Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6093, for Archibald Lamont, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
or Lamont, Archibald Lemans or Lemon
R, 6093
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307 31 In the matter of the Application of Archibald Lamont for a Pension
Rejected Let. to N. McClellan Oct. 17 1834
from Admrs of N. Y.

State of New York } Schoharie County ss } On this fourth day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Schoharie in the said State of New York now sitting Archibald Lament a resident of the Town of Fulton in the said County of Schoharie and State of New York 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 th 1832.
That he now resides in the Town of Fulton in the County of Schoharie and State of New York, that he was aged sixty Eight years on the Eighteenth day of August last past.
That he Entend the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated.
That in the month of June in the year 1777 he resided at a place called Hobbletown now called Spencertown in the County of Columbia in said State of New York - that in the preparat of -

June of that year 1777 he volunteered in a militia company commanded by William Turner as commandant. David McKinstrey as Lieutenant and one Vaughn as Ensign (his Christian name he does not recollect) that Peter Van Klief was colonel and commandant of the Regiment to which said company was attached - that the names of the other regimental officers he does not recollect -
That he volunteered in said militia company for one year under the assurances which were given by said Colonel Peter Van Klief to the Regiment and companies belonging to the Regiment and companies belonging to the Regiment that for the year's service they should be entitled to the same compensation which was paid to the Troops in the Continental Service - That in the Early part of June 1777 he is positive it was before the 12 th day of that month, and immediately after he volunteered as aforesaid the company to which he was attached were marched under the above named officers to a place called Taughranic in said County of Columbia for the purpose of Expelling and subduing the Tories and those who were inimical to the liberties of the Country. from the place -

-last mentioned they were marched to a place called Ancram in said County in the pursuit of the Tories, who were numerous and powerful and who were continually plundering and robbing the Country, and committing other depredations and destroying the lives of the citizens - that said company for the first seven months from and after the said 12 th day of June 1777 were constantly under arms, and engaged in defending the common Country against the incessant depredations of the Tories, which service consisted in traversing the Country in various directions intercepting, lying in wait, arresting and subduing the Tories and then disaffected towards the liberties of the Country, and in recovering the plundered property of those who were favoring the Common Cause, that he this deponent is positively certain that from the said 12 th day of June 1777 until the 12 th day of Jan y 1778 being seven months he faithfully served the Country in the Common Cause as a member of said Company and under the above named Officers, that after the Expiration of the first seven months of the -

- volunteer years service the said company continuum organized and ready for actual service but their service was not continuous but frequently interrupted from time to time as the Tories and their disorders had in a measure ceased their operations, and the company were only occasionally called out on duty, that in the month of June as late as the middle of that month in the year 1778 , the said company were verbally dismissed by said Capt. Turner without giving them any written dismission from service. That in this deponent cannot state with certainty how long or how much time he was in the actual service of the country from the expiration of the first seven months service until the end of the year aforesaid, that said service was performed in tours of duty varying from one to five and six days in length and how much the aggregate of these services were to the end of the year he cannot state with certainty, but is confident that it would amount to not less than one month.

This deponent further states that in the month of July in the year 1780 he still resided at Nobletown in the said County of Columbia - that in the first part of the month of July of that year, certainly as early as the fifth day of that month, he Enlisted in a company of militia (State Troops) under the command of Christopher Miller as commandant and Jeremiah Miller as lieutenant. The Ensign he does not recollect that said company immediately after his enlistment were marched in the direction of New York as their ultimate place of destination. that they passed through the Town of Fish Kill. and this deponent well recollects that cherries were then ripe when they got to Fish Kill. from which circumstance this deponent recollects that it was in the early part of July when he enlisted from Fish Kill they were marched to West Point where they were stationed one month. from there they were marched to Haverstraw and Tappan and from there they were marched to Kingsbridge. When the company embarked on board a vessel and sailed to Albany as orders had arrived that men were wanted -

