Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14481, for John Slouter, New York

SERVICE
New York
Slouter, John
NUMBER _____
NUMBER S. 14481
carded
CONTENTS

New York 20.941
John Hunter of Hempstead in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Brewer of the Regt. commanded by Colonel Van Klief in the N.Y. Mil. line for Lync.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Oct 1833 and sent to J. Hoon Napan
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1833. $200.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept 1834. $40.00
$240.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
By W. L. Williams Clerk, Vol. 4 Page 87

I fluted off in his own case
the other Sloughston belong to Carolina in T. of County

State of New York
Rensselaer County, ss: On the 15 th day of July 1833 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid John Stoube a resident of Rensselaer County who first being duly sworn according to law doth in his oath say that on the 27 th day of January 1830 he made a declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed March 18. 1818 and that John Koin Esq. was his agent by whom he was given to understand that his application was approved but that previous to the issue of a Certificate it was discovered that another man of a similar name and description of service was already drawing a pension which cast a doubt on both claims that payment would be suspended on both till the right of the matter could be ascertained. Since when this deponent has made diligent enquiry into the matter but cannot fully explain the facts in the case further than to say that he knew a soldier in the Revolutionary war who spelled his name John Stoughton who was a distant relation of his but that a difference existed in the spelling of the name which had existed in the different families for some generations and that he Stoughton resided in Dutchess County but that this deponent was born in Dutchess County but during the Revolutionary War resided at what was then called Kinderhook now Chatham in Columbia County and adjoining the place of his present residence. that he has resided in said Chatham and Napanee ever since before the Revolutionary War commenced and that he has resided in Napanee continually for the last forty five years.
That he has carefully reviewed said declaration and can discover no error therein except that in relation to his age in which he thinks himself mistaken knowing of no family record to recur to and from discoursing with his brother thinks that he is now seventy one years of age that he was born on the 15 th of December 1761 at America in Dutchess County New York from whence removed to Kinderhook from said

That he distinctly recollects entering into the regular service a little before he was sixteen years of age.
And this deponent further says that in 1777 he was at Bennington battle, Fort Edward, Fort Miller, Schenectady, Fort Aralia, Fort Stannix, Albany and Dooe & West Point.
In 1778 was at Albany, Fort Edward, Fort Miller, Canajoharie, Johnstown and places adjacent guarding forts scouting &c.
In 1779 was at Albany for head quarters the company was employed as Rangers traversing the adjacent neighboring places was at Helderberg, Freehold, Coughanck, Claverack & various other places during the summer and in the fall went up the Mohawk river to Fort Stannix & Fort Stannix and in the winter went to Onida Lake by Oswego plotted by an indian who pretended friendship but led them into an ambush had a skirmish returned to Oswego and thence to Albany.
In 1780 was at West Point & thereabouts.
In 1781 was at West Point and served thereabouts till in the winter of 1782 about the first of January was taken sick obtained a furlough and returned home & was not again called into service. Was on furlough some time in winter say generally about two months each year except when at Onida Lake then served all winter. And this deponent further states that in the spring of 1776 about the first of May entered the service in the Militia under Capt Henry Lieutenant Richardson, & Colonel Van Schaick was employed as Rangers had quarters at Albany and was dismissed the first of February 1777 serving nine months.
Subscribed & sworn to before me John X  his Stone the day and year above written before me
John Van Deusen Justice.

State of New York
Rensselaer County } ss. Personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Clement Stites of the town of Sand Lake in said County who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that he was born in the year 1770 and is in the sixty third year of his age that he is brother of John Stouts of Napanee in said County though they disa- gree in spelling the name. Some of the connections spell it Stoughton Some Stoughton. Some Stouts & others Stites. That he has a distinct recollection that his said brother John went into the service of the United States in the time of the Revolution as he then remembers and has always & still believes And that his father went with him at the time of his enlistment and that he well remembers that his father on his return. Said that he passed muster and was received as a soldier but when it was or how long he served he does not remember but does remember that John was said to be young for a soldier and he thinks under sixteen years of age at the time of his enlistment. And further the deponent says that he understands and believes that his father & family formerly resided at Amsterdam in Dutchess County aforesaid but removed to a place now called Chatham in Columbia's County when this deponent was a boy from whence removed to Napanee in the County aforesaid where his brother John has resided from the last forty five years or more
Clement Stites
Subscribed & sworn to before the undersigned who certifies that the above deponent Clement Stites is a credible person July 17. 1833
Marcus Beck Justice Peace

