Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23857, for George Quick, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Pearl
Quick, George
S. 23857
CONTENTS

Reported
31.954.
New York
George Quick of Orange in the State of New York who was a private in the Comp. commanded by Captain Davis of the regt commanded by _____ in the Penna line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 20 Dollars _____ Cents per annum. to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of May 1842 and sent to Hon. J. G. Clinton H. Reps.
Arrears to the 14th of Sept. 41 210 Semi-annual allowance ending March 1842 10
$220
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Thos Smoot Clerk Book E. 2 Vol. 4, Page 60

35.303
George Quick N.Y.
Act 7. June '32
atm d Smopri 20 H
Hm. J. G. Clinton, H.R.

State of New York ss On this thirty first day of Orange County May Eighteen hundred and forty one personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange being a court of record now sitting George Dinek a resident of the town of Mt Hope in the County & State aforesaid aged seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law took on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States in the year 1779 and served as a volunteer and militiaman as hereinafter stated
That as this deponent in the beginning of the year 1779 there was a young boy living with Abraham Kortright in the bounds of the Regi- ment of Militia commanded by Col Jacob Strode John Nelson was Mayor in the County of Northampton in the State of Pennsylvania That early in the spring of the year 1779 he volunteered or enlisted and he thinks about the first of April into to a company of men com- manded by Capt Davis and Lieutenant Jones for the term of one year the Colonels name he cannot recollect. This deponent volunteered at a place called Stroudsburg in the county and state aforesaid and went under the com- =mand of Capt Davis and Lieut Jones in the detachment that was sent forward of the main army under Gen Sullivan in pursuit.

of the Indians in the western part of New York This detachment was commanded by Major Powell After leaving Stoneburgh the detach- ment under Major Powell traveled several days through the wilderness by a narrow path toward Wyoming on the Susquehannah River This depo- ment was with the detachment when they were crossing the head of Laurel run Creek on the twentieth day of April 1779 and were attacked by the Indians and in which attack Capt Davis Lieut Jones and four men were killed The detachment being surprised retreated for a short distance and rallied again and after a short skirmish put the Indians to flight and the detachment proceeded onward to Wyoming where they buried Capt Davis and Lieut Jones after the arrival of the detachment at the Wyoming under Major Powell this upon = - ent done duty in the fort at that place until = - ill the arrival of the main army under Gen Sullivan which was not far from the mill = - dle of June of the aforesaid year After Gen Sullivan had been at Wyoming about six weeks the whole = - e army took horses and boats moved up the River in pursuit of the Indians and crossed from the east side of the River to the west side at or near a place called Tioga Point and went up the Chemung River about twenty miles to a place now called Newtown or Elmira here on or about the first of September of the said year we found the Indians strongly entrenched behind a breast work We attacked the enemy

in their intrenchments and after a severe fight drove them from the same from Newtown we marched to the head of the Seneca Lake went down the Lake some miles and crossed over after crossing the Seneca a detachment of about sixty men was selected to return to Wyoming to to assist in guarding that place against the Indians and Tories the latter being considered more than the Indians this detachment was under Sergeant Dilly # After traveling for several days through the woods we arrived at Wyoming and became a part of the Garrison at that place un- der he thinks Col Butler The main army returned sometime in October and after they had been three or four days at Wyoming they left under Gen Sullivan for the Delaware This deponent remained at Wyoming guar- ding against the Indians who had from the destruction of their property by Gen Sullivan become most furious and wanted every opportunity to take revenge on the nonoffending inhabitants of Wyoming until the following April (1780) when after the service of one year the term for which he volunteered he was discharged but did not receive a written discharge This deponent from a disease in the head which has very much impaired his memory is not able distinctly to remember what Captain he served under from after his return from the Indian country until he was dis- charged but thinks his name was Boyd he further says that all that he has stated in relation to his services from the time