on the western portion to defend it against the Indians. they arrived in Albany sometime in the month of September. from Albany they were marched to a place called the middle Fort in the now County of Schoharie. and were stationed at said middle Fort about one month - that during the time they were so stationed at said Fort they had an Engagement with Sir John Johnson who attacked the fort and was repulsed. after the Engagement they went in pursuit of the Indians in company with other Troops and marched as far west as Herkimer when the company returned and were discharged at Schenectady about the first of November by the commanding Officer Christopher Miller verbally without written discharges - that this deponent testified for three months but he states positively that he continued in service and did duty at that time from the said fifth day of July 1780 to the twenty fifth day of October of the same year being a period of almost four months - that the commanding Officer when he discharged the company at Schenectady informed them that when they arrived at Albany -

They should all have their pay but that this deponent never, nor did any of the company receive their pay as was promised them -
This deponent further states that he has a record of his age in the family Bible in his possession which agrees with his statement made herein - that he continued to reside in the said county of Columbia for some years after the Revolutionary war, that when he removed from said county of Columbia he came to reside in the town of Fulton Schuylkill County where he has always resided since, having resided when he now does for a period of about thirty years and upward - he further states that he has been unable to procure any evidence to corroborate his statement herein made as to his volunteer service in the years 1777 & 1778 , and that the only proof he could procure to corroborate his statement as to the service he performed in the year 1780 as an Enlisted soldier, is the statement of Samuel Spaulding which affidavit is herewith appended - he further states that there is no clergyman residing in his neighborhood to apply to make the certificate required by the rules of the war department - this deponent further states that he was born in the county of Columbia at a place called Newtown -
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 in }
Arthadick Lamont
open court John Lehigh p. Clerk.

We William Lamont and Adam D. Freeman
residing in the Town of Fulton in the County of Schoharie in the State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Archibald Lamont who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration That we believe him to be sixty eight 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 - and we further certify that he is a man of strict truth and veracity and that his statements are entitled to credit -
Sworn to and subscribed } William Lamont the day & year aforesaid } Adam D. Freeman in open court - John Schmandt Jr. 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 certify that it appears to them that William Lamont and Adam P.
Wrooman who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the town of Fulton in the County of Schoharie and State of New York and that they are credit persons And that their statement is entitled to credit - And the Court now here further certify that it appears to them that the applicant Archibald Lamont is a person of strict truth and veracity and that his statement is entitled to full credit -
I John Gebhard the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Schoharie do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Archibald Lamont for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourth day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty four - John Gebhard Jr. Clerk

State of New York } Schoharie County } Samuel Shaulding came before me and after being duly sworn testified that in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty this deponent resided in the then town of Claverack (now called Hillsdale) in the County of Columbia in the said State of New York, and that he was well acquainted with Archibald Lamont at that time and has been ever since. That this deponent sometime in the month of June 1780 Enlisted in the Army of the Revolution in the said Town of Claverack. That Christopher Miller was commandant of the company and Col. Van Schaick was commandant of the Regiment to which said company in which this deponent Enlisted was attached. That Archibald Lamont was a member of said company, and that this deponent and said Lamont marched with said company to West Point in the latter part of June or the first of July 1780. That when the company arrived at West Point in the said State of New York on the Hudson River this deponent was transferred to the -

Light Infantry in New Jersey and left the company under the command of Christopher Miller, that said Samuel continued in said company and said company as this deponent was informed was ordered North - that this deponent now resides in the town of Fulton in the County of Schoharie and State of New York, and is aged, very infirm and blind and wholly unable to go any distance from home by reason of bodily disability, and further this deponent saith not -
Subscribed & sworn } his before me this 28 day } Samuel X Spaulding of February 1834 } Mark
John F. Mott } Justice of the Peace.
State of New York Schoharie county p. I John Gebhard Jr. Clerk of the said county Do certify that John F. Mott before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature - With my hand and seal of Office this 6th. day of March 1834 -
John Gebhard Jr. Clerk