State of New York Rensselaer County 3 p.m. I Henry R. Bristol clerk of the said county do certify that John Van Deusen Esqr. before whom the annexed amended Declaration of John Slouter purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in & for the county of Rensselaer. Also that Marcus Peck Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavit of Clement Slater purports to have been sworn was at the date of said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in & for the said county of Rensselaer. Likewise that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of both the said Justices & verily believe their Respective signatures to the foregoing papers to be genuine -in Witness my hand & seal of office at Troy this 19 th day of July 1833 Henry R. Bristol Clerk
the other. Houghton's history to see how in 1809 County

sion on file in this Bureau.
John Slonaker I.F. 14481
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 1, 1776 Feb 1, 1777 Pvt. Henry Van Schaick N.Y.   May 13, 1777 12 mos Pvt. Philip D. Bower N.Y.   Transferred 8 or 9 mos John Loop   Discharged July 1782 Hamtramck Van Cortland  
Battles engaged in, Burlington and in several skirmishes with Indians at Louis
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Kinderhook and Schoharie Columbia Co. N.Y.
Date of application for pension, Jan 27, 1830. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Nassau, Nassau Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, born Dec 11 1761 at Albany Dutchess Co. N.Y.
Remarks: In 1830 soldier refers to his wife being dead and to two daughters and a son living with him. Son George S. was 32 years old and living at Nassau, N.Y. in 1831.
name off as Slonaker, Sloughter, Shuyter, Sliter and Shuyter.
Very respectfully,
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1907 Dec. 7 Fish to Blanche; E. Murphy S.P.M. (Letter in wid. file 1905-9)
Rehman
14.481 ✓ INVALID.
File No. 14.481
John Slouter Am. Rail. um.
Act: June 7 th 1853
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 344
[Arrangement of 1870.]

21,838
John Slouter New York.
Revolutionary
Susp d see letter to J. Boon 29 July 1831, do. to same Sept. 14. 1831
see the other side —
Napan
Susp d  e association under act 18 mar. '18. prior 12 aug '32 - may be admitted under that act or the act of June '32 as he may elect.

21.838
John Sluiter New York.
Revolutionary
See p. 2 the letter to J. Hoon, 29 July 1831. do to same Sept. 14. 1831
See the other side —
Napier
Supp. c declaration under act 18 mar. '18. filed 12 aug '32 - May be admitted under that act or the act of June '32 as he may elect.

Chas. 11
Statement
1. The first thing to be done is to... 2. In order to... 3. The second thing to be done is to... 4. In order to... 5. The third thing to be done is to... 6. In order to... 7. The fourth thing to be done is to... 8. In order to... 9. The fifth thing to be done is to... 10. In order to...

John Sloughter
alleges that he enlisted for 3 years & afterwards for the war in the Bevier's Comp. Dubois's Regt & served to the end of the War. Being found on the roll of the New York men who served to the end of the war - was pensioned but his pension was stopped upon receipt of the papers of another.
John Sloter who alleges that he enlisted in '78 for the war in same Comp. & Regt and in '82 was furloughed on acct of health, returned home & did not rejoin -
Entry on New York Rolls
" John Slouter - enlis d 13 May 77. War. Capt 9 Jan'y '80 - priv d 5 Nov. 80. must d to Jan'y '82
Are there two bearing the same name in the same Comp. & Regt?
Aug 13 1833
G.M.C.
X John Slater reported dead

Harren, Illinois
Nov. 27, 1907.
To "The Commissioner of Pensions.
A few days ago I wrote to the Adjutant General in regard to the service of ancestors who served in the War of the Revolution. I was unable to inform him as to the organizations in which they served, In fact I could only give the States as it appears in some cases there were several of the same name. He has

written me advising that I write to you for those who I know received pensions in order that if possible I may obtain some
additional information which will assist them in identifying the men.
I enclose on separate sheets the name and the meager data I am able to furnish as I trust that you will look up the matter for me and

greatly obliged
Yours Respectfully,
Blanche E. Murphy.

20941 John Slouter
He entered some New York company, and received a pension. First in Rensselaer County N.Y. later he lived in Lewis county where he did in 1842 if I have been correctly informed as to the date. As there were no more than two in the army of that name, if both should have drawn pensions the date of death may assist in identifying the man.

