Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15751, for Lambert Swayer, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Swayer, Lambert Allen, Eve
W. 15751
Former widow
CONTENTS

508 2 New York P. Albany
Widow of Allen used who died on the Lambert Swayer of Schoharie the State of N. Y. who was a Sgt in the Comp y commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg t commanded by Col _____ in the Resolution time for two years N.Y.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 121 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831. Judg y 7. March 1839
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of Dec r 1857 and sent to Hon J. J. Knierland Aurora to the 4 th of Oct New York Semi-annual allowance ending Present
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd }
Recorded by _____ Clerk, Book _____ Vol. _____ Page 356

Declaration
In order to obtain the award of pension due Eve Allen at the time of her death under the act of July 4 th 1836 -
State of New York Schuylkill County ss
On the twenty fourth day of January 1848 personally appeared John the Schuylkill County Court now sitting William Dwyer a resident of the town of Middleburgh in said County aged Seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain a pension under said act of July 4 th 1836
That he thus claims pension in behalf of his Mother Eve Allen who died in the town of Coopers-town & County of Otsego on the Eighteenth day of March Eighteen Hun- dred & forty two, That his Mother the said Eve Allen was at the time of her death the Widow of John Allen who died at Schoharie on or about the twenty fourth day of December Eighteen Hundred & thirty two, that previous to her marriage to said John Allen

She had been the wife & Widow of Lambert Snayger who was a Soldier of the United States during the War of the revolution & who died at Schoharie in the County of Schoharie on or about the nineteenth day of March in the year Seventeen Hundred & ninety two that it is on account of the said revolutionary services of Lambert Snayger that said Rue Allen was Entitled to a pension. That De- ponent has often been informed & very be- lieves that his Father the said Lambert Snayger lived during the war of the revolution in the town of Londa & State of New York, from whence he extend the service & that he served as full crew (for three years) then after being discharged again Enlisted & served for a length of time as this deponent always understood from his Mother - - - - - And deponent further knows that his Father & Mother the said Lambert & Rue were as deponent has always been informed & very believes duly Married at Londa in the County of Montgomery & State of New York in the year Seventeen Hundred & Seventy six, that she continued his wife until the day of his death as aforesaid

That his Mother the said Eve Allen left the following Children her surviving for William Swager, Mariah Swager, his Subscribed & sworn in open W William + Swager Court the day & year clerk first & forefied before me Stephen Maham clerk of Prob. Ct.
And the said Court do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been presented to him that Eve Allen men- tioned in the above declaration died in the town of Cooperstown County of Otsego & State of New York on the Eighteenth day of March Eighteen Hun- dred & fortytwo & that she left the following Children her surviving who was the only Children her surviving & who are still living, for William Swager & Mariah Swager - his  William Swager
his D. M. Williams County Judge D. M. Williams

I hereby certify that the foregoing contain the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of William Sawyer for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my Seal of office this 27th day of January A.D. 1848.
Stephen Markham Clerk of Scho. County

Fulton County } ss.
Nicholas Stoner, a resident of the Town of Caroga in said County of Fulton aged 87 years & upwards being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is now a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. That during the War of the Revolution deponent resided in Johnstown in said County of Fulton from whence he enlisted into the Company of Captain Hough in the Regiment of Colonel Livingston in the year 1777, and served therein until said Regiment of Colonel Livingston was disbanded when and at which time Deponent was transferred the Company of Captain Pell in the Regiment of Colonel Livingston . That during said War Deponent was well and intimately acquainted with Lambert Swayer who lived in said War in said Johnstown near the present Village of Fonda. That the said Lambert Swayer served as a Sergeant for a period of three years in the Company of Captain Housen in said Regiment of Colonel Livingston as near as Deponent can now recollect from the year 1777 to the year 1780. Deponent and the said Lambert Swayer enlisted at about the same time together at Johnstown aforesaid into said Regiment of Colonel Livingston and served together in said Regiment for a period of three years when the said Lambert Swayer was discharged therefrom and went home to Johnstown aforesaid. He afterwards served as a Sergeant in the Company of Captain Putnam and Regiment of Colonel Willet with the Nine Months men. The said Lambert Swayer was a married man when he enlisted into said Regiment of Colonel Livingston as aforesaid. His wife's name was Eve. Before