State of New York Schuylerville Co. ss
On this fifteenth day of February A.D. 1841 personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace of the town of Grafton and county of Schuylerville Archibald Lamont, with whom I the said justice have been acquainted for the term of thirty years last past who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the Bible which he produced and now have before me, is his family Bible in which he this deponent recorded the births of himself his wife and their children a great many years ago Subscribed & sworn before me Archibald Lamont the day & year above written John F. Wattie Justice of the peace
I the justice above named do hereby certify that the record in the Bible produced before me by Archibald Lamont and sworn to by him to be his family bible is in the following words and figures to wit
" Archibald Lamont Born August 18 th 1764 " " Talitha Lamont Born February 13 th 1766 " " Phebe Lamont Born July 31 th 1789 " Robert A Lamont Born July 10 th 1791 "
and then there follows on the record the births of seven more of their children
and I believe the above mentioned Archibald Lamont to be a man of truth and veracity
John F. Wattie Justice of the peace

State of New York Schoharie County } Sp:
I Thomas McArthur Clerk of the said County do certify that John F. Mattico Esqr. before whom the within affidavit pur- ports to have been taken was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit pp. and certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 18th day of February 1841.
Thos McArthur Clerk

Auchibald Linnouet Surp d Act of July 7 th 1832

State of New York County of Schoharie
Be it Known, that on this Eighteenth day of December A. D. 185 2 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Simon Lamont
resident of West Hurley in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the legal heir of  Nichibald Lamont who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of 1818 that he is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint C. W. BENNETT , of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of Nichibald Lamont for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my 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 arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Simon Lamont to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
Abraham Spickerman Justice of the Peace in and for said County
State of New York County of Schoharie
It is Hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of  County Court that Abraham Spickerman the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney is the identical child of reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify, that Abraham Spickerman 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 purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this 30th day of December 185 2 Simon Andrews
1. Claimant's name or names in full.—2. Post Office address. 3. "That he is the identical man," or, "that she is the widow of the identical man," or, "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man," &c., &c. 4. Leave this line blank.—5. "He is," "she is," or "they are."—6. Revolutionary soldier's full name.—7. Claimant's signature.—8. Claimant's name.—9. Magistrate's signature. 10. "Identical," "widow of," or "child of."—11. Magistrate's name.—12. Clerk's signature.
N. B.—Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.

Rev. New York
England
Archibald Lamont
See letter 24 March 1834
Dr. J. Adams
in let to Do
Apr 22 '34

Let. to R. McClellan Oct 17 '39 to Hon. John Ely. Jan'y. 2. 1841.

30,131
Archibald Lamant. N. Y.
Act 7 June, 1832.
Let. to Hon. John Ely. March 8, 1841.
6093

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1879.
6093
P. O.
Archibald Sement
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
REJECTED
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Middletown, N.Y. Oct. 14 th 1834
Free
Archibald T. Clement
To Hon
Lewis Cass
Sec of War Washington.
In Pension office

Schoharie Co New York Middleburgh, Oct 3 rd 1834
Sir Enclosed I send to the department a supplemental afft in the case of Archibald Lamont in his application for a Pension - The original papers forwarded, the Explanatory afft are now with the department, and the Enclosed is sent hoping that there will be no objection to the granting of Pension. The certificate appended to the original  Enclosed afft is signed by Jos Burch late member of Congress, and his Brother one of the Canal commrs of this State - I state this to shew the department to them that the applicants character is sustained by men of the first standing - Mr Lamont is poor and it is hoped that the department will come to a favorable result in his case, when the case is passed upon I should like to be informed of the result -
Yours with Respect
Robt. M c Ellan
20) Sec of War

Englewood Lemont
NY.
Edwards Lodge Pension
agent Washington D.C.
Report to Hon. John Ely H. R.