That he volunteered at Stroudsburg until the time of his discharge is true according to the best of his recollection. After the return of this deponent from the years service in the army under Gen Sullivan and at Wyoming to Stroudsburg this deponent was enrolled in the summer of 1780 in a company of Militia commanded by Capt Benjamin Schoonover in the Regiment commanded by Col Jacob Stroud and Major John Nelson and in this company he served until the end of the war. The county of Northampton during the Revolutionary war was one of the frontier counties bordering on the Indian country and was for most of the time during the war infested with those marauders and murderers of the inhabitants. The situation of the country required that a guard should be continually kept along the frontier and the company of Capt Schoonover being on the frontier of the said county was selected as a company of men to guard continually along the said frontier and might be called a company of guards minute men or rangers. Their station was at the a fort erected for the defense of the inhabitants near Col Strouds Mill. This deponent never was drafted but always turned out with the rest of Capt Schoonovers company. This deponent further states that such was the danger of the country that in September 1780 by order of Col Stroud Capt Schoonovers company encamped at the fort near Strouds Mill and on the frontier of Northampton County and remained in

and around the fort doing duty and guarding the frontier against the Indians from the first of September 1780 untill the first of April  March 1781 and this deponent further saith that he render- -voused at the time before mentioned with the said company and served in the said company as a militiaman from the first of September 1780 untill the first of April  March 1781 and was in no other business but the service of his country during that time, this service was done under Col Jacob Strowd this deponent does not think there was any regular soldiers or officers of the regular army at Stroudsburg during this service This deponent further states according to - the best of his recollection in June 1781 in the be- -ginning of the month Capt Schoonovers company was again called out and Rendezvoused at the fort before mentioned and served three months at least and was he thinks discharged about the first of September of the said year and that this deponent served in the said company as a militia man called out masse masse , for the term of three months from the first of June 1781 untill the first of September of the said year in the Regiment under Col Strowd during this service the Indians made an attack upon the people living along the frontier near the fort and murdered all x John Larners family except his wife who made x her escape George Larners family was also mur- -dered at his house except his wife who they made prisoner and after taking her about about one mile and a half murdered her also

The company under Capt Schoonover followed the Indians beyond the Pokono mountains and en- camped for the night and returned to the fort the next day Col Strana was out with the company in this pursuit. In the Spring of the year 1782 and according to the best of deponent recollection in the mo- -nth of April Capt Schoonovers company was called out by order of Col Strana to the fort above mentioned and served at least six weeks guarding against the Indians and this deponent served in the said company under Capt Schoonover and Col Strana from in April 1782 untill the last of May of the said year at least six weeks and was dismissed with the rest of the company. That according to the best of the deponent recollection he was again called to the aforemen- tioned fort in August of the said year and served in the company under Capt Schoonover and under Col Strana at least three months during the month of August September October and Nov at least three months that Capt Schoonovers company was again called out the fort afore- mentioned and served from in April until June at least two months and this deponent served in the said company as a private of militia in the Spring of 1783 at least two months and was discharged with the rest of the company. This service was also under Col Strana. This deponent never received a written discharge and during the militia service never was atta- -ched to any part of the regular army but was employed guarding the frontier against the Indians.

This deponent makes the foregoing statements from the best of his recollection having no record evidence he has been obliged to make them from memory which to him is very treacherous being as before stated troubled with a disease in his head which has very much impaired his memory This deponent can not either read or write therefore he has kept no record of his age but from the best information that he can obtain he is enabled to state that he was born on the third day of January nineteen hundred and sixty two in the town of Montague Sussex County New Jersey That since the close of the war he has resided in Stroudsburg in Pennsylvania in Sussex County New Jersey and more recently in the township of Upper Smithfield Pennsylvania and now resides in the town of Mount Hope in Orange County New York And this deponent further saith that he is well known to Daniel Helferty Benjamin Carpenter John Carpenter and Samuel Crocker his neighbours who can testify to his ver- acity for truth and their belief of his having been a soldier in the war of the Revolution This deponent further states that he has never before applied for a pension because he did not know of any one now living who knew of his services and that he was too poor to hire any one to assist him until lately that he now relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not now on the roll of the agency of any state in the Union The word April came there and the word March interlined before signing "by order man" v. 7.