she was married to said Lambert Swayer her name was Eve Fitchett and she lived with her father in said Johnstown. After the close of the said War Deponent and the said Lambert Swayer lived near each other in said Johnstown for a few years when the said Lambert Swayer moved with his family from said Johnstown to Schoharie in said State of New York where as Deponent was afterwards informed and verily believes true the said Lambert died about fifty years ago and left his wife the said Eve a widow who afterwards married a man by the name of John Allen who has since died and that the said Lambert Swayer left two children surviving him named William and Maria. Subscribed and sworn to } before me this 12th day } of November A.D. 1849. } John E. Acker
N. Stone Nicholas Stone
Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above Deponent said Nicholas Stone is a man of strict integrity truth and veracity and of a good memory and sound mind and a credible witness whose testimony upon any subject is entitled to full faith and credit.
John E. Acker Justice
STATE OF NEW YORK, Fulton County Clerk's Office.
I, STEPHEN WAIT, Clerk of the county of Fulton, do hereby certify, that John E. Acker whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Testament
and thereon written, was at the date and time of taking such proof or acknowledgment a Justice of the Peace
in and for the county aforesaid, dwelling in the said county, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice
and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. And further that the annexed Testament is executed and acknowledged according to the law of the State of New York.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said county, the 13 th day of November 1849.
St. Wait, Clerk. CLERK.

Schoharie Co. N.Y.
Personally appeared before me Mariah Swager of the town of Fulton in said County who being by me duly sworn deposes & saith that she is a Daughter of Lambert Swager & Eve Swager that her Father was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War with Genl. Sullivan as she always understood from him, have often heard him talk of battles in which he was engaged but cannot recollect the places where the battles of which he spoke occurred that her Father died in the town of Schoharie in the County of Schoharie a great many years ago that a few years after his death her Mother married to John Allen in the town of Schoharie in her presence after the death of her Husband John Allen, which was some twelve or fifteen years after their Marriage, in the town of Schoharie, her Mother went to reside in the County of Otsego, from which place she was carried to the Otsego County Poor House at which place she died about five or six years since as this deponent is informed & firmly believes she was an aged person at the time of her death this deponent is now about sixty one years old from the best of her recollections from the statement of her Father and Mother William Swager and myself are the only survivors of my Father & Mother's Family, one Brother & two Sisters have died all younger than myself & William I have never heard the marriage of my Father

and Mother questioned and have never suspected any thing to the contrary
Taken & Subscribed before me this 6 th day of March 1848
her Mariah Swayer Mark
John Myers Justice of the peace
I certify that I am & have for a number of years been acquainted with Mariah Swayer the within deponent & she is a Creditable Woman
John Myers Justice of the Peace " " " " " "

Schoharie Co. N.Y.
Personally appeared before me George Hills of the town of Fulton in said County who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is now in his Seventyfourth year of his age that about sixty years since he resided in the town of Schoharie & that he was then in =ll acquainted with Lambert Swager who was then reputed to have been a Reuelutionary war- -rior & who then also resided in the town of Schoharie, that he then kept House, the name of his wife I think was Eve, they then had a small family of Children the names of which that I recollect were, William Swager, Mariah Swager, & Sally Swager, William & Mariah are the only two now living, Mariah has lived in my family for thirty years or more, previous to her coming to live in my fam- -ily she lived in the family of Joseph Teak near me never heard the marriage of Lambert and his wife questioned, after the Death of her Husband she married a man by the name of John Allen.
Sworn & Subscribed before me George Hills this 11 th day of March 1848
John Myers Justice of the peace
I certify that I am & have for a number of years past been acquainted with George Hills who is in all respects a creditable witness
John Myers Justice of the peace

State of New York } Schoharie County } p. Peter M. Snyder of the town of Schoharie in said county aged seventy years being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that he was well and intimately acquainted with Lambert Swayer and Eve his wife, that they lived near this Deponent in the said town and county of Schoharie, between fifty and sixty years ago - that they lived together as man and wife and they were reputed as such, and he never heard their marriage questioned by any person - that at the said time they had three or four children, and the name of the eldest child was William - and that this Deponent and the said William were playfellows together, and about of the same age - this Deponent further says that Lambert Swayer died several years ago, as he has understood and that his widow, the said Eve, afterward, married a man by the name of Allen -
Subscribed and sworn } before me this 29th. day } of February 1848 } John Schhard jun. } Justice of the peace }
Peter M. Snyder
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Peter M. Snyder the above named affiant, and that he is a man of credibility, and his statement entitled to full credit - February 29th. 1848 - John Schhard jun. Justice of the peace -

