia to the County of Monroe was one of the first settlers in the Town of Pampfield in said County. Since has lived in said Town until very recently he now resides in the City of Rochester with his wife. They are both unable to take care of themselves and are destitute of the means to obtain subsistence. I have made out these papers for Mr. Vosburgh & paid the expenses without compensation for I think he is entitled to a pension for the services he performed for his Country during the Revolution. Will you please give this case your attention as soon as practicable.
Yours &c
Albion September -
7 th 1842
Ebenezer Hurd & N. A. Grover

no 35-388
NY
Let to Gideon Hard. Sep. 14: 42 ✓
10969
act 7. June 32

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
10969
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