Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,850, for Abraham Snyder, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Snyder, Abraham Maria
N 17850
CONTENTS

New York 26.50
Maria Snyder widow of Abraham Snyder N.Y.
who died on the 29. July 1821 of Rockland Co. in the State of N. York who was a Pr. & Serjt. in the company commanded by Captain Smith of the Regt. commanded by Col. Hawkes in the N. York. time for 4 months & 19 days Pr. 15. 14 " " Sergeant 15. 00 $ 30. 44
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 30 Dollars 44 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of April 1839 and sent to David Pyle Clarkstown, N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of March '39 243. 52 Semi-annual allowance ending 4. Sep... 15. 22 $ 258. 74
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book A. Vol. 2 Page 118

see letter to P. Agt. Apr 19. 1839 - (See 35-237-242) (P. 2 of this name.)

2911
X Declaration of Maria Snyder
In Vol 4. p. 25 - #2 - In - 1778 - 7 9/9 " " " 26 - Nov - Aug 1779 - 8 months 1776 1.0
4. 9 3. 10 7. 19
Admitted Sergeant 8 months Private 4 " 19 days
Dr. Rye, Clarkstown N.Y. Nov 15

State of New York Rockland County, ss. On this Second — day of November 1837. personally appeared before me Abraham B. Stephens, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said county. Maria Snyder, widow of the late Abraham Snyder deceased, of the town of Clarkstown, in said county, aged Eighty One years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, deposeth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the ben- fit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July the 4 th , 1836, that she is the widow of Abraham Snyder, late of the town of Clarkstown, in the said county deceased, who was a Drummer in a company whereof Henry Smith was Capt. and Julius Tallman was at first Ensign, and after- wards was commissioned as first Lieutenant of the said company, in Col n J. Hawkes Hays's Regiment, and served in the said company as Drummer from early in the month of July, in the year 1776, until the fall of the year 1782, as is more particularly set forth in the affidavit of Julius Tallman, the aforesaid Officer, and hereunto annexed. She further declares that she was married to the said Abraham Snyder, by the Rev. Samuel Kerbruyck, in the Month of May, in the year 1775. The day of the marriage she does not now recollect, but recollects it was about one year previous to the birth of her first child, who was born the twenty fifth day of May, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six, that her husband, the aforesaid Abraham Snyder, died the twenty ninth day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty one, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed. And of whose services she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim.
Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year above written — Before me.
her Maria X Snyder mark
I do hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with Maria Snyder the above deponent and believe her to be a person of truth and veracity whose testimony is entitled to the fullest credit and that by reason of age and bodily infirmity she is unable to attend Court to write her name Abm B. Stephens Judge

We John Storms Dowah J Tallman residents of the town of Clarkstown, in the county of Rockland, being first duly sworn according to law, do depose and say, that we were well acquainted with Abraham Snyder deceased, and Maria his present widow, for many years, and know the said Maria to be a person of unblemished reputation, and that it is reported and believed in the neighbourhood in which the said Abraham resided, that he was a soldier during the Revolutionary war, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to, and subscribed this 4 th day of November 1837
John Storms Dowah J Tallman
Before me-
Abraham B Stephens { Judge
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Storms and Dowah J Tallman the above Deponents and believe them to be Persons of truth and veracity whose testimony is entitled to the fullest credit
Abraham B Stephens { Judge
I, Abraham Hogenkamp, Clerk of the County of Rockland, do hereby certify, that Abraham B Stephens, Esq. before whom the foregoing Declaration of Maria Snyder, the above affidavit of John Storms and Dowah J Tallman, the annexed Affidavit of Dowah J Tallman, Maria Tallman, the Rev Isaac D Cole, Abraham Storms Cole, and Catharine Myers, and whose name is subscribed to the jurats thereof and to the different certificates thereunder written is one of the Judges in and for the said county, duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature to each of them respectively subscribed is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county this tenth day of November, 1837.
Abraham Hogenkamp Clerk

State of New York.
Rockland County. On this fourth day of November 1837, personally appeared before me Abraham B Stephens, one of the judges in and for said county. DOWAH J. T. ALMAN, President of the town of Clarkstown, in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that he was personally acquainted with Abraham Snyder previous to his death, and knows that the said Abraham died on the twenty ninth day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty one and that his then wife Maria Snyder, the present applicant for a pension has remained a widow ever since that period.
sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Dowah J Tallman
Before me.
Abm B Stephens & Judge
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Dowah J Tallman the above deponent and believe him to be a man of Truth and Veracity whose Testimony is entitled to the fullest credence
Abm B Stephens & Judge

