Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,315, for Lawrence Sutherland, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Sutherland, Laurence or Southerland
R 10,315
CONTENTS

State of New York County of Rockland
{ J. S. }
Be it known that on this Twenty Seventh day of February A. D. 1853 before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for the county and State aforesaid personally appeared John Sutherland Laurence Sutherland Hannah Hemon and Mary Stillwell
Residents of Ramapo, in said County, and made oath according to law, that they are the heirs of the identical Laurence Suther- -land who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the pension act of
That they are directly interested as claimants in said pension, and make this affidavit, to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments, as their agent may use in prose- -cuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all powers of attorney and authority heretofore given. We hereby, constitute and appoint Cornelius Mabie, of Bergen County in the State of New Jersey, our true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of Laurence Sutherland for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension, that may be due. And we hereby authorize our said Attorney, to examine all papers or documents, in relation to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington

City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or argument, and to receive for our exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate we wish made payable at some bank in the City of New York, to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that we might, or could do, were we personally present
Hereby ratifying and confirming all that our said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do, or cause to be done in the premises.
John Suther
John Sutherland & Lawrence Sutherland
Hannah Henson Her Mary Stillwell her marks
Sworn to, subscribed and acknowledged before me this day and year above written. And I hereby certify that I believe the said John Sutherland Lawrence Sutherland Hannah Henson and Mary Stillwell to be directly interested in said claim as set forth and to be the identical parties therein alleged.
Subscribed and sworn before me this 27th day of February 1853
James Suffern Justice of the Peace

State of New York County of Ulster
I hereby certify It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of County Court of said County that John Rutherford, Lawrence Rutherford, Hannah Nelson & Mary Atwell, the party who have sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing declaration and Power of Attorney are the identical children of the reputed  lately deceased father aforesaid. I further certify that James Saffern Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was at the time of so doing, a justice of the peace, in and for said County, and that the signature pur- -porting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set  affixed my hand and affixed my seal of my office this 3 rd day of March 1833
John E. Keoght Knap Clerk

No. 21.402
Laurence Southerland Rockland County N.Y.
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M c Ward
David & Eye Agt. Clarkstown P.O. Rockland Co. N.Y.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
May 28 1833
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Laurence Southerland Rockland Co. N.Y.
   Period when the service was rendered Duration of the claimant's service Rank of the claimant. Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served. Names and Rank of the General and Field officers. Battles in which the applicant was engaged. Country through which he marched. Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. Evidence by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     Enlis 1776 5 Private Cap. O'Condon To Havrestraw to Nyack to North River to Pocum to Fort Montgomery to Stony Point Red Hill 67 years Rockland County N.Y. Living witnesses   Enlis 1777 2 " Cap. Tenney Brig. Genl. M c Cluer   at least 1 11 " Col. Van Brunt B. Beauvais Cap. Deber  
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }
On this day of personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d), with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 
6. { To a Soldier. } Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? { To an Officer. } Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a sufficient examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[k] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[l] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[m] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[n] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
Daniel D. Davidson Exam Clerk