of Col Shroud interview before signing
George Quick mark
Sworn in open Court on the thirty first day of May 1841 Lebbey L. Steele Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he herein states I, Lebbey L. Steele Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Orange County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of George Quick for a Pension - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 31 st day of May 1841 Lebbey L. Steele Clerk of Orange County

Pay Rolls of Northampton County Militia
   Officers Commanding Time of Entry Time of Discharge     Capt. Henry Shoemaker 1780. 1781. 1782 1780. 1781. 1782   Major John Nielson   Capt. Henry Shoemaker { 14 Nov. 1780 1 Jan y 1781   Capt. Benj. Schoonhoven 16 April 1782 26 May 1782   Ditto two pay rolls 78, 79, 80, 81, Do.  
"Endorsed" 239. List of forty seven pay-rolls of Northampton County Militia.
Auditor General's Office Harrisburg Sept. 23. 1839.
I certify that the above is a correct extract from the original list endorsed as above stated, and remaining on file in this office.
Witness my hand and seal of office the day and year aforesaid
B. C. Espy Auditor General

State of New York
Chemung County ss } Daniel Van Campen of Chemung in the county of Chemung in said State aged eighty years upwards, and for forty six years last past a resident of said Town being duly sworn says that he became acquainted with George Quick now as he has been informed a resident of the county of Orange in the said State in May 1780. That the deponent had formerly lived in the county of Northumberland in the State of Pennsylvania, and returned to Northampton county in May 1780 where he became acquainted with said Quick and entered the service of the United States in a company of Pennsylvania militia, commanded by Capt. Benjamin Schoonen in the Regiment commanded by Col. Jacob Stroud. In that company he found Quick and served with him six months in said Schoonen's company from April September 1780 to March 1781, on the frontiers of Northampton county, protecting the Inhab- itants of that region against the incursions of the Indians most of the time in the fort erected by Col. Stroud near his mills in Northampton county and called Stroud's Fort, which was a place of refuge for the Inhabitants in cases of alarm from the Indians -
He also served with said Quick in the same company three months to wit from 1 st June to 1 st Sept- ember 1781. in which service an alarm occurred in which the Indians murdered Landada's family. The Company pursued the Indians from the fort. They got upon the trail and recovered the body of Mrs. Landada & her child who had been murdered by the savages & brought them to the fort. Quick was in this expedition - and under the command of Capt. Schoonen -
The deponent was also in service with the said Quick six weeks under the same officers commencing some time in the month of April 1782 - in similar service partly in the fort and partly in ranging the country as scouts &c. He also served three months with said Quick under the same officers in 1782 from sometime in August to November of that year in the same kind of service -
He also served with said Quick under the same officers and in the like kind of service from the first day of April to the 1 st day of June 1783 -
The company was very frequently out in short expeditions of a few days at a time when the deponent was out & Quick also. These occasional periods of service -

this deponent cannot now particularize, though they were of frequent occurrence. The company of Schoharie was kept as minute men , and were required to turn out in every alarm, being mostly composed of young active men. The deponent can only now particularize the more regular periods of service, detailed above, though he has no doubt that he has no doubt that more was done than he has above detailed. He recollects Quick very well, he was about two years younger than this deponent, was an active, good soldier, and was always ready and willing to march when called, and was quite a favorite with Col. Strong as well as the deponent —
Sworn before me
Daniel Van Campen
the 2 Dec 1861 the
said Daniel Van Campen
being in my opinion a credible
and disinterested witness.
John W. Lewis
Justice of the Peace
Schoharie County
State of New York
Schoharie County
Clerk's office
I certify that John W. Lewis Esq. above named is one of the Justices of the Peace of said County duly qualified & that his signature above subscribed is genuine. Witness my hand & Seal of office the 2 d Dec 1861.
D. V. Wood Clerk

