Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 877, for Carpenter Kelly, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Kelly Carpenter Van Saun, Wester former widow
W 877
CONTENTS

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3600 New Jersey Hester Van Saun formerly widow of Carpenter Kelly who who died in the year 1784 of Bergen Co. in the State of New Jersey who was a Sgt. in the Comp. commanded by Captain Johnson of the Regt. commanded by Col. Haws in the New Jersey line for 1 month & 20 days Service 8 " Private
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 35 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of Sept 1841 sent to Sarah Hays Harrison, New York Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $350.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 41 17.50 $ 367.50
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3d }
Recorded by W. Addison Clerk. Book A Vol. 1st Page 147

No 5413
Hester Van Saun N.Y.
act 4 July '36 &
3 march '37 -
Agack & Humphreys Co. New York
Williamstown Peach & Co. - Coopers
adm. 2
1. no. 2001 scrip.
$mo. scrip
35
no deduction
David P. Ye
Clarkstown
N.Y.
26.17
833

State of New Jersey & 1 Bergen County, ss. On this third day of June 1841, personally appeared before me Robert S Gould one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common- Pleas, in and for said County, Hester Kansam, a Resident of the township of Hackensack, in said County, aged Eighty One - years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the fourth day of July 1836 and the act explanatory to said act passed the 3 rd of March 1837. That she is now the widow of Cornelius Kansam, and was formerly the widow of Carpenter Kelly, who was a Sergeant and Private, and served during the Revolutionary war as follows. That about the first of July, in the year 1776, the British sailed up the Hudson River to Tappan and Haverstraw Bays, and to prevent their landing to plunder and distress the Inhabitants, Col n . A. Haske's Key Bickens out the Militia in Mass to guard the shores & land- ing places along said Bays and Capt n Hendrick Te- more, under whom the said Carpenter Kelly had to serve, ordered out all his men, and the said Carpen- ter Kelly did serve under the said Capt n guarding at Nyack for one month as a private, and after the said town did serve at one and two weeks at a time until in the fall of said year, making not less than one month more service under the said Capt n . - That on or about the first of January 1777, the said Carpenter Kelly enlisted at Clarkstown, for three months, under Capt n . Abraham Brindonk, a Capt n in Col n Hays Regiment, and during the said service in the month of March, on a scouting party, near - Fort Lee, he with Abraham Storm and others was taken prisoner, and taken to New York and con- fined in the Sugar House until in the month of

August following he made his escape from his confinement and returned to his residence at Clarkstown, which term he served as a private. That in the latter part of the month of September (she believes) in the year 1777 the said Carpenter Kelly enlisted as a Private for three Months, under Capt Robert Johnson a Capt. In Col n Clintons Regiment of Continental troops, and served that time a scouting and guarding from Clarkstown to Fort Lee and other Places. —
That after the expiration of the said last recited services her said husband Carpenter Kelly served under the said Capt Tenure, Capt Jacob Buderdenk, Capt Lieut. Daniel Buderdenk. Officers in said Col n Hays Regiment, and under Capt. Elias Mowens Goetochies at different periods — under some as private and under others as Sergeant until the close of the year 1780. she recollects of him informing her that he served abt six Months under said Goetches, she residing at the New Bridge near Hackensack, and he spent much of his time before their Marriage serving under Officers in the State of New Jersey. —
That in the month of March 1781 her said husband did enlist for six Months under Capt Thomas Blank, in Col n Deyo Regiment and served from Hester to Hackensack. —
That in the latter part of March 1782 (she believes) her said husband enlisted for nine Months, under Capt John Nancy  Carpenter , a Company raised agreeable to an act of the Legislature of the state of New Jersey and served out that time in the County of Bergen and near Hackensack.
She further declared that she was Married to the said Carpenter Kelly the first day of February 1779. and that the said Carpenter Kelly

in the of March or the latter part of February 1784 she will recollects the time as it was one year after the birth of her Daughter Rachel as is noted in the old record and said wither it was 2 or three days before her age of one year or 2 or three days after she cannot say. That she was afterwards Married to Cornelius Vansau who Died the 11th Day of August in the year 1832. and that she since that time has remained a widow.
Signed & Subscribed } Hester * Vansau the 3 rd day of June } her mark A.D 1841. Before me -  Robert T. Gould Judge
I do hereby certify that the above depo- nent Hester Vansau by reason of old age and bodily infirmity is totally unable to attend Court and make her declaration living about six miles from our Court House and being unlearned is unable to write her name
June 4 th 1841
Robert T. Gould Judge

