Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 42812, for William Lane, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Lane William Elizabeth
SH2812
CONTENTS
see this woman's claim as former widow of Jonathan Johnson, New York, P. 6120

7103
New York
William Lane
of Ulster in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dubois of the New York line, for the term of three years 1776-
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of March 1829 and sent to the Hon W. Cabaness
  Arrears to 4th of March 1829  81. 86    Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Sept 1829  48 —     $ 129.86  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Application sent to C. C. Tappan Esq. Oct 1829
Toronto N.Y.
Rev. Hon. John Van Buren July 1. 1842
Died Oct 25 1833

William Lund Jr.
Con
7103
5 Mar. 1819

Northern District of Bridgeville Ulster County NY On this fifth day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court for the Court of Common Pleas it being a Court of record for the said County of Ulster William Lane and my three years resident in the said County of Ulster being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows enlisted in 1776 in the month of Decem- ber at Ft. Montgomery for the term of three years in the Company of Captain Thomas Lee in the Regiment commanded by Col. Lewis Dubois and served about one year under Lee who resigned and the company was then commanded by Capt. Henry Dubois and when the said William Lane served out his time and was discharged at Middletown in New Jersey the 18th 1779 No of Pension certificate 7.703 original Declaration made 8th April 1818. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to disqual- ify as to being myself within the provisions of the 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 18th day of March 1818 And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any

property on securities contracts or debts to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the following Inventory, and by me subscribed Viz Real estate about - six acres of land (not paid for) worth $80. - One cow worth $13. One yoke of oxen worth $25 - One pig worth $1 - Household furniture worth $10. My family consists of a wife aged 59. years - a son aged 24 years who works for himself and does not reside with me One daughter aged about 17. residing at home & in good health myself unable to support myself on account of the asthma and other infirmities
William Lane
Sworn to and subscribed on this fifth day of July 1820 before me a Open Court due as returned at first Indge J-
Ch. Christopher Lappan Junior
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County in the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto are true and truly copied from the originals on file in this office of said Clerk. And that it is the opinion of said Court that William Lane is depen- dent on the aid of his country for support and that the total amount in value of the property exhibited on the aforesaid schedule is exactly nine Dollars. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court July 5th 1820 -
C. C. Lappan Jr.

I William Laine of the Town of Newpaltz in Ulster and State of New York do swear that I enlisted in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war in the year 1776 in the company of Thomas Laine in Lewis Dubois Regiment & Battalion of the New York Troops and served until the end of my time for three years and was Discharged by the said Col J. V. Laine
Sworn and subscribed before the Jonathan Dubois one of the Judges of the Ulster common pleas
W. Laine
I John Lester and Peter Wells do swear that the above named William Laine is to our knowledge the Very Man that served in the company and Regiment as is above stated until the end of his time and was Discharged
Sworn as above -
J. Lester
P. Wells
John Lester Peter Wells
Ulster County } As I Jonathan Dubois one of the Judges of State of New York } the Ulster common pleas do certify that the above named William Laine and the witness sworn are to the knowledge of the said William is in such pecuniary trouble as to need the assistance of his country
J. Dubois
I Jonathan Dubois one of the Judges do certify that William Laine is in such pecuniary circumstances as to require assistance of his country for support
J. Dubois

Ulster County Clerk's Office I certify that Jonathan Dubois within named is a Judge of the Court of Sessions & qualified as within described & that his name within signed is his own hand writing. Witness the seal of the Court within mentioned of which Court I am clerk. Dated 28. April 1818.
Ch. Chapman [Signature]
W m L. Laine To The Secretary of the War Department of the United States
not on the rolls

State of New York Ulster County } ss:
I, John Dwyer a Clerk of the County of Ulster do hereby certify that Reuben H. Hine Esq. before whom the annexed declaration of Elizabeth Lane, and the Affidavits of Jonathan Thompson and John Prake purport to have been subscribed and sworn- was at the respective dates of the same a Judge of the County Courts of Ulster County duly Commissioned and sworn, and that his signatures to the same are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 17 th day of July 1840.
John Dwyer a Clerk.

