Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14668, for John Terhune, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Terhune, John
S14668
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CONTENTS

20.888 New York John Serhane Distinguished in the State of New York who was a Private in the Conn. comman. by Captain Pierce of the Regt. - commanded by Col. S. Swift in the New York line for 6 1/2 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 21 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Oct. 1833 and given to J. Metcalf Northumberland
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 33 $ 54.16 Semant. allowance ending A. 4.34 10.83 $ 64.99
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. C. Lewis Clerk Book 6 Vol. 1 Page 81

5697
John Larkins
5/11.12.16.17.
patrol duty not allowed.
6 Sept 32 10 Dec 32
John Lobel Northumberland
Myall 5/11.13.

BRIEF in the case of John Turkane  of Northumberland in the State of New York (Act 7 June, 1839.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court.  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Seventy five years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted Columbia in 1777-1778 In 1776 July 5 6 weeks Private Gen. G. Clinton. Capt. Stephen Duryea. Col. Isaac Tuthill. Lieut. McCall.   1778-1779 { 2 nights in each week for 2 years Sergeant Col. Van Rensselaer. Lieut. Payn. Capt. Ward. Capt. Benschoten. Col. H. Bruckhoff.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Skirmish.  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Took Hill, New York.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
20 July Examining Clerk:

Room D
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5697 In the Matter of John Terhune a pensioner Town of Northumberland Saratoga Co. New York

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit act of Congress passed the 7 th Decr 1832
State of New York Saratoga County ss On this Fifth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty two personally appeared before the court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga held at the courthouse in the village of Ballston Spa in said County John Gerhards a resident of the town of Northumberland in the County of Saratoga and State of New York aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to his oath or his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed Decr 7 th 1832
That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the month of July in the year 1876 with Captain Stephen Duryee in Regiment of the New York State Line under the following named officers Regimental officers Col Jonathan L Major (Note the names of the other Regimental officers he does not remember, Company officers Capt Stephen Duryee First Lieut ---- Lawrence Second Lieut DeWitt Norton The regiment belonged to the Brigade of Brigadier Genl George Clinton and served five months from the first day of August until the first day of January following
That he was stationed at Kings Bridge near New York for about two months, from thence he marched to the White Plains and was in the Battle at that place remained there about a month from thence marched to Peekskill on the Hudson river and remained there about one month, from thence marched to Fort Constitution on the said Hudson River at which place he was discharged on the first day of January
That at the time he entered the service as above he resided in Fishkill in the County of Dutchess in the State of New York
That in the winter of the years 1877 & 1878 (he cannot state the month or day of the month) he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in the New York Militia for six weeks under the following named officers Field officers of the Regiment Col Van Rensselaer & Major Payne - Company officers Capt Fails

Lieut. Joshua Champlin, Ensign John Van Voorst - The other officers he cannot recollect, that he served for the full term of six weeks and was discharged in the month of March of the year 1778.
That he was in a skirmish with a company of the enemy light horse at Brooks River in the County of Dutchess. At the time he so entered the service he resided at Fishkill aforesaid.
That in the summer of the year 1778 or 1779 he was a Ser- geant in Capt. John Van Benschoten's Company of Militia Col. Abraham Brinkerhoff Regiment that he was ordered to take the command of one eighth part of said Company and patrol the neighbouring Country, the party of which he had the charge were required to patrol two nights in each week and he continued to perform the service of patrolling for two nights a week  excepting when ordered on other service which  was was frequently at other times  there during two years and more in the neighborhood of Fishkill in the County of Dutchess.
That on one occasion he was on fatigue service at West Point in building the Fort at that Station under the command of Capt. Scott of the Militia. Lieut. Bernard Van Klief for about two weeks.
That he has no discharge or papers in his possession nor does he know of any existing which relate to his services nor does he know of any witness now living who is ac- quainted with such services which he can procure.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever 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.