Dept of War Sept. 21 1831
Pension Office
John Norton Secretary at War Washington City
Wm. Lewis
Napan N.Y. August 29 th 1831

Dear Sir
Your favour of the 29 th Ultimo has been received. It was with much pleasure I perceived that the application of Slonter had been favourably disposed of by the War Department. I have not as yet been able to determine which option will be most advantageous to him, if his application to the Treasury Department should be granted, but think on the whole as his immediate wants are pressing, and as the law of 1828 will secure a larger amount of back pay, than the act of 1818 that I will persevere in my efforts to procure the benefits of that law. You will doubtless feel surprised at my writing you again on this subject inasmuch as the claim has been finally passed upon at the War Department, but I apprehend that surprise will undergo some abatement on reference to the subjoined extract from a letter received by Slonter from the Treasury Department, which is as follows. "Sir Your claim under the above mentioned act, (that is, the act of 1828) has been examined, The 3 rd Section of the act excludes all privates who came on the Pension list on the 15 th May 1828. It appears by a report from the War Department that you were on the Pension list at that time. Your claim has consequently not been admitted." 88
I am Sir Nathaniel Dickinson Acting Secretary of the Treasury
As to the above there must be some singular mistake either in Mr Dickinson or in the War Department, but how a report of the kind above alluded to could possibly emanate from that department I am wholly at a loss to determine inasmuch as at the very time when that letter was written the application of Slonter to the War Department was still pending or had but very recently before been passed upon. Will you have the kindness to deliver the enclosed affidavit together with such other explanation as you may deem proper to the proper officer of the Treasury Department, to the end that the Secretary may act under a full knowledge of the facts in this case - In your letter received from S. S. Edwards,

Edge of the Pension office under date of August 9 th 1831 I perceive the Department in passing upon the application of Abiel Sherman, has decided, that according to the construction of the act of March 3 rd 1819, the amount claimed from 1823 cannot be allowed; he is most assuredly unwilling to abandon the idea of receiving the amount which he con- siders to be his due for the time intervening the year 1823 & the present time; because during the whole of that period his disability has con- tinued the same. I should by no means wish the administration to in- volve itself in any grand lavish or useless expenditure of the public money but I really cannot see that justice or economy is consulted in rejecting a claim so peculiarly entitled to the favorable notice and equitable consideration of the government as the present, and especially of one whose means of subsistence have been so materially crippled by his patriotic efforts to establish the independence of the country; The affidavits certainly disclose the cause why the act of 1819 was not complied with; it was owing entirely to wrong information as to what was necessary to be done in order to secure the continuation of his pension. Hence I infer that after a careful re-examination of all the papers the department will be satisfied that in allow- ing the claim to the extent required, they are doing but an act of justice, tardy justice, to the claims of the veteran in whose behalf they are preferred. If the Secretary of War should deem it imperiously required, in the faithful discharge of his duties, to adhere to the decision last communicated I shall ask the favor to reserve the question in relation to the allow- ance for back pay for future determination, either as the Depart- ment or of Congress; and in the meantime, no right to back pay being waived, I shall solicit the department to issue the certificate and I certainly cannot conceive that it can be required of the ap- plicant to renounce his claim for back pay as a condition precedent to his being entitled to the pension in future, be pleas- ed to advise me in relation to all these matters, and in the meantime suffer me to subscribe myself
Your Obedient Humble servant
To the Hon Louis McLane Secretary of War
W. H. Korn Wapakoneta Co. N.H. August 29 th 1831

Old Case Stumped City Department of Internal Revenue Service Washington City

P.O. Brannan Bridge V. Y. Aug. 24/1833
Sir
I enclose a Declaration of John Platts changing his application for a Pension from the law of 1818 to that of June 7. 1832. I have not obtained the Certificate of the County Clerk because this declaration was made before the same. Any clerk who took his affidavit which I presented when at Washington to which the Seal and Certificate of the County Clerk is affixed which I understood by Doct. Crump would answer all the purposes I wish immediate to be paid to issuing the certificate as the day for drawing is at hand and no reply calls loud in his cause for aid.
Very respectfully Your Obedient Servant
Edw. Smith

Pension Office, July 29. 1881
see letter July 29. 1881 to J. Hoon.
To the Hon. The Secretary at War Washington City District of Columbia —
PAID