Canad. Church 18 Adon. Church THE 13
NEW TESTAMENT
OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK; AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED.
PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY MATHEW CAREY, NO. 122, MARKET-STREET.
1809.

Samuel Lane was Born the 18 day of February in the year of our Lord 1796
William Lane was Born the 21 day of March in the year of our Lord 1798
Betsy Lane was Born the 21 day of June 1801
Margaret Lane was Born the 17 day of March 1804
John Lane was Born the 10 day of March 1806
James Lane was Born the 12 day of March 1808

7620
Elizabeth Lane N. York
Mar 6 1894 ————— 1894 who was 1891 (same person) ————— October 1893 ————— 25 Oct 1893 1894
Wm. R. Palen, N.R.

State of New York Witten County ss }
John Drake of the Town of New Paltz County of Ulster & State of New York being duly sworn deponeth & saith that he is sixty three years old that he is well acquainted with Elizabeth Lane widow of William Lane the 2 d who was a pensioner of the revolution that he has always understood that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and has frequently seen his papers by which he drew his pension
That the said Elizabeth Lane was first the widow of Jonathan Johnson who died in the year 1791 that after to wit in the fall of the year seventeen hundred & ninety three the said Elizabeth was legally Marrie- d to William Lane 2 d deponent was present at the time that the ceremony was performed by a Methodist Clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church that her maiden name previous to her marriage to Jonathan Johnson was Elizabeth Gelverton
And this deponent further saith that the said William Lane and the said Elizabeth lived together for several years and had several children and that the said William Lane 2 d died six or seven years ago and his widow the said Elizabeth has ever since lived a widow and is still the widow of the said William Lane 2 d deceased and is now an applicant for a pension and further this deponent saith not
Sworn & subscribed this 15 th day
of July 1840 before me
John Drake
I do further certify that John Drake is a man of good character in his statements to be relied on William Judge of Ulster County Court

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th of July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows State of New York Ulster County, ss
On this eleventh day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty persons appeared before me Stephen H. Hove one of the Judges of the County Court of the County of Ulster aforesaid Elizabeth Lane a resident of the town of New Paltz, County of Ulster and State of New York aged Seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows That she is the widow of William Lane deceased who in the revolutionary war was a private soldier for which he received a pension of Ninety Six Dollars per annum until the day of his death. She further declares that she was married to the said William Lane on the thirtieth day of November in the year one thousand seven hundred & ninety three that the ceremony was performed by a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church that her name previous to her marriage with William Lane was Elizabeth Johnson that she was first the widow of Jonathan Johnson who died the first day of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety one that her maiden name previous to her marriage with said Johnson was Elizabeth Gelferton and that her husband the aforesaid

William Lane 2 d died the twenty fifth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the Marriage took place = previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz. at the time above stated and that she has not intermarried but remains the widow of the said William Lane as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herunto annexed.
She further declares that she has no documentary evidence of her marriage but the annexed family record of the age of her children was kept by her husband the said William Lane in his life time and that she knows of none who was present at the time she was married except those whose affidavits are herunto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me and I do further certify that said applicant per bodily infirmity is unable to attend court.
Newton H. Albin one of the judges of the county courts
Elizabeth her X Lane mark
Wm Lane Died Oct 25 1833

State of New York Ulster County 3/8
Jonathan Tompkins of the town of Halcott County of Ulster & State of New York being duly sworn deposes and saith that he is eighty six years of age that he is well acquainted with Elizabeth Lane widow of William Lane who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war That the said Elizabeth Lane was first the widow of Jonathan Johnson who died in the year 1790 That afterwards to wit in the fall of the year of seventeen hundred and ninety three the said Elizabeth was legally married to William Lane & deponent was present at the time that the ceremony was performed by a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church that her maiden name previous to her marriage with Jonathan Johnson was Elizabeth Gelferton
And this deponent further saith the said William Lane and the said Elizabeth lived together for several years and had several children and that the said William Lane died seven years since and his widow the said Elizabeth has ever since rem- ained and is still the widow of the said Wil- iam Lane deceased and is now an applicant for a Pension and further this deponent saith Not
Sworn & subscribed this 13th day of July 1840
Jonathan his X Tompkins mark
Before me the undersigned certify that Jonathan Tompkins is a man of good and moral character and his statements under oath are to be relied on as true
J. H. Hine