Franklin, Schoharie Co. N.Y. Dec 21. 1860
To J. D. Edwards Esq. Pension agent Washington
Sir, Mrs. Widow Brouet who resides in this place lost her husband in the year 1813 who had been a soldier of the Revolution & had he lived, he would have been most clearly entitled to a pension, I am informed that it is necessary to prove the actual marriage, either by some person who was present or by the Magistrate's record, before the widow is entitled to a pension, she cannot prove either, but she can prove by fifty witnesses if necessary that they resided & lived together and raised a large family of children, there are now seven of them residing in this and an adjoining town.
Will you have the goodness to inform me what proof will be necessary under said circumstances, to entitle the widow to a pension -
Permit me to trouble you with an other case Mr. Archibald Lement an old gentleman has been grumbling these for 4 years about his not receiving a pension, that he had employed Mr. McCallan to make out his p. pay, sent them to you & that you had decided that he was too young at the time he rendered the services, if so, he thinks Mr. McCallan must have made some mistake in drawing his declaration says he was sixteen years old when he rendered three months services in Capt Daniel Williams Company in Col. Morris Grubers Regiment - about four months in Capt Christy & Col. Miller Company same Regiment, Maj. Walby commanded all in the year 1780 & in 1781 served as a volunteer one year in Capt William Fannin Company in Col. Peter Van Ness Regiment - after that served in several alarms under Capt Whitney -
Please have the goodness to give me all the information you can in this case
Yours Respectfully
Martyn Matine

Franklinton, Schoharie Co Feb 19. 1841
My dear friend
Permit me to trouble you once more, Enclosed I transmit to you Mr Lamonts additional Pension papers, have the goodness to present them, to Mr Edwards the pension agent, immediately on the receipt of them.
I transmitted to you Mrs Williams Pension papers some time ago, and have not yet an answer. The 4 th of March is close at hand, and I should like to have you do up my little business at Washington. Please write on the receipt of this letter - Say to Mr Edwards that one of the affidavits, heretofore sent to him, by Mr Lamont to support his claim was made Col William C Bouch our last candidate for Governor.
I remain your
most humble Servt
N Mattie
Hon. John Ely

30131
Plumber Office
Hon. J. Adams
House of Representatives
Washington

Department of War Pension Office March 24 th 1834
Sir,
I have the honor to inform you, that the claim of Archibald Lamont has been examined and suspended for some explanation of his first term of service.
He alleges, that he was constantly engaged for seven months in service, suppressing the Tories &c. It is desirable to ascertain, whether the whole company was, for the time claimed, embodied, kept together and subjected to the daily duties of soldiers in actual service in the field, or were dispersed in squads to different neighborhoods as an armed police, protecting the property of the citizens by enforcing the laws and apprehending offenders &c.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Your obedt Servant J. Edwards
Wm J. Adams Member of Representatives

In the matter of Archibald Lamont In a pension -
Aff't - Explanatory of Declaration -

State of New York } Schoharie County } Archibald
I am being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of 7. June 1832 and that his papers are now on file in the War department at Washington, and he presents this affidavit as supplementary to his declaration now on file in the Pension Office and explanatory thereof -
This deponent maketh oath and saith that there is an error in his declaration in the statement of the time he performed his volunteer service under the command of William Turner as commandant, and David McKinstrey as Lieutenant of the company - that this deponent is informed by Robert McClellan the person who drew up this deponent's declaration and from the papers received from the Pension Office that his volunteer service was alleged in his said declaration to have been performed in the year 1777 or 1778 and before he this deponent enlisted in the army of the United States - this deponent feels confident that no such representation -

- Was made by him at the time the papers time the papers were drawn up, but that an error was committed by said McClellan in taking down his statement. In this deponent can state and attest to with certainty that the volunteer service as stated in the declaration and affidavit supplemental thereto was performed by this deponent as therein stated the year after this deponent performed his Enlisted service. This deponent well recollects that he was in his sixteenth year when he enlisted in the United States Service in the month of June, that he was sixteen years old in the month of August thereafter to said month of June - And that it was in the following year that he volunteered in Captain James Company and did the service as stated in the papers now on file - and further this deponent saith not - Archibald Lamont
Subscribed & sworn } this 27 day of August } 1884 - Before me }
John N. Smith } Justice of the Peace

We hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Archibald Lamont a resident of the Town of Fulton in the County of Schoharie, the person who signed and made oath to the preceding affidavit, that we have known him for many years, that he has always sustained a fair and reputable character, and that his statements are entitled to the fullest credit. Dated August 23. 1834 -
Joseph Bouck
John F. Malher
Wm. Bouck

State of New York } Schoharie County } p - }
Be it remembered that on the 14 th day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty four Archibald Lamont personally came before me, and after being by me duly sworn made oath to the following additional facts Explanatory of his declaration now on file in the War Department of the United States - to wit -
that in the month of June 1777 he volunteered in a militia company commanded by William Turner as Commandant. David McKinstrey as Lieutenant and one Vaughn as Ensign that Peter Van Arsdale was colonel and the commandant of the Regiment to which said company was attached, that he volunteered in said company for one year under the assurances as set forth in his said declaration - that he swore positively that he was in the actual service of the country in said company -

- for a period of not less than seven months from the time of his volunteering as set forth in his said declaration, this deponent however states that said company to which this deponent belonged as aforesaid, were not for the whole seven months of actual service, kept together, and made to do duty daily together as a company - but that sometimes a portion of said company under the command of one of its officers were marched off from the main company and stationed in different parts of the country in suppressing the riots and then dispersed, as the exigency of the times required - and that sometimes the whole company were divided into different squads , and pursued different directions, in pursuit of the common Enemy - And that at other times the company were all together and did duty together as a whole, and were subjected to great hardships and privations. - This deponent can state with certainty that said company to which he belonged did a continuous and daily -

- Service for the aforesaid period of seven months, and that this deponent served the country faithfully during that period, and was subjected to great hardship and privation, which his present impaired constitution and health clearly indicate - and for which he asks the bounty of his government -
Subscribed & sworn { Archibald Samuels this 14 th day of April { 1834 John F. Martin Justice
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Archibald Samuels the person who signed and took the foregoing affidavit, and that he is a man of strict truth and veracity, and that his statements are entitled to credit - Dated April 14, 1834.
John F. Martin

Archibald Lamont
Pinnon papers —

State of New York
Schoharie County
On this first day of February A.D. 1841 personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the peace of the County of Schoharie in the State of New York, Archibald Lamont of the Town of Fulton in the County aforesaid, who being duly sworn, deposes and saith, that the name of the family while this deponent resided in the County of Columbia in said State was Lemang , and thinks he wrote it Lemon , that he did not write his name Lamont, until he moved in the County of Schoharie about forty years since, when he was informed that, Lamont was the proper name, and has written his name Lamont ever since.
This Deponent further states on his oath aforesaid, that according to the best of his recollection he served, not less than the periods mentioned below; that he entered the service of New York State, at Noble town in the County of Columbia aforesaid, in the month of May A.D. 1780 as a private, in the company commanded by Capt. Christoffe Miller in Lieut. Col. Henry Livingston Regiment, marched from Noble town to Poughkeepsie, from there to West Point, there to Haverstraw & Tappan bays, while there served in the company commanded by Capt. Daniel Williams in the same Regiment, until they were marched on board of a sloop, and sailed to Albany, marched from Albany to the Middle Fort at Schoharie, (which was under the command of Major Wolsey) under the command of Capt. Christoffe Miller. The Fort was attacked while they were stationed there, by Gen. John Johnson's army of regulars, Tories & Indians, who burned houses, barns & destroyed the property on their march through the valley of the Schoharie. The Garrison at the Fort lost but one man killed (Mr. Munion) and several wounded, after the enemy had abandoned the siege of the Fort, this deponent & the remainder of the troops under the command of Major Wolsey, pursued them to the Mohawk, thence to Herkimer and from there about thirty miles into the woods, before they abandoned the pursuit, took two Indian prisoners & returned with them to Herkimer, marched from Herkimer to Schenectady, and there was discharged the latter part of Nov. 1780, that this deponent, was then at the time of his discharge aforesaid in his seventeenth year of age, that he served more than six months in this campaign.
This deponent further states, that he entered the service of the State as a volunteer for one year in the company commanded by Capt. William Tannar in Col. Peter Van Ness Regiment, in the month of April A.D. 1781 marched to Tappanville to head quarters, soon after took about 10 or 12 Tories prisoners & took them to Albany, returned, marched to Ancram took more Tories & took them to Albany returned to head quarters, and served out the year in Tappanville, Ancram and the manor of Livingston. This deponent further states, that he served on three alarms in the year 1782 in Capt. Joshua Whitney Company as a militiaman, first alarm went to Albany served fourteen days - 2 d alarm went to Schenectady & served ten days, and the 3 d alarm served four days - further this deponent saith not.
Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year first above written. Henry Wilson Justice of the Peace

