Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,985, for Michael Jackson, New York

SERVICE
SERVICE New York
Jackson, Michael
NUMBER _____
NUMBER S. 44.985
CONTENTS

20452
New York
Michael Jackson
of Orange County in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Denton of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Ritzma in the New York line, for the term of One year from March 1776 to 17
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th day of June 1832
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th of June 1832 and sent to the Hon. Samuel J. Wilkin H. Rep.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $ 22-93 Semi-annual all'ce ending
$22-93
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Acts March 18, 1818, { and May 1, 1820. }
Recorded Book D. Vol 5 page 188. O.K.B.
see letter to Hon. S.J. Wilkin June 21. 1832

21.808
In the matter of
Michael Mackeson a private in Denton's Company Ritzamall Regiment in the New York line of the Army of the Revolution
Declaration of Affidavit for Pension & Pension Roll

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act of congress of the United States entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and in compliance with the act in relation to said act passed May first eighteen hundred and twenty the following schedule containing the whole estate and income (including personal effects and breeding cattle) of Michael Dickson is private in Captain Dennis Dalton's Company, in Colonel Ritzman's Regiment in the Army of the Revolution in the New York line is set forth to wit.
Real Estate or income none. Personal Estate or income none - Dated May 31 st 1831.
Michael Dickson -
attest C. G. Brainerd
State of New York Rensselaer County ss. Common Pleas
vs. Michael Dickson do solemnly declare that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby 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 eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor had any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or rights due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed sworn to in open court this
Michael Dickson

31 st day of May 1831 before me Asa Dunning clerk
At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court House in Goshen in and for the County of Orange in the State of New-York On the thirty first day of May in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty one - Present Oliver J. Lawrence Esquire Judge John Kellock Junior John B. Booth Esquire Sibret J. Van Hook
In the matter of Michael Dickson a private Soldier in Captain Daniel Dutton's Company, Colonel Pitzgama's regiment in the Army of the United States in the New-York line -
On reading and filing the schedule of the Soldier aforesaid containing a full account of his estate and income verified by his affidavit prescribed by the act of Congress of May first 1820 in such case provided, on mo- tion of Col. G. Bradner of counsel for said Soldier It is resolved and it is the opinion of this Court that said Michael Dickson had no estate or income whatever. And it is ordered that the clerk of this Court certify the same to the War Department of the United States accordingly -
I Asa Dunning clerk of the Court aforesaid do hereby certify that on reading and filing a schedule and affidavit of which the foregoing are true copies by me compared with the original, a rule of which the next above is a true copy, was at the time in

the caption of said rule mentioned, duly entered by order of said Court. And I further certify that John Wallock Junior and John B. Booth before whom the annexed affidavits of Michael Dickson Joseph Denton and S. S. Sayre for use to have been taken were each of them at the date of said affidavits before them taken, Judge of this Court duly Commissioned & Sworn. And I further certify that I am acquainted with the signature of each of said Judges and know the hand writing John Wallock Junior to the annexed affi- davit of Michael Dickson to be the signa- ture of said Judge Wallock. And the writing John B. Booth to the annexed affi- davit of said Denton and Sayre to be the signature of said Judge Booth.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas at Goshen this ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty one.
Asa Dunning

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolution and was approved March eighteenth eighteen hundred and eighteen I Michael Lockwood of the town of Wallkill County of Orange and State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the army of the Revolution in Captain Daniel Denton's company in the Regiment of Colonel Fitzgama in the New York line and during the pleasure of congress and believe that I enlisted about the first of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty six at Goshen in the County of Orange aforesaid. That on the nine tenth of March of that year I marched with said company to the city of New York where we remained till the battle of White Plains in the County of Westchester in said state. That I served in said company in that battle. That after that battle I was assigned to take care of the sick wounded and went with them under the charge of Doctor Woodruff the surgeon and physician to the academy in Fishkill which had been converted into a hospital where attending upon the sick and wounded and waiting upon said hospital I remained till about Christmas of that year when said surgeon told me I might go home and see my friends in Orange County aforesaid but must come back when the government called for me or similar was that thereupon after packing away my spare clothes blankets and personal accounts in the house of Doctor Graham in Fishkill I left said hospital and returned to my friends in Orange County with the intention of returning to the service when I should be required to call for. That shortly after I reached my friends in Orange County my Captain said Daniel Denton came home to Orange County where he advised