State of New York } } On this 21 st day of December Orange County } 1841 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the said County John W Martin a resident of the town of Mount Hope in said county aged forty four years and made oath to the following effect that he is well acquainted with George Quick whom made and subscribed the declaration before the court of com- -mon pleas in and for the County of Orange bearing date the thirty first of May 1841 And that he has ever since he has been acquainted with the said Quick heard him spoken of as having been a soldier in the War of the Revolution and this deponent further saith that he has always heard the said Quick spoken of as being a man of strict truth and veracity and has never heard his services in any way disputed And this deponent does most conscientiously believe that the said George Quick served in the War of the Revolution under General Sullivan in the summer of 1779 against the Indians and in the Militia of Pennsylvania under Capt Schoonover and Col Strode until the end of the war as he has stated and that the said George Quick has never applied for a pension until now because he did not know of any one living by whom he could prove his services and because he was too poor to travel to find any one to certify his services.

and further that I am well acquainted with Daniel Crocker and Jeremiah Patterson who certifies to the character of George Luck and to their belief of his services and I know them both to be men of good character and are to be believed in any case that they may certify to and further I think that from the poverty of the said Luck and the distance his witnesses lived from when the court was held and his inability to procure means to get them into court he should be excused from producing them in court sworn to and subscribed before me this 21 st day of December 1841
Cornelius Gray Justice of peace
I certify that I am acquainted with John M. Warth who made and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and know him to be a man of truth and veracity and believe that his statements made are entitled to full credit and belief
Cornelius Gray Justice of peace

State of New York } ss On this 22 nd Day of June Orange County } Eighteen Hundred and forty one
Personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for said County Daniel Crocker and Jeremiah Patterson and made oath to the following effect that they are acquainted with George Quick who made the accompanying declaration before the Court of Common Pleas in and for Orange County on the twenty ninth day of May 1841 and that he is reputed in the neighbourhood where he lives and it is generally believed that he was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution and further that we have never heard his services as he has stated in his declaration doubted and we concur in the opinion that the said George Quick was a soldier in the war of the Revolution as he has stated in the afore mentioned declaration and we further believe he is about Seventy nine years of age and that we believe him to be a man of truth and veracity and that his statements are entitled to full credit and belief
Daniel Crocker
Jeremiah Patterson
Sworn before me this day and year first above written Cornelius Gray Justice of the peace
State of New York } ss Cornelius Gray a justice M. ... County } of the Peace in and for the
STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss. I, LEBBEUS L. VAIL, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County ORANGE COUNTY, } of Orange, Do HEREBY CERTIFY, That Cornelius Gray before whom the foregoing Affidavit was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the peace in, and for said county : and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said Affidavit & Certificate is genuine. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 28 th day of December 1841
Lebbeus L. Vail, Clerk

State of New York } ss On this 22 nd Day of June Orange County } Eighteen Hundred and forty one
Personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for said County Daniel Crocker and Jeremiah Patterson and made oath to the following effect that they are acquainted with George Quick who made the accompanying declaration before the Court of Common Pleas in and for Orange County on the twenty ninth day of May 1841 and that he is reputed in the neighbourhood where he lives and it is generally believed that he was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution and further that we have never heard his services as he has stated in his declaration doubted and we concur in the opinion that the said George Quick was a soldier in the war of the Revolution as he has stated in the above mentioned declaration and we further believe he is about seventy nine years of age and that we believe him to be a man of truth and veracity and that his statements are entitled to full credit and belief
Daniel Crocker
Jeremiah Patterson
Sworn before me this day and year first above written Cornelius Gray Justice of the peace
State of New York } ss Cornelius Gray a justice Orange County } of the Peace in and for the County of Orange do certify that
I am well acquainted with the above mentioned persons and know them to be men of truth and veracity and are entitled to full credit and belief Cornelius Gray Justice of the peace

Probations
23857 INVALID.
File No. 23,857
George Inick Rev Rev War
Act: June 7" 82"
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 330
[Arrangement of 1870.]

