Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6,290, for David Leonard, New York

SERVICE
NEW YORK
Leonard David
NUMBER _____
R. 6.290
CONTENTS

State of New York
Columbia County
John Kemper of the city of Hudson in said County being duly sworn says that he is acquainted with David Leonard of the town of Austinville in said County. That he was well acquainted with William Leonard the father of said David & knows that said William was a Captain of a company of German Fusiliers that was organized at New York in the year 1861, or the latter part of 1861. in the Regiment of Col. John Lockhart
Sworn before me { Feb. 29 th 1884 } J. M. Fairfield Justice of Peace
John Kemper

I David Leonard was born at Rhinebeck, Dutches County State of New York on the 3 of March 1762. before i was a year old my father brought to which note from the Record of my Father's Bible In the year 1775. my father Comanded a Company of volunteer called German fusiliers belonging to the first Battalion of New York volunteer Comanded by Colonel John Reynolds  McIntosh in 1776 they engaged to serve six Months & were sent to Long Island when the British were there. I was with my father part of time & when the British took New York I was with the Retreating army. from there I went home. our family had moved to Rhinebeck & then again Returned to the Army at White Plains. During the time I was with my Father in the Army I served in the Capacity of a waiter which I think was about a month I then returned home. the next year I enlisted for two months under Capt. Andrew Herrmann to guard the powder house & Magazine which had been Robed by the torys, our Line of defense was Elmendorf. the next year i was 16. & was inrolled in the Militia in April the Militia was Clad in 4 parts & I drew the 4. I then went a Substitute in the first Class our Capt. name was Lip we were march to West point & helped build the forts at the point & return in five or six weeks in the summer the second Class was called for I again engaged for a month but before our time expired we were Discharged in the fall I went to the west after the indian on my own draft we were under the Command of A. Major Reddy to call our Capt's name I forgot we had a Lieut. by name Dury. Steinberg we were march to a place then called Numbackus where there was a Regiment of U.S. troops Comanded by Colonel Courtland. While there a few days there came that the indians had come down & were burning & destroying property & Volunteers was called for to drive of the indians. I was one of the Volunteers. there was 16 of us Militia & 24 of the U.S. troops. we were Comanded by a Capt. Graham of the U.S. troops & our Lieut. Steinberg We March as fast as possible & found houses & barns & stacks of grain burning. we pushed on through the wood & indian paths till we got to a place then called Lagkawag where was two log houses & a number of indian huts which burnt we destroyed & took prisoners of the log buildings & Remained there 6 days & every day sent out Scouting parties through the woods but found no indians. after six day we returned to Camp. after being from home five or six weeks we were Discharged while I lived at Rhinebeck I was often Cal'd out on alarm & often volunteered to go a tory hunting. in the year 1780. I lived in Albany & was often Cal'd out in the Militia in Albany. the  Officers

I do not now reside. I lived in Albany until April 1783. I then Moved into Richmond County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts Where I lived 2 years then came into Columbia County State of New York Where I now reside in a town called Housatonic in my 71 st year take all the time together I am I think is short of 1 year but at least 9 mo
At Rhinebeck never came that there was a spy from Canada & the time I volunteered to go after the spy & we took him and sent to Jail at Poughkeepsie
The above was written when I was in my 71 st year but is plain in my Residion I am now in my 77 Year
The above statement subscribed I swear to this 22 nd day of November 1838, before me Erastus Pratt Jus. Peace
David Leonard
Columbia County
Clerk's Office
vs William Miller Clerk of the County of Columbia do hereby cer- tify that Erastus Pratt before whom the above statement was sworn to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Columbia and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and am believe that the signature purporting to be his is genuine Witness my hand & Official seal this 30 th day of November Eighteen hundred and thirty Eight.
W. Miller

Honorable
for
Martin Van Buren
President of the United States Washington City
July 4 1837

Dear Sir
Plas excuse me for troublualing your Honor for writing to you to you as I have applyed for a Pinson under the act as there is no one that I am aquanted with except your Honor at Washoton. I am nowin 77 th year I therefor take the liberty to write to your Honor I have applyed for Pinson some time past it was Rejected by Mr Eduard I have been at Albany St at Rhinebeck I cannot find A living Witness that I have been in the Revolutionary Service I am your friend in need David Leonard.
PS Please Direct your letters to Spencertown Post Office Columbia County -
June 26. 1838
Dear Sir, I have the within for my pay
Up at the 11:45 g. Wash. 9 Green St. dinner & I dress and go to church. The New York books taken are the following P/S 33 - Buffalo Buffalo Office.