When in consequence of advanced age I was forced to decline the service and went no more into the service - and I not being called for did not go into the service though the next spring after I left Fitchville as aforesaid I returned there but found that the soldiers had all left there when upon I returned again to my friends in Nany County aforesaid - That the whole time I was in the service in the country in which company was more than nine months - that I am now seventy two years of age and upwards -
attest
Job Loyal Joseph Denton
Michael Jackson
State of New York
Nany County ss. Be it remembered that on this thirty first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one Michael Jackson whose name is subscribed to the above declaration came before me the undersigned one of the magistrates of the Court of common Pleas of Nany County aforesaid and being duly sworn deposed and said that the facts set forth in the above declaration by him subscribed are true. And I further certify that I have been well acquainted with said Michael Jackson for many years and that he has been reputed all that time to have served in the Army of the Revolution -
John Hallack Jr

State of New York Orange County ss. I do hereby certify that the town of Blooming Grove in the county of Orange aforesaid being duly sworn depose and say that I am a farmer residing in the town aforesaid.
That I am well acquainted with Michael Dickson whose name is signed to the annexed declaration and to which I have signed my name as a witness. That about the first day of March Seventeen hundred and sixty six I enlisted at Goshen in said county into the company of Daniel Denton in Colonel Ritzama's Regiment of the continental line of the Army of the Revolution in the New York line. That about the middle of said month of March I marched with said company to the city of New York from said town of Goshen. That I well recollect that said Michael Dickson marched with me in said company from said town of Goshen to the city of New York as a soldier in said company that we stayed in New York and vicinity till we marched to White Plains. That I fought in said company at White Plains. That I frequently saw said Michael Dickson doing duty in said company in New York as a soldier. And I also recollect having seen said Michael Dickson about the battle ground of White Plains doing duty in said company as a soldier. And that said Dickson faithfully performed his duty as a soldier in said company. That about the end of December of the year aforesaid in consequence of said Captain Denton representing to Government, as I was informed, that his company had been enlisted from his neighbors children under a promise that in all probability they would be discharged.

3 d within a year at least the several members of said company were permitted to return home whereupon I returned to my friends in said County of Orange - That I am now twenty three years old and upwards -
Job Sayre
For it remembered that on this 30 th day of May 1831. Major
Job Sayre to me known came before me the undersigned one of the judges of the Court of Com- mon Pleas of Orange County aforesaid and being duly sworn deposed & said that the facts set forth in the above deposition by him subscribed are true - And I further certify that the reputation of said Major Sayre for truth & probity is good and without exception -
Wm. B. Booth
State of New York Orange County ss. I Joseph Dutton being duly sworn deposes and says that I am a farmer residing in the town of Goshen in said County - That I enlisted in the company mentioned in the affidavit of Major Job Sayre above, about the time said Sayre said in his said affidavit he enlisted therein - That I am acquainted with Michael Jackson who named & signed to the annexed declaration to which I have set my name as a witness - that I marched with said company from Goshen to New York at the time it is said to have marched in the annexed paper that I was in New York and at the battle of White Plains with said company and recollect that said Michael Jackson marched from Goshen in said company to New York and did duty therein as a soldier both in New York and at the battle of White Plains, and that we were permitted to leave the service as I understood for the reason given in said Major Job Sayre's deposition - That

Said Captain Denton was an uncle of the above Dent. That I am now twenty two years old and upwards -
Joseph Denton
Be it remembered that on this 30 th day of May 1831 came before me the undersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Prince a foreclosed the above named Joseph Denton to me well known who being duly sworn - deposeth and saith that the facts set forth in the deposition above by him sub- scribed are true - and I further certify that the reputation of said Joseph Denton for truth and probity is good and unexception- able -
Geo. B. Booth