State of New York
October.
Rockland County, ss. On this ninth day of September 1837, personally appeared before me Abraham B. Stephens, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said county. Tunis Tallman, a resident of the town of Clarkstown, in said county, aged 80 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say: That he was well acquainted with Abraham Snyder, now deceased, who had for his wife the present widow Maria Snyder, whose maiden name was Maria Blauvelt, during the Revolutionary war, and knows that the said Abraham Snyder did belong to and serve as a Drummer, during the said war, in a company whereof Avery Smith was cap t . in Col n A. Hawks Hays' Regiment. That early in the month of July, in the year 1776, it was at the time of cutting rye, harvest, the British having sailed up the Hudson River and anchored in the Tappan and Haverstraw Bays, when the whole of the company was ordered out to guard along the said river at Nyack and the Verbreltia Hook and served for one month without intermission after which time it was agreed to divide the said company in two parties, each to serve a week in rotation, and served until late in the fall or beginning of the winter and until after the British had again sailed to New York, but the said Abraham Snyder being the only drummer in the said company, served during the whole time, except he got permission at times to go home for a day or two at a time, but is confident that the said Abraham served not less than three months, on actual duty.
That early in the Spring or late in the winter in the year 1777, the men in the said company being classed did serve in weekly tours, but the said Abraham Snyder, being the only drummer in said company had to serve throughout the season that guards was kept up along the said river and other places, except the time he received permission to stay at home to attend to his domestick concerns, and now to set forth, after the lapse of so many years, the precise time he was out on actual duty, he is unable to say, and believes he would not exceed the amount, by saying that it was three months, in each and every year, but can confidently say that the said Abraham Snyder was actually out on duty not less than two months in each of the years 1777, 1779, 1780 and 1781, and not less than one month

in the year 1782. and he verily believes that he also served not less than two months in the year 1778. but in the last mentioned year, this deponent served as first Lieutenant in Capt John Bell's company, in Col n Graham's Regiment from the first of April until the close of the year, and has very little person knowledge of the services of the said Abraham Snyder during said year of 1778.
That Capt Smith company generally guarded from early in the spring until winter, during the years said ships lay in said bays, along the river at Nyack and Verobretia Hook, as aforesaid, but at times they was stationed at the Long Clove at Haverstraw, at Clarkstown, at Tapp'santon and at Slaughters, especially until the taking of Lord Cornwallis, and at times went into the State of New Jersey.
And this deponent doth further say that from the commencement of the war until the spring of 1778, he was Ensign in the said company, after which time he was first Lieutenant, and until the year 1780, he served near if not full one half of the time the guards was out, and in the year 1780 Capt Smith moved his family, for safety, to Pamaipo, and was nearly all the time with them, when the command of the company was in his charge, and he had to serve nearly all the time.
That Abraham Snyder was Married to Maria Blauvelt previous to the year 1776, as he then understood, as they resided in the same Neighbourhood, and have lived together as such until the decease of the said Abraham, since which time the said Maria has remained a widow.
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
his Tunis X Tallman mark
before me John B Stephens { Judge
I do hereby Certify that I am acquainted with Tunis Tallman the Above deponent, and believe him to be a man of Veracity and truth whose testimony is entitled to the fullest Credit, by Reason of age and bodily infirmity he is unable to write his name John B Stephens { Judge

State of New York } Rockland County } On this nineteenth day of October, 1837. — personally appeared before me Abraham B Stephens, one of the judges in and for said county. The Rev. Isaac D. Cole, Pastor of Congregation of the Reformed Dutch Church, at Tappan, in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, did depose and say, that the Records of Marriages of the formerly United Congregations of Tappan and Clarkstown, are in his possession, and that there is no record of any marriage recorded therein from the year 1754 to the year 1784. and that during that period the Rev. Samuel Verbruyck was Pastor of the said United Congregations, as appears by the said records and that there is no record of the marriage of Abraham Snyder with Maria Blankett, recorded in said record of Marriages. Sworn to, and subscribed } the day and year aforesaid }
Isaac D. Cole. Y.D.M.
Before me — Abraham B Stephens } Judge

