Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42467, for William Terrell, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Terrell, William
S 42467
CONTENTS

15-236 New York.
William Toveil
of Palatine in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Van Schaick of the New York line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 16 th of May, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of Oct r 1819 and sent to John L. Lobdell Esq., Johnstown, N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819. 15 mo. 16/30/30 125.18 emi-anl. all'ce ending 4 th March 1820 48.00
$173:18
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Cash paid
William Toveil Oct 29 th 1821 for claim at rate of 8 per month for one year

William Ferriss
Declaration
15236
NYK 113
Recd 25 June 1825.
William Ferriss
15236. Mar 20
Cow
John L. Lobdell (agent) Johnstown, NYK.

State of New York Montgomery County } ss. On this 12 th day of June 1821 personally appeared in open court, being a Court of Record for the said county of Montgomery, called the Court of Common Pleas, proceeding according to the principles of common law, having the power of fine and imprisonment. William Ferrell aged 67 (Sixty seven) years resident in Palatine in said county and state, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows. Enlisted in the month of July 1775 and served till the 1 st day of January following in Captain Joseph McBracken's company in the 2 d New York Regiment on the Continental establishment commanded by Colonel Goosen Van Schaick. In the month of January 1776 he re-enlisted for one year and served till the 1 st January 1777 when he was honorably discharged. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818. And that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby, so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service, in the revolutionary war." passed on the 18 th day of March 1818. and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Sworn to and declared in open court on the 12 th day of June 1821.
William Ferrell

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Peter H Bostwick Clerk of the County of Montgomery, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court; And I do further certify that is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Five Dollars and cents in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court on this 12 th day of June 1821.
P. H. Bostwick Clerk
Real property I have none either in possession, reversion remainder or expectancy.
Personal property, 1 Old Cherry Table 1 Old Cupboard. 1 Tin Tea pot. 2 Old Tin pails. 2 Old Iron spoons. 1 Old pewter platter. One small looking Glass. 1 Old foot stove. 1 Old Churn. 1 Bible One psalm Book 1 Old axe 1 Hoe, 1 drawing knife. 1 Inch Auger. 2 small blizzles. 1 Spike Gimblet. 2 Old Sheep. 2 Lambs 1 pig. I was brought up to the farming business but have not been able to labor for three years by reason of a lame foot, proceeding from a fever which I took at Lake George when in the service of the United States. I have a Wife named Jane living with me aged Seventy One years who is very feeble and unable to work, whom I must support that I have no other means of support than what I receive from the pension of the United States which I received up to the 1 st March 1820 & further saith not. the number of the original certificate from the War office of the United States is 15235 & dated the 1 st October 1819. and the date of the original application was on the 16 th day of May 1818.
William Ferrrell
Filed June term. 12 th June 1821

State of New York Montgomery County ss. I Peter H. Bostwick Clerk of said County do Certify the foregoing declaration Certificate and inventory are true copies of the Original Declaration Certificate and inventory of property that the Originals was filed in this office on June there to wit on the 12 th day of June 1821
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of said County this Eighteenth day of June in the Year 1821
Peter H. Bostwick Clerk

William Terrell (Private)
Van Schaick's Reg. n N. York Line
1 st Jan y . 1776 to 1 st Jan y . 77-
16 th May 1810-
Judge
The Judge has not certified as to reduced circumstances of Applicant - & the deposition of 2 credible witnesses of service is required.

State of New York } ss. Montgomery County } ss.
William Terrell of the town of Palatine in the County and State aforesaid on the sixteenth day of May, in the year of our lord 1818 Before me James Hildreth one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County personally appeared and being duly sworn saith that he was aged sixty four years on the twenty second day of February now last past, that he resides in the town aforesaid and on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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" that he the said William enlisted in the town of Salem County of Charlotte Now County of Washington in the State aforesaid in the month of July in the year of our lord 1775 in the Company commanded by Captain Joseph McBracken in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Goose Van Schaick of the Infantry in the army of the United States in the line of the State aforesaid and enlisted to serve until the month of January then next, that he continued to serve in said Corps or in the service of the United States until in the month of January in the year 1776 in the capacity of drummer when he the said William at Salem aforesaid in the same month of January 1776 re-enlisted in the same Company and Regiment for the term of one year; that he continued to serve in the said Corps or in the service of the United States in the capacity as Corporal until the first day of January in the year 1777 when at Salem aforesaid he was discharged from service; that he was in the battle of Montreal and aided in taking it and was in the various skirmishes with the enemy whilst the British Fort of St Johns was besieged & which terminated in the surrender and capture of that Fortress to the arms of the United States in the year 1775. and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, & that this deponent's discharge is worn out and lost & this deponent was honorably discharged the service
Sworn and subscribed Before me the day and year aforesaid the day of year first mentioned
William Terrell
James Hildreth