Ref to the list of Wals. 9 Green St Leono. 2 I have considered him lost. The documents & his papers are in my respectable P14 33 - July 18/1838 Pension Office.

Andrews Whitbeck Clapp

War Department Pension Office
Dec 12 th 1832.
Sir,
The amended declaration of David Lemand, claiming 5 weeks more service than his original claim asserted, has been examined. His statement represents himself to have entered the military service as a common soldier, at the tender age of 14 years, while his father held the rank and commission of a Captain. The military regulations, of that period, forbid the enlistment of boys, and, it is very improbable, that a father would have sent to the ranks a child of his years, while there were situations more suited to his age, which his rank as a Captain enabled him to control. His claim is therefore rejected and his papers retained on file.
I am Respectfully Yr. Obt. Servt. J L Edwards
M c . Fairchild Esq Hudson N.Y.

David Leonard New York Rev: Act 7 June '32
Rejected, see letter to Mr. Fairchild Decr. 11. 48 32
See let to Hon. H. Van- dusen May 2. 4. 1834

New York
David Leonard
Rev. 6290
Rejected
Let to J. W. Fairchild Dec. 11 '32
Let to Hon. A. Van- dupre May 24. 1834
Let to J. W. Fairfield
June 12. 1834. —
Let 29 Jan '35 to applicant to same 21. July '38; to same Aug. 24, 1838; to same June 14, 1839;
Act of June '32

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Alleg P. O. David H. Lucas Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

State of New York ( We the Subscribers hereby certify that Columbia County ) we have been well acquainted with David Leonard of the town of Austerlitz in said County for many years that we have always believed him to be a Man of truth & veracity that he always sustained a good moral character. that he has been a Justice of the Peace and a Commissioner of Deeds for many years past that he is reputed to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & we concur in that opinion.
Wm Cannon  Wm A Dean  Wm R Macy Columbia County ss
Ebenezer Reed  George Laurence  Isaac S. Cook  Milton Miles  Crastus Pratt
I hereby certify that the above signers are men of good moral character; that they are creditable men; and in respectability are among the first in the town, and that their certificate is entitled to continued credence; and I fully concur with them in the above certificate. Austerlitz May 26. 1834.
William Miles Justice of the Peace
State of New York ( We the Subscribers hereby certify that Columbia County ) we have been well acquainted with David Leonard of the town of Austerlitz in said County for many years that we have always believed him to be a man of truth & veracity that he has always sustained a good moral character that he has been a Justice of the Peace & a Commissioner of Deeds for many years past
D. West
M. L. L. O. N.  Gayer G. Garone  A. S. Van Buren  J. P. Howley  Samuel Kent  J. K. Merrill  John Gage Jun  Amos Carpenter  Charles Darling
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Hon J. A. Leonard

Hudson, Jany 30. 1834
Dear Sir,
The claim of David Leonard of New York was rejected, as will appear by your record & your letter of Dec. 12 th 1832
The old man thinks the investigation of his claim may be revived, & has requested me to send the enclosed papers & to say first
That if you doubt that the Capt Leonard named in the commission annexed to his application was the father of the said David, he is prepared to prove that said Capt was his father Second. That if his youth & the 5 weeks additional claim have thrown doubt on his veracity, these enclosed certificates are intended to remove such doubt
As regards youth, he refers to the case of Andrew Whitbeck, who received a pension - (Who Whitbeck is I know not)
He wishes to say also that he relinquishes the 5 weeks additional claim.
He has not authenticated his papers properly, because he wished first to know whether his claim can be revived, on such proof as he offers -
I believe the signatures to his certificates all genuine. Mr Vandervoort from this county is acquainted with them
Whatever may be your decision, be kind enough to address David Leonard himself at Austin like Columbia County N.Y. for I am heartily sick of all pension business. Thus much I felt obliged to do for the old man
Yours S t & serv t
J. M. Fairfield
Hon. J. S. Edwards