State of New Jersey, ) Bergen County. ) ss. On this fourth day of June, 1841, personally appeared before me Robert S. Gould, one of the judges of the inferior court of Common Pleas, in and for said County, Sarah Everson, a resident of the township Hackensack, in said County, aged nearly sixty two years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that the present Hester Van Saun, formerly the widow of Carpenter Kelly, is her Mother, and that she was present and see her mother married to the Cornelius Van Saun, in the fall of the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight, she being then nearly nine years of age she well recollects the circumstance as the Minister, (whose name she does not now recollect) at the home where her said Mother was married stated to the said Van Saun taken her and her sister Rachel by the hand, being the only children her Mother had by Carpenter Kelly, "I Marry you not only to this woman but also to these Children." Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me Sarah + Everson her Mark Robert S. Gould Judge
I do hereby certify that I know the above Sarah Everson the above deponent and believe her to be a person of veracity and truth and whose depositions may and ought to receive full credit. Bergen County June 14 th 1841 Robt. S. Gould Judge

State of New Jersey Bergen County - ss. On this fourth day of June 1841. personally appeared before me Robert S. Gould, a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for said county, Daniel Vanseiven, a resident of the township Lodi, in said county, aged 87 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that he was personally acquainted with Carpenter Kelly, during the the a part of the Revolutionary war, and knows that the said Carpenter Kelly served with him six Months under Capt Morris Goutcher (afterward promoted to Major) commencing in the Month of December in the year 1777, and six Months under Capt Thomas Blanch, commencing in the Spring of the year 1781. both Captains in Colm Dey's Regiment and served as a private being the same person who had for his wife Hester Brower, who after his decease was married to Cornelius Vansann, as was generally reported and believed by him to be true, he was not present at either of the Marriages -
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year above written before me Robert S. Gould "Judge" Daniel Vanseiven his X mark
I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Daniel Vanseiven the deponent in the above affidavit and that his declaration may be relied on for truth and veracity.
June 4 th 1841 Robert S. Gould Judge

In the Year 1779 Born Rachel October the 23
Sally City Born in the year 1707 October 24
Sally City Born in the year 1707 October 24

William Brant was married February 1. 1899 to Miss Mary

Rev. Brewer M. L. Cook Newburyport Mass. Dec 21 Rev. Brewer Newburyport Mass. Dec 21

18th Dec 1841 at 10 o'clock at the house of Mrs. Mary at the house of Mrs. Mary

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Hester Brewer Married February 18th 1811 at the residence of her father James Brewer in the town of New Bedford
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Born in the Year 1783 Mar ch the 5

Mr. [unclear] March 1st 1793 [unclear] Barnes [unclear] not return 24 first [unclear] March 1793 [unclear]

State of New Jersey Bergen County } On this Third day of June 1812. person- ally appeared before me Robert S. Goydell one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county. Hester Vansau- a resident of the township of Hackensack, in the county of Bergen in said State, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that she was Married to her first husband Car- penter Kelly by the Rev. Samuel Verbrugh, on the first day of February, 1779. That all the record of said Marriage that is in her power to produce (there being no church record thereof now to be found) is the annexed leaves cut out of an old Dutch Psalm Book always kept in her possession until this day. That she was after the death of the said Carpenter Kelly legally married to us Vansau. That the said Carpenter Kelly died on or about the first of March 1784. she well recollects it was within two or three days of the time her Daughter Rachel was one year old, but whether it was one or two days previous or after her said Daughter was one year old she cannot positively say. That the hand writing of said leaves is partly in the hand writing of her Sister Polly and a part by William Lewis Lofty, a commissary in the time of the Revolutionary War who was present at the Marriage and now dead.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me -
Hester Vansau her X Mark
Robert S. Goydell Judge
I do hereby certify that I know Hester Vansau in the above Deposition and believe that she is a woman of truth and veracity and that her declarations are entitled to full credit and that the interlineations of Pleas was made before she signed the above Robert S. Goydell Judge