Napan July 25 th 1831
To the Honorable the Secretary at War
The letter of J. S. Edwards (returning) the papers transmitted by me heretofore to the war department. in the matter of the application of John Slenter for a pension, was duly received. The first objection suggested by him, was that the Certificate of the Clerk of Rensselaer County was not attached to the original declaration & affidavits in the manner required by the department, this Objection I have in the present instance endeavored to escape, by a literal compliance with the rule in relation to that matter. As to the second objection that "the conveyance of certain property to the claimant's son must be shewn to have been a bona fide transaction" I supposed, that was already shewn by the affidavits of Bart VanVleck and George S Slenter, I have also taken and herewith the affidavit of John Slenter, the applicant and herewith the affidavits of the others, shewing the entire transaction to have been in all respects bona fide , and without the least intention of making it the basis of this application. Mr Edwards also suggested in his last communication that Slenter might obtain the benefits of the act of May 15 th 1828. if he would produce such evidence at the Treasury as the printed sheets enclosed therein directed & I have also enclosed, a paper containing a compliance as near as practicable with the printed sheet. which I hope Mr Edwards will deliver to the Treasury department. in case, either, that the papers herewith sent to the war department are still insufficient; or that the benefits to be derived from the act of 1828 are preferable to those under the act of 1818 — Let me hear from you as soon as practicable & confer a favor upon Yours Obedient humble Servant
P.S. Direct. to Napan
J. S. Koon

John Plouffe affidavit changing his application to the law of 1832
Admitted Probate 2 years under Act June 7 th 1832 - $80

State of New York Rensselaer County ss.
On the 24 th day of August 1832 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Rensselaer John Houtte aged 70 years who first being 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 (viz) On the 13 th May 1777 he entered during the War in a Company commanded by Captain Philip Schuyler in the 5 th Regiment of Infantry commanded by Colonel Van Schuyler and served under different officers till some time in the month of January 1782 for the particulars of which see his declaration & explanation in order to obtain the benefit of the law of Congress of 1818 now on file in the War Department.
Now the object of this declaration is to change the application from the law of 1818 to that of the law of June 7. 1832 under which this is made and he therefore prays that his certificate may issue under the said act of June 7. 1832.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and demands that his name is not on the pension roll of the government of any state.
Subscribed and sworn to the day above written before me
his John X Houtte Mark
John Van Deusen Justice

Revolutionary Claims

State of New York
Rensselaer County ss: John Slouter of the town of Grafton in the County of Rensselaer being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is informed that by a letter received from the treasury department directed to him, it is supposed at that department, that he was upon the pension list upon the 15 th day of May 1828. he, now therefore for the purpose of doing away that impression and of enabling the department to act understandingly, and upon the facts as they exist in the premises, distinctly states that he was not upon the list of pensioners under the act of 1818 or any other act on the 15 th of May 1828 and further that he had not at that time applied for a pension, nor did he apply until the summer of the year 1831 - and further this deponent says not.
John his Slouter mark
Before me John Koon one of the Commissioners to take affidavits and acknowledge deeds for in and for the County of Rensselaer in the State of New York personally appeared John Slouter before me this day and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed was in all things true.
J. Koon Comr.
State of New York Rensselaer County ss: I Archibald Bull Clerk of the Court of the County of Rensselaer in the State of New York, do hereby certify that John Koon before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time a Commissioner of said County duly empowered to administer oaths and that the signature of "J. Koon" is his proper and genuine signature and that the seal of the said Court the 27 th day of August 1831 -
Archibald Bull Clerk

State of New York County of Rensselaer ss
I, Archibald Bull Clerk of the said County do certify that John Koon be- fore whom the preceding (or within) affi- davits purport to have been sworn and also before whom the within Power of Attorney purports to have been acknow- ledged was at the date of the same one of the commissioners in & for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits and the acknowledgement of the execu- tion of the said Power to be his proper hand writing & Signature.
Witness my hand & Seal office this 19 day of July 1831 Archibald Bull Clerk per N. Howard Sun Deputy

Sup: Court - Michael T Smith vs John Slater & William Jacob
Fi: fa: in Debt - Test - Third Monday of June 1823 Debt $500-0- Damages $15-25-
Samuel B Ludlow Gent m 85 one of 85 John Slater & Nicholas B Jacob
Fi: fa: in debt - Test 3 d Monday of October 1823 Debt $200-0- Damages $10-0-
Samuel B Ludlow Gent m 85 John Slater & William Jacob Parent Van Hook & Paul Astrom John Slater
Fi: fa: in Debt - Test the first day of November 1823 Debt $59-90- Damages $59-31
Fi: fa: in debt - Test the first day of November 1823 Debt $600-0- Damages $10-0-
I, Moses Warren - - - - Sheriff of the County of Poughkeepsie - do hereby certify that I did, on the twenty third day of March - - - 1824 sell at public vendue, by virtue of several - executions issued in the above causes all the right title and interest of John Slater - - - - of, in and to the following described lands and tenements: all that certain piece or parcel of land lying and being in the Town of Wapping Bounded on the west by the widow Kapp and Hiss, on the north by Lacaiah Phillips on the east by Enoch Dusenbury, on the south by the widow Dusenbury and John Havis containing One hundred & Twenty Acres be the same more or less
+ + + + + + + +
and the same was struck off to Parent Van Hook - for Eight hundred & four dollars and fifty cents that being the highest sum bid for the same, and which has been paid by him to me. And the said Parent Van Hook will be entitled to a DEED for such lands and tenements, so sold as aforesaid, on the twenty third day of June - - in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twen- ty five - unless the same shall be redeemed as is provided in and by the act entitled "an Act in addition to the act con- cerning Judgements and executions," passed April 12th, 1820.
Dated this twenty third day of March - 1824
Moses Warren Sheriff. By W.T. Duerburgh Dep y

