Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 4517, for George Lawrence, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Lawrence, George
S 4517
Carded
CONTENTS

31.933
New Jersey George Lawrence
of Bergen Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Colonel _____ in the New Jersey line for 6 months and 23 days N.Y. Line. Records corrected
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 22 Dollars 56 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of March 1832 sent to Hon. J. Clinton House of Representatives
Arrears to the 4th of March 1842 $218.16 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept. 11.28
$259.44
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. Adams Clerk Book 62 Vol. 3 rd Page 127

State of New Jersey, Bergen County ss: Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Bergen in the State of New Jersey the twentyeth day of July - in the Year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty three. George Lawrence who being duly sworn according to law upon his oath deposeth and saith that he is the same George Lawrence - the applicant who appeared in Open Court Before the Superior Court of Common Pleas held at New Barbadoes in and for the County of Bergen on the thirty first day of October last and made oath to the accompanying Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution and also the same George Lawrence who at a Special Term of said Superior Court of Common Pleas held at the Court house the 27 th day of June 1833 under oath made the answers to the Interrogatories propounded by the Court in Pursuance to the Directions of the War Department of the United States as annexed to the accompanying Declaration and this deponent further saith that he entered the service of the United States in the year of our Lord 1776 as a drafted militia man in the Company commanded by Captain Hendrick Tenure & served in that Company (in the year 1776) for the term of six full months - And in the year 1777 he is certain he served three full months (in the Company commanded by Captain Hendrick Tenure) being the one fourth part of the time he had to serve as a Classed Militia man (besides the service he rendered for others of his Class) And this deponent further saith that in the years 1778 & 1779 he is certain that he served six full months in each year - and the years 1780 & 1781 he is certain that he served four full months in each year - & for such service (as above stated) he claims a pension - And for the time during which the service was performed he was not employed in any civil pursuits -
Sworn and subscribed to before me the 20 th day of July 1833. David Christie Justice of the Peace
George Lawrence

State of New Jersey
County of Bergen ss; I, Graham Westerott Clerk of the County of Bergen and Clerk of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County do hereby certify that David J. Lakehurst whose name is subscribed to the Jurat of the within Affidavit, was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn - and further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice, and verily believe that his signature to said Jurat is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this twenty sixth day of July A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty three.
G. Westerott, Clerk
Ms. A. 9. 2. 10

State of New Jersey Bergen County Superior Court of Common Pleas at a Special Term held at the Court House the 27 th day of June 1833.
Personally appeared in open Court this 27 th day of June 1833 George Lawrence, an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of June 7 th 1832 who under oath made the following facts annexed to the questions propounded by the Court in pursuance to the directions of the United States War Depart- ment.
Question 1 st where and in what year were you born?
Answer — I was born at a place called Lockesboro in Town- ship of Greenburgh in the County of Westchester State of New York the 22 nd of April 1758.
Question 2 nd Have you any Record of your age, and if so where is it?
Answer — I have none, except the family Record which is in the Bible in the possession of my sister
Question 3 rd When were you living when called into Service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do
you now live? When I entered the service I lived Answer — at Clerks Town in the County of Rockland — where I lived till some time after the war — when I moved to Bergen County where I now live
Question 4 th How were you called into Service were you drafted did you volunteer or where you a Substitute and if a Substitute for whom.
Answer. I was drafted (or drafted) as a militia man and rendered my service as such.
Question 5 th State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops when you served such Conti- nental and Militia Regiment as you can recall and generally the circumstances of your ser- vice. Colonel Gilbert Cooper, Col. Day & Maj. Smith
Answer — Col. Gilbert Cooper, Col. Day, & Maj. Smith and as to the circumstances of my service I can not state any better than I have set forth in my Declaration — wherein all my the circumstances of my services are stated.
Question 6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it. I never received a discharge to my knowledge — if I did I do not know what has become of it.