State of New Jersey } Bergen County } On this third day of June, 1881. personally appeared before me Robert S. Gould a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County William H. Norman Jane Norman, Residents of the township of Hackensack in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law do Depose and say that Cornelius Vanmun the husband of the formerly widow of Carpenter Thiele, Died on the ninth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty two and the she remained a widow ever since that time. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid } William H. Norman before me } Jane Norman Robert S. Gould } Jane Norman Judge } his + Mark
I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the deponents above and believe them to be persons of truth and veracity and the interlineation herein made before the signing of the affidavit Robert S. Gould Judge

State of New Jersey } Bergen County. } I, John H. Berry, Clerk of the county of Bergen. Do certify that Robert S. Gould, before whom the Declaration of Westor Van Saun, the affidavit of the said Westor Van Saun the affidavit of William Norman and Jane Norman, of Daniel Van Saun and Sarah Evison was taken is a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature to each is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county this forth day of June 1841.
John H. Berry Clerk

State of New York } Rockland County. } ss. On this Sixth day of March 1841, personally appeared before me Peter T Stephens a justice of the peace in and for said county. The Rev. Isaac D. Cole, pastor of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church at Tappan, in said county: who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that a book, being the record of Marriages of the formerly United congregations of Tappan and Clarkstown are in his possession, and that there is no marriage record of marriage entered in said book from the year 1754. to 1784. during which time the Rev. Samuel Verbrugh was pas- tor of said United congregations, and that there is no entry of the marriage of Carpenter Helle with Hester Brown - in said book —
Sworn to and subscribed } the day and year aforesaid } before me
Isaac D. Cole V. D. M.
Peter T Stephens justice
Rockland County, ss. I, Abraham Hogenkamp, Clerk of the said county, certify that Peter T Stephens is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature, and the signatures to the annexed affidavit of Peter Stephens, purporting to be his, is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office, and subscribed my name, this 26 th day of April 1841. —
Abm. Hogenkamp Clerk

State of New York } Rockland County, } ss. On this Fifth - day of March, 1841, person- ally appeared before me Peter T Stephens, a justice of the peace in and for said county, Peter Stephens, a resident of the town of Clark- town, in said county, aged 80 - years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say: that he was personally acqu- ainted with Carpenter Kelly during the Revolutionary War, and knows that the said Carpenter Kelly, in company with this deponent, and others, a few days in the month of January, he thinks it was the first week in the in the year 1777 month, enlisted at Clarkstown, for three months, under Capt Abraham Onderdonk, in Col d A Hawks Hays Regiment, Lieutenant Gilbert Boozer Commandant, the said Carpenter Kelly being a corporal in said company, and after the said enlistment the said company was stationed at Closter and at different places near the British - lines, and some times part of the company on scouts through the Closter Mountains and other places, watching the movements of the enemy, when, in the month of March following, on or about the twen- tieth of said month, at the turn of the road leading to Fort Lee, and near that place the said Carpenter Kelly, Abraham Storms, Abraham - Naspeo, and Joseph Korkis, was taken prisoners and taken prisoners to New York and there confined in the Sugar house, from which place the said Carpenter Kelly, as he informed this deponent, made his escape some time about the middle of the following summer, and returned to Clarkstown, he is fully satisfied that the time he returned was full six months after his enlistment, and this deponent believes himself the only survivor of all the men belonging to said company Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me.
Peter Stephens
Peter T Stephens Justice
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Peter Stephens and know him to be a man of truth and veracity whose statement is entitled to credit and the interlineation, in the year 1777 was done before executed
Peter T Stephens Justice

In pursuance of a law passed the 27th day of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz :
  1778 May 14 14331 Carpenter Kelly Spri 0 3 6   1779 Octo 15 16809 Carpenter Kelly " 2 16 10   1780 Decr 10 17146 Carpenter Kelly Sergt 5 6 8   Sergt No. 2018 
STATE OF NEW-YORK, COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, February 25 — 1841 . }
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. — 11 — now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz :
First—under Capt. Henry Tourneur in Col. A Hawk Way — Regiment. Second, " " Jacob Onderdunk " " A Hawk Way " " Third, " " Lt Danl Onderdunk " " A Hawk Way " " Fourth, " " " " " " " " Fifth, " " " " " " " " Sixth, " " " " " " " " Seventh, " " " " " " " " Eighth, " " " " " " " "
M. D. Dewey Dep. Comptroller