Q Sur. File 42812, Revolutionary War.
January 11, 1906.
Madam:
In reply to your letter dated December 14, 1905, and received in this Bureau December 15, 1905, you are advised that the papers in the above-noted claim show that William Lane enlisted at Fort Montgomery, in December, 1776, and served until December 18, 1779, as a Private in Capt. Thomas Lee's Co., later commanded by Capt. Harry Dubois, in Col. Lewis Dubois Regiment . He applied for pension April 28, 1818, while a resident of Newpaltz, Ulster Co., N.Y. His claim was allowed. Date of birth not given; he was sixty-three years of age in 1820; he died October 25, 1833.
His wife was fifty-nine years of age in 1820; his son twenty-four years his daughter seventeen years. No names given. No further family data. ?
For date of last payment apply to the Auditor for the Interior Department, Treasury Department, citing the following data: Ctf.7103, issued March 5, 1819, Act of March 18, 1818, New York Agency.
Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may be found in the archives of many of the original states.
Very respectfully,
Mrs. M. C. Bradley,
Commissioner.
#2831 Diamond St., ...

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7620
Elizabeth Lane N York
Act 7 July 1838.
Let. to Hon R. Palen July 18, 1841.
Rejected
Let to Hon J. W. Burrows Jan'y 1842. same July 1. '42
Act 7 July '38

Oliver Crane 1820 M.B. Lt. Col. J. Brant March 2nd R.H.S.
6120
V.A.T.
Rejet 7 July 1830

Oct 21 1833 Oct 25
Phila, Pa,
Dec. 14. 1905
Mr V. Warner Commissioner Of Pensions, Washington D. C.
I want to find a record of the services of William Lane, of a pensioner of The War Of The Revolution. He lived at or near Phoenixia or Lanesville, Ulster County, New York. He had a son Edward Lane. What was the date of last payment of pension of said William Lane? Can you tell me where I can get any information on the subject in New York state. Does each state have a record of its soldiers. Is there any place I could find name of wife of William Lane?
Respy. Yours
Mrs M. C. Bradley #2831 Diamond St. Phila. Pa.

42 812
INVALID.
Reo Y 
File No. 42.812
William Lane
Dr. Geo. Fox
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 287
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1906 Jan 10- History to Mrs. M. C. Bradley.
M. B. H.

State of New York } Rutten County } ~
Reuben H. Lane of the town of Sen Patty County of Rutten and state of New York being firstly sworn deponeth and saith that some five or six years since deponent prepared the papers of Elizabeth Lane in an application for a pension under the act of Congress of 4 th of July 1836 for a pension the Revolutionary services of her husband Jonathan Johnson but failed for the want of services to entitle her to a pension that deponent about the same time prepared the papers for an application for Elizabeth - Elsworth the widow of John Elsworth also under the act of 4 th of July 1836 both neighbours of this deponent that deponent drew the papers at home from a rough draft taken at their respective residences that deponent distinctly recollects that Mrs Elsworths marriage took place in the spring of the year and that if Mrs Lane in her declaration under the act of 4 th of July 1836 stated that her marriage with Lane took place in the spring of the year it was contrary to her directions or statements made to me from which I drew her several declarations and must have occurred in consequence of having both the marriages before me at the time I drew them at my own house and that Mrs Lane should not be blamed for a clerical error I committed in copying them
Deponent further states that afterwards deponent called on Mrs Lane for her statement of the death and of her marriage with said Lane for the services of her last husband to prepare