Question 7 th 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.
Answer - John Dubois, Isaac Robinson, David Christy, Henry Buggan, John ... Can testify to my Character for Veracity & their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution -
Sworn to, & subscribed in open Court the day & year aforesaid W. M. Mitchell, Clerk
George Lawrence
And the Court doth thereupon hereby declare that during this twenty seventh day of June A.D. 1833. put the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department to George Lawrence the applicant, in open Court, they were answered by him under oath in the manner within stated, to the satisfaction of the Court.
By the Court
W. M. Mitchell, Clerk
I Abraham Westerveldt Clerk of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bergen do hereby certify that the foregoing and annexed papers contain the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of George Lawrence for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this twenty seventh day of June A.D. eighteen hundred & thirty three.
W. M. Mitchell, Clerk

State of New Jersey County of Bergen ss.
I John H. Berry Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Bergen, do hereby certify that David J. Leinster is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature to the jurat of the fore- going affidavit of George Lawrence is genu- ine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court of Common Pleas, this 23. day of September A. D. 1841.
John H. Berry Clerk

Rev. War
4514
INVALID.
File No. 4517
George Lawrence Print Rev War
Act: June 7. 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 215
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Pay. abstract of A. Reg t of New York Militia In Orange County Commanded by Col. A. Hawkes May. in the service of the United States on Different Arms. From 4 th April 1778. to 9 th Aug h 1780.
Col. A. Hawkes. Pay as Time of Service as Above 6. months and 23. days. and amt. of pay. £245. 5. 10
Capt. Henry. Tournier. Time of Service as Above 6. months 23. days. & amt. of his Pay Roll. £537. 10. 8.
The above abstract is taken from Book A. 85. P.
Comptrollers. Office
Albany March. 16. 1842.
Philip Phelps Dep Comp t

George Laurence Payment to be made at Newlen N.Y. by R. Dickins M c C o L td . Agent for paying Pension= ers, in the Agency of New Jersey
$4577
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book G Vol. 2 nd Page 127 by M. C. Addison Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, George Lawrence of the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Revolution
is entitled to receive Twenty two dollars and fifty six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 29 th day of MARCH one thousand eight hundred and thirty  forty two .
John C. Spencer Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.

Paid to 4 Mar 1842 Paid to 6 Sep 1842 Paid to 4 Mar 1843 Paid to 6 Sep 1843 Paid to 4 Mar 1844 Paid to 6 Sep 1844 Paid to 4 Mar 1845 Paid to 4 Sep 1845 Paid to 4 Mar 1846 Paid to 4 Sep 1846 Paid to 4 Mar 1847 Paid to 4 Sep 1847 Paid to 4 Mar 1848 Paid to 4 Sep 1848 Paid to 4 Mar 1849 Paid to 4 Sep 1849 Paid to 4 Mar 1850 Paid to 4 Sep 1850
31.933

Yrs H. Stanton

House of Representatives
March 22. 1842
Sir
At the request of John W Martin Esq I enclose you the paper of George Lawrence, on what appear to be a renewed application for a pension, with additional proof. Mr Martins accompanying letter explains the circumstances.
I am Respectfully &c, J. A. Hinton
James L. Edwards Esq Comr of Pensions

State of New Jersey (p On this 23 d day of September Bergen County) Eighteen hundred and forty one personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County George Lawrence a man who is to be believed under oath or otherwise aged Eighty Three years who made oath to the following effect as an in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That he is the identical George Lawrence named in a former declaration made by him before the inferior court of common pleas held at New Barbadoes in the said county on the first day of November 1832 and who made the declaration before the court of special sessions held at the 27 th June 1833 which declaration it appears does not satisfy the regulations of the Pension department and he makes this as an amendment to his former declarations and specifies as near as he can recollect a portion of the time that he served That in the month of August 1776 the British having appeared in New York bay an alarm was made and the whole of Col A Hawks Key Regiment was called out by the proper authority and rendezvoused at Clarkstown then in the county of Orange now Rockland; In this Regiment the company of Capt Henry Terreer served and was called out with the rest of the Regiment and rendezvoused with the rest of the Regiment at Clarkstown sometime about the middle of August of the said year and served without being discharged from in August untill the first of December of the said year This deponent belonged to the company commanded by Capt Terreer and Rendezvoused at Clarkstown with the rest of the company and the said Regiment was immediately

