Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,765, Alexander Turner, New York

SERVICE
New York.
NUMBER _____
W. 16. 765
Turner Alexander Philo
CONTENTS

widow of Phoebe Turner Alexander Turner who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 23 d August, 1814 of N. York C o in the State of N. York who was a private - in the company - commanded by Captain Cooper of the Regt. - commanded by Col. Clinton in the New-York - line for 7½ months -
Inscribed on the Roll of New-York - at the rate of 25 - Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of July 1843 - and sent to C. A. Lacy New-York -
Whole amount due . . . . . $ 125.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. Waterman Clerk, Book 1 Vol. 2 Page 107

Probate of the will of Alexander Turner.
64. 172
Recorded!

The People of the State of New-York,
By the grace of God, free and independent :
To all to whom these Presents shall come, or may concern,
Send Greeting :
Know Ye, That at the City and County of New-York, on the day of the date hereof _____ before Silvanus Miller _____ Esquire, Surrogate of our said County, the last Will and Testament of Alexander Turner deceased, (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed,) was proved, and is now approved and allowed by us; and the said deceased having, whilst he — lived, and at the time of his — death, goods, chattels, or credits, within this State, by means whereof the proving and registering the said Will, and the granting Administration of all and singular the said goods, chattels, and credits; and also the auditing, allowing, and final discharging the account thereof, doth belong unto us: the administration of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased, and any way concerning his Will, is granted unto Flora Turner the _____ _____ _____

Executrix - in the said Will named, She — being first duly sworn, well and faithfully to administer the same, and to make and exhibit a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the said goods, chattels, and credits; and also to render a just and true account thereof, when thereunto required. In Testimony whereof, we have caused the Seal of Office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed.
Witness, Silvanus Miller — Esquire, Surrogate of the said County, at the City of New-York, the ninth — day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen — and of our Independence the thirty- ninth
Silvanus Miller
[Faint, illegible stamp or mark]

In the name of God Amen. Whereas it is intended that man shall die and after death comes Judgment therefore be it known that I make this my last Will and Testament being weak in body but in perfect mind and memory therefore I Alexander Turner of the City of New York Do nominate & appoint Thomas Sweeney of New York aforesaid and my wife Phoebe to be my Executors & Executrix. I give and bequeath unto my wife Phoebe all my real and personal property after my just debts is paid, and funeral charges paid and the same to solely at her will and pleasure during her life and then after her death it to be divided among our children equally. And In witness whereof I do hereunto set my hand and seal to all intents and purposes as my last Will & Testament done in New York May 28 th one thousand eight hundred and fourteen 1814. Alexander Turner
Witness David Thomas W m Lockwood. City and County of New York. Be it remembered that on the ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen personally came and appeared before Silvanus Miller Surrogate of said County William Lockwood of the City of New York Taylor, who being duly affirmed on his affi- rmation declared that he saw Alexander Turner

fourteen 1814
Alexander Turner Esq.
Witness David Thomas W m Lockwood.
City and County of New York ss: Be it remembered that on the ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen personally came and appeared before Silvanus Miller Surrogate of said County William Lockwood of the City of New York Taylor, who being duly affirmed on his affirmation declared that he saw Alexander Turner sign by making his mark, and seal an Instrument in writing purporting to be the will of the said Alexander Turner bearing date the twenty eighth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. the preceding whereof is a true copy and heard him publish and declare the same as and for his last Will and Testament that at the time thereof he the said Alexander Turner was of sound disposing mind and

memory to the best of the knowledge and belief of this affiant that his name subscribed as a witness to the said Will is of his own proper hand writing - which he subscribed as a witness thereto in the presence of the Testator, and that he saw David Thomas the - other witness subscribe his name as a witness thereto in the presence of the Testator. — Silvanus Miller
City and County of New York — } 3
3d: The preceding is a true copy of the Original Will of Alexander Turner deceased, and of the Certificate of the proof thereof.
Swanus Miller — Subrogate

V 8674. Phoebe Turner.
NY.
act 9. July 38
no 8674
m 77. d 14.