State of New York Montgomery County ss.
Andrew McVitt of Northampton in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn says that he is now fifty nine years of age on the twenty third day of February last past that he is personally acquainted with the within named William Terrell that this deponent knew of the enlistment of the said William in Captain Joseph McBracken's Company in Colonel Goose Van Schaick's Regiment in the months of July 1775 and January 1776 as mentioned in the within declaration of the said William as near as this deponent is able to recollect of which he believes to be correct that this deponent also knows that the said William served his period of enlistments as by him within stated & that he the said William was discharged after the termination of his said enlistments. that the reason this deponent knows the facts he enlisted and served with & in the same Company with the said William, and was constantly on the duties with him except when sickness prevented & by reason of his being in the battles by him stated.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th of May 1818 Before me
Andrew McVitt
James Hildreth one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery in the State of New York.
James Hildreth the judge aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Terrell did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declarations against the common enemy. and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. Given under my hand this 10th of May 1818
James Hildreth
State of New York
Montgomery County ss. John McCarthy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Do certify that I am intimately acquainted with the hand writing of James Hildreth Esquire a judge of said Court. that the name of

James Hildreth subscribed to the foregoing declarations and certificate I believe to be and have no doubt are the proper and true signatures of James Hildreth the judge of said court. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said court and subscribed my name hereto at Johnstown this Eighteenth day of May 1818 J. M. Carthy
Montgomery County ss Philip R Frey of the town of Palatine and county aforesaid being duly sworn sayth that he is acquainted with applicant William Terrell and has been for twenty two years last past that during that time he has been a very Poor man and is now a very Poor Man having but barely sufficient furniture to keep house and some  but little Personal Property that he is old and infirm and unable to procure his living by manual labour that he has an aged Wife and a Daughter who are depending on him for support. And from his knowledge of the circumstances of the said William Terrell he knows he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. And further sayth not
Philip R. Frey
Subscribed and sworn to this 16th day of April 1819.
Before me Aaron Haring a Judge of Montgomery County Common Pleas New York State
I Aaron Haring the last mentioned Judge do certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Philip Frey I have been for fifteen years and upwards last past and that he is a credible person and on whose testimony full reliance ought to be placed. That I have been acquainted with the applicant William Terrell for more than twenty years now last past and know him to be a very poor person and that from my knowledge of nearly all the facts stated in Mr Frey's deposition I have not the least doubt of the whole being truly stated as to the said William's situation. April 16th 1819. Aaron Haring

State of New York } Montgomery County } ss.
I John M c Carthy Clerk of the said County do certify that Aaron Haring before whom the within affidavit appears to have been made and whose signature appears to the within Certificate is one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas for the said County In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal the 10 th Day of April 1819.
J. M c Carthy

State of New York Herkimer County I John Duerlage Minister of the Gospel in the Town of Fairfield, County and State aforesaid, being duly sworn, declare that he is sixty one years of age; further deposes, that he is personally acquainted with the witness named William Durnell, and that the Deponent knows of the enlist- ment, of the said William, in Captain Joseph McCracken's Company, in Colonel Goose Van Schaick's Regiment, and New York Line, in the months of July 1775 and January 1776, as mentioned in the witness Declaration, of the said William, as near as this Depo- nent is able to recollect, and which he firmly believes is correct: that this Deponent does also know that the said William served his period of enlistment as by him stated, and that he the said William was discharged after the termination of the said enlistment - The principal reason this Deponent knows the facts, is that he enlisted and served in the the said Company, with the said William, and was intimately acquainted with the said William and knows of his being in the Battle by him stated, and further this Deponent saith not.
Subscribed and sworn to this 6th day of April 1819 before me Nathan Smith First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Herkimer in the State aforesaid -
John Duerlage

I Nathan Smith the Judge aforesaid do certify that the witness the Rev. John Dunlap is a respectable credible witness and on whose testimony the utmost reliance can be placed - dated this 16th day of April 1819 -
Nathan Smith
Clerk's Office } Hickman County }
I do hereby certify that Nathan Smith Esquire whose signature appears to the above instrument was on the sixth day of
April A D 1819 First Judge in and for the County of Hickman of Hickman Duly commissioned and qualified to act as such and that his signature to the same is in his own proper hand writing
Given under my hand and official seal at Hickman this sixth day of
April 1819 -
Walter Fish Clerk

42467 INVALID. Rev
File No. 42467
William Fawell His Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 505
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dec 13 '98
Mrs A L Simmons
Kenosha Wisce

Bittersweet Cottage, KENOSHA, WISCONSIN.
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Warren Department Washington D.C.
We belong to a distinguished family always patriotic from its first origin up to the present day -
For special reasons we wish to secure admission to the D.A.R.

through our special ancestors - and the papers are all in a distant country - So we are advised to write to the Department.
We are in haste for a reply and documentary evidence.

Name - 15936 cf. William Terrell.
Low in class.
Enlisted in Revolutionary Army at Salem Washington Co. Ky. Served through out and was captured for life. Lived in Montgomery Co. after war. Died Aug 1824.
His last home was at Garoga Pension may have been paid at any of the larger towns.
Mrs Adelaide Simmons Neosho
Dec 5. 1898.
Missouri.

Dec. 8, 1898
The sum of one dollar in currency which accompanied this letter has been this day returned to the sender
J.W.C. A.C. Finance Division

L. W. B. I. 42467.
This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
- BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
December 13, 1898.
Madam:-
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that William Terrell, made an application for pension on May 16th, 1818, at which time he was 64 years of age and residing at Palatine, N. Y., and his pension was allowed for one year's actual service as a private in the New York troops, Revolutionary war. He enlisted at Salem, New York and served under Capt. McCracken and Col. VanSchaick.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mrs. Adelaide L. Simmons,
Kenosha, Wisconsin.