ordered to march toward New York and went as far as Closter in the State of New Jersey where we were stationed two weeks and was at that place when Long Island was taken from Closter we marched back to Clark's town with orders to guard along the River That when the battle of White Plains was fought Capt Gurney's company was encamped at the house of Herman Tallman at Nyack and this deponent was then doing duty at that place under Capt Gurney at this time Col Hays Regiment was a part of them discharged and those that were retained in service were stationed in different places along the Hudson River Capt Gurney's company was placed as a guard at Nyack from sometime previous to the battle of White Plains until the first of December and several times while lying at Nyack and patrolling along the river we had skirmishes with the British who would attempt to come ashore from the shipping then lying in the River and in this the first service that this deponent ever done he assisted in taking three British soldiers prisoners who had come ashore to plunder and delivered the same to Col Hays from the middle of August 1776 until the first of December of the said year this deponent served at least three months and a half without being discharged under Capt Gurney and Col Caleb Hays and was discharged about the first of December of the said year but did not receive a written discharge That during the winter he was sent at times out after (by orders of the proper authority) the Tories who were continually plundering the inhabitants but is not able to state the times precisely That in the Spring of 1777 the militia were called and this deponent was one of a detachment in Capt Gurney's company and served as such upon alarms until the end of the war That about the first of April 1777 this deponent was called out as a detachment to Nyack along the Hudson

Poor and was Mustered at Nyack under Capt. Terneus and was out one week in Col. Hays Regiment and was relieved by another chapman whose name was John Becker That sometime in May following this deponent was again called out as a chapman to Haverstraw under Capt. Terneus and at this time he was out he thinks two weeks he served one week for himself and one week for John Rodenbach and was discharged This deponent further says that he always took his turn as a chapman during the war and never once hired any one in his place That in September 1777 when the British went up the River Col. Hays Regiment was called out by order of the property authority and Mustered at Dury's Orchard As in the Long Clove near the river this deponent Mustered with the rest of Capt. Terneus company about three or four days after we had been at the clove a number of British landed up the River when our Sergeant Major had all our cartridge boxes filled with cartridges and soon after we had a smart skirmish this deponent had twenty four rounds of cartridges and fired all away but three and was wounded in the leg by a musket ball but the British were obliged to retreat to their boats about four days after the British again landed all our Regiment but Capt. Terneus company was gone from Haverstraw this time Capt. Terneus company was very near being taken the British got around us burnt our alarm poles plum- -bered Col. Hays house and a burrhead Sawyer Smith's house but by exertion we made our escape after hard fighting after plundering what they pleased they went back to their shipping and we returned to our post and this deponent was standing sentry when Fort Montgomery was taken or when the news came that it was taken Capt. Terneus company remained in service guarding along the River until the British shipping returned

which was about the first of November of the same year in this service this deponent served at least eight weeks he well recollects that when he returned home the people were killing hogs and it was cold weather this service was done under Capt Henry Terrell and Col Hays and Lieut Col Cooper he was with us when the British landed and when we fought them This deponent from the first of March 1778 until January 79 done at least three months duty under Capt Terrell as a chapman in Col Hays Regiment but from old age he is unable to state the precise times he was out almost out all the time during the summer of 1779 out along the Hudson River upon alarms and as a chapman under Capt Terrell and was out one month when the British took Stoney Point and served one month under Capt Terrell and he thinks Lieut Col Cooper That he was out during the year 1780 81 and 82 but he is not able to state the particular times nor there one month This deponent was in service doing duty when Major Andross was hung and was out at this time upon alarms at Hoosick under Capt Terrell and in Lieut Col Cooper's Regiment he is not able to state what year this was in This deponent was taken Wirt one of those who took Andross This deponent has no hesitation in saying but most solemnly declares that he done at least six months duty as a militia man and in the service of the United along the Hudson River and other places as a Chapman and upon alarms from the spring of 1778 until the fall of 1780 under Capt Henry Terrell and his inferior officers and in Col Hays Regiment He always done his duty when called upon and never during the war did he refuse but had the name from his officers of being a good soldier and he is certain that he done more than two years duty Sworn and subscribed to before me the 23. day of September 1841 - David S. Christie Justice of the Peace
E. G. G. L. S. W. 1841