State of New York
City and County of New York, ss.
On this first  seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and forty two, before me, the subscriber, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said City and County, aforesaid, personally appeared, Phebe la Turner, a resident of the said City and County of New York, aged eighty two years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act, granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Alexander Turner, who was a corporal under General Montgomery in his Expedition to Canada in the years 1775 and 1776. That he was a resident of the Town of Fishkill in Dutchess County in the State of New York, where he, in the month of April or May, 1775, enlisted as corporal for one year. Henry Scree, enlisted for the same time, as corporal, as did likewise many others, enlist at the same time, at Fishkill for the said Expedition, Andrew Laurence, went from Fishkill, he was a Lieutenant. She further declares, that, at the expiration of his first period, which expired during the time he was in Canada, when he enlisted again, for six months, as corporal. That he returned home, in the month of November, 1776, that he remained at home, until in the month of July or August, 1777, when he was drafted for three months, service in the Militia which was stationed at White Plains, during which period he was what was called "Quarter Master," or the one who delt out the provision for the Regiment. That she cannot remember, the names of any of the officers that belonged to that Regiment, She further declares that during the time above specified, she resided at Fishkill, near neighbors, to, where he resided when he was at home. That she cannot, at this late period of time remember the names of any of the officers that he served under during his expedition to Quebec, except, the ones named above, she and the others, that enlisted at Fishkill

went to Albany to join the army. That he was finally discharged from the last period of his service, in the latter part of October or the first of November, 1877. "that it was about two or three weeks, after Fort McHenry was taken, that on the third day of December following she was legally married to the said Alexander Turner, at Fishkill by the Rev. Mr. Blandvelt, that she had eleven children children by her late husband, as above named, viz. Nancy, Mary, Phebe, Daniel, Obadiah, Henry, Sarah, Katharine, John, William, Alexander. That the last first of the eldest, was christened in the Methodist Church in the City of New York in First Street all at one time. That she knows of no person now living that has any knowledge of her late husband's service. She further declares that the said Alexander Turner, who made the Will of which the annex is a true copy, was her late husband as above named.
She further declares that she was married to the said Alexander Turner, on the third day of December, in the year seventeen hundred and and seventy seven, that her husband, the aforesaid Alexander Turner, died on the twenty third day of August, eighteen hundred and fourteen, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above stated.
Phebe an X Turner mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before,
D P Ingraham Judge of New York Common Pleas

City and County of New York ss. Mary — Hardenbrook, named in the foregoing declaration being duly sworn deposes, and says, that the said Phebe Turner, who has sworn and subscribed to the foregoing declaration, is her mother, and the said Alexander Turner, is her father, who she has often heard narrate, the fact of his serving during the War of the Revolution in the manner, specified in her mother's declaration, that her father, named, in the foregoing declaration, and Will, died August, 23, 1814, since which time her Mother the said Phebe Turner, has not been again married, but still continues the widow of the said Alexander Turner, And this deponent fur- ther says, that she shall be, sixty two years of age on the ninth day of November, eighteen hundred, and, forty two, and her Sister the eldest child, of the said Alex; and Phebe, Turner will be sixty, four, years of age, on the second- of January, 1843, - as she has always understood.
Mary Hardenbrook
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 7 July 1842 before me
D. P. Ingraham
Judge of New York Com: Pleas
I certify, that the persons making the foregoing depositions are known to me to be the persons I believe them to be entitled to credit —
Dated July 7, 1842
D. P. Ingraham Judge of New York Common Pleas

Is dep the D.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } ss.
I, NATHANIEL JARVIS, CLERK of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said City and County, being a Court of record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That D. P. Ingraham Esq. before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the time of taking the same, Assistant Judge of said Court in and for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by the laws of this State to take the same; and that I believe the Signature of said judge thereunto subscribed is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 7 day of July 184 3
Nat Jarvis Clerk.