State of New York Rockland County 3/4 on the _____ day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. Personally appeared Lawrence Smith the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting. Lawrence Smith island a resident of the Town of Ramapo, in the County of Rockland and State of New York, aged sixty seven years in the month of March 1832, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth hereby make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That he thinks in the year 1776. he, his Father & his Brother John enlisted at the house of one Coleman in the now Town of Clarkstown in the now County of Rockland in a company commanded by Captain Abraham Underdonk, for the term of five months, that his Father received the bounty, his Brother and himself being under age, that they were marched to Havertown and inspected by a United States officer his name not rec- ollected now if he knew it then, from there they company marched to Nyack to guard against the British ship- ping in North River, from there to Dobbs Ferry after the Battle of Brandywine burnt the barns of the inhabitants there, then returned to Nyack, from there marched to Fort Montgomery, re- mained there about two weeks, from there marched to Stony Point, and was taken from the Point in a vessel to a place called Red Hill in Westchester County, where they built a Fort threw up intrenchments and drew the cannon up the Hill, they remained erecting the Fort & intrench- ments until ordered to join the main army at White Plains at the time Genl. MacDougall fought the Battle there, they marched & had not proceeded far before they were ordered to return and take their Station at the Fort where they remained till the com- pany was discharged about New Years. they stayed a day or two over their time before they were relieved by other troops. When they returned home, - That in month of April 1777. he was called out into the service in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Hendrick Tenney, Matter Brown, and Thomas Blauvelt, Lieut. S. Col. Hays Regiment, of which Gilbert Cooper was Lieut.
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bel. that he remained in Captain Schuyler's company about two years, that during the time aforesaid, the Militia was divided into Classes of four men to a club and each man had to be out on duty the one fourth of the time that a continual guard might be kept, as there was no other force to defend the Country in the now County of Rockland and a great part of the County of Bergen in the State of New Jersey than the Militia, and they had to guard along the West Shore of the Hudson River from Stony Point to Colden and to be out in parties scouting, through different parts of the Counties aforesaid to protect the inhabitants from the common enemy, in which Capacity he served for full Ten Months during the said Term in Capt. Schuyler's Company, His Mother & family then moved within the bounds of Capt. Garret Schuyler's Company in the same Regiment, his Father having gone out in Genl. Sullivan's Army to the West-wards and served in said Company guarding and scouting as aforesaid until the close of the Revolutionary war, doing his full proportion of duty as aforesaid, and verily believes that he served under Capt. Schuyler at least sixteen Months, including the time he had to go out on alarms when not out on actual duty in the years 1779. 80. 81. 82. The alarms in the latter part of the war was not so frequent, that he never received any written discharge, when his time was out, the Officer told him might go home, that he has no documentary evidence by which he can prove his services, and that he knows of no persons whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services, but the Affidavits of James Tharp, Benjamin Seer and John De Ronde which are herunto annexed, and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn & subscribed to the day and year aforesaid in Open Court
Daniel P. Van Kloof
Laurence his Southland mark

Rockland County ss: John DeRonde of the Town of Ramapo in said County being duly sworn, says that he is seventy two years of age, that he was acquainted with Lawrence Southerland during the Revolution - as far as he knows that said Southerland belonged to Capt. Schuyler and Schuyler's Company at different periods of the war, that he knows he performed duty in actual service during the war, under their officers, but for how long he is unable to say
Sworn to in open court the day and year aforesaid
John DeRonde
David Pyle Clerk
Rockland County ss: Benjamin Skaar of the Town of Ramapo in said County being duly sworn, says that he is in his eighty first year, that James Southerland commonly called Shirley, and his two sons, John and Lawrence called "Low" enlisted in Capt. Abraham Onderdonk's Company for five months, that he faithfully served out the said time, and was discharged at the Fort at Red Hook in Westchester County as stated in his declaration, that the deponent belonged to said Company and remained with the same during the said term and served at the different places as stated in his declaration under Capt. Onderdonk, - And further this deponent saith not.
Benjamin Skaar
Affirm? and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid -
David Pyle Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that John Deconde and Benjamin Secor, who have signed the preceding certificates are residents of the town of Harnapso aforesaid, and are credible persons, and that their statements is entitled to credit. And the said court do further certify And also, that they are acquainted with the said John Deconde and Benjamin Secor, and believe them to be credible persons, and that their statements is entitled to credit. And also, that all the above proceedings were in open court.
Per Curiam
David Pyle Clerk
I, David Pyle, Clerk of the court of Common Pleas aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court, in the matter of the application of Laurence Southerland for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this twentyeighth day of November. 1832.
David Pyle
Declaration of Laurence Southerland
Laurence Southerland
21402

City & County of New York } S.S.
Personally appeared before me John F. Banta one of the Commissioners —
in and for the said County James Burgess of said City who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has been acquainted with Lawrence Southerland from his infancy that he performed Military Duty in the services of the United States in the years of one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine & eighty under Capt. Thome Thorne at which time the deponent left the place (Hempstead in Nassau County) and did not return until after the war was over and further this deponent saith not
Sworn before me the fifteenth day of November 1832
John F. Banta Commissioner
James Burgess James Burgess
I do hereby certify that I am perfectly acquai- nted with Mr. James Burgess and truly believe the statement he has made as above stated are entitled to full credit
John F. Banta