New Jersey
Bergen County
George Lawrence's application for { Militia a Pension - { Service
17102 admitted 6 mo. 23 d/s pri $22.55/100
Hon. J. G. Clinton H. R. Levi Condit, Prorat.

State of New Jersey } Bergen County. }
On this first — day of November in the year A.D. 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, now sitting, George Lawrence, a resident of the Township of Franklin, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, aged seventy four years, the twenty second day of April, 1832, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit 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 about the first of July, 1776, he entered the service in a company commanded by Capt. Henrick Ten Broeck, Walter Van Orden and Thomas Blauvelt was Lieutenants, and served in that company until the spring of the year 1782. That about the time of his entering the service the British army having taken possession of New York and their shipping having sailed up the North river, the Militia was called out to guard the west shore of the Hudson River to prevent the enemy from landing to plunder, burn and destroy, and there being no other force to protect the inhabitants in the now county of Rockland and the county of Bergen I volunteered my services and served in the aforesaid company, and for the first year was most continually out on duty, and in the latter part of the year 1777, the Militia was put in classes of four men in a class and each man in the class was obliged to do his part of duty, and serve the fourth part of his time, or furnish a man in his place, and I not only served my own tower of duty but served much of the time of others of my class, and can safely say that I was out on duty full half of the time during the years 77, 78 & 79, except in the severe part of the winter when we had a little rest, and in the years 80 & 81, our service was something less, that the aforesaid company belonged to a Regiment that in the first of the war was commanded by Col n A. Hasche Day, in the latter part by Col n Gilbert Cooper. That we had to keep guard along the river from Fort Lee to Stony Point, and the company to which I belonged was stationed at different places along the river as the Captain received orders, and very often was ordered out on scouts through different parts of the counties of Bergen and what is now Rockland county, in the State of New York and very often had small engagements with parties of the enemies who would march through the country to plunder and destroy, and very often when it was my turn to be at home, whenever there was an alarm I would immediately take my equipments, proceed to the place of danger, join the

first officers that I met with, and was out from three to ten days before I got home, which made it almost one continued scene of duty, to state positively the time I served during the Revolutionary war I am not now able to do, but verily believe that it exceeds two years, that during the war or until the Spring of the year 1782, he resided in the now town of Clarkstown county of Rockland and State of New York, since 1782 he has resided three years in Westchester county, ten years in the City of New York, and the remainder of his time in the Townships of Franklin, aforesaid, that he has no documentary evidence of his services, and all the positive testimony he can offer is the deposition of some of his fellow soldiers who served with him in the Revolutionary War. 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 to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Mr. Westervelt Clerk George his Lawrence Mark
we David Christie Residing in the Township of New Barbadoes Henry Berdan and Henry Berdan — Residing in New Barbadoes — hereby certify that we are well acquainted with George Lawrence who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that he believes him to be seventy four years of age; that he is Reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he Resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution. And we concur in that opinion. — Sworn and subscribed the day & David Christie and year aforesaid. —
Mr. Westervelt Clerk
Mr. Westervelt Clerk
Henry Berdan
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he stated. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that David Christie who signed the preceding certificate and Henry Berdan — who also signed the same is a Resident in the Township of and an Credible Person, and that their statement is Entitled to Credit. — W. McCulloch