State of New York Schobarie County
Stephen Maham Clerk of the aforesaid County of Schobarie in the State of New York, do hereby certify that John Gebhard Esq., before whom the within affidavit of Peter M. Snyder purports to have been sworn & executed was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly elected and qualified and authorised by law to take the same. And further that John Meyers Esq., before whom the annexed affidavits of Mariah Swayer, and George Killo purport to have been sworn and executed now at the respective dates of the said affidavits an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly elected and qualified and duly authorised by law to take the same. And that the re- =spective signatures of the said John Geb- hard Esq. and John Meyers to the proofs and certificates of the said affidavits as such Justices, are genuine and in the proper hand writing of the said Justices.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County at Schobarie on this seventh day of December A.D. 1849.
Stephen Maham Clerk
Please Report to me this claim to me John D. Mendenhall
No 7637

Rev
WIDOW & C.
File No. 15751
Eliz. Allen
Widow of
Lambert Sawyer
Sergt Rev War
Act July 4 th 86
Index: Vol. 9 , Page 9
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John D. Slingerland Bethlehem Albany Co N.Y.
✓ No 71137 Ebene Allen dec N
Set L. S. Slingerland July 18/50 Same. May 1. 1857.
cut 4 July 1836

Swayze, Brief in the case of Eve Allen dec d formerly w o of Lambert County and State of New York. act 4 July 1836.
Claim, ("original," or " for increase. ")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Evidence of service: Comrades who served with him and who are themselves pensioners for the same service. He served about 4½ years as Serjt. Evidence of marriage: ages of children. Married in 76. Shown from the town records that the oldest child was born in 78.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent.
Hon J. J. Slingerland of N. York. now present,
F. F. Kirby Examining Clerk.

Please report also to me the Claim of Eve Allen Widow of Lambert Sawyer a suspended Claim.
Act July 4. 1836.
Also the Claim of Lydia Mitchell a add Claim. Act - July 7. 1838. first presented in 1847.
Also the Claim of Miriam Raymond former Widow of Benjamin Deneck.
Act July 7. 1838.
Claim first presented in Feb. of 1848. The above cases have been fully proven out - high Testimony -
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm ee of Pensions
Respectfully Yours John S. Kingsland Bathlehem Albany Co N.Y.
I think Miriam has Chary of the above cases

Waldens Ville Oct 11 th 1850
Hon J. L. Edwards
I herewith enclose the additional testimony in the case of Eve Allen former Widow of Lambert Prager under the act of July 4 th 1836 &c
Yours respectfully Your Obed Servant
Hiram Waldo
Pr. please report to me the result of the examination of the Sarny case also in the case of Huldah Missley this case was sent to the department by me the 14 th of last April & I have heard nothing from it since
H. Waldo

No 7637
Ebene Allen and
family Movers of Lambert Savoy NY
act 4 May 1831

Ove Allen Pension Office May 1st. 1857.

Pension Office,
May 1. 1851.
Sir:
If you will furnish this Office with satisfactory evidence that the second husband of Eve Allen dec d . died in 1832 as is alleged, stating the day and month, as also the time at which she died, her claim to a pension as the former widow of Lambert Swayer dec d . will be allowed for two years service as Sergeant under the Act of 4 July 1836.
Very Respectfully
Yr. Ob t . Serv t
J. E. Heath Comm r .
Hon J. J. Slingerland, Bethlehem N. York
Rev
✓

Eve Allen dec d . formerly widow of Lambert Swayer, or Sawyer. N. York.
Act 4 July 1836.
2 yrs serg. $120
per An. to 7 March 1839. when she died.
Payable to Wm Swayer and Maria Swayer, only children
Hon J. J. Slingerland. of N. Y. now present,