her papers for a pension under the act of 7 th of July 1837 that deponent then required of her a correct date of her marriage and at which time she gave this deponent the family record containing the birth of her children which said record deponent believes is now filed in the - war department with her application at Washington Deponent further saith that at the time deponent obtained her statement and proof of marriage with same she the said Elizabeth Lane made said statement from the birth of her children and of the death of her first husband Johnson that she always alleged and persisted that her marriage with same took place about one year and a half after the death of Johnson her first husband and that her first child was by said Lane was born more than two years after said marriage and further this deponent saith not
Sworn and subscribed before me this 9 th day of February 1845 & I certify that said deponent is & has for several years past presided as a judge in the utiter county courts and is at present a member of the Legislature of New York
D. H. Hine
Stephen Lake a justice of the peace

STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss. ULSTER COUNTY.
I, JOSEPH H. TUTHILL, Clerk of the County of Ulster, do hereby CERTIFY, that Stephen Lake _____ whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County afore- said, dwelling in said County, elected and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment, is genuine.
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the fifteenth day of February 184 5
J. H. Tuthill
Clerk.

W. R. July 24 1845 Hon. J. L. Edwards.
Yrs From a Letter just recd. from Judge Hine. It appears that Elizabeth Lane, made an applica- -tion for a Pension, for services rendered by her deceased husband Lane. Who drew a Pension under the Act of 1818, at the time of his death; - "And his Affidavit explaining the Clerical Error, which he swears he inadvertently made." Accompanying said Letter, and herewith sent you. If Judge Hine's statement is correct. The Heirs of the deceased Lane are justly entitled to a Pension and the truth of which, can be conveniently ascertained by Reference to the Documentary & Parole Testimony on file. Refer- -ring to her last marriage, to which he directs my attention. And as to Judge Hine's character I can clearly say, he is a Citizen of Ulster County, some thirty miles from me a good farm- -er, one of the Judges of our Courts, Highly Respectable in his vicinity. (Indeed I never heard a word uttered agt. his char- -acter) and is now a Legislator of our State, in the Assembly and is a member in full communion in the Dutch Re- formed Church. - But is a very common Plundering Schollar. (And I do not think the very Best Intellect in the world) his Pensionership will warrant that assumption Pray I therefore beg of you to Refer to the Proof of her Marri- -age. And if that Proof warrants the Conclusion that Judge Hine swears the truth, Give it your favorable Judgment. If otherwise. Your condemnation. I wish nothing but right & justice in the Pension, - The Examination I presume can not

not be laborious or tedious, and I hope you will find it convenient to attend to it before I leave the City. If not, do so at your convenience. And Report to yours
With the Greatest Respect
and Regard
Desmond Russell
The Mem d sent me is, that the family records as filed, that she means she was married 18 mo. after her 1 st Husband's Death. that her 1 st Child was Born 2 Years after her 2 nd Marriage. that Several Respectable Witnesses, have Testified that her marriage took Place in the fall of 93. in Nov. and were Present. — There may be a Design in this matter. But from his inability as a Person to draw up Papers of this kind properly. the more Reasonable construction is. that it is nothing more or less than a clerical Error! — and there is Proof Positive of his incapacity to do such Matter Justice! and as his Character stands fair & Respectable. we ought to to give it the usual construction. That every man is considered Honest until otherwise Proven! The Law is with you!
A. G.

Judge Hine in his Letter to me says. If he does not succeed to get a Pupa for the children of Mr. Linn. he will feel conscious of having touched the character of an honest Woman now in her grave. which he inadvertently "farnished" by a Clerical Error!