State of New Jersey } ss. On the Seventeenth day of October Raritan County } in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty two Personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace of said County Peter Vanorden who being first duly sworn doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with George Lawrence in the Revolutionary war and knows him to have served in a company commanded by Capt Hendrick Tenbroek Walter Vanorden first Lieutenant Thomas Blankvelt Second Lieutenant John Myers Ensign that he entered said company the second year and knows said Lawrence to have served with him at the different periods that said Regiment was out in service in guarding the river to prevent the British from landing on the west shore of Hudson river from Tappan to Haverstraw that said George Lawrence remained in said company until the close of the war and truely Believes him to have been in the service for two years or more
Peter Vanorden
Sworn and subscribed Before me the day and year above Alonzo B Stephens Justice of the peace
I Do certify that I have known Peter Vanorden for many years who has subscribed the above affidavit and believe him to be a man of veracity whose testimony can be relied on Alonzo B Stephens Justice of the peace

New Jersey Rockland County ss On the seventeenth day of October 1862 Personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace of said County George Laurence a Resident of the Township of Franklin Bergen County State of New Jersey who being first duly sworn doth depose and say that he was well well acquainted with Peter Vanorden of Clarkstown Rockland County during the Revolutionary war and knows him to to have been to have served in a company commanded by Capt. Henarick Tenbroek Walter Vanorden First Lieut Thos Blauvelt Second Lieut John Myers Designating that said company was a Militia Company and was out in the service after the defeat of the British in New York at different times in each year during the war in guarding the river from Tappan to Haver- straw that said Peter Vanorden was out in the service for two years or more and further this Deponent saith not
Sworn and subscribed before me this day and year above
Geo. G. Lawrence
7 n the v h t e f u n

Handwritten notes at the top of the page, mostly illegible.
Rockland County } On the seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord 1832
Personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the peace of said County John Ekerson aged ninety one years of the Town of Clarkstown County aforesaid who being first duly sworn upon his oath says that he is acquainted with George Lawrence who is now a resident of the township of Franklin Bergen County State of New Jersey that this Deponent served during the Revolution War in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt Hendrick Tenbroek Walter Vanorden first Lieut Thos Blauvelt Second Lieut John Myers ensign this Deponent was a Sergeant in said Company and that said George Lawrence was a private in said Company in actual service guarding the shores of the west side of Hudson river from Tappan to Haverstraw after the British landed in New York until near the close of the war when said Lawrence moved away that he believes said Lawrence was called out in actual service for two years and further this Deponent saith not Sworn Before me this the Day and year above written John Ekerson mark
Abm B Stephens Justice of the peace
I do certify that I have known John Ekerson the above deponent a number of years and believe him to be a man of veracity whose testimony can be relied on
Abm B Stephens Justice of the peace

State of New York } ss Rockland County }
I David Pyle, Clerk of the County of Rockland, Do hereby certify That Abraham B Stephens Esq. whose Name is subscribed to the within and annexed affidavit, was on the day of the date thereof, a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, residing therein and duly authorized to take the same, and further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said justice, and verily believe that the signature of H on B. Stephens, subscribed to the said affidavit is genuine —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County, this eighteenth day of October 1832.
David Pyle

They certify that the Bearer George Lawrence, bears a good Character as a sober, honest & peaceable Citizen And as such to the best of our knowledge we do recommend him to all, who me it may concern with confidence — Given by us this 30 th Day of October 1892
Step. Goetschius Andrew H. Wofford John H. Goetschius
me
from General Church
ately take my equipments, proceed to the place of danger, join the

I Abraham Westerveld clerk of the Inferior court of common Pleas of the county of Berrien Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of George Lawrence for a Pardon.
In Testimony, whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal of Office this th first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
Ab: Westerveld
from General Court
ately take my equipments, proceed to the place of danger, join the