Sup Court Michae J Smith & Barent Van Klief et alius
as John Hite & William Jacob
Certificate

1825 March 5 th Received of John Slater Eight hundred and eighty dollars and twenty one cents in full for the Redemption of the land and Settlements within mentioned
B. Van Vleck
Sup Court Andrew J Smith Van Vleck et alius as John Slater & William Van Vleck CertIFICATE

Original Claim
Declaration in order to be placed on the Pension list under the Act of 18 th March 1818
Rensselaer County ss: On this tenth seventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty personally appeared in open court in the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Rensselaer being a court of record proceeding according to the course of the Common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings. John Slouter, resident in said County, aged seventy five years on the fifteenth day of December last, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and the 1 st of May 1820: that the said John Slouter enlisted during the war on the thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven in the State of New York, in the company commanded by Captain Philip D. Boivin in the fifth Regiment of Infantry commanded by Colonel in the line of the State of New York, on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in said Company according to the best of his recollection for more than twelve months, that he was from some cause or other but how he cannot tell, transferred from the Company of the said Captain Philip D. Boivin to the Company commanded by Captain John Copp under whose command he continued for as many as eight or nine months; that from the great length of time elapsed he cannot distinctly tell the names of the officers to whose companies he belonged, but can only state that he was commanded by several different Officers , and at one time during the war was attached to the Regiment of Colonel Van Courtlandt. that he continued in the army until the close of the war, but owing to sickness he did not perform active duty, nor was he mustered after the month of January, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, at which time he returned home on furlough and was unable to return to duty again before the conclusion of peace: That at the time of leaving the army as abovementioned he belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Hamtramck in the second Regiment, of the same New York line of the Continental Establishment

That he was engaged in the Bennington battle, and in several skirmishes at different times and places with the Tories and Indians. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present. That his name is not on the roll of any state as a pensioner, and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension to wit: that by his industry and economy he had accumulated a small Estate consisting of a farm and the necessary stock and implements of husbandry for carrying on the same, worth in the whole about two thousand five hundred dollars. that in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen he was indebted to the amount of two thousand five hundred dollars and upwards, which debts were incurred by him by reason of his having, previous to that year, become surety for divers individuals and particularly for one Joseph Hicks as one of the deputies of the Sheriff of the County of Rensselaer, by reason of which he was obliged to pay a large amount of money; he also incurred debts to a considerable amount by reason and on account of the sickness of his wife, who lay under the care of the doctor for nearly seven years, and then died, to satisfy which debts his property has all been sold: that notwithstanding the above embarrassments, he was determined to bear up under them until by their extreme pressure he should be forced to apply to his country for that support which he was no longer able to provide for himself and that by reason of this determination and a pride of feeling that recited at the idea of registering his name among the list of paupers he has been restrained up to the present time, from making this application.
And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March

1818: And that I have not nor has any person for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me: nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed to wit: one cow, nine sheep, three pots and kettles, one spider, one frying-pan, one tea-kettle, two tables, six knives and forks, six tea cups and saucers, ten common kitchen chains, one small looking glass, six ducks, eight fowls, one axe, one pair of and-irons, one shovel and tongs, six plates: I have no real estate of any description whatsoever, either in law or equity in possession, reversion or remainder.
That since the eighteenth of March 1818, the following changes have been made in my property, that is to say, on that day I had the title to and was possessed of a farm consisting of one hundred and ten acres of land, situate, lying and being in the town of Napan in the County of Rensselaer, subject to the annual payment of ten bushels of winter-wheat, to Stephen Van Rensselaer Esquire, proprietor of the manor of Rensselaerwyck worth about two thousand dollars: That I also owned and possessed, at the time last above mentioned, one yoke of oxen, two horses, one colt, two cows, two yearling calves, eleven sheep, one lumber-waggon, one ox-cart, two ploughs, one harrow, three shovels, two dung-forks, one scraper, two log or draught chains, one lumber sleigh, one ox sled, and one bob sled: And I further state that about five years ago last March, the whole of my real estate together with all my personal property was sold by the sheriff of the County of Rensselaer by virtue of several executions, issued upon judgments obtained against me for debts due and owing by me, previous to the eighteenth day of March 1818, for the most of which I became liable as surety as above mentioned, and the residue thereof I was obliged to incur by reason of the sickness and other misfortunes in my family: That my farm above mentioned was bid off and purchased at such sheriff's sale for the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars, or thereabouts by John Van Vleck, for his father Barent Van Vleck as this deponent