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act of Congress of the United States entitled "An act to provide for certain persons in aid in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred eighteen and the acts amendatory thereto the said Michael Jackson mentioned in the annexed papers offers the following additional testimony in favour of his claim for a pension under said act. &c. to wit.
State of New York
Range County ss. The said Michael Jackson being duly sworn saith that on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen was possessed of no property of any kind over and above what debts he then owed and had previous to that day contracted. That it is by occupation a farmer and a husbandman. That on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen he was able to work and with the assistance of his wife and his two daughters mentioned before was able by his labour to earn his own living and support his family which family then consisted of himself his wife and two daughters. That his family consisted of the same persons till about the year eighteen hundred and twenty three when one of his said daughters was married and left his family and has resided away ever since. That his wife died in October eighteen hundred and twenty nine. That his wife was lingering under a consumption for some years and was thereby disabled from aiding him with her labour in the maintenance of his family for three or four years before her death. That his other daughter has ever remained unmarried and continued to live with him and still lives with him and was able to earn her living up to the month of June eighteen hundred and twenty four since which time she has by reason of continued sickness been unable to walk or render any service for the support of her self and has no property there with to support herself and is dependent on him for support or the charity of others. That he is now in the twenty fifth year of his

He finds himself unable to labour much or do anything thereby a consequence for his own support by reason of his advanced age and rheumatic complaints in his arms which latter he has been more or less afflicted with for some years and which two not violent in 1818 have been increasing upon him by degrees since in so much that his arms now are so weak that he is unable to put on his own coat or use them much about any thing else of consequence to his own support. That he has no property of any kind or any means of support save except from his own labour and the temporary charity of others. That in the year eighteen hundred and twentyfour he took the Merchant Seafaring Oath under the act of the Legislature of the State of New York entitled "an act to abo- lish imprisonment for debt in certain cases" passed April 7. 1819 before Samuel Stewart Esquire first judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Orange County in said State, and such proceedings were then and afterwards had before said judge that he the said Michael Jackson died on the twentieth day of November eighteen hundred and twentyfour duly attaining the benefit of that act by reason of his utter insolvency and by virtue of the ad- judication of said judge thereupon. That he means of his own labour and the and not otherwise temporary charity of others, he has hith- erto been able to live comfortably from day to day but with no provision for the morrow except from his said labour and that charity, the latter of which may cease at any time and the former he thinks he will be unable to perform or endure much longer. That he had until about up to the time of this his application been averse to the applying for a pension and preferred supporting himself otherwise as long as he reasonably could. That he gets no pension in any way either from the Government of the Uni- ted States or the State of New York or otherwise and is on no pension list whatever. That from his own labour which he is now able to perform he is utterly unable to support himself and that he has generally heretofore for some years laboured more than he was comfortably able to perform.
Michael Jackson

I the undersigned judge do hereby certify that I am now and have been for some years well acquainted with the above mentioned Michael Jackson that his reputation for truth and veracity is good and unexceptionable that the said Michael Jackson being by me this day duly sworn depose and say that the facts set forth in the above affidavit to which he has set his name are true - dated March 9 th 1832
Jno B. Booth Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for Orange County
State of New York
Orange County ss. Abbe Carpenter and Sally Carpenter of said County being duly sworn say that they have been well acquainted with the above mentioned Michael Jackson for twenty years last past and upwards that the said Sally is his daughter that they know of no property or means whatever to be possessed by him the said Michael Jackson for his support other than what is set forth in his above affidavit which they have heard read & know the contents of that they believe and have reason to believe from their own knowledge and observation that the facts set forth in the said above affidavit of said Michael Jackson signed by him in their presence are true I the undersigned judge do hereby certify that on this 9 th day of March 1832 the above named Abbe & Sally Carpenter and Sally Carpenter came before me at Goshen in said County and being by me duly sworn depose and say that the facts set forth in the

above affidavit by them subscribed are true. And further that Sam- uel acquainted with the said Jesse Carpenter and Sally Carpenter and have been for some years and know that they reside in said County have then resided heretofore as long as I have been acquainted with them. That their and each of their reputation for truth and veracity is good and above all ex- ception -
W m B. Booth Judge of the Court of Common- pleas, in & for Orange County -
State of New York Orange County } ss. I Asa Dunning Clerk of the said County and ex officio - Clerk of the Court of Common-pleas, in and for the same County do certify. That it appears from the records remaining in the Clerk's office of said County and Court there was on the Twentieth day of November one Thousand eight hundred and Twenty four filed in said office pursuant to an act of the Legislature of said State entitled an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases passed 7 th April 1819 - an adjudication made by Samuel J. Grew Esq. First Judge of said Court pursuant to said Statute in the words and figures following to wit - -
"By Samuel J. Grew First Judge of the Court of Com- mon-pleas in & for the County of Orange it appearing to me that the petitioner is unable to pay his debts, and that his account or inventory presented with his petition are true in all respects, and that he hath not concealed any part of his estate or effects, for the future benefit of himself or family, or in or an to defraud any of his creditors, and that he hath in all things conformed with the provisions of the act entitled "an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases" passed April 7 th 1819 - Then forasmuch that the said petitioner make a grant or assignment unto Stephen Jackson of