State of New York } Montgomery County } ss
Rev d Aenow Van Olin- de a resident of the Village of Fonda in said County of Montgomery and State of New York, of lawful age, being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is now the Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Graftonawaga in said Village of Fonda and has charge of the Records thereof. That Deponent has diligently examined the Records of the said Church in order to find evidence of the marriage of Lambert Swayen to Eve Fitchett which marriage is reported to have occurred at said Fonda in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six, but that Deponent has not been able to find a legible entry of the said marriage upon the said Church Records.
That the marriage Records at the time referred to and during the Revolutionary War, of the said Church, are very much mutilated and many of the marriages entered upon the said Church Records are so much effaced torn and faded as to entirely unintelligible and cannot be read, or made out.
That upon an examination of the Records kept for Baptisms, of the said Church, that he finds the name of Lambert and Eva, Staten entered as Parents, and their child William, Baptized August Sixteenth, in the year Seventeen hundred and Eigh- ty three. This entry appears to be in the hand-writing of the Rev d Thomas Romeyn. That it appears from the said Records that the said child William was born on the twenty sixth day of January Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight, and that Fitchett was the maiden name of said Eve. That the Rev d Thomas Romeyn appears, by the Records of the said Church, to have been the Pastor or Minister thereof from the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy two, to the year Seventeen hundred and Ninety Subscribed and sworn to before me } on this 18th day of September A.D. } 1850. And I certify that the said } Rev d Aenow Van Olinde is the Pastor } of the Reformed Dutch Church of } Graftonawaga of aforesaid. A. A. Van Horn Justice of the Peace
Rev d Van Olinde Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Graftonawaga

State of New-York, } ss. Montgomery County Clerk's Office. }
Geo. R. Neilson Dep Clerk
certify that Abm A Van Koerne
I, J. W. Van Dusen , Clerk of said County, do hereby
Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment to which this is annexed, was on the date of the same a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, in and for said County, duly qualified, and authorized by law to take the same, and that the said certificate of proof, &c., is taken according to the laws of this State. And Further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said JUSTICE, and verily believe his signature to the said Certificate is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my official seal, at FONDA, this 19 th day of September 1850.
Geo. R. Neilson Dep Clerk. (Clerk Absent)
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State of New York } Montgomery County } I Cornelius Smith a resident of the town of Mohawk in said County of Montgomery, aged 89 years being duly sworn according to law do depose and say when a small boy and before the commencement of the Revolutionary War I became acquainted with Lambert Swayer who then lived at Veddler's Mills near the present village of Fonda in the present County of Montgomery, then the town of Johnstown, and also with Eve Fritchett who then lived near the present village of John- stown, then also in said town of Johnstown which at that time embraced the said town of Mohawk. That deponent continued to be acquainted with the said Lambert Swayer during the War of the Revolution and that during the said War the said Lambert Swayer made it his home, when not in the service and Army near the said Village of Fonda as aforesaid. That during the said War of the Revolution Deponent lived a neighbor to the said Lambert Swayer and only about one mile from him and his family. That Deponent was also well acquainted with the Rev. Thomas Romeyn who during the said War was the Pastor of the Reformed Church of Bangmawaga now in the present and aforesaid village of Fonda. That in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six the said Lambert Swayer and the said Eve Fritchett were duly married to each other in the said Village of Fonda, then called Bangmawaga, in my presence, by the said Rev. Thomas Romeyn. That the said Lambert Swayer enlisted for and served three years after his said marriage to said Eve, in the Regiment of Colo. Livingston. He also served with the same nine months more under Colonel Willet. While in the service as aforesaid his wife the said Eve lived at home at said Veddler's Mills, and when said Lambert was serving with the same nine months more as aforesaid he and his said wife had two children named William and Maria. said Lambert with his wife Eve and family moved from said Veddler's Mills to Schoharie in said State of New York where said Lambert died about fifty years ago and left said Eve a widow. said William is now over seventy years old. Subscribed and sworn to before me me on this 19th day of September A.D. 18... Abm H. Horne justice of the peace

I hereby certify that the within Deponent said Cornelius Smith is personally known to me, That he possesses a good memory, and a sound mind for a person of his advanced age. That he is a man of strict integrity, truth and veracity and is a credible witness whose testimony upon any subject is entitled to full faith and credit and that full confidence can be placed in the state- ments by him made in the within affidavit. Dated at Mohawk, Montgomery Co. N.Y. this 19th day of September A.D. 1850.
Alvan Horne Justice of the Peace