then understood for the benefit of the said Judgment creditors: That the personal property above mentioned was purchased by divers individuals, at said sheriff's sale, and brought in the aggregate as near as I can recollect about two hundred dollars, but what precise sum I cannot recollect all which real and personal estate so sold as aforesaid did not amount to sufficient to pay the honest and bona fide debts due and owing from me, leaving a balance still due and owing of about six hundred and eighty dollars, which I have no means of paying: And in pursuance of the requirements of the act above mentioned I do further declare that I am now a labourer at the farming business; that by reason of my age and frequent attacks of the Rheumatism I am unable to work but very little, and by no means sufficient to earn my subsistence: That I lost my wife some years since: that I now have in my family, who reside with me, two daughters, and one son the youngest of which is seventeen years of age, likewise two grand children the one nine and the other six years old, who are wholly dependent on me for their support: that the son above mentioned is affected with a hernia, by which he is rendered unable to earn sufficient to support himself: That I am unable to support myself in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support myself without the assistance of my country, or the aid of public or private charity: and I further declare that the whole of the property of every name, nature or description, of which I am the owner is not worth to exceed fifty dollars
Sworn in open Court Archibald Bull Clerk.
his John X Sloutte mark
State of New York, S. I. Archibald Bull Clerk of the above mentioned Court do hereby Rensselaer County certify that the foregoing declaration & the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copies from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is fifty dollars.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fourth day of September One Thousand eight hundred and thirty. Archibald T. Bull Clerk of the County Courts of the County of Rensselaer
Rensselaer County ss: Parent Van Keck being duly sworn doth depose and say that on the thirteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, John Slater in the annexed certificate from the Sheriff of the County of Rens- selaer, named, being indebted to this deponent, in the sum of two hundred and sixteen dollars and seventy five cents for services actually done and performed by this deponent for him and his benefit, before that time; and also being indebted to one Paul Ostrom, in the sum of seventy five dollars and four cents, did, for the purpose of securing to this deponent and the said Paul Ostrom, the sums so due to them respectively, confess a judgment in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York by bond & warrant of attorney, to this deponent & the said Paul Ostrom for that being the penalty of said bond $600 debt, $10 costs, and this deponent further says that an execution was issued upon the said judgment to the Sher- iff of the County of Rensselaer, upon which together with the others in said Sheriff's certificate mentioned the real estate of the said John Slater was sold and bid off by this deponent for the sum of eight hundred and four dollars and fifty cents: That afterwards and upon the fifth day of March 1825, the sum of eight hundred and eighty dollars and seventy one cents, being in full of the principal and interest upon said bid at the rate of ten per cent, was paid to this deponent, but whether the same was paid by the said John Slater

or by George S Slater, his son this deponent cannot distinctly recollect, but he has no reason to doubt that the statement made by the said George S Slater in his affidavit hereto annexed is in all things true as regards the payment of the said sum of money by him. And this deponent further says that he has known the said John Slater in the said certificate named for a number of years last past and that he was originally known and called by the name of John Slouter almost entirely and was so known and called until of late years, when the English pronunciation became more in use from which time, the name, Slater, has been substituted partially for that of Slouter and the said John has been known and called as much by the one name as the other as near as this deponent's recollection will enable him to determine
Sworn the 18 th day of June 1831 before me -
Barent Van Pleet
John Com te H

State of New York
Rensselaer County } ss. Obediah Green of the Town of Schoharie in the County aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose & say that he is well acquainted with John Slater, that he well knew the said John Slater in the year 1777. when he belonged to Colonel Cautland Regiment in the Revolutionary army that he the said Obediah Green well knew the said John Slater for more than one year as private in said Regiment, that the said John Slater with his companions were at the Bennington battle and they continued together for some length of time afterwards and that more than one year afterwards he saw the said John Slater who was then attached to the same Regiment in the Continental Army.
Sworn to this 20. th day of November 1829, before me Nicholas P. Dull Clerk of Rensselaer County
CLARK