House Representatives July 17. 1821
Sir
Henry Washburn Esq. is anxious to obtain a report in the case of the evidence of William Saine 2 nd . The papers were forwarded to the Department by me some time since. Your attention is invited to the above case, at your earliest convenience.
Respectfully Yours
Rufus Palmer
J. L. Edwards Esq. Committee of Privileges

Adm c .
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Hon. W m Hasbrouck, H. B.
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5 March 1819. date of certifi: ~

State of New York 3
Dutchess County 3/2. On this sixteenth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred & nineteen before me the undersigned first judge of Dutchess County came General Lewis Buttray of Poughkeepsie in the said County to me personally known and who I certify is entitled to credit and on oath declared that he knows William Lane of Ulster County an applicant for a pension under the late act of Congress, that the deponent commanded a regiment in the New York line in the war of the revolution called the fifth New York regiment from the year 1776 until the spring of 1778 when the regiment was deranged and the New York troops were put into two regiments; that the said William Lane entered the said regiment in a company commanded by Thomas Lee in the year 1776 as a three years man and served out his said term of three years in the said regiment when he was honorably discharged.
Given this 16 th Feb. 1819 before me
Lewis D. Buttray
JAMES D. DROST
On the same day also appeared before me Henry Schoonmaker known to me who on oath declared that he knows William Lane above named, that this deponent was an officer in the regiment commanded by Lewis Buttray in the New York line in the revolution and that he knows that the said Lane served as a soldier in the said regiment and was in such regiment at the taking of Fort Montgomery in the year 1777 when the deponent was made a prisoner.
Given this 16 th Feb. 1819 before me
Henry Schoonmaker
JAMES D. DROST

Certificate of Elizabeth Lane

Clergyman of the Methodist church in said town and that she knows of noone alive who were present at the time except those who stated in her first declaration
Sworn to & subscribed on the day aforesaid above written before
her Elizabeth X Lane mark
me & I further certify that from bodily infirmary said Elizabeth Lane is unable to attend Court. The figures (1841) in the margin on the first page were — placed in the Margin before the execute- ion thereof
R. H. H. in presence of the judges of Ulster County Court
State of New York
County of Ulster Ss I George A Gray Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, Certify that Reuben H. Hine is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing Signature, purporting to be his, is genuine, In testimony whereof I have hereunto Affixed my official Seal of Office, and Subscribed my name this twenty fourth day of November 1841.
Geo: A Gray, Clerk by Richard Keator Dep. Clerk
State of New York
Ulster County Ss. I George A Gray Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County, Certify that Rev. Church Esq. whose name is Sub- scribed to the annexed Affidavit of Ira Ferris, was at the time of said Affidavit purporting to have been taken a Magistrate as therein Specified, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Magistrate and that his Signature is genuine, —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County the 24 th day of November 1841 Geo: A Gray Clerk by Richard Keator Dep. Clerk.

Supplementary Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July Seventh 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
State of New York Rutger County ss
On this Twentieth day of August 1841 personally appeared before me Hudson H. Hine one of the judges of the County Courts of Rutger County aforesaid Elizabeth Lane a resident of the Town of New Paltz of said County aged eighty years being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July Seventh 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
That she is the widow of William Lane deceased who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war
That in addition to her former declaration she declares that she distinctly remembers that she was married to the said William Lane the the last day of November in the year 1783 that her first child was born more than two years after her marriage with said Lane
She further declares that since her first declaration she has refreshed her memory that the marriage ceremony was performed by the Revd Mr McComb then a

Ulster County ss. {
Ira Ferris being duly sworn Deposes & says that he is a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Stationed on the New Paltz Circuit and that having Examined the Records of said Church in said Circuit finds that Jacob Brush was Presiding Elder and that Lawrence M c Comb. & Smith Wicks were the Preachers on said Circuit in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety three and that there is no record of M c Comb who found kept by them at that time in the said circuit for several years previous and after and further this deponent saith not
Subscribed & sworn to 15 th day of Sept r 1891 Rev. Ira Ferris
Ira Ferris
November 23 d 1891
I then B r H r do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Ira Ferris and know him to be a clergyman of the Methodist denomination and for the last year and a half and now is stationed on & has the charge of the New Paltz Circuit
B r H r } one of the Judges } of Ulster County Court