State of New York } Montgomery County }
I Angelica Prime a resident of the town of Mohawk in said County of Montgomery, aged Eighty years and upwards, being duly sworn according to Law do depose and say that during the War of the Revolution I resided in the present Town of Johnston in present County of Fulton and State of New York, and was then and there well acquainted with Lambert Swayer who enlisted into the Regiment of Colonel Livingston at said Johnstown and as she verily believes served in said Regiment for a period of three years, which Regiment was then in the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution. That Deponent had a brother named Peter Vrooman who was also a soldier in the same Regiment of Colonel Livingston with the said Lambert Swayer and enlisted into the said Regiment at said Johnstown and as she believes also served for three years. That the said Lambert served also with the nine months men under Colonel Willet after he had served out his said three years under Colonel Livingston.
That Deponent was also well acquainted with Rev. Thomas Romeyn who during the said War of the Revolution was the Pastor of the Dutch Church of Canajoharie now at the present Village of Fonda then a part of the said Town of Johnston. That as Deponent verily believes the said Lambert Swayer was married to Eve Fitchett at said Fonda by said Rev. Romeyn in 1776. That said Lambert was married to said Eve before he enlisted into the said service, and while in the said service his wife said Eve lived at said Veddler's Mills and kept house and when said Lambert was in the nine months service under Colonel Willet they had two children named William and Maria. Said Lambert with his wife Eve and family moved from said Veddler's Mills to Schoharie N.Y. where said Lambert died about fifty years ago. said Eve died about eight years ago. They left two children surviving them, to wit, the said William now about seventy two years of age and said Maria now about seventy years of age, both of said Schoharie.
Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 19th day of September A.D. 1850. } Angelica Prime Her mark
Abraham H. Austin of the same

I hereby certify that the within Deponent said Angelica Prince is personally known to me. That she is a person of good standing of strict integrity, truth and veracity and a credible witness whose testimony upon any subject is entitled to full faith and credit and that full confidence can be placed in the within affidavit. That she is not now able to write her own name and is therefore compelled to make her mark or cross. Dated at Mohawk Montgomery Co. N.Y. this 19th day of September 1850.
Abraham A. Van Horne Justice of the Peace
State of New York Montgomery County ss. Clerk's Office
Clerk of the aforesaid County of Montgomery in said State of New York do hereby certify that Abraham A. Van Horne Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit of Angelica Prince and the annexed affidavit of Cornelius Smith purported to have been sworn and executed was at the date of the said affidavits an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Montgomery, duly elected and qualified and duly authorized by law to administer oaths and to take the same and that his signature to the several and respective of the said affidavits are each and all of them genuine and in the proper hands writing of the said Abraham A. Van Horne as such Justice of the Peace. So as I truly believe.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Poughkeepsie said County, this 19th day of September 1850.
Waukenner Clerk

Waukenaw Clerk
State of New York Oneida County
I Peter Meower, a resident of the Town of Amherst in said County of Oneida, and State of New York, aged 87 years, being duly sworn according to law do depose and say that I am now a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. That during the War of the Revolution I resided at a place now called Berry Town, in the present County of Montgomery and State of New York. That a part and portion of my services were rendered in the Regiment of Colonel Willet with the Nine months men along the Mohawk River. That I served for a period of nine months in the year 1781, in the Company of Captain Garret Putnam in said Regiment of Colonel Willet along the said Mohawk River, and that the next season, to wit, in the year 1782, I served another period of nine months in the Company of Captain Abner French also in said Regiment of Colonel Willet. That during the said War and while in said Service I was well acquainted with Lambert Swayer who lived in said War at Veeder's Mills near the present village of Fonda in said County of Montgomery, and who was also a soldier in the said War of the Revolution and served with me in the aforesaid service under Colonel Willet. I knew the said Lambert Swayer well, for he was my own Sergeant, and served as a Sergeant with me in said Company of Captain Garret Putnam for a period of nine months in the year 1781, in said Regiment of Colonel Willet as aforesaid. That the said Lambert Swayer served with me also for a like period of nine months in said year of 1782, in said Company of Captain Abner French and Regiment of Colonel Willet along the Mohawk River in said State of New York. That the said Lambert Swayer had served for a period of three years as a Sergeant in the Company of Captain Hansen in the Regiment of Colonel Livingston in the service of the United States and was discharged from the said three years service from said Regiment of Colonel Livingston in the Summer of the year seventeen hundred and eighty when he came home to said Veeder's Mills which was then in the old town of Johnstown and near the present village of Fonda as aforesaid, and in said year of 1781 the said Lambert Swayer enlisted under the said Captain Putnam. That the said Lambert Swayer was a true faithful and good soldier during all of the aforesaid service. The said Swayer and I endured many hardships, and suffered much both from hunger and cold, when scouting and hunting after the Indians and Tories that then infested the Country, plundered and murdered the inhabitants, butchering indiscriminately men, women, and children. That in the year that independence was declared which was in seventeen hundred and seventy six as I verily believe the said Lambert Swayer was married to Eve Fitchett who lived with her father in said Johnstown. They were married to