Goshen in said County (by me appointed for that purpose) to be made in the manner and form prescribed in and by the said act, excepting out of such assignment such articles as are by law exempted from execution - Dated this 20 th day of November 1824
Sam d G. Sewell
And I further certify that there is now remaining in said office and annexed to the above said trust an assignment in the words and figures following to wit
"Know all men by these presents that I Michael Jackson of Goshen in said County and by virtue of the act entitled "An act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases" passed April 7 th 1819. and in pursuance of an order made by the honorable Samuel G. Sewell First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Orange and for the consideration of one Dollar to me in hand paid have granted, bequeathed, sold, assigned, conveyed and delivered, and by these presents do grant, bequeath, sell, assign, convey and deliver unto Stephen Jackson of Goshen in said County (duly appointed for the purpose) for the use of all my creditors, all my estate, real and personal, both in law and equity, in possession, reversion and remainder (except such articles as are excepted by his honor the Judge aforesaid according to the above said act), and all books, vouchers and securities relating to the same - In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this Twentieth day of November 1824 -
Sealed and delivered In the presence of A. S. Benton
Michael Jackson
And I further certify that there is remaining in said office and annexed to said assignment a Certificate in the words and figures following to wit
...very by me duly sworn depose and say that the facts set forth in the

"I Stephen Jackson of Goshen in the County of Orange do hereby certify that Michael Jackson of Morrisink hath this day, pursuant to the act, entitled "An act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases" granted, conveyed, assigned and delivered to me for the use of his creditors, all his estate, real and personal both in law and equity, in possession, reversion and remainder (except as is excepted by the said act) and all books, accounts and securities relating to the same. Given under my hand and seal this 20 th day of Nov. 1824.
Sealed and delivered In the presence of us
Stephen Jackson
A. J. Benton
John M. St. John
And I further certify that on the 20 th day of November 1824 - the date of the above mentioned adjudication the said Samuel J. T. Lewis Esq. was First Judge of the Court of said County in said adjudication mentioned duly commissioned and sworn and I further certify on the 9 th day of March last the date of the two affidavits hereto last before annexed John B. Booth Esq. before whom said affidavits purport to have been taken was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in said County duly commissioned and sworn and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge Booth and only believe his name subscribed to said affidavits to be the proper signature of him the said John B. Booth - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 9 th day of June 1832
Ala Dunning

44985 Rev INVALID.
File No. 44985
Michael Jackson Priv. Rev. Year
Act: 18 th March 1818 1 st May 1820
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 254
[Arrangement of 1870.]

pen: to com: 9 June 1832

House of Repres. June 15. 1832.
Dr. Fu,
I have just received and herewith transmit to you the papers of Michael Jackson, on an application for the benefit of the Pension act of 1818.
The application was made to you before, but the papers were returned on account of the deficiency of proof as to the disposition of his property since 1818.
With the accompanying papers you will find an affidavit showing that the applicant took the benefit of the Insolvent act in 1824 - which is corroborated by a certificate of the clerk of the court to the proceedings under the Insolvent Law.
I take the liberty to say that I am personally acquainted with Mr. Jackson and know him to be poor. I have no doubt of the entire truth of every thing stated in his affidavit. It

It is out of Mr. Jackson's power to give any other account of his property than is contained in his affidavits. — The fact that he has delayed so long applying for the benefit of the Pension Law, just to negates the idea that he disposed of his property under the Insolvent Laws of New York to enable him to take advantage of the act of 1820.
I understand by your letter to Mr. C. S. Bradley of the 15. Feby last that no objection is made to Mr. Jackson's advice.
I am very respectfully
Yours &c
Sam. Jackson
J. L. Edwards Esq.