State of New York } We the subscribers hereby certify Columbia County } that we have been acquainted with
David Leonard of the town of Austerlitz in said County for many years - that we have always believe him to be a man of strict truth & veracity - that he has always sustained a good moral character - that he has been a Justice of the Peace & a Commissioner of Deeds &c. for Many years past - that he is respected & believed to have been A Soldier of the Revolution & we concur in that opinion
Henry Foote and Joseph Foote two of the Signers to the above certificate appeared and made solemn oath according to law that the above certificate contains the truth and nothing but the truth before me this 25 th day of December 1883 William Mely Justice of Peace
Ebenezer Reed George Laurence Henry Foote Charles B. Dutcher W. A. Mundy W. H. Dean James Platt M c Cluskey Timothy Woodbridge Uel Lawrence Joseph Foote
State of New York } We the Subscribers hereby certify that we Columbia County } have been acquainted with David Leonard of the town of Austerlitz in said County for many years - that we always believe him to be a Man of truth and veracity - that he always sustained a good moral character - that he has been a Justice of the Peace and a Commissioner of Deeds &c. for many years
Jacob Ford

Spencertown NY — Hon J. L. Edwards August 15 { See
Commissioner of Customs
Washington City
See at N. Y.
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Dear Sir!
I Recv'd your kind Answer to the letter I wrote to the the President of the U. States on Saturday last I wold explain to you that Capt. Inotter was a Capt. I did duty under him When in Albany I was exempt on account of losing the sight of my right eye I was on guard with him on account of the Militia being gone at the taking of Bunkerhill if you are determined to withhold from me my just claim I wish you to send my Father Commissions as wish to them to show that he bore the brunt & burden of the day. I am your friend in need
David Leonard
Aug 3. 1838.
P.S. I was with Capt. Lipe when after the indara I listed for two months under Capt. Hermance after the terms. rode the Hagazene. if you, have the rolls of Capt. Lipe or Capt. Hermance I think my name must be on the rolls or the my must have omitted if I understand the law I think I am intitled to $2.00 a month at least I took the rolls in for my pay
DL

The People of the State of New York.
by the Grace of God,  FREE and INDEPENDENT.
To  William Leonard Esdaile  Greeting.
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence, as well in your Patriotism, Con- -duct and Loyalty, as in your Valour and Readiness to do us good and faithful Service, Have Appointed and constituted, and by these Presents DO Appoint and Constitute you the said William Leonard captain of the Company of Associated Exempted in the Precinct of Rhinebeck in the County of Dutchess
YOU are therefore, to take the said Company into your charge and care as Captain thereof, and duly to exercise the Officers and Soldiers of that Company in Arms, who are hereby commanded to obey you as their Captain and you are also to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, as you shall from time to time, receive from our General and Commander in chief of the Militia of our said State, or any other your Superior Officer, Accor- -ding to the Rules and discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust reposed in you; and for so doing this shall be Your Commission, for and during our good pleasure, to be Signified by our Council of appointment. In Testimony whereof, we have caused our Seal for Military Commissions to be hereunto Affixed. Witness our Trusty and well beloved George Clinton Esquire our Governor of our State of New York, General and Commander in chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, by and with the Advice and Consent of our said Council of Appointment, at Poughkeepsie the Eighteenth day of August in the Third year of our Independence, and in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight
Passed the Secretaries Office Septem: 3: 1778
By His Excellency's Command.
Abraham Brinkerhoff Secretary.
W. L. Esdaile