each other at Canajoharie now the village of Fonda aforesaid by the Rev d Thomas Romeyn who was then the Pastor of the Dutch Church at said Canajoharie now said Fonda. The said Lambert Swayer was married to the said Eve Fitchett before he enlisted for the said three years. That while in the said service the said Lambert Swayer left his wife and family at Redders Mills near the said village of Fonda where they lived while said Lambert Swayer was out serving for his country against the common Enemy. When serving in said company of Captain Putnam with me the said Lambert had two children at home with his wife as aforesaid. That shortly or a few years after the close of the said War the said Lambert Swayer moved from Redders Mills aforesaid with his family to Schoharie in said State of New York, where as I was soon after informed and verily believe true he died about fifty years ago and left his wife the said Eve a widow with a family of children the oldest of which is William and is now at least seventy two years of age. Their next child was Maria who is now about seventy years of age. The rest of their children I have been informed are all dead. Said Eve died about eight years ago in Otsego County in said State of New York. Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 23 rd day of September A.D. 1850. Peter Mower mark
Asa H. Hyde Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above Deposition Peter Mower is personally known to me. That he is a man of strict integrity truth and veracity and is possessed of a good memory and a sound mind for a man of his advanced age. That he is not able to write his own name, but is a credible witness whose testimony upon any subject is entitled to full faith and credit, and that the facts contained in the foregoing affidavit by him made were communicated by him to me before the drawing up and execution of the same, and that full confidence can be placed in the foregoing Deposition by him made and subscribed.
Asa H. Hyde J.P.
STATE OF NEW YORK, CLERK'S OFFICE, ONEIDA COUNTY, } ss.
I, ALEXANDER RAE, Clerk of the County of Oneida, do hereby certify, that Asa W. Hyde - Esquire, was on the 23 rd day of Sept r A. D. 1850, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Oneida, duly authorized to act as such, and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said county, this 26 th day of September A. D. 1850
Alexander Rae Clerk. H. James Cayas Dep. Clk

State of New York Schenectady County
John Burk, a resident of the town of Niskayuna in said County of Schenectady, aged 88 years, being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that Deponent was a soldier of the United States during the War of the Revolution and is now a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. That Deponent served in the Regiment of Colonel Gansevoort. That during the said War Deponent resided in Fry's Bush near Little Falls, on the Mohawk River in said State of New York, and was well and intimately acquainted with Lambert Swayer who was also a soldier of the United States in said War of the Revolution and who lived during the said War at Decevers Mills near the present village of Fonda in the present County of Montgomery in said State of New York which was then a part of the town of Johnstown in said State of New York. That in or about the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven the said Lambert Swayer enlisted at said Johnstown for three years and served for a period of three years in the Company of Captain Hansson in the Regiment of Colonel Livingston and was discharged from the said service when his three years had expired which was in the year 1780. The said Lambert Swayer served as a Sergeant during the aforesaid three years service which he rendered in the said Company of Hansson and Regiment of Colonel Livingston from 1777 to 1780 then in the service of the United States. That in the year 1781 the said Lambert Swayer served as a Sergeant with the nine months men in the Company of Captain Garret Putnam in the Regiment of Colonel Willet. Deponent was also well acquainted with Eve Fitchett who lived during the Revolutionary War in said Johnstown. That in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six the said Lambert Swayer and Eve Fitchett were duly married to each other at said Fonda, then a part of said Johnstown, by the Rev. Romeyn Pastor of the Dutch Church at said Fonda. Said Lambert was, married as aforesaid before the said Lambert enlisted into the three years service as aforesaid. Said Lambert died at Schoharie N.Y. about fifty years ago, and said Eve died about eight years ago. Subscribed and sworn to before me on this third day of May A.D. 1850. John H. Burk mark Garit J. Van Marken. June Justes of the Peace

I certify that the within Deponent said John Burk is personally known to me. That he is a man of truth and veracity and a credible witness whose testimony upon any subject is entitled to full faith and credit. That he is not able to write his own name and that he signed the within affidavit before me by making his mark or cross to the same and that the facts set forth and contained in the said affidavit were by him communicated to me before the drawing up and execution thereof. Dated at New-Raymond N.H. this third day of March A.D. 1850.
Garit J. Vanranken Esq. Justice of the Peace
Burk