NY.
Letter to Hon. J. G. Clinton
24 Jany 1842
act 7 June 32

State of Pennsylvania } Samuel Van Buren Monroe County } of the Borough of Strouds- burgh in the said County aged Eighty years and upwards deposeth and saith that in the Revolutionary war he in the year 1779 he entered the service of the United States as a minute man and militia man under Capt Benjamin Schoonover and in the Regiment commanded by Col Jacob Stroud one Nelson was a major in the County of Northampton State of Pennsylvania and that he served in the said company and Regiment until the end of the war in 1783 That his services were done at Strouds Fort and along the frontiers of the said County against the Indians That from old age and loss of memory and the diversified character of the service rendered he is unable to state the length of his services or the times that he served only that during the time from the beginning of April until December of each year from the Spring of 1779 until the last of the year 1782 he served at least three months in each year and in the Spring of 1783 at least one month He further deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with George Duck who entered the aforesaid company and Regiment in the Spring of 1780 and served in the said company with this deponent and the rest of the company whenever the company was in service until about the last of May 1783 His deponent is not able from the loss of memory and from old age to state the time that the said George Duck was out nor the length of his different tours of service but he is satisfied that the said George Duck done

at least three months service in the year 1780 three months service in 1781 three months service in 1782 and at least one months service in 1783 This deponent was well acquainted with the said George Quick and he knows that the said George Quick always was on duty when this deponent was that he was a good soldier and always ready to undertake any hazardous enterprise that was required. The services of the said Quick was done under Capt Schoonover and Col Brown and further he saith not
Subscribed to and sworn to before me this 13 day of May 1842  very before me and I Certify that Samuel Van Buren is a creditable witness. The words may and figures 18, 2, interlined and the words may before me struck out before signing sworn and subscribed This 13 th Day of May 1842 before me
Samuel Van Buren
John Murch S.P.
State of Pennsylvania Monroe County ss
I John Miller Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County do hereby certify that John Murch Esquire whose name appears to the above Certificate was at the time of so doing and still is an acting Justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified so to act in and for the said County and that to all his official acts full faith and credit are due, and that his signature thereto set is genuine
Witness my hand and seal of office
this thirteenth day of May A.D. 1842
John Miller Prothonotary per M. H. Dreher Deputy

State of Pennsylvania ss On this 13 th day of May Monroe County } Eighteen Hundred and Forty two personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County George White of the borough of Stroudsburg aged Eighty two years & upward = as and made oath to the following effect viz; that in beginning of the Revolutionary war he was in the bounds of the company of Militia comman- = ded by Capt Benjamin Schoonover in the Reg- = iment of Northampton County Militia commanded by Col Jacob Stroud and served in the said company and Regiment from the Spring of 1779 untill the end of the war as a minute man and as a militia man but from old age and the consequent loss of memory he is not able to state the particular times that he was that out in service That the service that he done from the Spring of 1779 untill the month of May 1783 was done at Col Strouds Fort on the frontiers of Northampton County Pennsylvania against the Indians who infested the frontiers almost continually untill the close of the war This deponent further deposes and says that Capt Schoonovers company was continually doing duty as minute men from April to December of each year from the Spring of 1779 untill May 1783 That they were continually in readiness at a minutes warning they sometimes were in service at Strouds fort and in pursuit of the Indians from at between three and four months down to three days at a time at one time was out at Van Ellens Swerten days at a time sometimes one and two months at a time and that he was well acquainted with

George Quick who belonged to the same company and always served with this depon- ent under Capt Schoonover and Col Stroud from the Spring of 1780 untill the month of May Summers in 1783 and Eighty Three He knew the said George Quick well was very intimate with him and knew him to be a good courageous soldier and always ready to do his duty but from the great length of time that the service was ended and from the great loss of memory sustained by time he is not able to state partic- ularly the times or their length that the said George Quick served but this deponent is perfectly satisfied that the said Quick served in the year 1780 at least three months in 1781 at least three months in 1782 at least three months and in 1783 at least one month in all from the Spring of 1780 untill about the end of May 1783 ten months and further he saith not
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year before written and I certify that George White is a creditable witness
sworn and subscribed this 13 th Day of May before me John Mueschke
George White