IN Convention of the Representatives FOR THE State  COLONY OF NEW-YORK, THE twelfth DAY OF August . 1776.
To William Leonard Esquire
GREETING:
BY Virtue of the Authority reposed in us, We do hereby nominate, authorize, constitute and appoint you Captain of the Third Company in Col. Lasher's Regiment and in Brigade in Genl. Scott's Brigade hereby requiring you, before you enter into the Exercise of your said Office, to make in Writing, and subscribe in Presence of the Chairman of the Committee of the City, Town, District, or Precinct wherein you reside, the Declaration appointed and directed by the Eleventh Section of the Seventh Resolve contained in the Rules and Orders for regulating the Militia of the Colony of New-York, recommended by this Congress on the 22d Day of August 1775, and authorizing you fully to execute all the Powers belonging to your said Office, by Virtue of the said Rules and Orders, and the said Declaration: and we do hereby require all Persons under your Command, to pay due Obedience to you, according to the said Rules and Orders, and such further Rules and Orders as shall be made and recommended for the Militia of this Colony, by the present, or any future Continental Congress, or Provincial Congress of this Colony.
Attest,
Robt. Benson Secy
By Order, H. J. [unclear] President

Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid
John D. Parker bly
W. H. H. H.
David Leonard
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4044 Charles T. Dyer David Leonard

State of New York Columbia County } On this 11 th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the justices of the justices Court of the city of Hudson, & County aforesaid, David Leonard a resident of Kinderhook in said County aged seventy one years, who being duly sworn accor- ding to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of 1832 passed June 7. 1832
14 That at Kinderhook in the County of Columbia in State aforesaid, in the year 1776, he joined a Company commanded by his father Capt William Leonard. This was a volunteer Company, called German Fusiliers, belonging to the first battallion of New York Volunteers, commanded by Colonel John Sackett. They engaged to serve six months & were sent to Long Island where the British were then. This applicant acted as a waiter & was with said Company when the British took New York & on the retreat of the American Army, he went to the family which had fled from New York to Newburgh in Dutchess County in said State. He again joined the army at White Plains, & again acted as waiter. He was with said Company at this place, & at Long Island he thinks about a month. Again in the year 1777, he enlisted for two months under Capt Andrew Heermance, to guard the Powder house & Magazine at Red Hook, which had been robbed by the Tories. The Lieutenant of the Company was Elmindorf. In April of 1778, being 16 years of age he was regularly enrolled in the Militia of New York. The militia was divided in four classes, he came in the fourth class by lot, but joined the first class as a substitute in the place of a man whose name he does not now recollect. He marched to West Point in the Compa- ny of Capt. Kipp. The other officers, does not recollect. He helped to build the forts at the Point, & was discharged after six weeks. In the summer of the same year, the second class went to West Point & he went in that class as a substitute in place of one Ezekiel H. Christian now forgotten. He served nearly a month on this occasion. In the fall of the same year, he went in his own class to the West in pursuit of the Indians. Major Radly or Radcliff commanded this detachment age 1778 of age 1.12

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the captain's name he forgot, but the Lieutenant was Benjamin Stenbury. He much in said detachment to a place called Mumboothoo, where there were encamped a Regiment of United States Troops commanded by Col. Courtland. While there news came that the Indians were out again & a volunteer detachment was called for to follow them. This applicant was one of sixteen militia men who joined twenty four regulars, commanded by Capt. Graham of the Regulars & said Lieut. Stenbury of the militia. They pushed on after them through woods & plains, tracking them by burning houses, barns, haystacks, &c. till they came to a place called Lachawana, which he thinks is now Sachawana. Here they found Indian huts & two log houses. They burned the huts, & remained in the houses six days, but finding no Indians they returned to Camp. Soon after he was discharged after a campaign of six weeks. While residing at Ninebick he was frequently called out on alarms & Tory hunts, one & two weeks at a time. In 1780 he lived at Albany & was frequently called out in the militia while there until the year 1783. The officers under whom he went, he does not now recollect. He thinks, on computing all his said service in the militia as aforesaid, that he served the United States not up than nine months.
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Questioned
Says that he was born at Ninebick Dutchy County - moved to New York when only one year old - the only record, his father's family Bible, that he was at New York when the War broke out - at Albany when it closed, has since lived at Richmond County of Dutchess State of Massachusetts two years. & has since lived at Anstedt and Columbia Co. of said ever since.
That he was drafted once, a substitute twice & at other times a volunteer.
That he served under Captains William Leonard, Andrew Hermann, & Kipp & Graham - under Lieutenants Elmerdorf, Stenbury &c. Colonels John Lockhart & Courtland, & Major Radcliff or Radcliff.
That he never had any written discharge & has no documentary testimony.
That he never had any commission.
That he has no living witnesses of his said service.
That the names of his neighbors who can testify to
his character for truth & veracity as then & his