State of New York Schenectady County
James J. Van Vorst, a resident of the City of Schenectady in said State of New York, being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that Deponent was a soldier of the United States during the War of the Revolution and is now a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. That during the said War of the Revolution Deponent was well and intimately acquainted with Lambert Swayer who lived during the said War near the present village of Fonda in the present County of Montgomery and State of New York. That the said Lambert Swayer was also a soldier of the United States in said War of the Revolution and in the year 1777 enlisted from the then town of Johnstown, which town then embraced the present and said village of Fonda, for three years, and served as a Sergeant for a period of three years in the Company of Captain Hanson in the Regiment of Colonel Livingston Livingston from 1777 to 1780. That in the year 1781 the said Lambert Swayer served as a Sergeant in the Company of Captain Garret Putman with the Nine months men in the Regiment of Colonel Willet. That Deponent was also well acquainted with Eve Fitchett who lived with her father in said Johnstown. That as Deponent then understood and verily believes true the said Lambert Swayer and the said Eve Fitchett were duly married to each other at said Fonda, then called Bangs-nawaga, in said County of Montgomery in the year 1776, by the Rev Thomas Romeyn then Pastor of the Reformed Church at said Fonda. That this marriage occurred in the year that Independence was declared by Congress, and took place the year before the said Lambert Swayer enlisted into the three years service into the Regiment of Colonel Livingston as aforesaid and that while the said Lambert was in the said service his wife the said Eve lived and remained in said Johnstown near the present village of Fonda as aforesaid. Said Lambert and Eve raised a family of children the oldest of which is William who is now at least seventy years of age. Said Lambert died at Schoharie N.Y. about fifty years ago and the said Eve died in 1842, as Deponent has been informed and verily believes true.
Subscribed and sworn to before me on this third day of May A.D. 1850. Gerrit S. Van Klief Sister of the Bearer
James J. Van Vorst mark

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with George Hiltz. Peter M Snyder. whose names are attached to the aforgoing affidavits. That they are all men of good standing for intelligence moral character and integrity, and that their statements are entitled to full credit
Dated Washington December 21. 1849
Hiram Walen
M.C

State of New-York. OTSEGO COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.
I, SAMUEL NORTH, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that William Jones Esquire, was, on the 18 th day of June 1857 a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Olsego, duly authorized to act as such, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal of the said County, at Cooperstown, this 18 day of June 1851
Samuel North CLERK.

State of New York Otsego County
William S. Compton of the town of Middlefield in said County of Otsego aged forty two years, being duly sworn according to law do depose and say that I am the Keeper of the Otsego County Poor House situated in said County of Otsego and have charge and custody of the Records thereof. That I have this day examined the Records of the said Poor House now in my possession in order to find evidence of the death of Eve Allen and that the following is the result of said examination.
It appears from the said Poor House Records that the said Eve Allen was brought to said Poor House as a Pauper on the 10 th day of November in the year One Thousand Eight hundred and Thirty Eight, and continued there until the Seventh day of March 1839. and that she died at said Poor House on the said Seventh day of March, in the year Eighteen hundred and Thirty nine, aged one hundred and two years.
Said Eve Allen is reputed to be the widow of John Allen who is said to have died in Schoharie in said State of New York a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. Said Eve was also reputed to have been the former widow of Lambert Swayer who is also said to have died in said Schoharie. She is also reputed to have two children living in said County of Schoharie, one of whom I have seen at this place who is called William Swayer and the other is called Maria Swayer.
William S. Compton
Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 18 th day of June A.D.
1851 - And I certify that the said William S. Compton is the Keeper of the said Poor House and that he is a credible witness William Jones Justice of the Peace

State of New York Schoharie County
John Davis a resident of the Town of Schoharie in said County of Schoharie and State of New York, aged sixty Eight years, being duly sworn according to law deposes and saith that he was formerly well and intimately acquainted with John Allen and his wife Eve, who formerly lived together as husband & wife neighbors to Deponent in said Schoharie. That previous to her marriage to said John Allen the said Eve lived in said Schoharie and was the widow of Lambert Swayer who died in said Schoharie as is said & believed in or about the year 1792. Said Lambert Swayer was reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the United States in the War of the Revolution. — That the said John Allen died a Pensioner as aforesaid while living a neighbor to Deponent in said Schoharie on or about the twenty fourth day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty two and left his wife Eve a widow surviving him, who some time after the death of her husband as aforesaid went away with her son William Swayer from Schoharie aforesaid to live in Otsego County in said State of New York, and as Deponent has been credibly informed and verily believes true the said Eve Allen died at the Poor House in said County of Otsego in the month of March in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty Nine. That the said Eve Allen left two Children surviving her, to wit, the said William Swayer and Maria Swayer who are her only children now living.
That at the said time of his death the said John Allen was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States
Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 2d. day of September A.D. 1854 Elijah Dickinson Justice of the Peace
John Davis