To Interrogation put to him by the Court he answered as follows
That as he is informed and believes he was born the 12th day of July 1757 in the town of Southwick in the State of New Jersey. The Record of his age is in an old family Bible which was his father's, now in his my possession.
At the time he first enlisted he resided with his father at Fishkill Dutchess County State of New York. Since the Revolutionary war he removed to and resided at the town of Saratoga in the County of Saratoga. Lived there about 5 years and then removed to the town of Northumberland in said County where he has resided until this time.
That at the time he entered into the service in the militia as heretofore mentioned for six weeks he acted as a volunteer.
That on the second term of service above mentioned in which he was stated that he commanded a patrolling party, he received his order from the Captain of the Militia Company, John Van Buren of Fishkill aforesaid.
He does not know whether he ever received a written discharge or not, if he did it is lost.
I am well known in the town of Northumberland to John Craig, John B. Van Buren, Reed Lewis, Louis Hunt, John Mitchell, Nathaniel McMillan, Conrad Brann, James Brann, Thomas Howland.
Sworn to Subscribed the day and year aforesaid. in open Court
John Van Buren
Francis Palmer Clerk

We John R Van Dorn and John Metcalf residing in the town of Northumberland in the County of Saratoga and State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Terhune who has subscribed our names to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age, that he is a resident and believes 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 in open Court Thomas Tallmer Clerk
his John R Van Dorn mark John Metcalf
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department (as relates to the Military service of the above named applicants) that the above named applicants was a revolutionary soldier in as he states, and also that he served in the New York State line in the war.
And the Court further states that it appears to them that John R. Van Dorn and John Metcalf who signed the preceding Certificate are residents of the said town of Northumberland, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
And that it appears to them that no classman resides now in the neighborhood of the said applicant whom he could prove without much inconvenience.

I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga Do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Terhune for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 21 st day of September in the year our thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Thomas Palmer Clerk

Amendments to the Declaration of John Terhune in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed the 7 th June 1832.
State of New York, Saratoga County ss. On this seventeenth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared before me Harvey Granger Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga in the State of New York John Terhune a resident of the town of Northumberland in the County aforesaid (at the dwelling house of the said John Terhune in said town of Northumberland) aged Seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth make the following additions to his Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
He further states that on his first enlistment in the army of the United States which was in the month of July 1776 as he states in his former Declaration hereto annexed he served from the first day of August 1776 to the first day of January following five months and was then discharged.
That in the winter of the year 1777 & 1778 he entered the army of the United States as a volunteer in the New York Militia for six weeks as within stated that he served for the said term of six weeks under the officers within mentioned and was discharged which discharge took place in the month of March 1778 he cannot state the day of the month, so that his term of service amounts to six months and two weeks (besides the patrolling service within mentioned) he never received or held a commission in the service.

He is unable to state the period of the war in which he served with any more precision than is set forth in his former Declaration.
1 st To interrogatories put to him by the Judge he answers as follows That as he has been informed & believes he was born in the town of Southward in the State of New Jersey on the 10 th day of July 1757.
2 nd I have a record of my age in an old family Bible which was my father's, now in my possession.
3 rd At the time I enlisted in the army of the United States I lived with my father at Fishkill in the County of Dutchess in the State of New York. But at the time I volunteered in the militia as within mentioned I lived with my father at Fishkill again. Since the Revolutionary war & in the year 1789 I removed to and resided in the town of Saratoga in the County of Saratoga, and resided there five years & then removed to the town of Northumberland in said County & have resided there until this time & now reside there.
4 th For the first term of service within mentioned, I entered the army of the United States by enlistment. The second term above mentioned I volunteered in the militia for six weeks.
5 th The names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when I served during my first term of enlistment as within mentioned were Brig. Genl. George Clinton, Col. Laurens - Major Mott, Capt. Stephen Duryea, 1 st Lieut. Lawrence, 2 nd Lieut. Jacob Horton - But during the six weeks service within mentioned Col. Van Rensselaer, Major Payn - Capt. Vail Lieut. Joshua Champlin, Ensign John Van Dorn were in the service, and the circumstances of my service were as within stated.