N o 8674
Frontispiece to the New Testament
Isa. xlv. 1.

Family Record.
Thomas Place Juner was borne in the year of our Lord the 6 day of December 1781
Phebe Place was borne in the year of our Lord the 6 day of February 1781
Marianna Place was borne in the year of our Lord the 24 day of November 1804
Thomas Place was borne in the year of our Lord the 16 day of June 1807
Phebe Place was borne in the year of our Lord the 13 day of February 1809
Sarah Place was borne in the year of our Lord the 1 day March 1811
Thomas Place was Borne in the year of our Lord the 18 day of March 1813
Alexandra Place Borne in the year of our Lord the 2 day of July 1815
Joshua Place Borne the 1. Day of July 1816

State of New York
City and County of New York ss-
Phebe Place being duly sworn says that she is the daugh daughter of Phebe Turner, of the City of New York, widow of Alexander Turner, deceased who is claiming a pension. That her maiden name was Turner, she being the third child of the said Alexander and Phebe Turner who were natives of Fishkill Dutchess County New York. And this deponent further says that she is aged 62 years, being now the wife of Thomas Place and whose name is first inserted in the annexed register, and that she is the identical person whose name is next thereon written, that all others whose names are thereon written are her children. That said register, is her original family register, made in the hand writing of her said husband, which is taken from their family Bible. That she resides at Hempstead Queens County New York. Sworn and subscribed before me this 11 th day of April 1843. and I certify that the said Phebe Place is a respectable Lady and in my opinion her said statement is entitled to full faith. Wm. B. Pitkin. Notary Public N.Y.
her Phebe + Place mark

STATE OF NEW-YORK, CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } ss.
+ Place w/o
I, NATHANIEL JARVIS, CLERK of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said City and County, being a Court of record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That William B. Rittlin before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the time of taking the same, Notary Public in and for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by the laws of this State to take the same; and that I believe the Signature of said Wm B Rittlin thereunto subscribed is genuine
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 11 day of April 184 3
Nathl Jarvis Clerk.

1 Phebe Turner N.Y.
let to C. A. Gay. Mar 13 1843 " to Same May 15. 43.
Act 7 July 1838

2603 Jane Tison der widow of Alexander Pennsylvania suspended See let 10th Feb 1850 Hon. John Friedley.
Act 4 July 1836

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16765-
Phoebe Turner Widow of Alexander Turner Priv. Rev. War
Act July 7 th 1838
Index: Vol. M , Page 286
[Arrangement of 1870.]

July 20 43
See Certificate for 7 mo. 15 days as a Private.
Phoebe Turner N.Y. 388m.
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commr. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

New York July 18. 1843.
Sir,
I have received yours of the 15 inst in the case of Phebe Turner, wherein you proposed to allow her for seven months and fifteen days as private, if she will accede to it. In reply, I am authorized to inform the Department that the said proposition is accepted, as it appears that no further proof can be found to sustain the other services claimed for.
I am respectfully
Your obed Servt. C. C. L.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions }

16 Edward Esdaile

New York, February 7. 1843
Sir
Enclosed, is the application of Mrs. Phebe Durner, for a pension under the act of July 7, 1838. The claimant relies upon such proof as the records of the War Dept. may show, to sustain the proof of service, as there cannot be a survivor, found that was with him, in the service, and the records in the Office of the Secy of State of this State, furnish no proof of the service of her late husband, altho the records show that a soldier of the same name was in service in the Militia, in this State, but it is concluded it was not him for the reason that it was after, the time claimant was married. This application is therefore made in order to ascertain if the records furnish any proof of service, as it is deemed a useless expense, to go to, the expense of procuring evidence, to sustain, the three months service in the militia, or further proof of the marriage unless, the records in the Dept. furnish proof of the soldier's service, in Montgomery Expedition.
I am very respectfully Yours etc Secy. G A Lay
J. S. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington.