STATE OF NEW-YORK, City and County of New-York, } ss.
I, ABRAHAM ASTEN , Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY , That
John T. Banta Esq. whose name is subscribed to the First of the annexed affidavit was on the day of taking the same a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and Authorized by Law to Administer Oaths &c
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and af- fixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the fifteenth day of November 1832.
Abm Asten, Clerk

State of New York } Rockland County } ss
Personally appeared before the Sub- -criber a justice of the peace in and for said county Laurence Southland of the Town of Ramapo in said County aged 68 years who being duly sworn saith as follows Viz
He is the same Laurence Southland who on the 28 day of November 1882 made a Declaration before the Court of Common Pleas to obtain a pension under the Law of June 7 th 1882 which Declaration has been Returned as defective in its Specification, and also on the part of the Interrogatories. He was Questioned in open court on the 28 th day of Nov r 1882 and answered by him that he was born in Township of Washington County Bergen and State of New Jersey in the year 1765 - The Record of his age is Recorded in his Father's family Record now in his possession
Reference may be had to his first Declaration in which he has fully set forth his five month service
That in month of April 1777 he entered a company commanded by Capt Hendrick Tenure as a Substitute for Jacob Harden and John Beckman - and served until the month of September following Stationed at Nyack and along the North River performing guard duty in which employment he was engaged for four months and a Half as near as he can Recollect
In the month of May (as near as he can Recollect 1778) He again entered the company commanded by Capt Hendrick Tenure as a Substitute for two his Neighbors Jacob Harden and John Beckman - whose terms of duty had performed until the month of October following Stationed at Clarkstown Nyack and along the North River performing guard duty at each and every place in which employment

he was engaged for at least five month
In the year 1779 the deponent does not recollect that he performed any militia service in which year he removed with his mother fathers family to in the Bounds of Capt Garret Acker's Company
In the Month of April he was hired by a Plap of men belonging to the said Capt Acker's Company and served for the said Plap untill the month of December following was Stationed during the time different places in the neighborhood of Rockland Vzg at Haverstraw Stone point and Nyack and along the north River performing guard duty during the time and each place as above stated in which employment he was engaged for at least seven month when he was Discharged and went home
In the month of April 1781 He arrived to the age of sixteen He then was Plaped and served every fourth week untill the month of December under Capt Garret Acker Stationed at Haverstraw Nyack and along the north River performing guard duty when he was Discharged and went home in which service he was employed for two month
In the month of May 1782 He again was ordered ordered out under the above named Capt Garret Acker and served every fourth week untill the month of October following Stationed at Haverstraw Nyack and along the north River performing guard duty in which employment he was engaged at least for one month when he was Discharged Col A Hawks May Command the Regiment (except where otherwise stated) during the war of the Revolution

In his first Declaration it is stated that he had to serve his Regular Four of duty, - which is erroneous and incorrect. The deponent meant by which, the deponent meant or intended that the militia of that County served in that manner as set forth in his first Declaration. He states that he has served as now set forth in this his amended Declaration.
From the great length of time which has elapsed since the before Recited Services were rendered many particulars must have escaped his memory. He has in his first and amended Declarations related all which he can remember as connected with his services and which are calculated to explain them whilst he has faithfully endeavoured to adhere conscientiously to the truth in all the events and occurrences of which he has spoken and verily believes that he has faithfully served his country in the war of the Revolution for the full period of Twenty four & a half months in actual service in the field for each term alledged for which he claims a pension under the Law of June 7 th 1832 and was not employed in any level pursuit during the time and does not know of any more living who he can procure to testify to his services in the war of the Revolution than now will be annexed to his first and amended Declarations.
Subscribed & sworn to before me
This 28 th day of December 1833
his Lawrence X Southland mark
John T Blanch Justice

State of New York Rockland County } ss.
I, David Pye, clerk of the county of Rockland, Do hereby certify. That John T. Blaneh, before whom the preceding amended declaration of Lawrence Southerland was sworn, and before whom the traditional testimony hereunto annexed was taken of Richard Strait and David Henson, is a justice of the peace in and for the said county, and that the name of the said justice subscribed thereon and to the certificate is his genuine signature. And further that the papers are in the same condition they were on the twenty eighth day of November 1832, when they passed the court, only that the supplementary declaration and the traditional testimony is now annexed thereto.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this nineteenth day of March, 1834.
David Pye.