State of New York
Rensselaer County ss: William Slonter of the town of Sand Lake in the County of Rensselaer being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is a brother of John Slonter of the town of Napan in the said County who is of the age of seventy five years or thereabouts & who is the only person of that age in the same in the said County to the knowledge of this deponent and the same person mentioned in the original declaration made and sworn by him before the Court of Common Pleas of the said County on the twenty seventh day of January last past. That this deponent according to the best of his information and belief was seventy nine years of age on the twelfth day of May last, that he recollects that the said John Slonter left his father's house in the early part of the war of the revolution, and as he this deponent is informed and verily believes entered and became a private soldier in the American Army, where he remained for the greater part of the war: that this deponent did not enter the Army until towards the close of the war, or about the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and then did duty for a part of the time in a Company commanded by Captain Gilbert Livingston in a Regiment under the Command of Colonel William Malcom, and that afterwards this deponent served in a Regiment under the Command of Colonel Albert Powning - that this deponent always understood and verily believes that the said John Slonter was a private soldier in the Army of the revolution for a number of years, and actively engaged in the defence of his country, but as this deponent did not enter the Army so early as his said brother, and when he did enter belonged to a different regiment, and did duty at a different place or places from where the said John Slonter did duty he cannot tell the names of the officers by whom he was commanded - or precisely the number of years he so served. And further says not.
Sworn the 2 nd day of September A.D. 1830 before me J. Van Loon
William his X Slonter mark

State of New York Rensselaer County p: 3 George Slouter of the town of Napan in the County of Rensselaer being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is a son of the within named John Slouter, and that he is of the age of thirty two years and upwards, that his said father has been in embarrassed circumstances for a great number of years, and was heavily incumbered with debts previous to the year One thousand eight hundred and Eighteen; that on the twenty third day of March in the year One thousand eight hundred and twenty four, the real and personal estate of the said John Slouter was sold by Henry Vandenberg Esqr. then one of the deputies of the Sheriff of the County of Rensselaer, under and by virtue of the several executions in the Sheriff's Certificate hereunto annexed, mentioned, and the same real estate in the said Certificate described, which was all the real estate owned by the said John Slouter, that the said John Slouter has of late years been as well known by the name of John Slater, and by the name of John Slouter, but formerly and as long ago as this deponent can recollect, the said John Slouter was known & called by the name of Slouter altogether, and he transacted business by that name, but, that of late years, and since the Dutch mode of pronunciation has given way, and the English been adopted in its stead, the said John Slouter has been known by the name of John Slater, and has of late years, transacted business by that name almost exclusively; that William Slouter whose affidavit is an- nexed hereto is the brother of the said John Slouter, as this de- ponent verily believes, as he has been known and recognized as such by all the family of the said John Slouter as long ago as this deponent can remember - That this deponent remembers well the debts or demands, in favor of Michael T Smith, and the other persons whose names are mentioned as plaintiffs, in the titles to the causes in the said Certificate set forth, and that the same were all bona fide due and owing from the said John Slouter, to the persons therein named respectively, and by reason thereof Judgments were recovered thereon, against him by the name of John Slater, and this deponent further says that the said John Slouter, in the said declaration mentioned, and the said John Slater in the said Certificate named, are one and the same person, and not different or other persons, And this deponent further says, that, as far back as he can remember which

was several years prior to the year One thousand eight hundred and eighteen he has often times heard his said father relate the circumstances of his serving in the revolutionary war and of the hardships he endured therein for almost the whole of the war. And this deponent further says that after the said farm was sold as above mentioned, he raised the money with his own means and resources, and paid to the said Parent Van Vleck the sum of Eight hundred and eighty dollars and seventy one cents as and for the title to said farm acquired by him, by virtue of such purchase at said Sheriff's sale and thereupon took the said Certificate from him which is hereto annexed. And has since obtained a deed for the said farm. And this deponent further says that the said sum of money wholly belonged to him, and that his father had no interest in or title thereto, and that he paid the same to the said Parent Van Vleck and took the said certificate for his, this deponent's exclusive use and benefit, and further this deponent has paid for his said father, and in satisfaction and discharge of debts due and owing by him the sum of One thousand dollars and upwards over and above the sum of Eight hundred and eighty dollars and seventy one cents in the said by him paid to the said Parent Van Vleck for the said certificate, as above mentioned. And further that although this deponent paid entirely his own money to the said Parent Van Vleck for said certificate, and has obtained a deed for the said real estate, still he perceives that the receipt indorsed on said certificate by the said Parent Van Vleck, sets forth that the said sum of Eight hundred and eighty dollars and seventy one cents was received from the said John Slater, instead of this deponent, which was not the fact, as no part thereof was paid by or belonged to him, the said John Slater. And this deponent further says that the said John