Mar 13. 1813
My J. P. Turner J. P. Rutan Missy Gillam
Edward Ely Commrs of Pensions Washington D.C.

New York? March. 9. 1843.
Sir
I respectfully call your attention to the application of Mrs. Marcy Gillman, for a pension. Her papers was forwarded to you, in the early part of January last, and have not yet been reported on.
I would also respectfully call your attention to the application of Mrs. Jane Retan, and Mrs. Sheba Turner, which I forwarded to the Office, in the month of January last, and which has not been reported on.
I am very respectfully Your Woe. Servt C A Lay
J. L. Edwards Esqr } Commrs of Pensions } Washington }

8674 Isidore Tournier N.Y.
See letter to C. A. Lay Mar 13 th '43.
" " " May 5 '43
" " C A Lay July 15 '43-
Act 7 July 1838

J S Edwards Esq r Law y of Pains

New York, April 11 1843.
Sir
I have received your letter of the 13 th ult o informing me that there is evidence in, (and within) the reach of the Department, that will tend to establish the service of Alexander Turner in his expedition to Canada in 1775 & 76, for which his widow Phebe Turner is claiming a pension under the act of July 7, 1838. The enclosed proof is presented to sustain the alleged date of the marriage, it being the best proof that can be found to exist. It is desired that her claim may be allowed, for such service as the Roll may show that she is entitled, - waiving her claim for her 3 month service, in 1777 unless there is evidence in the department to prove it.
I am respectfully
Your Obed Servt
C A Say
J S Edwards Esqr Comm ee of Pensions

May 29 '43
N.Y.
Phoebe Turner
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commrs. of Pensions Washington D.C.
53.75

New York May 27- 1842.
Sir,
Enclosed is a certificate of the Comptroller of this State, which is presented as evidence, in the case of Phoebe Turner, widow of Alexander Turner. Complainant alleged that that he enlisted with Andrew Laurence, at Fishkill, who was his Lieut. Now upon examining the books and papers, in the Comptroller's Office, I find that Andrew J Laurence, of Fishkill, Dutchess County, was appointed on the 5 th July 1775, a Lieut. in Captain Lewis Duboy's Company, Col. James Clinton's Regt. with orders to immediately enlist a sufficient number of men to fill up the Company, but as that Company is not returned, (as there is not, any return of that Company in the Comptroller's Office) I respectfully desire that sufficient may be made to the Muster Rolls of that Company which will probably show when he enlisted.
No further proof can be found to establish the service in question, and it is desired that she may have the benefit of such service, as the Rolls may show that he rendered. It is desired, that you will adjust her claim with as much liberality as the nature of the service may seem to require that it should.
I am very Respectfully Your obed Servt B B Lay
J. P. Edwards Esquire Counsel of Pensions. Washington

A Muster Roll of Captain Eschiel Coopa Company in the Third Regiment of New York forces under the command of Colonel James Clinton now in the service of the United Colonies at Fort St Rocks Submits before Dueback the 14 th January 1776
Eschiel Coopa appointed first Lieut 28 th June 1775 promoted Captain Nov 15 th following Cornelius F. Jansen appointed first Lieut 28 th June 1775 reengaged 15 th Nov r following
Ellisanda Jansen private Enlisted 15 th Nov r 1775
Then Mustered in Capt Coopas Comp y . and third Reg t . of New York Troops the Capt Two Lieut s two Sjt s three corporals one fife and twenty eight privates. This Muster is taken from the 15 th Nov r 1775 to the 30 th Jan y 1776 inclusive
James Van Rensselaer Depty M c Mc Gen
State of New York Comptroller's Office Albany May 25 th 1843
I hereby certify the above to be a correct copy of a Muster Roll now remain- -ing on file in this office
Philip Schuyler Deputy Comptroller