State of New York
Rockland County
ss
We Richard Strait residing in the town of Franklin State of New Jersey and David Hemonion residing in the town of Ramapo Do certify that we are well acquainted with Lawrence Southerland who has subscribed and sworn to the above annexed and amended Declaration that we believe him to be Seventy years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution And we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8 th March 1834 John T Blanch Justice
Richard Strait David Hemonion
And I the said Justice do certify that I know that Richard Strait who has sworn to the above is a Resident of the town of Franklin State of New Jersey and David Hemonion is a Resident of the town of Ramapo in Rockland County and are persons of veracity their statements are entitled to credit
John T Blanch Justice

NY Jan 22 Laurence Southwick
Hyack Turnpike Jan 9 th
Free
Hon James L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Jan'y 9 th 1835
Hon ble Sir
Some five or six months back I sent to the Pension Office the papers in the case of Lawrence South- erland and having received any communication respecting them. I expect they have been by over- look d and forgotten I wish if convenient that his case might be attended to -
Your O b t Servant
Daniel Pyle
J. L. Edwards Esq r .

Feb 19 N.Y. Nyack Febr 15 th Free Hon James L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Feb'y 14 th 1835
Hon d Sir
Yesterday Lawrence Southerland called upon me — when I informed him of the contents of your letter of the 20 th of Jan'y last, who stated that it was not in his power to offer any more testimony to prove his services during the Revolutionary war, than he had sent with his papers to the War Department.
As to his 5 Month Service under Capt d Underdonk, in the year 1776, of all the persons that served with him in the said Company there was none living when he maid his declaration in Open Court except Benjamin Seer, who was the Orderly Sergeant, (whose testimony is annexed to his papers) and the said Benjamin Seer Departed this life in the Month of May or June last.
As to his Militia duty in Capt d Tenures & Aikens Companies by him performed before he arrived to the age of 16 years he cannot find any other person to prove them by than he has offered —
I Remain Respectfully your Hum d Serv t David Pyle
J L Edwareds Esq.

All the within Cases - Ex d by
M c D. H. H. H.

New York cases
 ✓ Saml. G. Verbrayck  ✓ Janis Salman  ✓ Cornelius Blaauvelt  ✓ Peter S. Van Orden  ✓ Ralph or Rulip Verbrayck 
admitted New York cases act June 7, 1832
New York cases
 ✓ Laurence Gutherland act 32 susp or repl.  • Matthew Briggs " " " "  Margaret Hendrix or Hendrickson act 36 or 38 susp.  Rachel Polhamus act 36 or 38 susp or repl.  Elizabeth Wilson " " " " " "  Leah Tenure " " " " " "  Mrs Wilkins " " " " " " 
I respectfully request to see the above papers as desired by David Pyle Esq the agent in the cases
W.B. Cadison
Dec 1857

Hobokus March 4 th /53
Sir
Enclosed I send you a Power of Attorney from the Heirs of Lawrence Hetherland deceased, a Soldier of the Revolution. The deceased made application a number of years since, collected evidence &c which is on file in your Department - the claim for some reason was put off. and from that time it has not been attended to. if there is not sufficient evidence on file to warrant you in granting a certificate. please let me know what is lacking and I will endeavor to supply the deficiency.
March 10 th 1852. I received from you a communication in regard to an application made by me for John Syce, who claimed service in Captain Plumes Co. of N.Y. volunteers - sufficient to entitle him to eighty acres. you stated that the auditors rolls showed that he served from 13 th August 1814, to 8 th Dec 1815: a period that would only entitle him to forty acres. I communicated to you his willingness to accept of forty acres. he not being able to furnish the evidence required for a larger amount. Since when I have heard nothing.
I am very respectfully your Obedient servant Cornelius Mahie died to. Ramapo. Rockland Co New York
James C Heath Esq Pensioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
10,315
P. O. Lawrence Sutherland
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. ● _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

New York Rev.
Laurence Sutherland
Suspended
let. Hon A Ward 29
Mar. 1834
let to David Pyp Esq,
January 20. 1835
let to same March 18. 1835
Repealed in let to Hon A Ward March 2 d 1836
Act. 7 June '32 Cornelius Mabie June 21/53
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