Slater, now commonly known by the name of John Slater is extremely poor, and is wholly unable to support himself except by the assistance of others: that he has no property whatever, except a few of the articles mentioned in his said declaration hereto annexed, and further this deponent says not -
Given the 19 th day of April 1831 before me
George S. Slater
J. M. Comstock
State of New York
Rensselaer County ss. Michael J. Smith of the town of Chatham in the County of Columbia being duly sworn doth depose and say that on or about the eleventh of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty four as regards he can recollect he received a judgment in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York against John Slater and William Jacobie for five hundred dollars of debt and fifteen dollars twenty five cents damage, and costs, by a confession, by bond & warrant of attorney. That the sum actually due at the time of taking the said confession of judgment was two hundred  and fifty dollars , this deponent cannot precisely recollect but verily believes it was upwards of three hundred dollars; which was contracted several years before the said judgment was confessed, by the said John Slater who then still does reside in the town of Napierville said, for money borrowed by him of this deponent, for which sum he the said John Slater then gave his promissory note, to this deponent. And that William Jacobie then signed the said note with him the said Slater as his security, that the sum so lent by this deponent, to the said John Slater was at the time the said note was given two hundred and fifty

Dollars; that the said sum was so loaned as aforesaid as near as this deponent can recollect in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen or one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, And as this deponent verily believes was applied by the said John Slouter to pay his debts, and for his exclusive use and benefit. - And this deponent further says that the judgment alluded by him above is the same judgment mentioned and described in the certificate hereto annexed from the Sheriff of the County of Renfrew Renfrew and that the said judgment so obtained for the money lent as aforesaid amounted to three hundred and twenty nine dollars and sixty seven cents as near as this deponent can ascertain or recollect. On the fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, the day on which the farm of the said John Slouter which had been sold by virtue of several executions, and among others, one upon the judgment aforesaid of this deponent: that on the day above mentioned the said farm was redeemed or purchased by George Slouter the son of the said John Slouter; and as this deponent then supposed and now believes with his own money. And this deponent further says that he has known the said John Slouter for more than twenty years last past. And that he has almost invariably been known & called by the name of John Slouter, but that of late years, he has been called by the name of John Sliter, that this deponent from his first acquaintance with him, always understood both from him and others that he had been a soldier in the revolutionary war - and never doubted

the fact of his having been such soldier sworn the 26 th day of April 1831 before me
Michael J. Smith
John Coon (com: 88)
State of New York Rensselaer County 3 rd ss.
I hereby certify that John Keen Ogden whose genuine signature is affixed to the several affidavits hereto annexed was at the time of taking the same respectively one of the commissioners of said county duly authorized to take such affida- vits.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seals of said County this 18. June 1831. Archibald Bull Clerk
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Renfrew County ss: John Sluter the Claimant in the declaration hereto annexed, named being duly sworn doth depose and say that, George I Sluter, the son of this deponent commenced business for himself, as a blacksmith, at or soon after he became of the age of twenty one years, and has continued in business for him- self and upon his own account ever since, that at the time this deponent's farm was sold as set forth in the Sheriff's certificate annexed, he honestly and justly owed and was indebted to his said son in the sum of seven hundred dollars and upwards for so much money paid and advanced at divers times for this deponent, in discharge of his debts: and to relieve him from the operation of executions issued against him: And this deponent further says that after his said farm had been so sold by the Sheriff as in the said certificate set forth he, for the purpose of securing to his said son, the de- mand so due and owing from this deponent to him as above mentioned, he conveyed to his said son his equity of redemption in his said farm, subject to the sale so made thereof by the Sheriff as aforesaid. And this deponent further says, that the said George I Sluter, for the purpose of raising money sufficient to re- deem the farm so sold by the Sheriff as aforesaid, he gave a mortgage thereof to one Timothy Reed, from whom he borrowed the amount of money, paid by him to redeem the said premises as set forth in his affidavit hereto annexed: And this deponent fur- ther says that the whole transaction in relation to the sale of the said farm and the redemption of it by the said George I Sluter, was bona fide, and the result of necessity on the part of this deponent and not done in any respect with an intention

or the most remote idea on his part of making application for a Pension, and further this de- ponent says not
Given the 19 th day of July, 1831 before me
John his  X Flower mark
John Lomax