State of New York Schoharie County } p.
I hereby certify that I have been well and intimately acquainted with Mr. Archibald Lamont maker of the preceding affidavit for about the term of thirty years last past; and that the said Archibald Lamont sustains a fair moral reputation, and that I consider his declarations or affidavit worthy of, and entitled to, full credence. Given under my hand February 1st 1841.
Harvey Watson Justice of the Peace and Judge of Schoharie County Courts.
State of New York Schoharie County Clerk's Office } p.: Thomas McArthur.
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Schoharie, do certify that Harvey Watson, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the acknowledgement or proof of the annexed affidavit and endorsed thereon, was on the day of the date of the said Affidavit a Justice of the Peace and a Judge of said County Courts in and for the County of Schoharie, and duly authorized by law to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the signature of the said Harvey Watson subscribed to the said certificate is his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 2 d day of February 1841.
Thos. McArthur Clerk.

In pursuance of a law passed the 27th day of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz :
   1780 July 31 12.286 Arch d Seaman pii 0 8 10   1780 July 31 12.372 Arch d Seaman " 0 7 1   1780 Aug 31 12.759 Arch d Seaman " 2 13 4   1780 Octo 25 12.809 Arch d Seaman " 4 17 9   1780 Octo 27 12.946 Arch d Seaman " 5 1 5   1780 Augt 31 13.007 Arch d Seaman " 2 13 4  
STATE OF NEW-YORK, COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, February 8 1841.
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 3 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz :
   First—under Capt.  Dan Williams  in Col.  Morris Graham  Regiment.    Second, " "  Christ Muller  " "  Morris Graham  "    Third, " "  Dan Williams  " "  Morris Graham  "    Fourth, " "  Dan Williams  " "  Morris Graham  "    Fifth, " "  Christ Muller  " "  Morris Graham  "    Sixth, " "  Christ Muller  " "  Morris Graham  "    Seventh, " "   " "   "    Eighth, " "   " "   "   
Melancton L Woolsey was a Major under Col. Morris Graham under whom the first & second tours of service above named were performed. Henry Livingston was a Lieut Col under Col. Morris Graham under whom the third fourth fifth & sixth tours of service was performed.
W. W. Dudley Dep. Comptroller

Millsdale 11th Feby 1791
Gerard Banker Esq Treasr of the State of New York —
Sir
Please pay or deliver to Peter Vogr- boom or his order only The amount of pay due me as a soldier in Col d Grahams Regiment Capt Mullers Company of New York levies for the year 1780 & this receipt shall be a sufficient voucher from me
I am Sir Yrs &c
Witness
Arthur Vancant
mathew W of rffor
State of New-York } Comptrollers Office }
Albany February 8. 1841 }
I certify that I have carefully com- pared the foregoing and its endorsements with an original paper now on file in this office, and that it is a true transcript of the same and the whole of said original and of its endorsements
M c Culloch
Dep y Comptroller

Archibald Semmes "
£ 7. 19. 11 "
"Rec d April 18. 1791 from Bernard Bancker, Treasurer 3 Certificates for seven Pounds 19/11 in full for the within order, which I hereby warrant to be genuine
£ 4. 17. 9
2. 13. 11
8 10
7. 19. 11
Peter Mogelboom "
Arthur Semmes