I hereby certify that the within mentioned Respondent John Davis is personally known to me, and that he is a man of good standing and a credible witness whose testimony upon any subject is entitled to full faith and credit.
Dated at Schoharie N.Y. this 2d. day of September A.D. 1857-
Elijah Dickinson Justice of the peace

State of New York Schoharie County
I, Naham W. Sarkin a resident of the town of Schoharie in said County of Schoharie & State of New York, aged fifty eight years, being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was formerly well acquainted with John Allen and his wife Eve who formerly lived neighbors to Deponent in said Schoharie & kept house together as man and wife. That the said John Allen was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and died such Pensioner in said Schoharie while living a neigh- bor to Deponent on or about the twenty third day of December, in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty two. That the said John Allen left his wife the said Eve, his widow surviving him and that some time after the death of her husband the said John Allen, said Eve went from said Schoharie to live in the County of Otsego in said State of New York, and as De- ponent was credibly informed and verily believ- ing true the said Eve Allen died at the Poor House in said County of Otsego in the month of March in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty nine.
That the said John Allen was reputed to be the second husband of the said Eve. Said Eve was reputed to have been the former wife of Lambert Swayer who is said to have died in said Schoharie and to have been a Soldier of the United States in the War of the Revolution.
Deponent is acquainted with William Swayer of Middleburgh in said County, who always has been re- puted to be a son of the said Lambert Swayer and the said Eve.
That the night after the said John Allen died Deponent sat up with and watched his corpse which he believes was on the 24th day of December A.D. 1832.
Naham W. Sarkin
Subscribed and sworn to before me this second day of September A.D. 1857. Elijah Dickinson Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the within named Depo- -nent Nahum W. Larkin is personally known to me, and that he is a man of good standing and a credible witness whose testimony upon any subject is entitled to full faith and credit.
Dated at Schoharie N. Y. this 24 th day of September A.D. 1857.
Elijah Dickinson Justice of the peace

State of New York Schoharie County
Daniel Larkin a resident of the Town of Schoharie in said County of Schoharie & State of New York aged sixty one years, being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was formerly acquainted with John Allen and his wife Eve who formerly lived a neighbor to Deponent in said Schoharie That the said John Allen was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and died such Pensioner in said Schoharie while living a neighbor to Deponent, as near as Deponent can now recollect on or about the twenty third day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty two. Said John Allen left his wife Eve a widow surviving him. Said Eve some time after the death of her husband said John Allen went from Schoharie aforesaid to live in the County of Otsego in said State of New York, and as Deponent was credibly informed and verily believes true died at the Poor House in said County of Otsego in the month of March in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty eight Nine
That the said John Allen was reputed the second husband of the said Eve. Said Eve was reputed to have been the former wife of Lambert Swayer who is reputed and believed to have died in said Schoharie and to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Deponent is acquainted with William Swayer who is a son of said Lambert Swayer and said Eve as is reputed and believed.
Daniel Larkin
Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 2d. day of September A.D. 1857.
Elijah Dickinson Justice of the peace

I hereby certify that the within named Deponent Daniel Larkin is personally known to me, that he is a man of good standing and has held several responsible offices in said County of Schoharie such as Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff &c. and that he is a credible witness whose testimony upon any subject is entitled to full faith and credit. Dated at Schoharie this 2d day of September A.D. 1857-
Elijah Dickinson Justice of the Peace
State of New York Schoharie County ss Clerk's Office
I Loony Andrews Clerk of the said County of Schoharie in the State of New York, do hereby certify that Elijah Dickinson Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit of Daniel Larkin, and the annexed affidavits of John Davis and Naham W. Larkin, purport- to have been sworn and executed was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Schoharie duly elected and qualified and authorized by law to take the same. And that his signature to the respective Swears and Certificates of the said affidavits are each of them genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County On this 1 st day of December A.D. 1857-
Loony Andrews, Clerk