United States D r To Philip Beahm Pay Master of Northampton 6 th Militia. For amount Paid the Militia of Northampton 6 th for their services in 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780. per account and vouchers, and for his own services & expenses £24.088. 11. 11.
Received of the State of Pennsylvania an account & vouchers against the United States N o 28 for the sum of Twenty four thousand and eighty eight Pounds eleven Shillings & eleven pence in Continental Money being for so much advanced by said State to Philip Beahm and by him expended for the use of the United States for the Payment of Militia in their service which ac- =count and vouchers I am to forward to the Commissioner of Army accounts for settlement agreeably to the ordi- =nance of Congress of May 7 th 1787. £24.088. 11. 11 Equat to 64. 236. 23 / 90 dollars
Auditor, Generals Office
Harrisburg September 24 th 1829
I certify that the above is a correct extract from the accounts of Pennsylvania with the United States Book A. Page 154, remaining in this Office.
Witness my hand and seal of office the day and year aforesaid.
RON Ely Auditor General

Auditor Generals Office
Harrisburg Sept. 24 th 1809
J. W. Martin Esq
In reply to yours of 17 Sept. inst. I herewith enclose an extract from a list of pay rolls of Northampton County Militia showing that Capt. Shoemaker and Schoonover was in the service at the time stated therein, I also enclose an extract from the accounts of Penn ce against the United States for the pay of the Northampton Co. Militia for the same period, The vouchers mentioned in the receipt following the account were forwarded for settlement with the United States, and if they could be found would very likely furnish the information you want.
The name of Peter Kittle does not appear on the pay rolls of the Pennsylvania Line.
There are some militia pay rolls on file in this office in which the names of the men are contained.
I herewith return the five dollars forwarded by you to pay office fees. The fees are very small for all that has been done, and besides it is not customary to charge fees for searches &c made for the benefit of Revolutionary Soldiers.
Very Respectfully Your Ob. Serv. G. B. R. Esq
Kittle Geo. Quick } Those names could not be found in the Auditor's N. Chick } office

United States R to Philip Beuhane pay Master Northampton Militia 77, 78, 79, 80 £24 88 11-11 Payrolls of Northampton County Militia Capt. Ruy Schoonover 16 April 1782 to the 26 May Dolls tax rolls 78 79 80 81 " " "

Treasury Department 3 d Auditors Office 14 th Aug t . 1840.
Sir -
I have received your letter of the 11 th inst, with its enclosures, relating to the services of George Quick, who is represented to have belonged to the Company of Militia, in service of the State of Penn a during the Revolutionary War, and you enquire whether the Rolls of the Militia, mentioned in the enclosures referred to, are on file in this Office, and if so, that you may be informed of the date of his service, with its length - In reply I have to state, that there are no rolls of Militia of Penn a for services in the Revolution, on the files of this Office - If they were filed with the accounts of the State, with the U States, they were in the Treasury & have been destroyed by the burning of that building - There is not to my knowledge, any Records in any of the public Offices here, which will furnish information, on the subject of your enquiry. That part of your letter, asking for information relative to

to Abraham Canfield, belonging to the 6 th Regt. U.S. Infantry, who died in service in Sept r 1838, refers itself to the 2 d Auditor, to whom, I have referred that part of your letter, for an answer - P.S. - The enclosures are herewith returned -
Respectfully Sir Yr. Ob t Serv t P. H. Haggan Aud
John W. Martin Esq. Finchville New York

John W. Martin
May 16. 1842

Finchville N.Y. May the 15 th 1842
Dr Sir
The accompanying affidavits are forwarded to you to support the claim of George Lurick to a Pension which has been refused for want of sufficient testimony. The testimony produced at the time of presenting the said Lurick's declaration was the affidavit of Daniel Van Campen who swears that he served with the said Lurick at least six months from Sept 1780 until the spring of 1781 was called out again in June 1781 served three months in April 1782 was called out again and served two months in August of the same year was called out again and served three months again was out two months in the spring of 1783.
This testimony was supported in part by the records of some of the services of Capt Schoonovers company on record in the Seducators office in Harresburgh Penn. This record went to show that Capt Schoonovers company was out two months at one time in 1780 two months in 1781 and one month and eleven days in 1782 which falls a little short of six months. I have been to Stroudsburg where the services were done and there found two men living who served with the said Lurick and who made the accompanying affidavits which you will do me the very great favor at present at the Pension Bureau.