State of New York Rockland County ss. On this Second day of November 1837 personally appeared before me Abraham B Stephens, one of the judges in and for said county. Abraham Storms, a resident of the town of Clark- town, in said county, aged 77 years, who, being first duly sworn accor- ding to law, doth depose and say, That he was well acquainted with Abra- ham Snyder deceased, during a great great part of the Revolutionary war, and until the time of his decease, and knows that the said Abraham Snyder did belong to and serve in a company whereof Mary Smith was capt, in Col d J. Hawkes Hays Regiment as a musician, from the fall of the year 1778 until the close of the said war. That this deponent being taken prisoner early in the year 1777, and remaining a prisoner in New York until in the month of October 1778, and as soon as he was exchanged and set at liberty, he took up his resi- dence within the beat of the said capt d Smiths company, and in the month of November following was enrolled in the said company and was ordered out to guard along the Hudson River, and performed some tours of guard duty, in that year, and continued serving with the men composing said company, in tours of duty, until the fall of the year 1782, during the seasons of the that the British with their arm d Vessels lay in the Tappan and Haverstraw Bays.
That the said Abraham Snyder did perform some duty in the fall and begin- ning of the winter in the year 1778, But knows not how many. But knows that the said Abraham Snyder did serve with the guards stationed along the River at the Hook and upper part of Nyack in tours of from one to two weeks at a time and some times for a longer period from the time the river got clear of Ice in the spring of the year until Ice began to make in the beginning of Winter, during the years 1779, 1780 & 1781, and in the year 1782, until about the first of Sep- tember, during which time the British lay in said Bays, and is confi- dent from his own personal knowledge of his services, that the said Abraham served not less than two months in each of the years of 1779, 1780, & 1781, and not less than one month in the year 1782, being always esteemed as a faithful Soldier. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

And this deponent further saith, that the said Abraham Snyder died some time in the summer of 1821, and that his widow Maria Snyder has remained a widow ever since that period.
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me.
Abraham Storms
Henry B Stephens { judge
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Abraham Storms the above deponent and believe him to be a person of truth and veracity whose testimony is entitled to the fullest credit.
Henry B Stephens { judge

State of New York
Rockland County ss On this thirteenth day of October, 1837. personally appeared before me Abraham H. Stephens, one of the judges, in and for said county, Catharine Myers, widow of James Myers deceased, a resident of the City of New York, aged 70 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, did depose and say, that she was at the wedding when Abraham Snyder, now deceased, was married to Maria Blauvelt, and see them legally married by the Rev. Samuel Kerbyck, that she is unable to say correctly the day, month or year when they were married but knows it was about the commencement of the Revolutionary war, and previous to the time the British first took possession of New York, that the said Abraham has been dead for many years, and that the said Maria has remained a widow ever since the decease of the said Abraham.
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me.
Catharine Myers mark
I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Catharine Myers the above deponent and believe her to be a person of truth and veracity whose testimony is entitled to the fullest credit and further that by reason of age and infirmity she is unable to write her name.
Abraham H. Stephens Judge
unable to write her name

Mechanics Bank
New York 17 th April 1839
Sir
I have received this day your Letter of the 15 th Inst, reporting the name of "Maria Snyder, widow of Abraham Snyder, Private & Sergeant at $30 44 / 100 per Annum commencing 14 March 1831 under the 3 d Section of the act of July 14 th 1836,"
Your Letter of the 26 th June 1838 reported the name of "Maria Snyder, widow of Abraham Snyder, Private & Sergeant at $31 22 / 100 per Annum commencing 14 th March 1831 under the 3 d Section of the act of July 14 th 1836" and was paid on the 20 th July 1838 $355.30 from 14 th March 1831 to the 11 th February 1838 the day of her death, per your Letter of the 18 th July 1838.
Fearing that there may be some mistake in this case, I have thought it proper to withhold payment of the amount due, (if applied for) until I hear from you,
James L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
Very Respectfully your Obed Servt W. Knapp Asst by Sylvester Offician chf clk

Clarkstown Jan'y 23. 1839
Hon. Sir
Accompanying I send you an additional Affidavit of Tunis Tallman, in favour of the claims of Maria Snyder, widow of Abraham Snyder, complying with the Rules of the War Depart-ment, as it respects the commencement and duration of each tour of duty as is at this late period possible to be done.
I remain Respectable Sir your O b t Servt.
David Pye
Hon. James L. Edwards