6th.
I do not know whether I received any written discharge or not, if I received any they are now lost. I never received any Commission.
7th.
Persons to whom I am known in my present neighborhood and who can testify to my character for veracity & their belief of my service as a Soldier of the Revolution are John Craig, John R. Van Deusen, Genl. Herman Gausewitt, Major Philip Schuyler, Revd Lewis Ely, Nathaniel McEwen Esq, Thomas Howard Esq, Israel Olmsted Esq.
Sworn to & Subscribed this day and year aforesaid before me.
John Terhune
Having Granger
one of the Judges of Saratoga county. Grants
We Robert Washburn a Clergyman residing in the town of Northumberland in the County of Saratoga and John Metcalf residing in said town hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with John Terhune who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration, that we believe him to be seventy five years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Robert Washburn John Metcalf
Sworn to & Subscribed this day & year aforesaid before me.
H Granger
one of the Judges of Saratoga county. Grants
And I the said Judge do hereby declare my 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 service, and served as he states.
And he further Certifies that it appears to him that Robert Markham who has signed the foregoing Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the said town of Northumberland and that John Metcalf who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town, and is a credible person, and that this statement is entitled to credit.
And he further Certifies that the said affidavit cannot from locality informity attain the Court.
Harvey Granger
State of New York
Saratoga County } ss. - I Alphonsus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Harvey Granger before whom the foregoing proceedings purport to have been had before whom the foregoing affidavits purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the same to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand & Seal of Office the eighth day of July 1833 Alphonsus Goodrich Clerk

Perkins
✓ 14668 INVALID.
File No. 14 668
John Lapham & Sengstack Rankin
Act: June 24th 18
Index: — Vol. 1 , Page 371
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sept. 5/1904. Hist. to R.W. Zer- burne D., Whitland, Ind. || F.W.

Rejo. 57, 1832.
I. 111,668
Lerbrune, John Northumberland, Saratoga Co. N.Y.
75 yrs.
Fishkill, Dutchess Co. N.Y. (at enrol.)
July, 1776, P.M. N.Y. Capt. Stephen Duryea. Col. Swarthout 5 mos.
Winter 1777 & 1778 P.M. N.Y. Capt. Vail, Ranselaer Col. Van Rensselaer 6 mos.
Summer 1778 & 1779 Rgt. Capt. John Van Benschoten Col. Abraham Brinkhoff 2 yrs.
↑ White Plains skirmish at Brown's River

OFFICE OF CORONER JOHNSON COUNTY.
R. W. TERHUNE, M. D., CORONER.
WHITELAND, IND.
Hon. Commissioner Pensions, Washington, D. C.,
My Dear Sirs;
I am collecting information for a family history and if it is not too much to ask I should like to get what information is available in regard to some Terhunes in central New Jersey who served in the American Army during the Revolutionary War.
One is Cornelius Terhune. He was a brother to my great-great-grandfather. I find his name in Gen. Stryker's Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War," as belonging to the militia and also in the Continental Army. Did he or his heirs ever get a pension? If so, I should like to know of his record, date of birth, date of enlistment, length of service, date of death, also name of wife or heirs if any of them drew a pension.
Should like also the same information in regard to Garret Terhune of Somerset Co. N. J. Garrett was a private in Captain Coonrad Ten Eyck's Co. Second Battalion, was also an express rider.
Has he any pension record? If so I should like all the data of birth, enlistment, service and time of death. Also if any heirs are mentioned, I should like to know as I am anxious to know if this Garrett Terhune is the one who lived in Hillsboro Tn. Somerset Co. and who there married Catherine Van Huise, Sept. 3, 1778. Also are any of Garrett's brothers mentioned in

his record?
Another Somerset Co. Dehune whose name I find in Stryker's list is Stephen. He was a member of the Somerset Co. N. J. Militia. Has he any pension record? If so it would give me great satisfaction to get it.
I am anxious to exhaust all the information attainable because I think those men perhaps all belonged to the same family.
My great-great grandfather was one of four brothers whose names were Garrett, William (my ancestor), Stephen and Cornelius. They lived in Hillsboro Township, Somerset Co., New Jersey at the time of the Revolution. If your office can not enlighten me, would the Record and Pension Office give any information not in your office?
There was another family of Dehunes, cousins of the group above mentioned. That family was composed of John, Daniel and Abraham.
All these were also in the service. I have Daniel Dehune's record. Have you Abraham's record.
He was First Lieutenant in Captain Vandeventer's Co., First Regiment, from Middlesex Co., N. J. and enlisted July 24, 1776. Was he ever a pensioner? If so should be glad to get his record.
Thanking you in advance I am
Very sincerely yours,
R. W. Dehune M.D.