Those men from old age and loss of memory were not able to state the exact times that they were out only that they were out almost all the time at Strouds fort and after the Indians for several years and to come within bounds the did not hesitate to swear that they were perfectly satisfied that George Lusk served in Capt Schoonovers company last Strouds Regt from the Spring of 1780 three months in each year untill the close of the year 1782 and one month in 1783 I have been thus particular in writing for the reason that I have mislaid the Commissioners letter and am not able to return it to you If these affidavits should be sufficient to give him a Pension please accept whatever they may award him I likewise send you a certified copy of the pay of Northampton County militia untill the close of the year 1780 If the Commissioners accounts could be found I have no doubt but George Lusk would be found to be a pensioner for a considerable amount.
I also send the letter of Mr Espy which you may either present with the rest of the papers or destroy it as you please and I send the letter of Peter Hagman
I am Sir your Affec Son John W Martin
Hon J G Clinton House of Representatives Washington City

House of Representatives Washington May 21. 1842
Sir
At the request of Mr John W. Martin I enclose you two affidavits and other papers, in support of the claim of George Quick to a pension. The purport and bearing of these papers are fully explained in the accompanying letter of Mr Martin to which I beg leave to refer you.
Very Respectfully Your Ob t Serv t . L. D. Clinton
Col J. S. Edwards Comm ee of Pensions

House of Representatives Washington January 3, 1862
Sir
Enclosed herewith I send you the declaration and other papers relating to the application of George Quick for a pension for services during the Revolutionary war. The applicant is very old and needy, and I hope will by the enclosed papers substantiate his claim. I am informed that the payrolls of the Northampton (Penn.) militia were destroyed the War Department soon after the war, and if they could be found the applicant's name and services would be clearly shown.
I am requested to inquire why a pension has not been granted to Emma Brink, widow of Aaron Brink, a soldier in the New Jersey line, whose application was forwarded to you last summer by John Hull Esq.
I remain Sir Yours very Respectfully W. H. Linton
Col J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions

Hon. J. G. Clinton H.R.

State of New York } On the 14 th day of May Eighteen Orange County } hundred and forty two person ally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Daniel Crocker of the town of Deerpark in said County aged fifty four years and made oath as follows, Viz. That he is well acquainted with George Quick now an applicant for a pension from the United States for services rendered in the Revolutionary War against the Indians on the frontiers of Northampton County Penn- sylvania That he has known the said George Quick for at least twenty five years he has heard the old man often tell of his services at Strubas fort and after the Indians He further says that his belief is that the reasons rendered by the said George Quick for not making application for a pension sooner than he has is the true reasons why he did not The said Quick was and still is poor and had not the means when others applied to proceed in his case He has no doubt but the said Quick done all the services that he has stated He further says that he has often heard the said Quick tell of his enlisting and serving in the expedition under General Sullivan against the Indians in 1779 and further he saith not sworn to and subscribed the day and year above mentioned before me } Daniel Crocker Cornelius Gray Justice of the Peace }
I certify that I am well acquainted with Daniel Crocker who made and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and I know him to be a man of truth and veracity and his statements above made are entitled to full credit and belief } Cornelius Gray Justice of the Peace

STATE OF NEW YORK, } SS. 1, LEBBEUS L. VAIL, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County ORANGE COUNTY, }
of Orange, Do HEREBY CERTIFY, That Cornelius Gray before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the peace in, and for said county : and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice
and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavit & certificate is genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of
the said County, the 17 th day of May
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Lebbeus L. Vail Clerk