Receipts for cash paid the Fourth years interest on Militia notes.
   N o of Book. N o of Cert. Date Signed by Payable to Amount Am t int.   £ £     77 143 11 Sep. 1784 Peter Wilson Carpenter Kelly 10. 10. 5 . 12. 7  
State of New Jersey.
I Charles G. McChesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby Certify that the foregoing is a true abstract from a Book headed as above, as taken from & compared with the original now remaining of record in my Office. And I do further Certify that Peter Wilson Esq r was, by the fifth Section of an Act passed by the Legislature of New Jersey Dec. 20. 1783 appointed a Commissioner for the County of Bergen for the purpose of settling and adjusting the payrolls of the Militia & the troops of this State and also for signing and delivering out to each & every person a note for the payment of what may be justly due.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my Seal of Office at Trenton in said State this twenty first day of April A.D. One thousand eight hundred & forty one.
Charles G. McChesney Sec y of State

Trenton May 6 th 1841
My dear Sir
The confused state of my office upon my entrance was such that I found it impossible to expedite business without a thorough overhauling. Your case (of Carpenter Kelly) has rec d an attention and not a book or paper in the office but has been searched. Except those of the Touches which would be an endless job, and some old leaves. The following facts will enable you to prepare the papers of Mr. Kelly. I will charge you Three Dollars which is about one third compensation for time and search. I have rec d $1. - balance here $2. -
I have no record of Thos. Blanch serving. Except the Capre- cration of pay which shows that he performed during the war about Sixteen months Service himself.
   1778. No. Regt Maj Co Detached Days Pay Quar. Exp. Col.     Sept. 10 181. " " " " Dec r 5 th to March 5 th 77 401 9 1   " 182. " " " " " Col. Mar. 9. to Aug t 31. 376 14 4   " 183. " " " " " 81. " July 8. to Aug t 7 305 6 6   " 184. " " " " (at Eliz t town under Genl. Minda) June 22 - July 2 105 17 2   " 185. " " " " for 2 Detach ts Oct r 5 th - Aug t 31. 422 5. 5.        Receipts for Militia Notes - No. 1.   Payee Amount for Signature Amount for Signature Amount for Signature Amount     29. 25. Thomas Blanch May 15 th 1784 Fair Comm te for Bogen Peter Wilson 250 15 8  
Should you require further information I will endeavor to furnish it. perhaps in Bergen Co., you might obtain further proof. you will perceive by the certificate attached. Carpenter Kelly performed Service which will be required of you in the Declaration upon Examination at the Dept t . his case I think is a good one of the papers are properly and carefully drawn.
Yours Affec t ly
Respectfully &c all in all Charles G. M c Cluskey

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No.
877
Hester Van Saun formerly Widow Carpenter Kelly. First Rev War
Act:
July 4, 1836.
Index:—Vol.
M.
Page
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

Clarkstown July 16 th 1841.
Hon d Sir
I herewith send you the papers of Hester Vancaum formerly the widow of Carpenter Kelly with such proof to substantiate her claim as is as yet possible -
It nearly a year since Mrs Vancaum first requested me to try to get a pension for her and it was not until lately that sufficient testimony could be found to substantiate her claim -
A part of her claim is supported by the records of New York and New Jersey and his service under H m Onderdonk and his imprisonment by Peter Stephens the only surviving fellow Soldier that is now to be found living, but the same service and imprisonment is set forth in the Declaration of Abraham Storms deceased altho he enlisted in the same company after Mr Kelly -
All the family records that could be found are annexed to her affidavit in which the time of her marriage is set forth with the birth of her first child Sally, which is spelt by the writer Kelly, but M rs Van Server states that Hester Brower's first husband, called Carpenter Kelly was the identical person who served with him under Goetschius and Blank - and is the only name born on the records of New Jersey -
If any other satisfactory testimony should hereafter be discovered it will be taken and forwarded
I wish you to give her case as early an examination as the duties of your office will in any wise admit and send me the conclusion thereof
I remain Hon d Sir
Your O bt Serv t
David Pyle
Hon d James L Edwards -