Myack Turnpike } Augt 28 th Ny. Sept 3 add 1/2 Mansnyder, one

Clarkstown August 29 th 1830.
Hon d Sir
Inclosed I send you the affidavit of Tunis Tallman in the case of Maria Snyder. Mr Tallman in his former affidavit has set forth the services rendered by Abraham Snyder, and in the inclosed says that if he is returned as having served as a Sergeant in 1779 he must have been the person as no other by that name served in the company her claim is now left for your final decision as all the testimony that can be is now offered
I remain Respectable Sir Your Friend & Servt.
Hon d James L. Edwards
Daniel Dye

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17830
Maria Snyder Widow of Abraham Snyder Sergt New York
Act: July 1 st 86
Index:—Vol. M , Page 229
[Arrangement of 1870.]

X N. York
Maria Snyder
Settle to Hon. A. Vanderveer }
85. May 1838 }
" to Saml Pyle, Sept. 13, 1838.

State of New York, } Rockland County, } On this twenty fourth day of August, 1838, personally appeared before Peter T Stephens, a justice of the peace in and for said county. aged 89 years, Tunis Tallman, a resident of the town of Clarkstown, in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, did depose and say, that he was well acquainted with Abraham Snyder, the late husband of the present widow, Maria Snyder, during the Revolutionary war, that the said Abraham Snyder did serve during said war in a company whereof Avery Smith was capt. in Col. A Hawks Hays Regiment, of which com- pany this deponent was Ensign until 1778, and then first Lieut. until after the close of said war, and served in said company during the whole of said war as such officer, except for nine months in the year 1778, that as to the service of Abraham Snyder as a Sergeant, in capt. Avery Smiths Company in the year 1779, it has entirely slipped his memory, and he cannot now recollect it, but is confi- dent that there was no other person by the name of Abraham Snyder that did at any time during the Revolutionary war (the year 1778 excepted) serve in capt. Smiths Company, and he never heard any person of that name, during said war, except the late husband of Maria Snyder, and he is and must be the identical person, who stands credited as serving three months as a Sergeant in the year 1779.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me
his Tunis X Tallman mark
Peter T Stephens justice
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Tunis Tallman and know him to be a man of truth and veracity whose statement is entitled to credit, and further that, by reason of old age and infirmities he is unable to write his own name and therefore makes his mark Peter T Stephens justice

Rockland County, ss
I, Abraham Hogenkamp, Clerk of the county of Rockland Do certify, That Peter T Stephens Esq: before whom the within affidavit was taken, is a justice of the peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature to the same is genuine. -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said county, this 25 th day of August, 1830.
Abraham Hogenkamp Clerk -

State of New York, Rockland County, ss. On this Nineteenth day of January, 1839 personally appeared before me Peter T Stephens, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, Junus Tallman , a resident of the town of Clarkstown, in said county, aged 90 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that in addition to his former testimony respecting the services rendered by Abra- ham Snyder, the late husband of Maria Snyder, during the years 1776 and 1777, in the Revolutionary War, he can that the said Abra- ham Snyder did serve one tour of two weeks in the month of Septem- ber, and one tour of two weeks in the month of November, in the year 1776, and that the said Abraham Snyder did serve one week in the month of May, one week in the month of June, one week in the month of July, one week in the month of August, one week in the month of September, one week in the month of October, and one week in the month of November, as a musician in said Capt. Smith's company. And this deponent doth further say, that he feels satisfied that Abraham Snyder did do much more duty during said years, than is by him above set forth, but from the great length of time since the services, and his old age he after much reflection cannot positively swear to more time that he can in any way state the time it was rendered and the length of the tours - and now cannot state more particularly the time the services - was rendered, than to state the month in which each tour of duty was rendered in each year as aforesaid. Sworn to and subscribed - { Junus Tallman The day and year aforesaid { Before me -
Peter T Stephens Justice
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Junus Tallman and know him to be a man of truth and veracity whose statement is entitled to credit Peter T Stephens Justice

Rockland county ss.
I, Abraham Hogenkamp, Clerk of the County of Rockland. Do hereby certify, That Peter S. Stephens, before whom the within affidavit of Tunis Tallman was taken, is a Justice of the peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature subscribed to the same is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said county, this twenty-second day of January, 1839.
Abraham Hogenkamp Clerk