That he never had any commission That he has no living witnesses of his said service That the names of his neighbors who can testify to
his character for truth & veracity, & their belief of his being a soldier of the Revolution, are the Rev Mr Osborn, the Rev Mr Woodbridge, George Laurence Doctor Reed & many others.
That he hereby relinquishes all claim to any pension or annuity except the present; that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year above said. Hiram Milton, Clerk.
David Leonard
We Joel Osborn a clergyman of the Town of Austerlitz and Ebenezer Reed & George Laurence residing in Austerlitz hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Leonard the above applicant, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion -
Subscribed & sworn to this 11th day of Aug. 1832 Uel Laurence Justice. Peace
Joel Osborn Ebenezer Reed George Laurence
State of New York Columbia County 3. I. Joseph D. Merrill Clerk of the said County. do certify that Uel Laurence before whom the preceding Affidavit purports to have been sworn, was, at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County. And that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his hand subscribed to the said Affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature. Witness my hand and Seal of Office this Fourteenth day of August 1832.
J. D. Merrill

And the said Court do hereby certify & declare their opinion after investigating the matter and putting the Inter- rogatory questions proposed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Joel Osborn who has signed the preced- ing Certificate is a clergyman residing in the Town of Austin in the County and State before and also the Ebenezer Reed & George Lawrence reside as stated in the Certificate by them subscribed that they are credible persons & their statements entitled to credit
J. McEneaney Wm R. Moore
I, Hiram Wilson, Clerk of the Justices Court of the City of Hudson, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of David Leonard, for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office this 11th day of August 1832
Hiram Wilson, Clerk
Application
of
David Leonard
not 1832
4040

State of New York County of Columbia }
ss. On this 29 th day of November 1832 personally appeared in open Court now sitting before the Justices of the justices Court of the city of Hudson in said County - David Leonard the before named applicant, who being duly sworn according to Law, makes the following amendment to his former Declaration, in accordance with a letter from the War Department dated Nov. 1 st 1832.
That in the year 1776 he was in said company & regiment as stated in the aforesaid Declaration one week on Long Island in the month of August & previous to the 27 th of said month, & afterwards several weeks at White Plains during the month of October. That the reason he did not serve the whole six months, was that there was no male left at home for the protection of his father's family, & his father discharged & sent him home. 1. 05 That in the fall of the year 1777, he served as afore stated in said Harnce's Company during the months of October & November, two full months, & was duly discharged. That he served in the 2- Company of said Captain Kipp during the month of April & half of May of the year 1778, being six weeks. That during the month of July of 1. 12 the same year he served as a substitute in 2 mo place of S er geant, one full month. 1- That in the fall of same year during the months of October & half of November he served in the Company of which Benj m Stenbury was Lieutenant six weeks. 1. 12 That in the year 1779, his father held the commission herewith forwarded, & that he, this applicant belonged to his company & served during this year, at different times six full weeks. That he belonged to said Company of Associated Exempts on account of a wound received in his right eye - That he 1. 12- 8. 11

Served during the years 1780, 81, & 82 in the county of Albany in a company of Capt Trotter & Lieutenant Kingsland. on different alarms full six weeks. That by reason of old age & consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to each particular service included in the two last mentioned terms of six weeks, but he is positive of having served that length of time. That in all his aforesaid service, he was a in actual duty ten months & one week, for which he prays a pension.
That the service mentioned in this amendment is five weeks more than in his former declaration, because he has had more time for reflection, & has made his recollection more distinct. That to the best of his knowledge & recollection he has stated above the names of Officers & other particulars required by the War Department, as near as he is able, & further saith not
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid
David Leonard
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John D. Parker
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David Leonard
I John D Parker Clerk of the Justice Court aforesaid do certify that the above amendment is the original proceeding of said Court in the matter of the application of David Leonard for a pension
Witness my hand & seal of office this 20th day of November 1832
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